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Did you enter our be quiet! Straight 10 PSU competition just under a month ago? If so, today could be the day you discover that you're a winner. Out of all the hundreds of entrants, many with the correct answer, we've whittled it down to just three. The question we …

Most of us don't need a kilowatt of power in our PCs, even the heavy gamers and overclockers among us. But for the ultimate enthusiasts, the ones with deep enough pockets for high end SLI or Crossfire set ups, they need a veritable power plant in the back of their …

Cooler Master is well known for its ‘Hyper' series of CPU coolers, which tend to promise excellent cooling performance at a low price. Today we will be looking at the latest addition to the range, the Hyper 612 V2 – how does it stack up against the competition? The Hyper 612 …

KitGuru might have a strong and bustling Facebook community – which you should check out if you haven't already – but we must admit, we've been lacking in one key area for a while now: we've had no app for your smartphones. Now though, we do, but not because of …

If you were one of over 8,000 people that entered our competition to win one of three BioStar A68N motherboards a couple of weeks ago, then chances are you've been champing at the bit to find out if you're one of the lucky trio that can expect one of the …

Over the weekend, KitGuru was invited to head down to the Overclockers UK store and warehouse to see their sponsored sale event – if you missed out on this at the weekend then we have some pictures for your enjoyment today! Quite a few people turned up early to grab …

Well guys it's that time again- the winners have been picked for our giveaway in collaboration with CyberPower UK and Gigabyte! Thanks to everyone who entered. The winner of the grand prize is Owen Davies, enjoy your brand new £1399 PC featuring an Intel Core i5 4690 CPU and a …

MSI is celebrating the World Cup by launching two new competitions. From now until the 27th of June, anyone who buys an MSI gaming laptop will be entered to win a Samsung 65″ Slim LED HD 3D TV worth £2499.99. Second place will receive a Budweiser fridge and third place will …

bequiet! is running a worldwide competition from the 28th of May until the 10th of June 2014, giving away four brand new power supplies to four lucky winners. In order to enter, you'll have to head over to the bequiet! competition page. From there, you'll have to answer two simple, …

If you're a serious PC gamer and you've been anywhere near the internet in the past day or so, there's a chance you will have seen mention of the Overclockers Infinity Vesuvius. It's a monster and monsters have a thirst – so how much juice is needed to keep it …

The New York Police Department has been found guilty of a huge misjudgement when it comes to how social media works in the 21st century. What seemed like a great idea at the time, has spiralled into an object lesson in ‘Never publicly ask a question unless you already know …

Parents all want, pretty much, the same thing for their kids. It's all university, professional career, kids and retirement near the sea. So what happens when a ‘bad seed' comes along and decides that being a surgeon is a bad idea and that playing games for the rest of your …

Welcome back hardware lovers. Did we successfully get your juices flowing in Part One?   Good.  We didn't stop searching for beauty all day long and we were up late last night picking the very best for you. Here's the second instalment of the Most Gorgeous Systems from Multiplay i51 …

While the event itself is a celebration of pure gaming enjoyment, and most of the 19,000 turnstile clicks over the Bank Holiday weekend will belong to gamers with regular style PCs, there's no denying that some folks make a lot more effort and boy does their work attract some serious …

For any of you who follow comic strips, you know that even if our side is threatened with defeat, there is always a hero or two on standby – ready to avenge the fallen. At Multiplay's i51 event up at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, Overclockers brought plenty of back-up. …

Are you heading to Multiplay's i51 this weekend? If you are then be on the lookout for KitGuru staff, as a few of us are attending in official, and less so, capacities, to get some gaming done, as well as see what new tech, games and fun are on offer …

Smartphones are such a huge part of our lives today but as we all know, current battery technology can struggle to power devices for long periods of time, especially under heavy use. As a result, our phones are often running out of charge before the day is done. Thankfully we …

One of the more surprising things about the way the world has changed since the advent of the network and tablet PC revolutions, is the way that desktops are holding their own. Sure, it's more of a gentle decline that the rampant growth we experienced in the past, but it …

While every other site out there is spending its April fools' day trying to make you feel like a dummy for hitting that share button, we don't play that kind of game here at KitGuru. Instead, we're launching another Steam community group competition, where you can win the Steam game …

Wavemaster designs speakers in Germany and then manufactures in the Far East. It's a clever partnership that allows them to get the best of both worlds: Teutonic desire for engineering perfection with a Chinese love of cost control and affordability. In 2013, that resulted in the most impressive set of …

If you have been looking at all the 4K testing that KitGuru Labs has completed recently, then your desire for next-gen resolution gaming must be strong. With this competition, you have a chance to turn your gaming dreams into serious 4K reality! One lucky winner will be taking delivery of …

I'm sure I don't have to tell you guys, that Kitguru has come a long way in the past few years, ultimately becoming one of the biggest independent review sites around and that's thanks to you guys as much as it is us, with our fine, fine content. In-fact if …

As the second weekend of be quiet! and Kitguru's Facebook competition has rolled around, it means everyone has another chance to win one of three great prizes. All you have to do to enter is answer a simple question, so why not take a swing at it? But what's up for …

Oi, PC modders, you're slacking man. Seriously. I know you've made some pretty sweet looking rigs over the years, but I guarantee you've never made something as Kitguru-ified as this one. Granted this was probably a bit cheaper than most and it can't play any of the latest games – …

With the huge flooding tragedy that took out Western Digital toward the end of 2011, hard drive prices climbed faster than an F15 in intercept mode. Things calmed down in 2012 and over the course of 2013, we have seen strong competition. But can prices drop much further? With a …

The response to KitGuru's earlier article about YOYOTech's brand new £8,000 mega box, the XDNA Aurum 24K was really positive. While we can argue about whether any PC can be worth that much money, there's no doubting the beauty of this hand-crafted monster. You wanted more, so here's more. While …

Following the huge chemical explosions that took out 15% of the world's memory production a short while ago, KitGuru has now been in contact with several major memory companies and we have been told “Everything is on hold”. As KitGuru reported earlier today, Hynix fabrication plants 1 and 2 (FABs) …

World DRAM prices are set to rocket as news comes in that Hynix FABs 1 and 2 have been engulfed in a ball of flame following a huge chemical explosion. UPDATE: We have just heard that several major memory suppliers have stopped shipments – read more here. Reports are still …

As Multiplay's largest ever Insomnia LAN draws to a close, we thought we would take a look around and show those of you who weren't lucky enough to make it this year what you missed out on! Overclockers UK Overclockers UK had a lot of exciting stuff on display, most …

We love new stuff. For a major technology publisher like KitGuru, innovation is our meat, potatoes and chocolate ice cream dessert. We love it and can't get enough!  That's why we love companies like BeQuiet that make the effort to put new gear in front of gamers at events like …