February 2, 2015
Cases, Featured Announcement
Today we are going to take a look at one of the latest products from a company called Deep Cool – a PC case named the ‘Steam Castle'. You would be forgiven for not having heard of Deep Cool as they are a lesser-known Chinese manufacturer in the PC component …
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January 30, 2015
Featured Tech Reviews, PC
ECS has updated its Liva Mini PC and the new version is named Liva X. Its a small box that is powered by a Celeron N2808 dual core System on Chip that is capable of running either Windows or Linux. This Liva X update is powered by a power adapter …
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January 29, 2015
Featured Announcement, Keyboards
Today we are going to take a look at one of the latest mechanical gaming keyboards from Cougar, the 700K. This model boasts an impressive specification which includes Cherry mechanical switches, LED backlighting and a series of macro configuration options. This sets it in good stead to compete with other …
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January 28, 2015
Highlights-new, Laptop / Mobile
Few products have generated as much hype and interest as the MSI GT80 Titan Gaming laptop. Kitguru was the first major publication to cover the new laptop when we flew over to Taipei last November. LEO then got his hands on an early pre retail sample for KITGURU TV back …
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January 26, 2015
Featured Announcement, PC
There are three models in the range of BRIX S Mini-PC barebones that use the new Broadwell-U processor. These offer a choice of 5-series Core -3, -5 or -7. These are all dual core processors with Hyper Threading so while it sounds like a big difference these three models are …
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January 23, 2015
Featured Tech Reviews, Motherboard
If you want to reduce the space taken up by your computer, without significant reduction in performance or functionality, opting for a micro ATX system has long been the most effective way of doing so. Can the performance of ATX parts be matched when the Gigabyte X99M-Gaming 5 motherboard's LGA 2011-3 …
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January 22, 2015
Featured Announcement, Graphics
It was almost a year ago when Nvidia released their first graphics card based on the Maxwell architecture. My reviews of the GTX750Ti were positive – Maxwell delivered excellent full HD performance while taking all the power it needed direct from the PCIe slot. I said back in February 2014 …
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January 22, 2015
Featured Tech Reviews, Graphics
It was almost a year ago when Nvidia released their first graphics card based on the Maxwell architecture. My reviews of the GTX750Ti were positive – Maxwell delivered excellent full HD performance while taking all the power it needed direct from the PCIe slot. I said back in February 2014 …
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January 21, 2015
Featured Tech News, PC
Asus is trying something bold and new with its Republic Of Gamers (ROG) GR8 which is a Gaming Console PC. That may sound like a contradiction in terms and it certainly requires a word of explanation. Asus has taken the innards of a Core i7 laptop and housed the hardware …
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January 20, 2015
Featured Tech Reviews, Mobile, Speakers
We review a wide cross section of headphones on KitGuru – from cheap, no frills sub £50 gaming products for the mass market to £4000+ monsters purely targeting the audiophile user. While headphones are indispensable they are useless for a small group of people wanting to share music on the …
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January 19, 2015
Featured Announcement, Mouse
Today we are going to take a look at one of the latest products from Cougar, the 600M gaming mouse. Cougar are a fairly new player in the gaming peripheral market, first announcing their range at Computex back in 2013. We have tested a number of Cougar's products in the …
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January 16, 2015
Featured Tech News, Monitors
The KitGuru audience is savvy, and based on our research late last year only a tiny percentage upgraded their system to accommodate a 4k monitor. We all want more deskspace and higher resolutions, but pushing 8,294,000 pixels around can demand expensive graphics hardware. There is no doubt that prices are …
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January 16, 2015
Featured Tech Reviews, Laptop / Mobile
It takes a bit of detective work to figure out the Acer Aspire V15 Nitro. The stumbling block is that V15 Nitro is actually a series of laptops that cover a wide spread of specifications and prices, rather than a single laptop. The starting model is priced at £599 while …
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January 15, 2015
Featured Announcement, SSD Drives
After an exceptionally busy end of year work load we have been able to get a belated look at the Micron M600 Solid State Drive. Today we put it through its paces against many other leading drives on the market this year. The Micron M600 family spans multiple form factors …
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January 13, 2015
Featured Tech News, Power Supplies
If you are building a new, powerful multi GPU gaming system then the FSP Aurum PT 1000W power supply will likely interest you. This high end modular unit is 80 Plus Platinum certified and the company say the design uses industrial grade Japanese capacitors with solid capacitors on the secondary …
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January 13, 2015
