Larrabee 2: secrets revealed during pub crawl !

Sunshine finally warmed the English countryside today. As a river meandered through the sleepy town of Newbury, one of the KitGuru crew was relaxing outside the Lock, Stock and Barrels pub. As he supp... more.

System failure and instability?  We all used to love blaming Windows, but poor power supplies are often the cause. Whether you’re solving issues, upgrading or buying a complete new rig – KitGuru ... more.

Successful product launches rely on a hundred things going right, and just a single, well placed, problem can seriously impact the well laid plans of VPs and men. Phenom II X6 has just hit such a bump... more.

From the dark days of the Pentium 4, Intel has come a long way in its attitude toward the overclocking community. From 'all overclocks must be stopped' to 'the clocks that rock'. But how much will the... more.

6he launch of Intel’s super-over-clocking 675 and 875 processors means increased performance. Super-charging your chips will mean you need one important thing, more juice. But that juice brings its ... more.

While the GTX480 is an impressive performer at the ultra high end, the market for £500 graphic cards is limited at best. Real sales come in the sub-£150 market. So how much longer will nVidia’s ma... more.

With its marriage to IBM in 2003, Hitachi claims to have been in the hard drive game for 50 years. For 2010, they’re about to get serious with the launch of Mars, the bringer of war. We’ve all ... more.

Word from the channel has reached KitGuru that Gigabyte is keen to increase its share of the Intel mainboard space for 2010, and it’s prepared to get aggressive on price to make it happen. Gi... more.

Pricing a graphics card is a fine art. Too low and you lose profit. Too high and you wind up with a warehouse full of kit no guru wants. So what price has nVidia chosen for the GTX465?  KitGuru inves... more.

While interesting for the world as a whole, the UK's complete lack of decision when it comes to selecting a government is going to have a potentially disasterous impact on the system builder market. ... more.

Intel has reacted very quickly to AMD's highly overclockable Phenom II X6 processors, by prepping the launch of 2 hugely overclockable parts at the end of May. In this space, pricing will be crucial. ... more.

As interest slows in the GTX470, nVidia has been working to position its new chips to be significantly more competitive against ATI. While the GTX480 can claim the crown of being the fastest single... more.

KitGuru can't count the times we've toasted our collective groins with a laptop running full pelt for too long. Now Cindy from Evercool has a solution to excessive heat build up in this area - and it... more.

No additional cores on the horizon for the users that might need them most? While professing that more cores are always better, it seems that the Intel hierarchy have no immediate plans to bring qu... more.

To Italians, Shamino means little idiot. However, in EVGA's labs, it means Peter Tan: The Godfather of modding mainboard design and he's about to put horses in the beds of anyone who doesn't take him ... more.

Professional applications and benchmarks can be as sensitive to memory response times as they are to overall throughput. On that basis, what has happened to Crucial's top performaing memory - why has ... more.

When Intel moves memory production to 22nm this summer, pricing will drop significantly. In the meantime, the company has been priced higher than rival options from Samsung, OCZ, Crucial and Corsair, ... more.

With a global drought on GTX 470/480 graphic cards for desktop systems, Clevo has had to pay top dollar in order to get a handful of special nVidia chips ready for a new top end gaming notebook. Th... more.

Blackberry, iPhone or Smartphone – which is best?  With the most attractive contracts running around 2 years, your next choice could be with you for a very long time. KitGuru opens the lid on mobil... more.

Some people swear that memory is crucial to performance, while others think it's the 'Emperor’s New Clothes' of upgrades. How much memory do you need, what speed should it run at and is it worth upg... more.

The price of TFT screens has plummeted over the past 2 years. At the same time, the glass panels that are used to make monitors have been getting bigger and bigger. More screen real estate is always b... more.

Most people think about upgradeability when they buy new kit - but only a fraction of us ever actually upgrade. If you re-vamp every couple of years, then technology will have moved on and a new rig m... more.

We all want fast/responsive systems, with plenty of storage and back-ups of our most important data - like photos, videos and emails. While SSDs provide fast boot times, many of us will still be using... more.

Almost nothing affects your PC experience as much as the graphics procssor you choose, from integrated chips that come with the mainboard - through to running multiple high-end DX cards - KitGuru brea... more.

Will AMD's Leo platform be hopelessly outgunned by the awesome power of Intel's latest, top-end, 6-core, i7 Extreme Edition... or are they aimed at totally different markets?  KitGuru gets in the rin... more.

On Wednesday morning, Apple unveiled its brand new, 17" MacBook Pro with a pricetag of £1,900. KitGuru was on hand to see if its worth taking that much damage to your wallet/mortgage/marriage. So ... more.