September 13, 2011
Featured Announcement, PC
Life in 2011 is hectic, and we don't all have the time or skills necessary to build a PC from the ground up. There are many system makers in the UK, but Dell are assuredly one of the biggest, offering a huge range of solutions to suit every desire and …
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August 31, 2011
Announcements, PC
Today we are looking at the latest Zotac Zbox Nano AD10 system, a diminutive, low cost computer, ideal for duties as a general workhorse system and for high definition media playback. Zotac have experienced successful launches with their previous range of Zbox ‘mini pc' systems, and the latest NANO AD10 …
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August 16, 2011
Announcements, PC
Many of us build our own computers, but for those without the necessary skills, time, or interest there are a plethora of pre-built systems on the market to suit all demands. Today we are looking at the Dell Inspiron 620 MT desktop system which, on paper seems ideal for a …
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July 15, 2011
Featured Tech Reviews, PC
It has been a really strong year for Arctic Cooling as they have continued to expand upon their product portfolio, even diversing into a range of rather interesting remote control toys, for land and sea. Today we are reviewing their latest Entertainment Center, a sleek HTPC with an ATOM processor, …
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July 6, 2011
Featured Tech Reviews, PC
ASrock have been active in the last 12 months, releasing a high quality range of motherboards and small form factor computers. Today we are looking at their latest range of media centers – the Core HT HTPC, which is based around the Intel Sandybridge platform. The Home Theater computer we …
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June 14, 2011
Featured Announcement, General Purpose PC, HTPC, PC
This year AMD's Fusion low cost platform has hit the spotlight, offering hardware accelerated performance with miniscule power demands and heat output. While this will suit many people, some of the enthusiast audience will want to spend more money and aim higher up the food chain. Today's article should tickle …
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June 10, 2011
Base Unit, Featured Announcement, PC
We don't often review many Foxconn related products but today we are looking at their new mini PC which is based around AMD's successful Fusion platform. Foxconn are a massive manufacturing organisation who produce many goods for leading tech companies such as Apple. Their NT-A3500 is based around an ultra …
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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 22, 2011
Component, Cooling, CPU, Featured Tech Reviews, Gaming PC, General Tech
Since opening in May 2010 we have looked at a variety of items from Arctic and we have found that their range of products often deliver high levels of performance for very little cost. In September 2010, Henry reviewed their MX-4 Thermal paste and it was the first product to …
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March 11, 2011
Featured Tech Reviews, General Purpose PC, HTPC, PC
Sometimes in this industry, unusual events can occur – such as when AMD partner Sapphire created the Edge HD Mini PC with Intel and Nvidia hardware inside. Zotac are well known as one of Nvidia's most capable partners, but the system we are reviewing today is based around the AMD …
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March 1, 2011
Announcements, PC
If, like us, you have a passion for miniature computing, then today's review is going to get you moist. AMD's biggest partner Sapphire have decided to branch out into the ‘system building' enthusiast sector and have created the new EDGE-HD Mini PC with the shock revelation that the internal hardware …
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February 12, 2011
CPU, Featured Tech Reviews, Graphics, PC
AMD's Fusion platform was released in January and a few weeks ago KitGuru spent some time with a ‘yet to be released' MSI Fusion System Prototype – we were actually the first in the world to review it. For the last week we have been spending some time with the …
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February 6, 2011
Featured Announcement, Gaming PC, PC
We reviewed an impressive XDNA system from YOYOTech a few months back which impressed us with a tasty overclock and CPU water cooling ‘out of the box'. Sadly, this was priced for those people with deeper pockets, so we were very excited when YOYOTech offered us one of their latest …
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January 29, 2011
Announcements, PC
First there was the promise, that Fusion was the future. Then, at CES, AMD revealed the combination of CPU and GPU that it calls an APU. Today, Kitguru has in its lab the world's first AMD Fusion Platform prototype from MSI, exclusively for our reader's delight. It is a model/concept …
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December 17, 2010
