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nVidia GT640 pics, specs and launch info

So far, nVidia's launch of the Kepler range has gone smoothly. The only real hiccups have come with stock and the re-branding for some of the old 5xx cards into the 610 and 620. With the low and high ends sorted, focus for Bryan Del Rizzo moves to the mid-range …

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Lian-Li launched lovely looking low cost cases

Opinion gets split at KitGuru on a number of things. GTX or Radeon. Core i3 or Fusion. Battlefield 3 or Black Ops. But the area that's contested the hardest is chassis design. Everytime we argue about cases, Lian-Li is always one of the contenders for “Most desirable”. But, generally, they …

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Intel Everywhere and Everything

Newly formed mobile operator Everything Everywhere (the combined companies Orange and Vodafone) have today announced the launch of their new phone – called the “San Diego”. What makes this one different is that it’s the first mobile smart phone to be launched in Europe that will be powered by an …

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Epic Win Epic Amount

So what is a bit of code really worth? Well it seems quite a bit. Back in 2007 a dispute broke out between Silicon Knights and Epic Games over Unreal Engine 3. Silicon Knights originally filed to take Epic to court claiming that the Unreal Engine maker had broken its …

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Sky block Pirate Bay to customers

Sky, one of the largest broadband providers in the UK have decided to block the Pirate Bay, one of the largest filesharing websites. Sky have four million customers, who are now all cut off from accessing the website. This is in response to a court order obtained by the BPI, …

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Aria celebrates Jubilee with serious price slashing

As a one-day-only special, we've heard that Aria's sales team has taken a hatchet to a load of prices – to create ‘diamond geezer' offers – all in celebration of the Diamond Jubilee. KitGuru sups lemonade from a ‘Charlie marries Di' pint glass and checks to see if Aria's offers …

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Steve Jobs to be immortalised with movie

The iconic Apple co-founder Steve Jobs will be immortalised in a movie detailing his life. Hollywood screenwriter Aaron Sorkin said that he is working on the Steve Jobs biopic, although it is still in the very early stage. Sorkin spoke at the D10 conference in Rancho Palos Verdes. Sorkin has …

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Sapphire launch high end HD7950 FleX

Sapphire have just announced the HD7950 Flex Edition, bringing the high end unique solution to the masses. A sample arrived in our offices recently and we will have a review live as soon as possible. What is FleX? Most graphics cards based on AMD technology require the third monitor in …

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Virgin Galactic get clearance for rocket test flights

Virgin Galactic have been working hard to offer members of the public the opportunity to travel into space onboard a rocket powered craft. Their partner Scaled Composites have been granted an experimental permit from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). This is the first step in getting their dream a reality. …

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Flame virus hits Iranian oil industry

We reported a few days ago that Kaspersky had discovered a new virus nicknamed the ‘Flame', which has been in operation since 2010. They said it has been collecting private data from countries such as Israel and Iran. Kaspersky indicated that the code was so sophisticated that they suspected it …

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ReTrak launches neat and colourful cables

In life, things are rarely the right length. KitGuru can think of many occasions when ‘Just one more inch' would have been plenty, but we left unsatisfied. CurlyWurly is a case in hand. Other times, you wish that things had come to an end sooner. Here we're thinking about PSU …

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Green pioneers direct current data centre with HP

While Dell is packing big and bad with the news that it has a brand new line up of tiny and powerful Copper servers with ARM technology, HP has not been resting. Instead, its engineers have been working with the biggest IT/communications service providers in Switzerland, to try and save …

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Google Chromebox by Samsung – will you want it ?

Google have launched their new ChromeBox with Samsung, featuring their Chrome OS operating system. Experts have said that the device borrows quite a few design cues from the Apple Mac Mini, which is not necessarily a bad thing. Chrome OS is proving very popular with a select audience, especially due …

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KitGuru Gaming – Weekly Round Up

For those tech readers who don’t always get time to check out our game related content at Kitguru gaming – here is a round up of content published in the last week. “Bridging the Gap between Hardcore and Casual Games – Can It be Done?” Hardcore gamers vs. casual gamers, …

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Dell ramps up 15 watt ARM multi-core servers

Go back far enough, and servers were mini-computers or even mainframes. Even something as humble as a 200MB hard drive was the size of a washing machine and it would thud and thunk as the read/write head flew across a massive spinning disk. Then came Apricot’s 486 servers and things …

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Compare the (2nd hand GAME) market.co.uk

If you had to line up all of the annoying advertising characters over the years and decide which one most deserved to be strapped to a table, have a small incision made in its stomach, pull out a tiny bit of intestine, attach it to a heavy weight and then …

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Can SSD prices get pounded any lower?

These days, watching heavyweight boxers in the ring is like watching children eyeing up chocolate bars. Almost nothing happens for ages, then a tiny bit of action and it’s all over. Back in the day, when Ali, Foreman, Norton, Frazier and co ruled the world – the action started when …

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Arctic brings the freeze to GTX680 cooling

Allow Kim Kardashian to blow on the back of your hand and you'll feel, straight away, that there is a cooling effect. Allow her to lick the same area first, before she blows, and the effect will be multiplied. You may even experience some shivers. KitGuru leaves Kim pining at …

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Facebook linked with Opera browser takeover

The rumors continue to circulate that Facebook are looking to buy the Opera browser as part of their plans to expand outside the social networking site. The purchase of Opera would give Facebook a quick way to modify the software to suit their own interface design, to target their 900 …

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