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We had a lot of entries for a chance to win one of three BioStar Hi-Fi Z97WE motherboards. We picked the three lucky winners today! The winners are! 1: Jordon Dicks – (FB page) 2: Dylan Houser – (FB page) 3: Johnna Rhodus – (FB page) Check your email guys …

We had thousands of entries for this fantastic competition with ASUS and SEASONIC. We looked through the entries over the weekend and one lucky winner will be walking away with a brand new Asus Sabertooth Z97, Asus GTX760 DCUII and Seasonic Platinum 860W power supply! The winner is Shane Russell …

The SteelSeries Sensei mouse was a hit with gamers and tournament players but now the peripheral has taken the next step in its evolution. SteelSeries has released the Sensei Wireless with an improved sensor and a slightly different aesthetic amongst other additional features- but is it worth the extra cost? …

Networked storage maker Synology has today announced the beginning of a World Cup themed competition on its Twitter, giving fans the chance to win one of five Hauppage picoStick Golds, just by tweeting a World Cup themed picture with their NAS in it. It can be as simple as you …

2014 is the year of Ultra HD 4K. Prices have been dropping steadily in recent months and today we look at the latest 4K panel from AOC, the U2868PQU. This WLED/ TN panel has onboard speakers, a 60hz refresh rate, 1ms GTG response and a 1000:1 typical contrast ratio. At …

bequiet! is running a worldwide competition from the 28th of May until the 10th of June 2014, giving away four brand new power supplies to four lucky winners. In order to enter, you'll have to head over to the bequiet! competition page. From there, you'll have to answer two simple, …

With growing adoption in laptops and portable devices, as well as desktop systems, 802.11ac WiFi continues to gain pace in the consumer market. With a theoretical transfer speed of well over a Gigabit per second, wirelessly, can the Linksys EA6900 802.11ac router prove that ultra high-speed WiFi connections are indeed …

KitGuru was one of the first websites to regularly start using an Ultra HD 4K monitor in graphics card reviews, mid 2013. We adopted the wallet sapping Asus PQ321QE and have been mighty impressed with the gorgeous IGZO display. PQ321QE prices have dropped from £3,000 to £2,400 recently, but the …

The modern gaming mouse market is a diverse one, from ambidextrous, cut back and clean looking mice, to those festooned with buttons, bells whistles to look like something created in a future space race. Today we review one that looks like it was lifted straight from the latest Tron movie. …

If you are in the market for a high end graphics solution then Sapphire surely have to be on your final shortlist. The company have been releasing award winning graphics cards consistently for the last year – featuring the best coolers that money can buy. Today we look at their …

While there is no doubt that in the not too distant future we will be transferring gigabytes quickly across the planet at very little cost – right now the movement of very large files still requires a physical device. Always happy to play at the high end in terms of …

We had a lot of entries from our readers who wanted to win a shiny, ultra quick new Solid State Drive from OCZ. Only one reader can win however! The answer to the question was c: ‘four times as fast'. The winner is David Palmer! (Facebook page HERE). Congratulations David, …

There are no shortage of high grade power supplies in 2014. Already we have reviewed the Super Flower Leadex Platinum 1,000w, The Antec High Current Pro Platinum 1,300w, Cooler Master V1200 Platinum and the Corsair AX1500i Titanium. All of these units claimed our top awards. Today we look at the …

Continuing our recent focus on gaming motherboards, we have the Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7 in for review. Hitting retail with an aggressive sub-£140 price tag, Gigabyte is aiming to lure in potential buyers with the Gaming 7 motherboard's gaming-orientated features, striking colour scheme, and four-year warranty.  Fusing together the company's high-performance G1 Audio with …

KitGuru was invited to a recent Gigabyte event, and we saw new cooling products as well as a specially designed cooler for the Nvidia Titan graphics card. Gigabyte also wanted to show their new AORUS products, including new gaming laptops, keyboard and mice. The other cooling news centred around WaterForce which is a liquid cooling system that is suitable for triple graphics card systems. The radiators and control system are located in a bulky unit that sits on top of your case.

