April 25, 2011
Featured Announcement, Headphones, Peripheral
Arctic are well known for producing a large range of cooling products which includes both CPU and GPU coolers. But more recently they have been aggressively diversifying their product range to encompass far more of the PC market. A few months back we reviewed a couple of their gaming headsets, …
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April 21, 2011
Announcements, Motherboard
For the mainstream gaming enthusiast audience, today's review product is both feature packed and attractively priced. The Asus P8P67 Deluxe is a 16+2 phase DIGI+ VRM design which fully supports Intel's VRD12 specifications. There are three PCI Express x16 slots and a PLX PEX8608 chip to add 8 additional PCI …
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April 20, 2011
Featured Announcement, SSD Drives
OCZ have been at the forefront of Solid State drive development for a very long time now, the original Vertex and the Vertex 2 were both class leading SATA 3Gbps drives. We will be honest when we say that we have high hopes for the 6Gbps successor, today's review product, …
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April 19, 2011
Component, Featured Tech Reviews, Laptop / Mobile
The M11x has been a big seller for Alienware, and rightly so because it combines class leading performance in a thin and light, custom chassis design. The newest R3 revision has been in the Kitguru labs for some time now and today we present our analysis. ‘Not another ATOM netbook!?' …
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April 19, 2011
Component, Featured Announcement, Graphics
Last October, AMD launched the first cards in their Radeon HD 6000 series, the HD 6850 and HD 6870. In the six months since then we've seen the release of the top end HD 6950, HD 6970 and HD 6990 cards which are targeted at serious gamers. But until now, …
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April 18, 2011
Drive Caddy, Featured Tech Reviews, Peripheral
Many people will opt for the simple route when purchasing an external hard drive, purchasing a pre-assembled unit from the likes of Western Digital or Seagate. But the more tech-savvy users out there may decide to purchase the enclosure and hard drive separately to reduce the cost or to achieve …
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April 15, 2011
Accessories, Drive Caddy, Featured Tech Reviews, Laptop / Mobile, Peripheral
There are a lot of people out there who would benefit greatly from purchasing an external hard drive as a form of storage for backing up their files and storing large media files. But the benefits of owning a hard drive docking station are constrained to a much narrower segment …
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April 14, 2011
Announcements, Power Supplies
Enermax have earned a solid reputation as one of the leading power supply manufacturers and they have recently launched a new series of units aimed at the entry level marketplace. These power supplies are rated between 350w and 850w and have been designed for a wide range of applications such …
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April 14, 2011
Cases, Component, Featured Announcement
NZXT surprised PC enthusiasts across the world when they released the stunning Phantom case, it also won our most prestigious ‘Must Have' award when we reviewed it last August. We are excited to see what NZXT has in store with their latest design – the budget friendly Classic Series H2. …
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April 13, 2011
Featured Tech Reviews
With Sandybridge systems picking up sales momentum, many enthusiast users are considering a complete upgrade. There are a wide variety of manufacturers selling quality DDR3 memory kits and with current pricing, there really is no better time to buy. Purchasing a 4GB kit is certainly the cheapest option, but if …
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April 13, 2011
Announcements, Cases, Component
We dedicate a lot of our time to reviewing PC cases as there are so many different models on the market, making the choice of which one to buy very difficult indeed. Around the £80 – £100 mark there is a huge amount of competition from manufacturers such as Antec, …
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April 12, 2011
Featured Announcement, Memory
Recently G.Skill announced their latest Sniper memory which is designed specifically for PC gamers and system modders. They have underwent extensive compatibility tests to ensure high performance operation on a variety of Intel and AMD platforms. This new Sniper series is a new ultra low voltage design which runs at …
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April 12, 2011
Featured Tech Reviews, Graphics
Sapphire have decided to re-release two of AMD's last generation range of cards – the HD5830 and HD5850, but this time around they are offering them with a modified cooler and heavily reduced pricing. When we say heavily reduced, we really do mean it. The HD5850 ‘Xtreme' has been reduced …
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April 11, 2011
Featured Announcement, Headphones, Peripheral
Regular readers will have already seen our review of the Roccat Kave gaming headset that we published a few weeks back. Overall the Kave was an impressive headset which had a number of desirable features, such as dedicated 5.1 surround sound. Unfortunately, this caused it to be quite heavy and …
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April 8, 2011
Featured Tech Reviews, Graphics
Today we are looking at the PNY GTX570. This card is a reference NVIDIA design equipped with 1280MB of GDDR5. The PNY GTX 570 offers full DirectX 11 support and ships with the core clock speeds of 732 MHz and the 1280 MB of GDDR5 is clocked to an effective …
