annual | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Mon, 12 Dec 2016 13:51:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png annual | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Nvidia Project Inspire 2016 draws hundreds, $500,000 investment https://www.kitguru.net/channel/jon-martindale/nvidia-project-inspire-2016-draws-hundreds-500000-investment/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/jon-martindale/nvidia-project-inspire-2016-draws-hundreds-500000-investment/#comments Mon, 12 Dec 2016 13:51:03 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=314396 Nvidia's annual day of giving back to the community, known as Project Inspire, has once again drawn hundreds of contributors from Nvidia staff, friends and family, as they invest time and more than half a million dollars in a local school. Project Inspire is Nvidia's version of a Christmas/Holiday party and has been a yearly …

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Nvidia's annual day of giving back to the community, known as Project Inspire, has once again drawn hundreds of contributors from Nvidia staff, friends and family, as they invest time and more than half a million dollars in a local school.

Project Inspire is Nvidia's version of a Christmas/Holiday party and has been a yearly commitment for Nvidia and its partners for the best part of a decade. Over that time it's directed more than $6.6 million into schools in the San Francisco Bay Area and this year was no different. 1,650 volunteers assembled at the Oak Grove High School in San Jose, California, to help give a fresh lick of paint and install new facilities at the school.

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Nvidia staff and their loved ones, joined representatives from City Year, East Side Union High School District, Devcon Construction, Gensler, Sares Regis, Parsley Sage Rosemary & Thyme, Corinthian Transportation, and DivcoWest Silicon Valley Investments, for this year's project. They painted murals, installed new sporting equipment, created inspiring works of art and helped put together new facilities like a teacher's lounge and parent resource room.

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The school has around 1,800 students, speaking as many as 33 languages between them, so this year's project looked to not only give the children and staff there a better school, but one that celebrated all the diversity that it has to offer.

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KitGuru Says: Even if you take the super-cynical tack and suggest that this is purely a marketing effort by Nvidia, it's still a great way to go about it. Good job green team. 

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KitGuru Annual Awards 2012 https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/zardon/kitguru-annual-awards-2012/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/zardon/kitguru-annual-awards-2012/#comments Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:41:20 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=120441 http://www.kitguru.net/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wpeditimage/img/image.png

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2012 was a busy year for the Kitguru team. We reviewed hundreds of products in the last twelve months, from mainsteam performance memory cards to bank breaking video cards. Today we look back on the last 12 months and pick out the very best hardware to hit our labs.

Having posted close to 7,000 articles since we launched, it might come as a surprise that only a handful of products have ever achieved top marks in the KitGuru Labs. In fact, it took five months of testing to get the first product with a perfect '10' and that was Arctic's MX-4 Thermal Compound. Since then, only a couple of products have managed to score the perfect 10.

KitGuru Labs sees a ton of kit each year, but what's best - overall?

For the KitGuru annual awards, getting a great score on a product when it was first reviewed will only go part of the way to securing top spot for the whole year. We will also take into account other products which might have superseded it – maybe with a slightly lower score, but a significantly lower price.

A great example of this was the launch of nVidia's GTX660. Each new card into the KitGuru Lab had an even more impressive cooler/overclock than the previous one – so the lead was being swapped every other day.

In some cases, we have two clear winners: For example, there's no intelligent way to match a high performance Intel chipset board with one designed for an entry level AMD APU, so we've created intelligent sub-categories or sections.

Another thing to note is that, in some cases, the winning product is in KitGuru's Labs – fully tested – but hasn't been published yet. It's rare, but does happen, so we'll let you know when you're getting an ‘insight into the future'.

One thing is for sure, whatever your preferences: If you build a system based on these components – you can't go wrong. For that reason, we've created a brand new award logo for these special products – something worth looking out for!

Enough pre-amble, let's get on with the KitGuru Annual Awards 2012.

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Target Components announces record revenues https://www.kitguru.net/channel/harrison/target-components-annouces-record-revenues/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/harrison/target-components-annouces-record-revenues/#respond Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:36:13 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=100448 In a world full of doom and gloom, it's nice to see a little rainbow glow coming from Castleford. With today's announcement, Target Components can draw a positive line under its efforts in recent years, to combat the nation's negativity and offer something a little more chirpy. KitGuru peers through the rain to check the …

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In a world full of doom and gloom, it's nice to see a little rainbow glow coming from Castleford. With today's announcement, Target Components can draw a positive line under its efforts in recent years, to combat the nation's negativity and offer something a little more chirpy. KitGuru peers through the rain to check the numbers.

Distributors come in all shapes and sizes, from the monolithic Avnet and Ingram to smaller and more specialised operations. For the technology markets they, essentially, provide a buffer between local stores and the manufacturers out in South East Asia.

Manufacturers want to ship products in huge containers, which travel the oceans for weeks before arriving on our shores. Your local PC store wants to buy a handful of products and put them on the shelf for sale. Companies like Target provide that buffer – holding stock and offering credit, to make sure the market runs smoothly.

So what kind of product might you buy in a shop, which has been supplied by Target?   Well, they carry a broad range – including Biostar mainboards, AFox and Sparkle cards from nVidia, alongside some VTX3D graphic cards from AMD. Target also does Samsung external drives and Hitachi internals.

Target also manufacture what the industry calls ‘White Box' solutions. These are PCs that are pre-built to a professional standard, then sold to stores who want to ‘add the final touches' themselves before offering them to the public. This has the advantage of allowing smaller computer stores to carry a wide range of specifications – without needing to hold all of the stock required to build them. Think of it like ‘Dell on a very small scale'.

Having posted £20 million in revenue, Target is officially 4.4% up on last year and it also managed to create over £706,000 in profit.

Nice.

This is now the sixth consecutive year of profit growth for the distributor, and the fifth record profit performance in a row, but represents a slowdown following five successive years of at least 40% bottom line growth.

Speaking about Managing director Paul Cubbage commented “We’re delighted to announce another record year in the current climate. We’ve invested heavily this year to increase the level of help and support that we provide our customers, particularly free business advice via Target Business Advisory Services and Shoptalk. We’ve also invested significantly in increasing our headcount, so to see profit increase is particularly pleasing, and is once again a testament to the resilience and loyalty of our customers”.

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KitGuru says: Overall, this is great news for the channel, because it shows that there IS life in the technology market.

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