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Reports have reached us that the Intel Gulftown Core i7 970 has started shipping in the US and Europe with the asking price set around 850 euros/$900. This processor is a 32nm six core Gulftown cpu which runs at 3.2ghz and has 12mb of Level 3 cache and just like …

KitGuru is old in the tooth and likes naming conventions which don't change. With the launch of the Radeon HD 6000 series, AMD has altered its naming strategy. The high end cards will now be the 6900 series (due November) and the 6800 cards that we're looking at today, will …

KitGuru has reviewed a range of budget cases since we opened but today we decided to move up into a higher price bracket by taking a look at the Antec Dark Fleet DF 85 Full Tower case. Last month Antec released a new series of cases which they dramatically called …

If combining a pair of GTX470-class chips onto a single PCB gives you GTX490, then Asus appears to be on schedule to get to market first with the launch of the Asus Mars II in August 2010. Or is it?  It could be a simple toe in the water to …

KitGuru takes the subject of power supplies very seriously, this is why we have a dedicated team behind the scenes, experts in their specific fields to produce some of the most detailed power related reviews online. Today one of our resident experts ‘IronLaw' will explain exactly how a computer power …

I am sure these will appear elsewhere in the next couple of hours, but we thought we would share a couple of juicy pictures that hit our inbox this afternoon. Many of you will remember the 1k of ASUS MARS that caused such a fuss many months ago. Well it …

Today we will be looking at our second chassis from NZXT.  This time we have the NZXT Beta EVO in the KitGuru test labs. As with the previous chassis the Tempest EVO, the Beta EVO is a second generation of the original NZXT Beta chassis. The Beta EVO is designed …

KitGuru has looked at many flavours of HD5870 over the last two months. Today we are going to look at a Powercolor version which is moderately overclocked and comes preinstalled with a hefty heatpipe cooler. The HD5870 is still ATI's flagship single core card and has been paving the performance …

Thermaltake has released some great products lately and KitGuru's reviewed many of them. We had a look at the excellent Frio and Contact29 Coolers and we also were impressed with the Toughpower XT 675W power supply. Today we are going to be looking at their latest budget gaming chassis called …

Around 5pm this Thursday, on the East Coast of  America, AMD executives will pack like sardines into a conference call and thousands of interested parties from across the globe will ‘dial in' to hear the Q2 Earnings Call. But what will they be listening to? KitGuru makes some predictions. First …

Has the time finally come for multi-GPU solutions?  nVidia stakes its claim again with the GTX460 – although the lack of true scalability (to 3 or 4-way SLi) tells us something very important about this market. At the end of this special article is a single graph that will tell …

GTX460 is ‘Fermi done right' That's what nVidia wants us to believe after a tough year. On Wednesday 30th September 2009, Jen Hsun Huang stood on a global stage with a ‘Fermi card' in his hand and the watching world was treated to a series of demonstrations. Subsequently, we were told …

2010 has been a strong year for MSI so far. They have been releasing some amazing products, such as the R5870 Lightning which not only scored very highly on KitGuru but left us feeling that it was one of the best video cards ever made. Today we are going to …

Intel has recently told their notebook partners that they plan to reduce the production of Celeron CPU's and will replace this range with Pentium and dual core Atom N processors. This is going to take place in 2011 according to sources in the Far East. This would tie in with …

Yesterday, we managed to post a very strange looking egg carton and asked if any of you knew what it was. Although the camera itself is still with the technicians – trying to work out what's wrong with the lens, we did manage to recover some more shots. There was …

Enermax Technology Corporation are one of the most highly regarded power supply providers to the enthusiast marketplace. I have owned many over the years myself, long before I worked for any publication. They have never let me down and they are one of the few companies I immediately shortlist if …

KitGuru has seen some strange animals in its time and we've eaten eggs in every way possible, but we've never seen anything come out of an animal's fanny that could fill a cardboard container shaped like this. . As you know, almost every top level manufacturer has a special place …

Fast is all a matter of degrees. Roll the clock back 10 years and Intel was happy to supply you with a 1GHz processor. These days, 1GHz is reserved for phones and cheap netbooks. Given that real/raw performance relates more to clock speed and cores than anything else, what if …

KitGuru really likes the HD5670 Ultimate Edition and it appears, based on feedback that our readers share similar warm feelings towards Sapphires latest passively cooled graphics card. While a single card is great for a low powered media center and occasional gaming we decided to follow up our initial review …

At KitGuru we love our Solid State Storage drives, they consume very little power, outperform any mechanical drive and offer a fantastic real world experience, sometimes cutting down system boot times by half. Today we are going to be looking at the Buffalo 128GB Microstation SSD drive which is based …

Noctua are one of our favourite companies when it comes to high end cooling and it would be accurate to say that their  NH D14 ‘Austrian Sandwich' shattered all our preconceptions of just what can be achieved on air. Today we are looking at a model further down their range, …

MSI's Big Bang-Fuzion, the first mainboard in the industry to feature Fuzion Technology, has received universal praise in the media since its release and has been a hot topic on the internet. Celebrated motherboard and graphics card manufacturer MSI today introduces its mainstream Fuzion Series motherboards; the P55A Fuzion for …

The latest AMD 1055T and 1090T six core processors are fantastic value for money and we particularly like the 1055T due to the very low asking price of around £160 inc vat. Many people opt for the 1090T Black Edition due to the unlocked Multipler and higher clock speed (3200MHz …

I admit that I have a slightly unhealthy obsession about coolers and whenever I build a system I spend a lot of time fine tuning to get the lowest possible temperatures, while achieving the maximum possible overclocks. Thankfully in 2010 there are no shortage of high quality heatsinks to choose …

If you are running out of storage and download a lot of HD movie content then the new product from Seagate might very well get you excited. They have just released the new FreeAgent GoFlex Desk which is apparently the first 3TB to be released to market. USA prices are …

I caught an interesting article posted a few hours ago on the New York Times which is rather damning for Dell if it is true. It appears that information from a lawsuit against them show that over a two year period they knowingly sold almost 12 million computers with leaky …

Antec are one of the industries most respected companies, especially when the topic of quality power supplies is raised. Earlier this year they released the new TruePower series which replaced the older Truepower Trio and NeoPower lines. This new lineup not only brings new technology to market but streamlines the …

We are fans of the new AMD 1090T (3.2ghz) and 1055T (2.8ghz) – 125W TDP processors which target the mid range Intel solutions. Both of these CPU's are proving to be good sellers for AMD as they are competitively priced, with particular emphasis on the 1055T which retails for around …

Silverstone have been designing some of the industries most appealing chassis for the last decade and at KitGuru we were always fans of the Fortress and Temjin series. The Raven 02 in particular has been a favourite in our offices for the last year as it combines subtle and attractive …

We have reviewed many Sapphire graphics cards on KitGuru over the last month and we have found them all worthy of serious consideration in their respective sectors. They often include some of the finest cooling solutions and we have been particularly enamoured with their silent range of products- such as …