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April 8, 2011
Announcements, Drive Caddy, Peripheral
External hard drives have grown in popularity in the last year, allowing users to expand storage capacity with minimal effort and at a very low cost. The external solution is ideal for ‘offline' data backup or to share media and data files quickly across multiple machines. Today we are going …
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April 7, 2011
Featured Announcement, Memory
Sandybridge systems have been well received by both the press and the public, with a compelling price to performance ratio. At the higher end of the market however Intel's X58 platform still remains the performance king, and today we are looking at a high density memory kit from Kingston which …
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April 7, 2011
Announcements, Graphics
Many readers looking at this review today will already have a performance gaming system and others will be contemplating a second system, hooked into a new high definition television for light gaming and media demands. To specifically target this sector AMD are releasing a very low cost Direct X 11 …
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April 6, 2011
Featured Tech Reviews, Graphics
Nvidia's GTX590 has been launched to a mixed reception and with the array of VRM hardware related issues many people are turning their attention to the GTX580, which could still be Nvidia's finest hour. Many 580's have won KitGuru's highest awards and rightly so because this solution still remains the …
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April 5, 2011
Announcements, Graphics
For most of us the AMD HD6990 is a pipe dream, the cost is very hard to justify. Let's not forget that unless you are gaming at super high resolution or across multiple screens it is often not needed. With the recent release of nVidia's GTX550 ti, AMD have decided …
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April 4, 2011
Apple, Component, Featured Announcement, Mac, SSD Drives
At KitGuru we spend a lot of time testing the latest and greatest components on the market for PC enthusiasts across the globe. But today we have set aside some time for Mac users, namely those who want to make the most out of their machine. Anyone who has looked …
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April 2, 2011
Cooling, Featured Announcement
The Frio has been a runaway success for Thermaltake, combining killer performance at a very competitive price point. Today we are looking at the revised and ‘improved' version, the ‘OCK', which according to Thermaltake can significantly outperform the class leading Noctua NH D14. In January KitGuru published an editorial from …
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April 1, 2011
Cases, Featured Tech Reviews
Thermaltake released one of the most stunning looking products in 2009, the spectacular Level 10 Chassis. Co-Designed with car manufacturer BMW it was a unique concept idea which caused many people to sit up and take notice. Sadly, the £500+ price point meant it was strictly for a small hard …
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April 1, 2011
Featured Announcement, Power Supplies
A few weeks ago we reviewed the ADATA HM 650W Power Supply and it scored very well, offering a low price point with a modular design and great all round performance. Today we are looking at the big brother, the 1200W unit which is aimed at people with multiple graphics …
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March 31, 2011
Featured Tech Reviews, Power Supplies
Antec have a wide range of quality products in their portfolio, and their power supplies have always been big sellers. They are updating their mainstream ‘value for money' EarthWatts range with two new models, a 650W and a 750W power supply. Today we are looking at the 650W model, with …
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March 30, 2011
Featured Tech Reviews, Graphics
After the somewhat disappointing release of the GTX590, I decided to turn my attention again to one of the best video cards on the market, Nvidia's GTX580. This card has been leading the single GPU charts since it was released and Zotac sent us their fully pimped out AMP! Edition. …
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March 29, 2011
Featured Announcement, Gaming PC
Not everyone is comfortable building a performance computer from scratch, so from time to time we ask for certain systems to be sent into our labs for analysis. One of our favourite UK system builders are Cryo Performance Computing, based in Bucks in England. When I first reviewed one of their …
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March 29, 2011
Accessories, Apple, Laptop / Mobile, Mac
When you spend way over £1000 on a new 15″ Macbook Pro, it is important that you keep it in the best possible condition by protecting it when you're carrying it around. While some users may prefer a full-size laptop bag, there are many people for whom this is just …
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March 29, 2011
Featured Announcement, Power Supplies
If you are in the market for a power supply for your new media center, then today we might just have the perfect partner for review. Cooler Master have just released their GX 450 power supply which features a strong 12V rail, double layer EMI filter and an intelligent 120mm …
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March 27, 2011
Cooling, Featured Tech Reviews
Prolimatech have just released a new cooler called the Genesis which is targeting the high end sector with a radical and rather unusual design. The heatsink is split into two parts with positions available for a multiple fan cooling configuration. This means it can cool the processor, RAM, MOFSET and …
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