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Read More »AMD Behemoth System gets driven to competition winner!
Kitguru has been working with AMD on creating a bespoke custom system we nicknamed ‘The BEHEMOTH’ . This project creation took many hundreds of man hours and captured the attention of a large audience. When the project was completed AMD decided we should give it away to one lucky Kitguru reader. We had thousands of entries for the chance to win this, and one lucky chap – Cameron Marples ended up winning this £22,000 monster PC.
Read More »Kingston ‘FURY’ Build (11700k)
Kingston recently announced a new line up of FURY branded memory - based around this they decided to raise some awareness with KitGuru readers and sent Leo a bunch of new hardware for us to build a system. As well as the new hardware, Kingston also decided to send Leo a massive box of Kingston branded Merch. We have to admit that watching Leo playing with Kingston branded Merch gave Kitguru staff quite a chuckle this morning.
Read More »Intel Answer Leo’s Questions on Rocket Lake S
In the latest video from Leo, he discusses Intel Rocket Lake S and the possible problems Intel might have. Leo also took the time to ask Intel a couple of questions about the upcoming launch. Leo, as always speaks his mind and asks the tough questions. Leo discusses his thoughts on the new platform, including the Rocket Lake S maximum core count of 8 (16 threads) as well as some of their claims, The Intel XE graphics, Intel Deep Learning, the new Intel 500 Series chipset and their new memory controller with official support of DDR4 3200 memory speeds. But what about the clock speeds?
Read More »Thermaltake issue statement to KG over 4600MHz RAM review
Last week staff writer LEO WALDOCK published a review on the new Thermaltake ToughRAM RGB 4600mhz kit. Several days after the review was published Thermaltake contacted myself to say that they didn't feel the review was fair in places and I told them that they could send us an official statement and I would get Leo to investigate their concerns.
Read More »ASUS ROG Chakram Mouse with Joystick UNBOXING
Briony managed to get some hands up time with the upcoming release of the ASUS Republic Of Gamers Chakram. A new flagship mouse being released from ASUS soon in the United Kingdom. We don't have confirmed pricing yet, but the expected cost is said to be around £150.
Read More »Leo Says EP 43: Intel XPU Episode
Today Leo is back with another episode of Leo Says, with a big focus on the Intel XPU. A subject that has flown under the radar now for some time. What exactly is Intel's XPU all about ? Leo looks for answers.
Read More »Luke Gets Technical: Ryzen 3000 Success, X570 & AM4 BIOS issues, AGESA 1.0.0.3 Testing
AMDs new platform launched a while ago and Luke Hill, one of KitGuru's Senior Technical Editors was impressed at launch time, saying it was a great step forward for AMD and of great benefit to the enthusiast consumer. After spending some time with the platform he wanted to share some of his technical in depth analysis to this point.
Read More »Leo Says 37: Honest Reviews, The Verge VOX takedown BitWit, W3175X, ROG Dominus, AMD profits!
Leo is back after a brief hiatus and this week he has a lot of topics to discuss. He discusses the post I made a few weeks ago as well as VOX Media taking on BitWit for a takedown on their 'build a PC video' from months ago. It failed. Leo also discusses Intel's new W3175X £3,000 processor, the ROG Dominus motherboard, G.Skill's new high capacity memory kits and many other topics. It's a good video, even by LEO's standards.
Read More »Leo Says Ep 32: Leo buys VEGA 64 cards cheap, discusses Waterblocks and upcoming CPU’s!
Leo is back again this week and he decides to focus on graphics cards, processors, CES and the Computex 'catchup'. Its an action packed episode covering a lot of new hardware, waterblocks and trade events. Leo even discusses some of the hardware in his studio and what he has recently bought!
Read More »Leo Says 31: INTEL Special, also featuring AMD!
Leo is back again this week and he decides to focus on INTEL, with a little update on AMD as well for good measure.
Read More »Win an awesome Alienware 17 R5 – 120hz 1440p / Core i9 / GTX 1080 oc laptop! (closed)
Fancy winning a new Alienware 17 R5 laptop featuring a 6 core Intel processor, 1440p 120hz G-SYNC panel and overclocked GTX 1080 laptop? There are just two days left to enter for your chance to win!
Read More »Briony Games (livestream) – Ep 1: PC Building Simulator !
In the first of our new 'Briony Games' series - reviewer and gaming addict Briony Hannam takes a look at 'PC Building Simulator' - a new title which is designed to let people build their own virtual PC system. It could be used as a way of checking how a rig looks before buying the real, physical components online. Briony had never loaded this simulator before producing this video - it was recorded live as she played about with the software herself at home.
Read More »Leo Says 19 – Nvidia GPP, AMD chase ASROCK GPU sample, Twitter unhashed, Apple RECORD earnings
Our opinionated hero is back - the man from England with an opinion on literally everything. This week Leo discusses the apparent death of Nvidia GPP (yay, but is it really dead?). We don't blame you if you missed the 'announced' death of GPP - the news appeared on a blog post on the Nvidia website (a blog post, seriously). Leo also discusses AMD going after ASROCK to find out how Tomshardware got a 580 GPU sample. For those who don't know - AMD have a rule in place that ASROCK are meant to be selling their hardware only in ASIA - but is it really worth making a big fuss over?
