Well hopefully by now you have had the chance to read our launch day coverage of the HD6970 and HD6950 cards. Sapphire have just announced three HD6970's being released today. All of the cards are clocked at reference speeds and are supplied with reference coolers however as with all launch …
Read More »MSI release R6950-2PM2D2GD5 and R6970-2PM2D2GD5
MSI have just announced the release of their new HD6970 and HD6950 graphics cards. While the cards are based on the reference design – like all the rest, they are getting a rather unique feature – a bundled copy of the excellent 3DMark 11. MSI, the world class manufacturer of …
Read More »HIS HD6970 CrossFireX Graphics Card Review
HIS are famous for performance products and today, as AMD releases the Radeon HD 6900 series they were quick to release their new range of products. To see what this second generation graphics processor is really capable of, we tested a pair of the Radeon HD 6970 cards in CrossFireX …
Read More »Powercolor HD6970 Graphics Card Review
Long known for its value products, Powercolor has been one of AMD's longest serving and most loyal partners. Over the past 12 months, they have also invested heavily in product design – especially coolers. Today we continue our coverage of AMD's Radeon HD 6900 series launch, looking next at the …
Read More »XFX HD6970 3-way CFx & HD6950 CFx review
Ready for eye popping frame rates? This review today might just be the answer to your pre-Christmas hangover. We put AMD's latest and greatest through their paces in a variety of multiple card configurations. While AMD's 6800 series included solid products, the re-naming strategy confused many enthusiast users. AMD effectively …
Read More »AMD Release Catalyst 10.12 Preview
With the release of the new HD6950 and HD6970 cards imminent, AMD are letting their customers download the Preview of the 10.12 Catalyst which features a new array of settings to enjoy. Description: We’re letting our customers try out the brand new Catalyst Control Center before it’s officially part of …
Read More »AMD HD6970 slower than nVidia GTX580, confirmed by Fudzilla
Well we aren't allowed to break NDA with our own results, but Fudzilla has posted some 3dmark 11 figures they have achieved with a HD6970 and a GTX580. “We have compared the 3Dmark data we acquired from a source with our own that we got on a similar configuration. In …
Read More »G.SKILL Ripjaws F3 8GB CL7 1600mhz Memory Kit Review
Performance memory used to be a luxury often associated with the wealthier enthusiast user base. This year however, you are now able to buy extremely fast memory kits without causing too much damage to your bank account. Today KitGuru is looking at the new G.Skill Ripjaws F3 8GB memory kit …
Read More »OCZ RevoDrive X2 240GB Review
Kitguru has reviewed a wide cross section of SSD's since we opened earlier this year, but today we are looking at something a little different. OCZ have been at the forefront of SSD development, continually pushing the technology into new and exciting performance sectors. Their latest ‘X2' is the second …
Read More »Diskeeper release viral video to highlight fragmentation issues
It seems that many companies try the ‘viral' video approach now when trying to highlight a computer problem. The latest to join the fray are Diskeeper who have released a rather amusing little video showing how a business executive loses his cool when he finds that his computer is taking …
Read More »Intel are moving to 450mm wafers
Intel have announced their intentions to move fabrication plants to 450mm wafer sizes, starting with the Oregon plant. Intel's Mark Bohr – director of processor architecture, spoke to Electronista and confirmed that the company are looking to move from the current 300mm wafer size to a more cost effective 450mm …
Read More »Win two 3dMark 11 Advanced Edition Codes with Kitguru
To celebrate the release of the new 3dMark 11, Futuremark have kindly given KitGuru two Advanced Edition codes to give away to two lucky readers. All you need to do to enter is to tell us on the forums why you want one of these codes. We want to keep …
Read More »Inno3D Geforce GTX580 Review
While sales in the high end market are only a small portion of revenue streams, both nVidia and AMD are keen to be seen to dominate. With the imminent release of AMD's 6900 Cayman cards we thought it was a good time to have a look at the performance of …
Read More »Intel push technology into tablets and smartphones
Intel are set to attack the market in 2011 by getting their processors into a wide selection of tablet and smartphones in 2011. Dates have not been confirmed but after speaking with industry insiders the best guess would be Q2 for the tablets and Q3/4 for the smartphones. Intel's top …
Read More »Noctua intros new AMD Opteron coolers with G34 support
Noctua today updated its DO line of CPU coolers for AMD Opteron based servers and workstations. The new NH-U12DO A3 and NH-U9DO A3 coolers come with two of Noctua's renowned premium quality fans, achieve further improved quiet cooling performance and support AMD's socket G34 platform. “Our DX and DO line …
Read More »GTX570 faster than GTX480, leaked review numbers confirm shocker
