The first retail listing for the soon to be launched HD 7950 has popped up, that being from online distributer PROVANTAGE who are advertising a model from GIGABYTE (GV-R795WF3-3GD) for pre-order at quite the inflated price indeed – ‘Only' $481.58. The specs provided are minimal in the advertisement – HD …

Our good friends at OCZ Technology are giving us 100 tickets to CeBIT 2012 for free – the tech event is on between the 6th and 10th of March! These are one day tickets. And it’s real easy to get one too… Just answer the question below and send us …

In our effort to provide the best possible support to our customers, we’re providing a free LGA2011 bracket to owners of the award-winning KUHLER H2O 620 and 920 CPU coolers. Starting with the next product shipment in February the brackets will be included in the product packaging. To receive this …

Today we are looking at the latest cooler from Arctic – the Freezer i30, which features an interchangeable 120mm PWM fan, 4 double sided direct touch heatpipes with cooling support up to 320 Watts. The i30 is released to exclusively support Intel motherboards. The i30 will be priced around $50 …

We are working with ARIA to provide our loyal members with free shipping. We also have a dedicated forum section with ARIA employees who can answer questions and offer support directly on Kitguru. Aria are one of the most respected stores in the United Kingdom, with a huge following and …

Today we are looking at the latest offering in the Antec Performance One lineup … the P280 chassis. We have reviewed many Antec cases in the past and have generally been impressed with their combination of cooling efficiency, build quality and wide ranging component support. Antec are marketing the sleek …

We reported on Apple's fiscal earnings earlier this morning, but a staggering piece of news is that they sold 15.4 million iPads, which is higher than the Hewlett Packard PC sales over the same time period, totaling 14.7 million. While Apple outperformed Hewlett Packard in the Tablet v PC wars, …

Apple announced yesterday their financial results for the fiscal 2012 first quarter which was tied into 14 weeks, ending December 31st 2011. They posted record quarterly revenue of $46.33 billion and record quarterly net profit of $13.06 billion, or $13.87 per diluted share. They have improved on the year previous, …

There is a huge audience who love to ‘open up' their iPhone handsets, verified today by the latest figures released by Chronic Dev Team and iPhone Dev Team. The joint developers of an untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S have said that the hack was downloaded around 1 million times …

A new version of AIDA 64 has been released with a January update: OpenCL GPGPU Stress Test A new OpenCL-based multi-threaded GPU and APU stressing module for the AIDA64 System Stability Test, using GPGPU computational tasks. Support for AMD CrossFireX, AMD DualGraphics and nVIDIA SLI configurations with simultaneous stressing of …

Microsoft may still be making good money with Xbox 360 sales, but the next generation of console is already being developed with a launch said to be at the end of the year, probably around October or November. It should be around six times as powerful as the current model …

Google's “Make the Web Faster” team has a bold new plan, with the goal being to turbo boost the internet. What these speed junkies have proposed is a number of changes to TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) which is the ubiquitous Internet protocol that is used, but by no means limited …

The Megaupload saga that has unfolded in recent days appears to have sent ripples of fear through cyberlocker services across the globe. Very shortly after Megaupload was shut down and several principals arrested, there is a wave of other 3rd party file sharing web sites either making drastic changes to …

We've known for a good while now that WD was hit mega hard by Thailand's floods; so much so that it's resulted in mass stock shortage and significantly raised prices across the globe due to the inability to meet continuing demand. But in its most recent financial statement WD has …

Antec Inc., the global leader in high-performance computer components, announces the Three Hundred Two enclosure, the latest addition to the Gaming Series. This sleek chassis is designed to handle today’s and tomorrow’s high-performance systems that are custom built for gamers from the inside-out. The Three Hundred Two is perfect for …

It has been a while since we have looked at a Synology product, and today we are reviewing their new RS212 NAS server designed for an office environment. The RS212 is a rack mount NAS server supplied with a replaceable motherboard and support for hot swappable drives. All the I/O …

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. “YOU Can Test Code for the US Pentagon on Your iPhone” Before long, a new spin will be …

With Blackberry's antiquated products and personnel straining at the limits, Apple continues its march forward with renewed vigour. The latest sales data is now available and it makes for interesting reading. Sources close to Apple are telling us that 14 million iPads were sold in the last quarter of 2011. …

AMD released their HD7970 on December 22nd last year and we followed up with four separate reviews focusing on single card, dual card configurations and modified cards from XFX. Today we are looking at several ASUS cards, and to make it more interesting, we have opted to build a three …

Intel have paid out $125 million to acquire the InfiniBand switch and adapter product range from QLogic. The move was noted on The Register last night and will help Intel improve their Data Center and Connected Systems business by asking network equipment providers to use Xeon processors inside their networking …

Very few launches are being hyped as much as the upcoming iPhone from Apple. It would appear that they are working with Sony to release a stunning new camera sensor which could improve images in both bright and low light conditions. These new sensors promise faster response times, lower power …

Steve Jobs was one of the most important technology leaders, and to mark his legacy, Virgin America have named one of their fleet after him. They have embedded a popular Steve Jobs quote on the side of the Airbus A320 which reads “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”. The phrase was coined …

The Earth is due to be bombarded by one of the strongest solar radiation storms in recent years, which could damage power grids and satellites. This ‘coronal mass ejection', which is a violent release of magnetic fields and plasma from the Sun, is heading towards the Earth at the speed …

OCZ Technology Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:OCZ), a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, today announced the release of new enhanced IOPS firmware (v1.13) for the Octane SATA 3.0 Series SSDs. The random write performance has been significantly improved, in some capacities over double that of …

Youtube bosses posted in a blog that the amount of video content uploaded to the sharing site has increased by a factor of 10 times since 2007. They said “Since the dawn of YouTube, we’ve been sharing the hours of video you upload every minute. In 2007 we started at …

Got a thing for cool gadgets and tech in cars? this one should definitely grab your attention. Kickstarter is a company that makes the path from concept to reality easy thanks to crowdfunding techniques. With their latest project they've come up with Dash, aka “The smart phone car stereo”. Unlike …

The Pirate Bay has just added a new category type on its site that paves the way for what it expects to be a continually evolving, inevitable future that will change the way we live, forever. The new category, dubbed ‘Physibles' essentially provides you with the ability to download a …

While Intel remains an unstoppable force with demand for its Core i-series “Sandy Bridge” processor range in particular continuing to climb, recent sales numbers shared out by the company show that there is a darker, more dismal looking side in one segment – its low-cost, low-powered Atom chip line. Sales …

The internet has as many comedy sites as it has porn channels [No chance! – Ed] and we see plenty of them here in the KitGuru offices. Every now and then, one of them will be about technology and some of those are actually good enough to make us smile. …

Over the weekend, in AMD's back yard over in Dallas Texas, an impromptu survey yielded some rather interesting responses. Given a choice of options, without knowing which was which, gamers seem to be choosing AMD. KitGuru mutters “Shirley some mistake” and does some digging. One of the things KitGuru likes …