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While there might have been a bit of a cafuffle here recently over non-reference coolers, I feel confident in saying that this one from Asus isn't the norm. It's the DirectCU II type we've seen on previous cards from the GPU partner and this time it's attached to the company's …

While each PlayStation 4 and Xbox One may come packing half terrabyte drives in them at launch, Sony's new console will only give you about 400GB of space right off the bat – at least according to the reports coming out of a lucky early owner. This comes from screenshots …

This week AMD launch their new R9 270 graphics card – set to replace the HD7850 at the lower end of the enthusiast gaming market. Thankfully today we haven't been forced to review a reference AMD solution and instead we can focus on some higher grade partner cards. We all …

This week AMD launch their new R9 270 graphics card – set to replace the HD7850 at the lower end of the enthusiast gaming market. Thankfully today we haven’t been forced to review a reference AMD solution and instead we can focus on some higher grade partner cards. Our second …

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 …

How does a company make a multiple award-winning, enthusiast-grade motherboard even more ‘extreme'? By making it into a black edition version, of course. Asus has updated its critically-acclaimed Rampage IV Extreme X79 motherboard to ‘Black Edition' status. Have the upgraded components and IVB-E tweaks resulted in yet another rampaging master …

Following on from AMD's recent release of the impressive R9 290x, Nvidia has hit back with the unveiling of its newest performance crown taker, the GTX 780 Ti. Packing in 25 per cent more CUDA cores than the base 780, impressive clock speeds and a price tag that's almost half …

With a huge release of updated AMD products in Q4 this year, many manufacturers decided to launch with standard coolers (reference design). When KitGuru looks back across all of the new Radeons, one cooling solutions stands out – and that is the Toxic cooler fitted to the R9 280X and …

AMD have just released a new beta driver for the R9 290 series. They issued an email today which reads … “We’ve identified that there’s variability in fan speeds across AMD R9 290 series boards. This variability in fan speed translates into variability of the cooling capacity of the fan-sink. …

OCZ have been at the forefront of Solid State Technology now for years, and today we look at their new Vector 150 drive. The Vector 150 is built on the latest 19nm process geometry NAND to deliver the best performance with both compressible and incompressible data. OCZ are focusing now …

AMD have been taking all the headlines in the last month, releasing a slew of graphics cards – including the class leading (but noisy) R9 290 and R9 290X. The R9 290X managed to take the  performance crown from Nvidia's GTX 780 and GTX Titan in the ultra high end …

The Samsung HDD division was purchased by Seagate back in 2011 and they have developed the world's thinnest 2TB hard drive. The Samsung Spinpoint M9T ships in a 2.5 inch form factor and measures just 9.5mm thick. Ideal for power users who have a full sized slot in their laptop. …

Today we have a great competition for one lucky reader globally – the chance to win a 240GB Kingston Solid State Drive with upgrade bundle kit and adapter! NOW UPGRADED TO THE AWESOME HYPERX 3K 240GB model! There is no doubt that buying a Solid State Drive for a new …

In the early hours of the morning one of our news staff clumsily misinterpreted a press release from ASUS, claiming they were the first out of the door with a custom cooled R9 290. Sadly this is not the case, and in fact – like all the other R9 290's …

A couple of weeks ago AMD launched their R9 290X GPU which took the market by storm … outperforming both GTX Titan and GTX 780 in the majority of situations. Just ahead of the GTX780 ti release from Nvidia – AMD unleash their more affordable high end partner card, the …

The ADATA DashDrive Elite HE720 1 TB USB 3.0 external enclosure is the slimmest USB 3.0 HDD on the market, measuring in at only 8.9mm thick. If you aren't already backing up your important data to an external hard drive, is this ADATA DashDrive one that should be making your …

Overclockers UK is exclusively releasing the Inno3D GeForce GTX 780 iChill HerculeZ X3 Ultra DHS Edition. The long name aside the custom cooled solution, promises maximum overclocking performance with its triple fan design. This graphics card sets itself apart from the rest featuring cherry picked GPU chips to ensure that each …

Asus has today announced the launch of its newest E-ATX gaming motherboard, the Rampage IV Black Edition, designed specifically to take full advantage of Intel's latest line up of LGA 2011 i7 Ivy Bridge E processors, letting overclockers really go to town and pull the full potential from their CPU. …

Today we are taking a look at Fractal Design's latest micro-ATX offering, the Arc Mini R2. Based on the excellent Arc Midi R2, the Arc Mini R2 boasts support for multiple 240 mm radiators or a single 360 mm radiator, 7 fan positions and power supplies up to 220 mm …

Comparing the parallel computing performance of a graphic card to a CPU is like comparing the shoe-wearing ability of a centipede to a human. While the applications and environments around the GPU don't always allow it to maximise throughput, there is enough processing power under the bonnet to let it …

Last week AMD launched their flagship R9 290X and our review concluded that this was the new king of the high end graphics cards. The only issue we had was the somewhat shoddy AMD reference cooling system. We are confident however that Sapphire and other partners will fix this with …

There's a slew of Nvidia news today, with an officially announced price tag for the newest card in its lineup, the GTX 780Ti. But much more than that, as it's also bringing with it a price crash on current 780 stock and even finding itself as part of new bundles …

Today we are going to take a look at the latest liquid CPU cooler from Antec, the Kuhler H2O 1250. This has been designed to build on the success of the existing models in Antec’s Kuhler range which have become very popular among enthusiasts thanks to their stellar performance and …

In the springtime of 2013 when AMD launched ‘Malta', the Radeon HD 7990 was the fastest graphics card in the world and weighed in at a whopping £800. Now as the year draws to a close and there have been a spate of new launches, what is the current situation?  …

As a chipset, X79 is starting to show its age, especially when compared to the feature-heavy Z87 PCH. This can pose problems for motherboard manufacturers looking to sell a value-orientated product that isn't stripped to the point where masses of consumers are alienated away from the target audience. Cutting down in …

As you might have noticed from the slew of reviews that hit the net today – including our own in-depth one – AMD officially launched its expected flagship card, the R9 290X, ushering in a new generation of GPU that throws the gauntlet at Nvidia's feet and dares it to …

October has been an extremely busy month for AMD, bringing to market a new family of graphics cards. A couple of weeks ago they released the budget R7 260X, mid range R9 270X and high end R9 280X. We weren't overly impressed with the noisy AMD reference coolers, although partners …

Ah graphics wars, don't you love them? It's been a long time since we had a really good one as for the past few years, it's been relatively steady with both companies offering something pretty comparable to one another. Now though, we're starting to kick things into high gear with …

We have all had USB pen drives break/fail/drop in liquid and refuse to work. We have also found them bulging in our pockets or, better still, preventing us from getting a comfortable mouse position because of how far they stick out from a laptop. ADATA claims to have a cure …

Everyone needs to be able to back-up crucial files and while the cloud is watching and waiting, sustained mobile data transfer rates across the UK mean that a physical drive and connection are often a better choice in 2013. With data transfer rates up to 445MB/sec, ADATA has a new …