Demonstrating that PC gaming is far from dead, the fully customisable Crossbow is a high-end Windows 7 featuring the highest quality components across the (mother) board – not to mention water cooling.

Price: £1,499.99 | Chillblast

The Chillblast Fusion Crossbow is a high end gaming PC packed with a dizzying array of technology.

There's 8GB of memory and two storage drives: a sizzlingly fast 128GB solid state drive for installing games and a 1TB hard disk for everything else. The NVIDIA GTX580 graphics card can handle pretty much any game you chuck at it, while the overclocked 5GHz Intel Core i7 processor keeps everything ticking speedily.

This no nonsense PC isn't cheap, but it delivers on all gaming fronts. It's indisputably one of the finest Windows machines we saw this year.