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Keep your cool with our new KabyLake Water Cooled Gaming PC’s!

New Water Cooled KabyLake Gaming PC starting from £659.96

The 240mm RGB Water Cooled CPU Block installed in the KabyLake Water Cooled Gaming PC’s is an efficient and effective way of keeping your PC cool so you can carry on gaming. An alternative to air cooling, water coolers can help to lower your PC’s sound output, cool specific components of your PC to a greater degree and require less space, overall making your PC look better and run more efficiently!

Our new range of KabyLake Water Cooled Gaming PC’s features a Core i5 and Core i7, so, whatever your gaming needs we have a processor to suit you. With both machines WiFi enabled through a USB dongle, coming with a Nvidia GEF GTX 1050 Ti 4GB graphics card and Windows 10 Pro installed, you can play the latest games in a high setting. Running on DDR4 2400 MHZ RAM with 8GB of memory and a 1TB hard drive, this machine offers a great gaming experience, while its Volcano case means your gaming setup will definitely look the part!

Starting at £659.96, and available with interest-free credit courtesy of DivideBuy, our new water cooled Gaming PC’s are ideal for the experienced gamer looking for a high-tech, stylish Gaming PC.

Gaming PC’s are a great way to play the latest games, with the highest technology helping you to give your best performance. However, it can be difficult to know which PC’s play the games you want. This largely depends on your graphics card, a vital, yet often confusing, part of a gaming computer.

Graphics cards have a dedicated video memory and a graphics processing unit (GPU) which can handle any number of different calculations like lighting surfaces and mapping textures whilst producing millions of polygons. The graphics card you need depends on what games you wish to play and at what screen resolution. With this in mind, we’ve compiled a list of what graphics cards you need to play some popular games on the market.

Medium to High Settings Card

Starting with a 1050Ti will get you 60 Frames per Second (FPS) on most games on the market today and enable you to play games such as League of Legends and Dota 2 in a high setting.

Many of our PC’s come with a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 installed, like the Core i7 7700 Kaby Lake 7th Gen Gaming PC 2GB GTX 1050 Windows 10 Pro.

Core i5 7500 Kaby Lake 7th Gen Gaming PC 2GB GTX 1050 Windows 10 Pro: £559.96

High to Ultra High Settings Card

1060 6GB and 1070 8GB graphics cards provide high to ultra-high settings for most games. This card will provide the best gaming experience and resolution for games like GTA V, F1 2017, Shadow of Mordor, FIFA 17-18 and Call of Duty: WWII.

Our Core i5 7500 Kaby Lake 7th Gen Gaming PC 6GB GTX 1060 16GB Windows 10 Pro comes with a Nvidia GEF GTX 1060 6GB installed to give you the highest setting gaming experience for the best price.

Core i5 7500 Kaby Lake 7th Gen Gaming PC 6GB GTX 1060 16GB Windows 10 Pro: £799.96

Choosing the right graphics card for you and your Gaming PC is largely down to preference and the types of games you plan to play. To help you decide what's right for you, use our handy Games VS Graphics Card table!

At Expertec, our Gaming PC’s offer high settings graphics cards that are compatible with most games on the market. Shop now to find the right PC for you!

RAM (Random Access Memory) and hard drive space are easily confused, but, it is an important factor to consider when purchasing any PC to save you both time, and money, and get the best out of your PC.

RAM (Random Access Memory) refers to the memory inside your computer. This stores actively running programmes on your computer. So, for example, if you open a programme like Microsoft Word it will be loaded into the computer’s memory. However, when you quit this programme, the memory is freed up for use.

The hard disk or drive is a disk that can hold several gigabytes of data. Therefore, disk space refers to how much space you have available on your hard disk for storing files. Therefore, when you save a document or install a new programme it will be stored permanently, until you choose to delete it, on your hard disk.

Seagate 3.5 4TV SATA3 SSHD Desktop £149.99

If you run out of RAM you will not have enough memory to run certain programmes and you will need to upgrade your memory by buying more RAM, something that can prove costly. The more RAM your PC has also enables it to run more programmes and perform more tasks simultaneously, something potentially needed for students or workers. It is hard to say exactly how much RAM is best without knowing specific computer needs and uses. However, anything from 4GB to 8GB is usually the recommended amount for the average user, although higher amounts like 16GB can be useful for those running excessive programmes simultaneously.

On the other hand, if you do not have enough hard disk space to install a programme, you can either delete files you no longer need or buy an additional, external hard drive, such as a USB. Again, with hard disk space it is largely down to preference and usage. For light to medium usage, such as saving documents, images, music and basic software you may require anything from 250GB to 500GB maximum. If you’re looking to download and play games, you may need to consider anything from at least 500GB upto 1TB, depending on the amount of games you wish to download.  Expertec stock hard drives ranging from 1TB to 4TB, ideal if you're a serious gamer.

Seagate 3.5 2TB SATA3 Hard Drive Desktop £74.99

Expertec have a great range of PC’s available with varying RAM and Hard Drive space, so, whether you’re using your PC for gaming, studying or day-to-day browsing we have something to suit you!