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 …
Read More »Intel to phase out Celeron CPU’s in 2011
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 …
Read More »Laid in the Tray: Part II
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 …
Read More »Enermax Modu87+ 700w PSU Review
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 …
Read More »What’s been laid in this tray ?
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 …
Read More »OMG (Part 1): Intel Xeon 5680 Chips Served on eVGA SR2
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 …
Read More »Sapphire HD5670 Ultimate Edition Crossfire X Review
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 …
Read More »Buffalo Microstation 128GB Internal SSD 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 …
Read More »Noctua NH C12P SE14 Cooler review
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, …
Read More »MSI Unveils Fuzion Series Mainboards
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 …
Read More »Overclocking the AMD 1055T – 3700mhz out of the box
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 …
Read More »Thermaltake Frio review
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 …
Read More »Seagate release world’s first 3TB drive
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 …
Read More »Dell lawsuit – for shipping 12 million faulty computers
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 …
Read More »Antec Truepower 750W New Series Review
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 …
Read More »AMD Phenom II X6 1055T – 95W TDP version
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 …
Read More »Silverstone Precision SST-PS05 Chassis Review
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 …
Read More »Sapphire HD5670 Ultimate Edition Review
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 …
Read More »Thermaltake Contac29 Cooler Review
We know KitGuru readers love good coolers – our review of the Noctua Austrian Sandwich (NH D14) has been read by over 60,000 people in the last three weeks. That said, we also know that a substantial portion of that readership couldn't afford to pay almost £70 for pride of …
Read More »Patriot announce Sector 7 memory
Patriot Memory have announced the immediate availability of the Viper II Series ‘Sector 7’ Edition to its family of Extreme Performance DDR3 memory. The Sector 7 Edition DDR3 is their ultimate performance memory solution for the Intel X58 system platform and has been designed with overclockers, enthusiasts and gamers in mind. …
Read More »MSI launch new GTX 465/470 Twin Frozr II cards
KitGuru recently reviewed the MSI R5870 Lightning video card, one of the fastest video cards currently on the planet. They have just announced new custom cooled GF100 cards, the N470GTX Twin Frozr II, N465GTX Twin Frozr II and N465GTX Twin Frozr II Golden Edition solutions. These cards follow the same …
Read More »Zotac GTX 480 AMP! Graphics Card review
A few weeks ago we reviewed the GTX480 and walked away with generally favourable feelings – after all there was no doubting the astonishing tessellation performance and frame rate prowess with all of the leading game engines. We did however have reservations as it was running at a shade under …
Read More »64GB SSD: Can you live with it?
Through all the high-end performance testing with dual SSD drives in RAID formation, and the ultra-high capacity, ultra high-speed drives like the 240GB OCZ Vertex 2 weighing in around £590, KitGuru wanted to know how a plain and simple 64GB Crucial drive could impact every day performance. You know, quality …
Read More »KG Competition – Win a HIS HD5830 iCooler V Turbo GFX
Don't say we aren't looking after you guys ! After our ATI giveaway we have another competition already to take its place. I bet you all like 5 series graphics cards from ATI, especially when they are combined with third party cooling solutions for maximum performance. Right? The latest KitGuru …
Read More »Strong Sony movement toward AMD?
Funny thing about technology journalism. No one talks about a topic and it's not in the public domain. You then do a story and suddenly you’re inundated with new information. That happened over the weekend, during our server move (yes, we know, KitGuru works overtime, Saturdays, Sundays and during the …
Read More »OCZ Vertex 2 100GB SSD Review
As SSDs continue to grow in popularity and more users realise their value, companies are releasing a staggering array of drives to market. Months ago OCZ released the Vertex 2 Pro, an enterprise class product which delivered staggering performance. This was followed shortly afterwards by the OCZ Vertex LE, part …
Read More »Clevo predicts strong market move to AMD in 2011
Things seem to have been looking up for AMD over the past year or so. Its big win against Intel in the courts has been backed up by a huge lead in bringing DX11 technology to market and re-establishing trust in the channel after the Dell debacle in 2006. That’s …
Read More »Understanding the different UPS systems
There are many UPS systems available to the home and business consumer … however many people aren’t aware of the differences. It is very common for even an experienced enthusiast to be confused over the different UPS styles or even be unaware of their existence. Additionally, a large percentage believe …
Read More »Zalman CNPS9900 Max – does anyone remember Zalman?
A decade back, as AMD finally started to crawl out of the shadow of Intel’s persistent domination of the desktop CPU space, KitGurus in long shorts with patches on their elbows started to experiment with this amazing concept called overclocking. Back in the day, a highly-sharpened HB was perfect for …
Read More »HIS HD5550 Silence 1GB DDR3 Review
If you hate noise and want to build a media center then today's product will be of particular interest – the HIS HD5550 Silence 1GB graphics card. At KitGuru we have focused recently on this market, covering several ATI and nVidia solutions as we know many of our readers are …
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