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nVidia has always loved a bit of GT action. Going back as far as the original 6800 series SLi cards, the GT version was extremely popular. So, on that basis, is the new chassis from Thermaltake any surprise?  KitGuru sneaks in for a close-up. While the original, BMW-designed Level 10 …

We have recently looked at two impressive AMD motherboards from Asus which performed well in our tests and offered great feature sets and build quality. Today we are going to look at the M4A88T-M motherboard which offers a similar feature set to the other two boards we've tested but in …

In the UK, buying memory could hardly be more puritanical. You duck into your local PC store, whisper in the ear of the store assistant and leave a few minutes later with a brown paper bag under your arm. Nor so in Guang Hua. KitGuru ignores the Welsh jokes and …

While all of the world's top chassis designers fight it out in the mid-range to entry-level, only a select few have consistently battled for the accolade of the finest chassis ever produced. KitGuru was lucky enough to be allowed inside Silverstone's Taiwan headquarters for a 1-on-1 with Chassis guru and …

Roll the clock back 10 years and there was no BeQuiet. At Computex 2011, the company began to flex its muscles.By Computex 2012, the company will have a completely different profile. KitGuru pieces together the info and looks ahead. Germans are a meticulous bunch, by and large. So when a …

Corsair have built up a great reputation over the years, and their power supplies have always scored very highly on KitGuru, with the AX range setting a new benchmark standard. Today we are looking at the new HX1050, the replacement for the successful HX1000 unit. Should this be on your …

AMD are proud of the fact that the new Wii U console is being powered by AMD's graphics. While very little information has been posted online, AMD are providing a custom GPU design for the new Nintendo console. AMD were the obvious choice for the Wii U console, as they …

Sadly, it appears that Corsair have had some issues with the latest Sandforce 2281 powered Solid State Drives and they have issued the following statement: Over the past several days, we have analyzed issues associated with the stability of our recently released 120GB Force Series 3 SSD (Corsair part number …

Many of you might not have heard of Titan, however they have over 20 years experience with cooling technology. Their headquarters are in Taiwan and they have an office in Germany. Titan are no small player either, with 500 employees and the capability of producing over 2 million coolers every …

AMD reintroduced the FX brand for PC processors and platforms at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). FX-branded products will be geared toward enthusiast PCs and HD entertainment aficionados. AMD also announced new members for its “Gaming Evolved” program, driving the PC gaming experience forward with native HD3D support in Eidos …

When Crucial released the C300 series of Solid State Drives last year they outperformed anything else available at the time. With read speeds around 340MB/s the Sandforce drives had a serious performance disadvantage, only offering around 280MB/s. The market today is in a very different state and the new SATA …

It's been a while since any cooler has got close to the performance of the NH-D14. But at Computex 2011, something new was indeed spotted, on a small stand, tucked away in a dark corner. This could get interesting. While the world plus dog prepares for the arrival of Intel's …

Computex 2011 saw a lot of emphasis on new, high-end coolers. This will almost certainly be tied into Intel's upcoming socket 2011 products which, if clocked correctly, should make every chip that's gone before look positively ordinary. So what's Thermaltake been up to? The launch of the original Frio marked …

While the race to release the world’s first PCI-Express 3 graphic card is underway in the background, MSI has beaten its rivals to the punch with the world’s first mainboard to support Intel’s new industry standard. It is called the Z68A-GD80 (G3) and KitGuru got happy with the snappy. It …

It's been a good many years since Intel first unloaded an Extreme version of its high-end processor into the face of a waiting world. Computex 2011 saw preparations for the next generation in full swing. KitGuru's cameras swung by the Asrock stand to see if there had been any fatalities. …

There are many cases in life where small is beautiful, but not so many when the smaller product still carries as big a punch as the ‘daddy' in the range. We're thinking Optimus Prime versus the accidental kitchen deceptacons in the Revenge of the Fallen. So what is Zotac up …

If you are the proud owner of a new high end SLI or CrossfireX gaming system, then you might be in the market for a powerful, future proof power supply. The product we are going to be looking at today will be of interest as it is 80 Plus Gold …

Walking around the corridors at the Grand Hyatt, you come across all sorts of strange conversations. On the tenth floor, Intel has taken more sweets than a greedy kid in a pick-n-mix. So what has KitGuru heard? ARM has been pwning the tablet space, because Intel needs to work on …

Gigabyte announced that Bigfoot Networks has released a free software update for the Killer E2100 Networking Platform, bringing Advanced Stream Detect technology to all GIGABYTE G1-Killer motherboards. Advanced Stream Detect delivers unprecedented intelligence and improved network performance to GIGABYTE G1-Killer based systems by dynamically classifying all network traffic and prioritizing …

It's been over a year since AMD launched their Phenom II X4 and X6 processor lines and they are certainly showing their age compared to Intel's Sandy Bridge platform.  But can they still compete with Intel's latest Sandy Bridge processors? We recently reviewed their latest Phenom II X4 980 Black …

“So what do you call a pair of PowerColor multi-GPU cards stacked end to end?”, sounds like the beginning of a rather geeky joke. To which the punchline must be ‘Bloody long'. But there's a more serious aspect to this comedia intro, as we found out in the graphics giant's …

Looking around the Cooler Master private booth at Computex 2011 show you an array of new gaming (CM), mainstream (Cooler Master) and high-end (Choiix) products. So what DID catch the KitGuru spy's eye? The funny thing is that, even though a small fortune has been spent on the décor and …

OK – there's no way that we'd get a direct quote like that from a company as steady and stable as Intel, but this is definitely the sentiment around the 10th floor in the Grand Hyatt at the heart of Taipei's business district. KitGuru engages Dumbo-flaps and listens to the …

The Sapphire stand was buzzing yesterday and we managed to get some shots of the Sapphire Pure Black 990FX-N motherboard which looks to continue Sapphire's excellent series of Pure Black products. Kitguru has already reviewed the Pure Black boards for both P67 and X58 platforms, so we are looking forward …

Kitguru are over at humid Computex and there are plenty of very attractive products on display. Hand assembled only days before Computex 2011, the TJ12 is at least 12 months away from production – but is already attracting serious attention The case itself is a whopping 78cm deep…  And YES, …

Rumours reached KitGuru a while back that Intel would be in full testing mode for its new high-end products, sometime just after Computex 2011 in Taipei. From what’s being shown on the stands, that looks about right. Even though the 2500k/2600k Sandy Bridge products deliver significant power, at the very …

Kingston Digital Europe Ltd, an affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced the sleek and functional Wi-Drive, built to address the ever-increasing storage needs of Apple iPad, iPhone and iPod touch users (www.kingston.com/flash/wi_drive.asp). Wi-Drive, a wireless, portable storage solution, allows users to …

The GTX580 has been Nvidia's finest moment. The card has been a big seller since it was released and it leads many of the performance charts when we factor out the dual GPU solutions. Today we are looking at the MSI N580GTX Lightning, a heavily modified card designed to target …

We all love our graphics cards, playing the latest games and being able to crank the eye candy is one of life's little luxuries. There are other uses for video cards however, and one of them showcases the bruteforce capabilities for cracking passwords. Vijay Devakumar, from India said that GPU's …

This month Kitguru has been at the forefront of many Solid State Drive reviews including the new models from ADATA and OCZ. Today we are looking at the new model from Corsair, the Force 3 120GB which is set to target a wide audience, offering high levels of SATA III …