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Virtual Reality topped the charts as the European Hardware Association today revealed the results of a massive survey into European technology buying trends for 2016. Almost half the respondents chose VR as their ‘most likely to buy’ new technology, with Smart Home and Connected Audio coming second and third. KitGuru …

Last week, I had the chance to take a good detailed look at the PC version of Rise of the Tomb Raider and while I came to the conclusion that it is an excellent game, some have had their issues. Fortunately, the team behind the PC version, Nixxes, has already issued …

Earlier this month, we announced that we were teaming up with VIBOX to give away one of their Element Blue AMD-powered gaming rigs to one lucky KitGuru reader. After receiving thousands of entries and scrolling through all of your pictures, we have finally decided on a winner! The system itself …

Over the last 18 months, Asus has been expanding on its STRIX brand with new headsets. Today, we are taking a look at the STRIX 2.0, which packs in 60mm drivers, multi-platform compatibility and a unique dual microphone design. How does it stack up to the competition? The ASUS STRIX 2.0 …

We have been asked for our opinions on gaming/racing chairs plenty of times throughout the year, though we had yet to review one. Today, that changes as we are taking a look at the SL4000 Racing Chair from Vertagear – a newcomer to the market. Is the chair worth its £215 …

Last week we asked you guys to send us your strangest, funniest, most creative in-game screen-grabs to be in with a chance of winning a Steam game of your choice in our latest Steam Group Competition and you responded in droves. After trawling through the many, many screenshots you sent our …

If you have been around the KitGuru site or Facebook page over the last few weeks, you will have noticed that we ran a pretty huge giveaway with Overclockers UK, giving one reader a chance to win the Powercolor Devil 13 390X2 graphics card, worth £599.99, in return for a …

If you entered last month's be quiet! Silent Base 600 case competition, you weren't alone as more than 3,000 of you threw your names in the hat to be in with a chance of winning one of three chassis that we reviewed very highly not too long ago. Of course …

We like to give back to our audience as much as we can at KitGuru, which is why this month, we are once again teaming up with be quiet! to give away not one but THREE Silent Base 600 PC cases! We will even let you pick your own colour …

Have you ever wanted to try your hand at reviewing hardware? Well we would like to give you that chance. This week, we are running a giveaway for an MSI Mini-ITX GTX 760 graphics card, all we ask in return is that you submit a review for us to share …

A few weeks back we launched a competition to win Deepcool's unique Tristellar case, a 750W 80Plus Gold modular power supply and finally, Deepcool's Captain 120 liquid CPU cooler. We had thousands of entries for this contest but there can only be one winner. The entire bundle is worth around …

Although KitGuru may give away a Steam game to a smart-aleck caption writer every single week, we also run much bigger and more elaborate competitions with more impressive prizes. Like the Silverstone giveaway of a Milo ML06-E mini ITX chassis, 450w SFX 80Plus Gold rated Power Supply and Argon AR06 Low …

So far in this series, we have made some initial tests and conclusions about the balance between CPU and graphics in a workstation, and then focused specifically on the types of application covered by the industry-standard SPECviewperf 12.02 tests. In this article, we turn our attention to two very significant …

eSports is becoming more and more popular by the day and in turn, so are team-based competitive games. This is something that gaming peripheral companies have definitely noticed. Today, we are taking a look at the Ozone Argon, an ambidextrous mouse aimed at competitive gamers. There are two variants of this …

In the second part of this series, we presented some initial tests to illustrate how CPU and graphics can affect different types of performance in a PC workstation. In this third part, we focus down on one particular, industry-standard benchmark that puts a workstation through a range of tests with …

If you have been following KitGuru for a while, then you have probably noticed that we have a knack for awesome giveaways. We recently teamed up with Cyberpower to give away an X99 Infinity Xtreme Cube gaming PC worth £2000 in total and today, we have found our winner. The Cyberpower …

Gigabyte is one of those companies that has been a big name in the enthusiast PC industry for a long, long time. It makes motherboards, graphics cards, peripherals, laptops, tablets and more and all of them need putting together at some point. Which is why when we were given the …

Richard Carriere is Senior Vice President for CyberLink, a successful Taiwanese company that finds itself operating in a very fluid market. As Microsoft changes its playback strategy again, removing Media Player from Windows 10, so Cyberlink has new opportunities. We caught up with Richard to ask about the challenges and …

Since KitGuru is based here in the UK, our US readers do sometimes get the short end of the stick when it comes to giveaways. However, we recently decided to make up for that with our US only giveaway, in collaboration with 4GamerGear. This competition is now closed and the …

Today we are taking a look at the Archer D7 1750AC Router from TP-Link. It retains many of the same features as its bigger brother, the Archer D9 AC1900, but comes in at a lower price. Could this be the best budget option for a router in 2015? Let’s find …

We have a pretty strong community of readers here at KitGuru, although there is one thing that we are consistently asked for- an application for smartphones. Well, one of you guys decided to make it happen, so now there is an unofficial KitGuru app for iOS. This offering was made …

Since KitGuru's HQ is firmly nestled in the UK, our readers across the pond do get the short end of the stick sometimes when it comes to competition prizes. But not today friends, as we've teamed up with 4GamerGear to offer our US readers the chance to win a bunch …

One of the worst parts of a new GPU launch is dealing with that jealous devil in the pit of your stomach that broils around as you watch other hardware enthusiasts snap up the new cards, boasting of their boosted frame rates. But what if you could be one of …

Several major gaming hardware makers are in the midst of making a big push for cloud gaming, with new services like the Nvidia GRID and PlayStation Now beginning to pop up with technological gains over tried and failed services, such as On Live. However, despite cloud technology coming as far …

2014 has been a big year for KitGuru. We've gone from strength to strength and you guys have been right there with us, helping us to become bigger and better than ever before. We have new staff, loads of new content and plenty of new fans, as is evidenced by …

Our competition with Asus for the PG2780 ROG Swift 144Hz G-Sync monitor has come to an end. Last week things were narrowed down to just three entrants who all produced videos, it was up to you guys to vote on who you think should win. The votes have been counted …

It looks like Sony's investigation in to the attack on its internal systems last week is coming to a close as the company is reportedly preparing to officially name North Korea as the source of the attack. Sources close to the investigation have said to news site, Re/code, that the …

We like to give things away here at KitGuru, which is why today we are announcing our latest collaborative competition with be quiet!. We are teaming up to give away not one, but three brand new be quiet! Silent Base 800 desktop chassis, which we reviewed just last week, giving …

Did you enter our be quiet! Straight 10 PSU competition just under a month ago? If so, today could be the day you discover that you're a winner. Out of all the hundreds of entrants, many with the correct answer, we've whittled it down to just three. The question we …

Most of us don't need a kilowatt of power in our PCs, even the heavy gamers and overclockers among us. But for the ultimate enthusiasts, the ones with deep enough pockets for high end SLI or Crossfire set ups, they need a veritable power plant in the back of their …