2010 has been a great year for processor heatsinks, there are a plethora of options available, from modest budget £12 heatsinks to wallet sapping high end solutions costing in excess of £60. Today we are looking at the Corator DS from Coolink, a company perhaps not recognised by many enthusiast …

There's a background buzz in the industry right now that says the ATI brand might not make it past Christmas. For almost 25 years, the graphic card buying public has put ATI on its shortlist. KitGuru wonders, could this be the end? The world is full of weird paradoxes , …

ATI's HD5770 has been a monster success story for them – and rightly so, it combines a killer combination of gaming performance and value for money. KitGuru has reviewed many HD5770's in the past and we have also concentrated on Crossfire performance. Today however we have something special in mind …

Computerbase appear to have leaked information on the Intel launch lineup for Sandy bridge. Both mobile and desktop parts are listed and while this is not confirmed it looks to be reasonably realistic going on previous reports. The move to Sandy Bridge will give customers new solutions with power via …

Fourteen floors down, in a secured elevator, Zardon's personal lab is a monstrous affair. Closer to a medieval torture pit than anything you'd see Pepper Potts delivering coffee to Tony Stark in. When you absolutely, positively, definitely need the truth – then Zardon's inner chamber is where the torture testing will happen. However, sometimes …

This week has been an ‘SSD-fest' on KitGuru and today we are going to take another look at the excellent Intel X25-V SSD 40GB units which we reviewed last month in both single and dual Raid 0 configurations. Why revisit them? A handful of our readers have asked me how …

Not long ago NZXT officially announced their upcoming new Full tower chassis The Phantom. This case is targeting the enthusiast market and offers many exciting features. The company spent countless hours working with members of the Case modding community like Craig Brugger and Bill Owen to help bring a product …

There has never been a better time to pick up an SSD boot drive with many of the leading manufacturers releasing 30-40GB units at very reasonable prices. KitGuru has already looked at the Intel X25-V 40GB and we were very impressed with the price to performance ratio, especially when set …

SSD drives haven't quite reached ‘mainstream' yet, however as more enthusiast users are realising the performance benefits, sales figures are increasing and the adoption rate is improving. SSD performance is based around three areas, the Controller, the Firmware and the NAND. The controllers are massively important to the overall unit …

Toshiba have just detailed new technology in the battle for data security – new drives which can automatically wipe sensitive data. These drives are going to be using AES 256 encryption to store data and while this is nothing new, there is a new system in place to increase data …

You can always tell how a company is doing by the price moves it makes on its products. All things being equal, the only time you reduce prices is when you (a) have produced too much or (b) not sold enough. Business 101. KitGuru hears more rumours than most. Fortunately …

ASrock have a huge variety of motherboards in their line up right now and they seem to be focusing on the lucrative 1156 market, with eight models currently on offer. Today we are going to look at their latest board, the P55 Extreme4 which has a very impressive feature list, …

AMD are making 2010 the start of a new aggressive marketing and advertising campaign and a video they have released pokes a little fun at nVidia's Fermi. KitGuru says: Did you raise a smile or did this offend you? Discuss!

Since launch, behind closed doors, nVidia has been briefing press and customers alike with the message, “If you think Fermis is good now, wait until we unlock its full potential by revealing the full Fermi featureset”. Looks like that time has come. Rumours coming out of the Far East point …

The nVidia GTX460 has been well received both by the enthusiast community and hard to please critics. It is the first card in the Fermi range that everyone seems to agree is a fantastic buy, even when against competition from ATI. We have already looked at the excellent GTX460 Superclocked …

While nVidia cuts prices faster than an East End barber cuts hair, EVGA is focused on delivering increased value to the customers who have already spent big on the new GTX460 card. KitGuru lifts the bonnet and gives the engine a sniff. KitGuru loves the fact that graphic cards can …

Our recent review of the Silverstone Sugo SG07 stirred a lot of interest with our readers and I received emails asking if it would be possible to passively cool a high performance processor in this chassis. KitGuru seemingly has a core audience of readers who loathe noise, with a vengeance. …

As we reported yesterday, nVidia is prepared to pull out all the stops to re-take market share from AMD in the tough graphics market. Information KitGuru heard about the latest round of price cuts was that the GTX470 could be cut by over 21%. Searching the big sites today, we …

If you have been following KitGuru recently, you will have seen us reporting on the dichotomy nVidia faces. Ever better cards being launched, while price cuts keep being applied to try and stimulate sales. KitGuru can say, with certainty, that things are getting better for nVidia fans. Or are they? …

The Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition is the most powerful CPU we have tested at KitGuru and while it still holds the enthusiast market performance crown, not many can afford the £850+ asking price. I have received quite a few emails recently asking if we were going to review the …

Corsair are following up on the success of their H50 cooler with the release of a new Hydro series cooler. This ties in perfectly with their recent release of two air based coolers – the A50 and A70, which KitGuru reviewed a while ago over here. ‘A' for air cooling …

The nVidia GTS450 will not only be in UK stores by 14th September, it will also be available at the magical £99 mark. Sure, some of them will cost more, but we believe that nVidia wants the volume and it wants to kick AMD out of system builder SKUs. To do …

Everyone at KitGuru has to turn sideways to get through a lab door this morning. Has the building shrunk? No. Have the doorways become narrower? Nope. So what's the deal? Well, we planted another of the famous ‘Flags of our Predictions' a while back and, guess what, we seem to have …

Today in the KitGuru labs we are looking at the latest offering from NZXT.  This is the third chassis from NZXT that we have recently dissected and after the mixed results we experienced with the Beta EVO, we are hoping for a better showing this time. The NZXT Vulcan is …

OCZ have been highly regarded over the years as producing some of the finest memory available on the market and much in the same way as Corsair they have expanded over the years into other hardware markets to enhance their product range. They have recently updated their StealthXStream range of …

Coolit informed us yesterday that they have a large scale competition starting on the 4th August. The concept behind this is to find a use for your old heatsink. Users simply have to take video footage of uses for an old air cooler which they are no longer using. “We …

We currently have some Powercolor and XFX single slot HD5770s heading into our labs and we wanted to show you a picture of the new XFX model. Single slot is the new ‘in thing' for the HD5770s and we feel its long overdue, we have reviewed a plethora of HD5770's …

Not many of us have the luxury of being able to afford three 1080p monitors in the home, however if you are lucky enough to already own a multitude of screens then these prebuilt systems might appeal to you. NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 400 GPUs generate the graphics horsepower to drive …

Today at KitGuru we are going to be looking at the HIS IceQ 5 Turbo 5770 I GB graphics card.  In the efforts to attract the educated enthusiast audience HIS have enhanced the reference solution and used their IceQ 5 cooling technology on this particular unit. The 5770 has established …

Jon Peddie Research just in shows that nVidia are suffering from double digit drops in sales within most market segments. Intel and AMD are gaining ground. KitGuru has reported AMD and Intel's successes many times recently, but some of that growth will, naturally, at the expense of nVidia. Let's see …