KitGuru has reviewed many HD5770 graphics cards since we opened and we still believe it is one of the best value cards on the market, combining very reasonable pricing with decent DX11 gaming performance. There have already been a massive selection of third party cards in recent months with faster …

Craig Connell spent years driving sales for nVidia before moving across to the red team almost a decade ago. He knows both of the graphics companies intimately and, through the processor giant’s acquisition of ATI, he’s also an expert on AMD’s CPU business.He's just the right person to prod for …

XFX are without doubt one of the finest graphics card manufacturers on the planet and whenever they announced they were going to sell ATI graphics card, many analysts and journo's wondered how it would work. After all nVidia are well known to be rather tempremental and difficult to work with …

KitGuru loves a high quality LED backlit screen and with pricing continually dropping they are now firmly in the grasp of the mainstream audience. Unfortunately while LED television screens are normally much better than traditional CCFL models we have found at KitGuru that buying an LED monitor for your computer …

KitGuru reported that Intel bought McAfee yesterday for $7.68 billion. That's interesting enough. But when you consider Intel's other investments, it leads to some intersting possibilities. KitGuru investigates. When Jan Gritzbach and Tomas Hofer got together in 1991, it wasn't the AVG antivirus program they developed that had the biggest …

Over the past few years NZXT have released 3 variations of their Sentry line of fan controllers. The first 2 models were front mounted inside a case which often meant cables everywhere. Today we have their first external fan controller the Sentry LXE in the KitGuru labs.  The Sentry LXE …

KitGuru reviewed the stonking new Zotac GTX460 AMP! earlier this week and while pricing wasn't confirmed at the time, we have just heard from Zotac that the retail cost will be £209.99 inc vat. Considering the standard clocked GTX460 is around £199 right now, it seems well worth the extra …

KitGuru spoke with sources in Taipei yesterday and we were told that LG Display, the company responsible for the screen in the iPad are finally catching up to the demand from Apple. Apple are reflecting this improvement on their store with wait times now down from ten days to five …

Bitfenix, a hot new company dealing with chassis designs have a spanking looking case being released in September – entitled the Colossus. The case has undergone some changes since it was originally announced with focus now on adding a steel storage box to improve rigidity and strength. The top and …

We all love broadband and in this day and age lines are getting fatter, cheaper and caps are being increased. Belgian ISP Telenet decided to release information on the heaviest of downloaders using their network and one chap had 2,680GB of data shifted to his hard drives in a month. …

The name Foxconn might not be the first you would jot down as a ‘dream employer', but it seems that many people are jumping at the chance to work for them with 400,000 more jobs marked down within the next year. In recent months 12 people of the Foxconn workforce …

News has just reached KitGuru that Intel are purchasing McAfee for $7.68 billion. If that makes your eyes water, then rest assured it won't make much of a dent in Intel's coffers. This move is one of the most dramatic in Intel's history as they clearly want a shift into …

With the ever growing market for home networking, it makes sense that companies create media players that can replace the common PC for viewing pictures, playing video content and streaming files from NAS systems. Kitguru recently looked several of these devices from Dutch company A.C Ryan and we felt that …

TUL Corporation, a leading manufacturer of AMD graphics cards, today announced improved gaming performance for HTPC gamers. The PowerColor HD5750 Low Profile Edition is specifically designed for those with HTPC systems or limited space chassis’ who desire the upgraded graphics performance without having to compromise their system size. The PowerColor …

We've all heard of Black Monday, when the world's stock markets collapsed. Wikipedia sums it up nicely here. If you were HP and your biggest reseller moved all of its data centres to Cisco, would that urge you to update the company diaries to read ‘Terrible Thursday'? KitGuru investigates. It …

Word has just reached KitGuru that one of the most popular enthusiast CPUs in the world, the Core i5 750, has been handed a long sword, pointed in the direction of its family temple at dawn and told to cut out its main intestine before plunging the cold metal into …

Here at KitGuru we spend a lot of time looking at high end  products so it's easy to forget about the cheaper products at the other end of the market.  Many people aren't interested in how many megahertz they can squeeze out of their top-end i7-980X CPU with the mammoth …

City Of London police have arrested nine suspected members of a crime conspiracy ring involving thousands of stolen iPhones and millions of pounds worth of fraudulent phone charges. Police performed a series of raids on Wednesday and seized many phones, fake passports, SIM cards and noted a sophisicated network of …

With the recent removal of CEO Mark Hurd, Hewlett Packard are hunting for a new leader. They have named firm Spencer Stuart as the company to spearhead this search. Analysts are saying that possible candidates so far are EMC's Pat Gelsinger, IBM's Steve Mills, Microsoft's Stephen Elop and Motorola's Greg …

Foxconn have been featuring in the press recently after news of 12 suicides among employees, apparently caused by extremely tiring working conditions with dire salary terms. In an effort to improve public relations and company moral Foxconn are initiating rallies with the theme “Treasure your life, love your family, care …

Kitguru reviewed the LinkStation Duo last month and it left our offices with a positive review, especially as the pricing was so competitive. Today we look at a more expensive model in their range – the Terastation Duo WXL. The Terastation Duo is aptly named, as it supports a dual …

The KitGuru review of the A.C. Ryan PLAYON! media devices was a popular read and today AC Ryan are pleased to announce a new official firmware release for both the Playon! and Playon! HD Mini. This is based on the latest Realtek SDK (v3.x) and AC Ryan inform us that …

One of the leading UK performance system designers Cryo computing are announcing a range of new laptops. If these are anything like their previous systems I have reviewed then we are in for a treat. The systems are named after ancient Celtic tribes of Britain, Iceni being probably the best …

While slow and timid interviews are the stuff of weary insomniacs, there's nothing KitGuru likes more than an experienced senior executive that's prepared to tell it like it is. To help stir the spirits, Kingston kindly lent us Bernd Dombrowsky. And we are very greatful that they have. You'll soon …

Kingston have just announced the release of HyperX ‘H2O’ water-cooled DDR3 and HyperX ‘blu’ entry-level DDR 2 and DDR3 memory kits. This means that currently Kingston have five different ranges within the HyperX performance memory sector. As this could be confusing for many, let us have a look at the …

KitGuru reported last week regarding rumours of a new 7 inch iPad set to hit retail with a Cortex A9 processor. While these were only rumours from far eastern shores, it appears that another Taiwanese publication has detailed more information. Chinese language Economic Daily News reported on Tuesday that Apple …

nVidia's GTX460 is without a doubt the strongest card in their current lineup, the pricing is right and the performance has surprised more than a few naysayers. Even though the reference performance is excellent this hasn't stopped manufacturers from releasing their own modded boards and KitGuru recently reviewed the MSI …

Today we are looking at another 5000 series card from HIS, the HIS HD5850 iCooler V Turbo.  The last HIS card we reviewed was the IceQ 5 5770 and in a similar fashion the HD5850 shares a factory pre-overclock. This particular product features a center mounted fan to disperse air …

It seems that all in one computers are the rage lately with companies such as Asus trying to break the mould with exciting designs and interesting concepts. Bart Reardon of The MacBook Air Project thought it would be a cool idea to fit a MacBook Air into an apple keyboard …

We published a story yesterday on the Apple executive who was under fire for accepting kick backs for leaking sensitive information. Plantiff Mr Devine yesterday pleaded not guilty to these accusations. Paul Shin Devine was lead in handcuffs and an orange prison suit to appear in Federal court in San …