Earlier today, one of the world's bigger technology web sites went live with its GTX570 review. Most of the world was still in bed and nVidia's soldiers of PR darkness managed to bring a dark cloud down over the site almost as soon as it went live. However, in the …
Read More »Antec High Current Pro 850W Power Supply Review
Antec recently introduced a new range of High Current Pro series power supplies, including 750W, 850W, 1000W and 1200W models. All of these models have 80 Plus Gold Certification and are rated to 92% efficiency using the highest quality Japanese brand capacitors. The High Current Pro Series of power supplies …
Read More »AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition Review – overclocking performance
Today AMD release their new Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition processor, the successor to the ever popular 1090T Black Edition. As the 1100T doesn't look that exciting on paper (with a 100mhz clock increase), we felt we would approach this review from a slightly different angle – taking our …
Read More »nVidia’s Quadro and Tesla sales manager defects to AMD
Earlier this year, KitGuru broke the story that Manju Hegde, nVidia's VP for PhysX and Cuda moved across to AMD. We've just heard that the person managing nVidia's professional product sales across a massive region (including the UK) has also defected to Team AMD. Interesting development. KitGuru investigates. Originally with …
Read More »KitGuru reveals how many GTX570 cards will land in the UK
With the whole web running hot on whether or not the GTX570 will be a hit, it seems that nVidia has been squeezing out as many chips as it possibly can for the launch. KitGuru's spies have reported ship-out details from the Far East and we're now prepared to reveal …
Read More »Oracle SPARC Supercluster with 1,728 processor cores
Oracle billionaire chief Larry Ellison has recently announced their launch of a new SPARC Supercluster – a lightning fast enterprise computing system that can perform 30 million database transactions per minute. This figures is 3 times faster than the previous record, held by IBM's DB2 on a P7 cluster. So …
Read More »GTX570 spotted £50 down, will sales of GTX480 stop overnight?
We've never met anyone who's bought anything from More Computers, but their customers certainly seem happy with them. Their home page looks like a monument to how much their customers love them. Today, they will probably love them more. KitGuru broke the world exclusive story yesterday that the GTX570 has …
Read More »Fatal1ty partners with ASrock for customised motherboard
Jonathan ‘Fata1ty' Wendell has joined forces with ASrock to promote their latest P67 ‘gamer' motherboard. This is called the ‘Fatal1ty P67 Professional' – a 1156 board sporting a red and black design with a heatsink which looks very like the Republic of Gamers products from Asus. Tweaktown have posted a …
Read More »GTX570 prices set to rise as South London firm pushes for £335?
While the main players look to be settling at just under the £300 mark, it seems that some folks believe that demand for the GTX570 might push the price up. One store in South London seems to be optimistic. KitGuru investigates. Since 1999, CD-Writer have been supplying exactly what you …
Read More »More GTX570 cards spotted in the wild: PNY coming thick and fast
Earlier today, KitGuru broke the story that nVidia's latest GTX570 card was now showing as available to order in the UK. Looks like the dams burst and more are following. Pricing looks to be very competitive. The second vendor we've spotted with the live link is LamdaTek. This time is …
Read More »GTX570 launches in the UK at £299
With KitGuru and the other major sites all reporting the full specification etc for the GTX570 last week, everyone has been wondering how long we would have to wait until the product launches. Apparently, no time. It's happened. KitGuru has more spiders crawling the web for hints and gossip than …
Read More »Corsair release new 90GB and 180GB Force Series SSD’s
The Corsair Sandforce powered SSD's have proved popular with the enthusiast community and rightly so – the performance of these drives is spectacular. Corsair are expanding the range by adding new 90GB and 180GB capacities which will probably be replacing the 80GB and 160GB models. Performance levels should be close …
Read More »Asetek release new small form factor liquid coolers
Asetek have been quiet recently but they have announced a new range of sealed, liquid cooling system designed for systems with confined space, such as high end HTPC rigs. The cooling systems are based around radiators which fit 92mm fan fans, rather than the 120mm size which is commonplace today. …
Read More »Antec Competition: 3 TPN 650’s, 3 HCG 620’s and five notebook coolers!
We have given away thousands of pounds of hardware in only a few short months at KitGuru and today we have a monster Antec competition for all our readers in the run up to Christmas. ‘Tis' the season to give away hardware', thats our motto. Antec have donated 11 very …
Read More »Asus EAH6850 Direct CU Overclock Edition Review
The AMD HD6850 was released just over a month ago and has been warmly received by critics and the public. We have already looked at boards from Sapphire, XFX, Powercolor and HIS and today the Asus EAH6850 Direct CU Overclock Edition is next in line for a thorough workout. Like …
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