The MSI A88X-G45 Gaming is a handsome AMD A88X motherboard that sports a long list of features including triple graphics slots. That explains the ‘Gaming' part of the name and as you would expect the A88X chipset means this MSI board supports the latest FM2+ range of Kaveri APU. There …

Today we look at a new rig from system builder Cyberpower. The Achilles Pro incorporates the latest Intel i5 4690 processor, alongside a Gigabyte GTX780, Gigabyte Z97 Gaming motherboard and a 256GB Plextor PCIe SSD. Cyberpower have decided to adopt the exciting new In-Win 904 case as well in this …

Sitting in the middle of ASRock's current Z97 gaming motherboard line-up, the Fatal1ty Z97X Killer targets the fierce sub-£130 marketplace. Can its feature set, overclocking capabilities, and general performance allow it to stand out in a hotly-contested segment of the market? ASRock supplies its Z97X Killer with a number of popular …

Some system builders will want to create a new PC with up to 7 hard drives, have it booting from an SSD with tool-free accessibility and yet won't want to spend more than £55 for the experience. If that sounds like you, then BitFenix has been working on a case …

With the price of Ultra HD 4K screens dropping this year there has never been a better time to upgrade your system. Today we look at the latest high end graphics card from Club3D – the R9 290X RoyalAce. This card ships with a custom cooler design and a healthy …

If you find yourself jumping from rooftop to rooftop, wallrunning your way between kills and blasting away at 30ft tall metal behemoths on a regular basis you are either playing Titanfall or need to reduce your meds. Either way though, you will probably appreciate the style of Turtle Beach's latest …

We have already seen the be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 stamp its authority on the high-end air cooler market. Now the company is aiming for another fight with its single tower Dark Rock 3 CPU cooler. Can a balance between cooling performance and noise make the Dark Rock 3 a worthy contender? Using …

Its giveaway month! To celebrate Intel's recent launch of the Z97 platform we have another great competition for our readers – the chance to win one of three Biostar Hi-Fi Z97WE motherboards! The Biostar Hi-Fi Z97WE includes the usual high-end motherboard features like USB 3.0, HDMI and PCI-E slots, as …

Nvidia have always said that the GTX Titan and GTX Titan Black graphics cards were never released to target the gaming audience, however that hasn't stopped demanding enthusiast gamers buying them by the bucket load. As the GTX780 Ti is ‘only' equipped with 3GB of GDDR5 memory the move to …

“Technology leadership is all about understanding where the market will go next”, claims AMD Chief Sales Officer, John Byrne. “It's about predicting the future”. KitGuru was fortunate enough to catch up with AMD's CSO – the driving force behind AMD's recent sales resurgence. This interview gave us a unique and …

Last summer Phanteks won our hearts with the Enthoo Primo aluminium case – which claimed a ‘Must Have' award despite a price tag of £199.99. This success led to a huge amount of anticipation for the upcoming Phanteks Enthoo Pro as we were promised a case that carried over the …

Everyone is talking about the next generation systems that are being constructed on Intel's latest Z97 platform with a 5th Generation Core processor. This is the stuff that dreams are made of, but – for one lucky KitGuru reader – that dream is about to become reality!  Enter this simple …

Its giveaway month! To celebrate Intel's recent launch of the Z97 platform we have another great competition for our readers – the chance to win one of three Biostar Hi-Fi Z97WE motherboards! The Biostar Hi-Fi Z97WE includes the usual high-end motherboard features like USB 3.0, HDMI and PCI-E slots, as well …

In the wake of Zardon's amazing Top 10 listing of the greatest headphones 2014 we look at a much more affordable pair of headphones in this review. No more Grado or Sennheiser headphones weighing in at well over £1,000 as Mionix are aiming the ‘regular luxury' part of the market. …

Intel's 9-series chipset has launched and one of the most interesting features that it delivers is native support for M.2 SSDs. Devices using the M.2 (formerly NGFF) connector can differ in their connection to the chipset. Two common approaches used today are the M.2 PCIe variant, which uses PCIe connections, …