Asus MG279Q | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Wed, 06 Jan 2016 12:15:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png Asus MG279Q | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 KitGuru Reader Awards – You have spoken! https://www.kitguru.net/tech-news/annual-awards/andrzej/kitguru-reader-awards-you-have-spoken/ https://www.kitguru.net/tech-news/annual-awards/andrzej/kitguru-reader-awards-you-have-spoken/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2016 08:25:43 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=279575 Hot on the heels of the KitGuru Editorial Awards, we have just completed counting on the very first KitGuru Reader Awards! We want to thank the army of readers who took the survey – we very much appreciate the time you spent telling us your favourite products. Since we launched KitGuru six years ago, we've …

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Hot on the heels of the KitGuru Editorial Awards, we have just completed counting on the very first KitGuru Reader Awards! We want to thank the army of readers who took the survey – we very much appreciate the time you spent telling us your favourite products.

Since we launched KitGuru six years ago, we've been paying careful attention to the kind of hardware our audience cares about. With over 316,000 of you telling us what you love/hate over on Facebook, we looked at all of the options and decided to add in a smart spread of categories that should satisfy all of you.

And we added some new options – including sections for wearable technology as well as tablets, VR and more options for motherboards.

Methodology
On 17th November, we explained how the nominations would work, with voting in stages. KitGuru readers chose the nominees – and then voted on the best products in each category. Full details here.

Voting 
From 1st December through to 20th December, KitGuru readers racked up votes on the products that they had nominated. Details here.

To make it easier to present the results, we have divided into broad categories like ‘Central Processing' for CPUs and motherboards.

We hope you enjoy reading all about YOUR selections – don't forget to let us know what we should do differently next time over on Facebook!

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Best Hardware of 2015 – The KitGuru Editorial Awards https://www.kitguru.net/tech-news/featured-tech-news/carl/best-hardware-of-2015-the-kitguru-editorial-awards/ https://www.kitguru.net/tech-news/featured-tech-news/carl/best-hardware-of-2015-the-kitguru-editorial-awards/#respond Sun, 03 Jan 2016 10:53:00 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=275036 Well here we are, 16 years into the new millennium and the rate of technological development shows no signs of slowing down. As the KitGuru Editorial Team sat down to discuss the best products of the year, we were constantly reminded of how much can change in just such a short period of time.  From …

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Well here we are, 16 years into the new millennium and the rate of technological development shows no signs of slowing down. As the KitGuru Editorial Team sat down to discuss the best products of the year, we were constantly reminded of how much can change in just such a short period of time. 

From the launch of the 1.4GHz Pentium 4, to Intel’s 6700K Skylake chips touching the 7GHz mark in August this year.

Back in the year 2000, Samsung’s R&D team created the first 512Mb DRAM, while this August saw the launch of the PM1633a – a 16TB solid state drive that effectively removes one of the mechanical storage sector’s last ‘wins’: Superior capacity. 3D Vertical NAND memory promises a lot in terms of capacity/cost in the near future.

Arguably the biggest steps forward ‘into a new tomorrow' are about to happen in virtual reality. The fundamentals haven’t really changed over the past 15 years (in as much as you wear a headset and a computer presents you with an alternative reality), but the Virtual Reality world is becoming more realistic and we’re seeing a glut of new, affordable technologies preparing to hit the mass market – including the Valve/HTC headset and the Rift/Touch from Oculus. Developer editions of the Microsoft HoloLens are being touted around the $3k mark, but that will change – especially if Asus and Gigabyte get into the market in 2016.

After the huge impact of the Maxwell architecture on the market, 2015 was a relatively slow one for graphics. Right now, all eyes are on the rumours that nVidia taped out its Pascal/GP100 chip in June 2015 and shipped 9 engineering samples in September. It could feature four stacks of HBM2 memory, offering gamers 16GB desktop cards and Quadro cards for professionals with up to 32GB. Final yields and pricing will likely be at the mercy of TSMC’s new 16nm FinFET process. We don't yet know what AMD have planned but HBM V1, showcased by AMD with their Nano and Fury range of cards has paved the way for future innovation in the VRAM segment.

As with last year’s awards, we’ll start with the items closest to the heart of your PC and work our way out to the retailer that you, the reader, voted as the best place to buy technology.

So what were the ‘Best of the Best' products in 2015?

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