Featured Tech Reviews, Gaming PC, General Purpose PC, PC
The iMac has been selling well for Apple for many years and PC centric manufacturers are beginning to realise that there is a viable market for an attractive, capable ‘All In One' unit. Today we are looking at the MSI Wind Top AE2400 desktop system which features an Intel processor …
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December 2, 2010
Featured Tech Reviews, General Purpose PC, HTPC, PC
KitGuru has reviewed many pre built systems in recent months and we have made sure to cover all market sectors from extreme high end gaming to more modest HTPC creations. What if you want a media and gaming system capable of handling everything you throw at it while still maintaining …
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November 25, 2010
Featured Tech Reviews, General Purpose PC, PC
Whether you like them or not, Dell have been working hard to reinvent themselves lately with some very interesting and exciting releases. We have reviewed many of their products in the last 6 months and have often been impressed – particularly with their screen technology and Dell Streak smartphone running …
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November 8, 2010
Announcements, Gaming PC, PC
KitGuru's often spend their time salivating over some of the finest prebuilt systems on the market from the likes of Cryo. They usually feature all the latest, greatest and most expensive tech and are finished off with a full water cooling system. Such systems usually demand a price of £3000+ …
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November 3, 2010
General Purpose PC, HTPC
Last week we reviewed the Atom powered ASRock ION3D which we felt offered a cost effective solution for media computing demands. Today we are looking at a similarly compact, higher specification system from Dell, featuring an AMD Phenom processor with HD5450 mobility graphics. Although Dell sometimes get a bad name …
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October 28, 2010
Featured Tech Reviews, HTPC, PC
Defining a ‘media PC' is a difficult proposition, everyone has a different view on what makes a perfect HTPC computer. Some users will aim for high performance components in a large chassis while others will opt for the smallest possible physical footprint with virtual silence. Today's review of the ASRock …
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September 2, 2010
Announcements, Gaming PC, General Purpose PC, Laptop / Mobile
Cryo Computers are a UK system builder at the top of their relevant market, I have reviewed many of their systems in the past, including the stunning carbon fibre Cryo Nano and the watercooled, overclocked high end 980X based Nemesis SE. If you want a sexy custom system build then …
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August 26, 2010
CPU, Featured Tech Reviews, Gaming PC
At KitGuru we spend a lot of our time playing with high end hardware, and it can be disheartening for many readers. In the cold hard ‘real world' not everyone can afford a Core i7 980X with SLI'd GTX480's and to be honest, for most people this is totally overkill …
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August 4, 2010
Announcements, Cases, Gaming PC
Today in the KitGuru labs we are looking at the latest offering from NZXT. This is the third chassis from NZXT that we have recently dissected and after the mixed results we experienced with the Beta EVO, we are hoping for a better showing this time. The NZXT Vulcan is …
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August 2, 2010
Component, Featured Announcement, Gaming PC, Graphics
Today at KitGuru we are going to be looking at the HIS IceQ 5 Turbo 5770 I GB graphics card. In the efforts to attract the educated enthusiast audience HIS have enhanced the reference solution and used their IceQ 5 cooling technology on this particular unit. The 5770 has established …
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June 11, 2010
Featured Announcement, Gaming PC
Numbers vary, but we reckon at least 500,000 people build a PC in the UK each year. Once you’ve built your own, it’s unlikely that you’ll ever go back. But that’s a small fraction of the PCs that actually get sold. So what can you do if you need a …
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June 7, 2010
Gaming PC, General Purpose PC, Workstation
At KitGuru we like to cover all the bases – in the last three weeks we have reviewed SSD drives, graphics cards, power supplies, coolers, headsets, drive bays, processors, motherboards, monitors and even the Apple iPad. Today however we have something really special to show you. Imagine for a moment …
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June 5, 2010
Gaming PC, Headphones
Steelseries … without even seeing the product in question, the name alone gives an immediate feeling of quality. Rightly so, because for the last few years they have been producing some of the finest gaming equipment on the market. The Siberia was a popular full size headset which won many …
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