Read More »Leo Says EP10: Meltdown and Spectre, Vega Frontier Blockchain Pioneers, Intel Core i7 8809G with AMD graphics, Intel Monette Hill
Happy New Year? Bah Humbug!
Read More »Leo Says EP9: Apple BatteryGate, RAM and SSD pricing, AMD Zen 2, Ryzen APU Stealth Launch, Intel Whiskey Lake
In the ninth episode of ‘Leo Says' – our grumpy guru Leo discusses the Apple BatteryGate and price drops to appease customers, he bitches about RAM and SSD pricing and he also discusses the new and upcoming AMD hardware launches. He also decides to discuss Intel Whiskey Lake – and …
Read More »Leo Says EP8: Reviewing Cases, Nvidia price drop, iMac Pro Vega, Office Fail, Apple throttle iphones
In the eighth episode of ‘Leo Says' – our grumpy guru Leo discusses iMac Pro with Vega graphics, Nvidia cutting the price of Nvidia Titan Xp Star wars limited edition cards, Windows 10 failing, Ryzen APU leaks and just how much he loves the Fractal Design Define R6 case. He …
Read More »Leo Says Ep6: Net Neutrality, Nvidia Titan Machine Learning, Kaspersky Drama, Cascade Lake and more!
Its an action packed week - Leo ponders some of the latest news and presents his own unique take on it all.
Read More »Leo Says Ep5: – Intel Core i11 – 28 core, Apple v PC and MORE!
This week Leo talks about Apple V PC, Apple security issues, AMD Ryzen 14nm, Concerns over Kaspersky being Russian and if we will see Intel Core i11 in the not too distant future. And at what cost?
Read More »EVGA Kingpin GTX1080ti samples refused unless tested with LN2 (only)
Are LN2 results any use to you as a buyer? What do you feel about a company not wanting us to test their supplied cooling system and ONLY delivering LN2 results?
Read More »ASUS showcase ROG Poseidon GTX 1080ti
The Greek god of the sea and earthquakes will strike you down if you don't check this reveal out ...
Read More »61% of KitGuru readers polled own Nvidia graphics
On Monday we ran a little public poll on our Facebook page. Around 2,000 readers answered and today, as promised, we share the results. No, This is not an AMD versus Nvidia editorial because that always gets much too heated and people end up arguing over nothing. We simply wanted …
Read More »AMD talk to KitGuru about Crimson ReLive
KitGuru despatched Leo Waldock for an exclusive interview with Andrej Zdravkovic, Corporate Vice President for Software and Platform Engineering at AMD and Terry Makedon, Director – Product Management at AMD about the latest release of their latest graphics software. In 2014 AMD launched Catalyst Omega In 2015 we had Crimson …
Read More »KitGuru exclusive visit to Gigabyte HQ
During Computex 2016 Leo Waldock visited Gigabyte's HQ in Taipei for a quick tour followed by an interview with Raymond Tseng, Senior Associate Vice President Innovation & Creative Value Centre Motherboard Business Unit, which is one of the longest job titles we have ever seen. As you can see Gigabyte …
Read More »be quiet! present the Dark Base 900 Chassis
We recently had some time to chat with Aaron Licht about the upcoming be quiet! Dark Base 900 Chassis. This chassis is due for release at the end of June 2016 and Aaron takes us through all the main features, as well as a couple of unique talking points. As …
Read More »Doom (2016) running on Nvidia GTX1080 (Video showcase)
KitGuru had an invite to the Nvidia Editors Day Event last week, and the guys in green brought some of the ID software development team over to showcase Doom (2016). We managed to get a front row seat as Doom (2016) was running on a massive $100,000+ LED wall via …
Read More »Exclusive interview with AMD’s Andrej Zdravkovic
You may have noticed that Radeon Software Crimson has been gaining a lot of positive momentum since its launch back in November. Radeon Technologies Group mastermind Raja Koduri brought Andrej Zdravkovic back to AMD as a Corporate VP of Software and Platform Engineering. We had an exclusive opportunity to speak …
Read More »Building your first Custom Designed Watercooled PC: Part 2
STOP! If you have never built a PC before, this video is not a step by step guide for newbies. It doesn’t explain how to insert a processor, or what you do with a power supply. It won’t tell you how to tweak your bios and overclock. If you are …
Read More »KitGuru updates test rigs with Overclockers UK
KitGuru reviews thousands of products every year and having high performance, up to date test systems at hand to partner with the latest components is critical. This is particularly true when we are reviewing the latest graphics cards. In the last week several of our older 4770K and 4790K systems …
Read More »ASUS UK hiring: polling KitGuru readers!
ASUS UK wanted to let KitGuru readers know that they are hunting for a new team member to be positioned in their Hemel Hempstead offices in the United Kingdom. Are you looking for a new job and feel you have a lot to offer one of the world's biggest computer …
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