Featured Tech News, PC
This is the third version of Window Box; DC100 used AMD E-350 Brazos hardware, then DC110 switched to 1.1GHz Intel Celeron 847 and now we have the DC111 with its dual core Celeron running at 1.8GHz. The MSI Wind Box DC111 is a tiny PC that measures 190mm x 151mm …
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January 12, 2015
Featured Tech Reviews, Mouse
Corsair's latest gaming mouse – the Sabre, ships with a high-end, 6,000 DPI Avago ADNS S3988 optical sensor, strong back-end software and an RGB LED colour system which lets you pick just about any colour for the backlighting. Of course a lot of its contemporaries ship with similar features, so …
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January 9, 2015
Featured Announcement, Graphics
If you are feeling those January winter blues, then we hope to cheer you up today. What better way to start the New Year than with a look at the flagship Asus GTX980 ROG Matrix Platinum? This Republic Of Gamers card ships with a customised PCB to target overclockers worldwide. …
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January 7, 2015
Featured Announcement, Power Supplies
Today we look at one of the latest power supplies from Corsair, the CS850M – a semi modular unit which ships with 80 Plus Gold certification. Corsair have a wide range of power supplies available as it stands so how does this unit slot into their current portfolio? Regular readers …
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January 6, 2015
Cooling, Featured Announcement
Today we are going to take a look at one of the first ever liquid CPU coolers from Fractal Design – the Kelvin S36. This particular model sits at the top of their range and is designed for those who are looking to get achieve the best possible cooling performance …
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January 5, 2015
Featured Announcement, Laptop / Mobile, Tablet PC
After all the fanfare around Chromebooks when they were first launched in 2011, the concept seems to have dropped off the radar in the last year. Samsung, once a Chromebook champion, has stopped selling them in Europe, and indeed pulled out of the entire notebook market as well. But there …
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January 4, 2015
Cases, Featured Tech News, Featured Tech Reviews
Phanteks has taken a bold step with its new Enthoo Mini XL case as we are seeing the introduction of a new form factor called Super Micro ATX. The idea is that you can install two motherboards inside the case along with their power supplies, processors and all the other …
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January 3, 2015
Cooling, Featured Tech News
Today we are going to take a look at an interesting water cooling product – the Raijintek Triton, an ‘all in one' CPU cooler. The Triton has been designed to be user upgradable … in fact Raijintek take things a step further and actively encourage users (who have the necessary …
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January 2, 2015
Cases, Featured Tech Reviews
Today we are going to take a look at one of the latest cases from Thermaltake – the Core V1. This model has been designed for those looking to build a compact system, offering room for a mini-ITX motherboard alongside a full-size power supply. Thermaltake are well known for producing …
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January 1, 2015
Featured Announcement, Mouse, Peripheral
Logitech's G-series of mice have been getting a lot of attention from the enthusiast audience. We already reviewed the G602 wireless and G502 ‘Proteus Core' mice last year and today we are looking at the latest entry to the product line, the G302 ‘Daedalus Prime'. This mouse features new switches …
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December 31, 2014
Cooling, Featured Tech Reviews, Graphics
Today we are going to take a look at the first GPU cooler from Raijintek, the Morpheus. This is a high end model which has been designed to compete with the best coolers on the market from the likes of Arctic, although Raijintek offer it as a ‘heatsink only' model …
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December 30, 2014
Featured Tech News, Motherboard
In the computing world, bigger is usually better. But that doesn't stop us trying to squeeze the same performance out of something that is physically smaller in size. ‘Why?' you ask. Well, perhaps desk space is at a premium or maybe you simply never plan to use multiple graphics cards …
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December 29, 2014
Featured Announcement, Headphones, Peripheral
Asus tends to be very well known for its PC hardware but the company also makes a wide range of very good gaming peripherals as well. Today we are going to take a look at the latest headset from the Echelon line of camo themed peripherals, featuring multi-platform compatibility, 50mm drivers …
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December 28, 2014
Cases, Featured Tech News
This is the review that almost failed to happen. When the Antec ISK 600M arrived it didn't raise a huge amount of excitement and was temporarily placed in the pile of hardware that may get a second look at some point in the future. Happily for Antec, KitGuru and the …
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December 24, 2014
Featured Tech News, Laptop / Mobile
The killer feature with the Cyberpower Fangbook Edge 4K, as the name suggests, is the inclusion of a 4K display with a mighty resolution of 3,840×2,160 pixels. Adding a 4K display to a regular Fangbook Edge laptop bumps up the price by £90 from £1175 to £1265 inc VAT and …
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