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Unless you have been living under a rock this past week, you should be aware that Nvidia officially confirmed the GTX 1080Ti last week, sporting a GP102 GPU core with a claimed 35 percent performance advantage over the standard GTX 1080. Reviewers already have their hands on these cards and …

About a week before the Nintendo Switch officially launched, those with early review units began reporting connectivity issues with the left Joy-Con, which appeared to be desyncing during regular play with the Switch docked in TV mode. That problem unfortunately still persists even after the Switch's day-one patch, leading to …

Riot Games has settled its lawsuit with League of Legends cheating service ‘Leaguesharp', which would take a monthly subscription fee from users in exchange for scripts and bots to help win matches or artificially level up. Leaguesharp would take anywhere between $15 and $50 a month depending on which cheats you …

The Game Developers Conference is underway right now and it appears that Final Fantasy XV director, Hajime Tabata had something very interesting to show off. After months of talking about a PC version of Final Fantasy XV in interviews, we finally got to see a public demonstration of what the …

Today was the official launch day for AMD's Ryzen 7 CPUs and as you may have noticed already, plenty of reviews are now up, including our own review of the Ryzen 7 1800x. While the flagship 1800x has been deemed by many as an excellent CPU for productivity, 1080p gaming …

Seasonic is highly regarded as one of the best power supply makers in the world, with the current PRIME series offering impressive efficiency levels excellent efficiency levels and quality components. In fact, many of Seasonic's power supplies will last more than a few CPU and GPU generations, with that in …

Earlier this week we heard that retailers in the US were starting to offer reduced pricing for Intel's desktop processors in the build up to AMD's Ryzen launch today and now it looks like UK retailers are joining in the fun. However, it's not just CPUs going on sale this week …

Last night, Nvidia finally announced the GTX 1080Ti, delivering up to 35 percent higher performance than a GTX 1080 with a $699 MSRP in the US. However, this new addition to the Pascal lineup has also prompted some reshuffling of other GPUs, which is why Nvidia is lowering the base …

As much as there are many advantages of using a massive cloud infrastructure for your website, when that service crashes, it can take a lot of the internet with it. Take yesterday's downing of Amazon's S3 cloud service, which pulled down a lot of popular websites and services. Ironically enough, …

Nvidia has launched the long-rumoured GTX 1080 Ti - $699 and faster than a Titan X.

Yesterday we received the official announcement for Middle Earth: Shadow of War, a sequel to the highly rated 2014 game, Shadow of Mordor. We have already had an awesome looking trailer and confirmation of an August release date but now, we have a few more details about the game, including …

If you've ever wanted to invest more time in a modification but can't afford to because of work commitments, Studio Wildcard wants to help. Moving forward, it will select 15 modders a month to give $4,000 (£3,220) to, to help them complete their mods, with the potential that they become …

Boston Dynamics has for years been helping us towards the eventual robot revolution that will see us turned into slaves, or batteries – whatever our new magnanimous overlords decide. But its bipedal, walking robots aren't the only kind we'll have to bow to in the centuries to come. Boston's latest …

Back at CES in January, Kingston first revealed its brand new DataTraveler Ultimate GT USB drives, packing a massive 2TB of storage into a well-built thumb drive. Now after a couple of months of finalising details, Kingston is finally ready to start shipping the world's highest capacity USB drive, though …

Last week, Nvidia announced that it would be holding a livestreamed ‘Ultimate GeForce' event on the 28th of February. The announcement was accompanied by a countdown timer, leading us to tomorrow evening but on further investigation, we found multiple references to the GTX 1080Ti on the countdown's source code, alongside some …

How much would you spend on a graphics card? More than £500? KitGuru readers would agree.

Recently KitGuru took a trip to visit Calyos, the Belgian cooling company. We've already reported how their technology works, while we also took a look at the upcoming NSG-S0 chassis. However, it seems that Calyos are thinking about debuting some stand-alone CPU/GPU coolers which use loop heat pipes. Calyos' main …

A passively cooled PC - the dream of many people, especially if you can use some high end components.

Prior to Intel's Core i7 7700K launch, there was some concern surrounding the TIM used underneath the CPU heatspreader as early reports had shown the Kaby Lake chip running very hot out of the box. Delidding and replacing the TIM seemed to improve things by quite a lot. However, delidding …

A couple of weeks ago, ZeniMax was awarded $500 million in its lawsuit against Oculus VR after a jury found that Palmer Luckey and others had violated an NDA agreement by showing a prototype version of Doom 3 running on an early Oculus Rift prototype. This wasn't the exact outcome …

This week, AMD officially announced pricing for its high-end Ryzen 7 processors, with three different SKUs set to roll out starting at £319.99 and going up to £489.99 all set to disrupt Intel's Core i7 lineup. However, not everyone has £300+ to spend on processors, so quite a few are …

This week, the European Hardware Association presented its 2017 buying trends research report, giving us a hint at what Europeans are most interested in tech-wise in 2017. While there has been growth and plenty of buyer intent as far as CPUs and GPUs go, it looks like interest in virtual …

The first in-game footage of Snail Games' Ark Park, the educational dinosaur VR title that makes use of ARK: Survival Evolved assets, shows just how detailed and interactive the safari park can be. Players start out in a holographic visitor centre reminiscent of Jurassic World, before heading off into the …

An amendment to the currently under debate, Digital Economy Bill, has made it so that by 2020 service providers in the UK will need to deliver a minimum of 30Mbps download speeds to customers. This represents a large increase from the original proposition of just 10Mbps downspeeds. The Digital Economy …

Kitguru has the pricing, we have had a hands on. Is 2017 THE COMEBACK OF AMD?

Today has been a big day for AMD, not only is Ryzen confirmed to begin shipping on the 2nd of March but pre-orders are set to go live later today and pricing appears to be very competitive against Intel's high-end i7 CPUs. While we only got confirmation of US pricing …

It looks like Nvidia is planning a GTX 1080Ti reveal for GDC after all. Last week we learned that Nvidia was planning on holding a ‘fan event' on the 28th of February but we were unsure whether or not there would be a livestream, calling into question the likelihood of …

Although gaming isn't as harmful for you as the tabloids would suggest, marathon sessions do seem to have some potential for health concerns. In the case of one Twitch streamer, fatally so, as 22 hours into a 25 hour gaming marathon, he died from what are currently considered unknown causes. …

With the Ryzen launch now imminent, we are starting to see more and more leaks. We have had quite a bit of early information over the last few weeks, from pricing information to retail packaging and new stock coolers. However, today, something a bit more juicy appeared on the web- …

The robot revolution isn't quite here yet but it looks like Bill Gates is thinking ahead by proposing a ‘robot tax' to offset the job losses that will occur as machines start carrying out more tasks and replacing humans. The idea seems to be, since we tax human workers on their …