Creating a great GPU and building a solid board is only half the battle in graphics. Drivers are free, updated all the time and can have a huge effect on system stability and gaming performance. We really want to know more about which graphics driver you use – so if you have …
Read More »Mike Cumby of OCZ talks to KitGuru TV
Mike Cumby, UK Country Manager for OCZ spoke with Leo Waldock of KitGuru about the SSD market in 2016. Hot on the heels of CES, OCZ has launched Trion 150 which is a 15nm die shrink of Trion 100. Mike didn't have a Trion 150 with him as it was …
Read More »KitGuru Prize Winner review: OCZ Vector 180 SSD
We run a lot of competitions on our Facebook page and some of these are ‘review competitions'. The idea is simple – we give the winner a product, and they review it for our readers. Reader Glyn Horton recently won an OCZ Vector 180 480GB SSD in one such competition …
Read More »Win a PlayStation 4 with Seagate SSHD
In the next-gen console wars, Sony's PlayStation 4 has been the runaway winner. Only significant recent price drops from competitors have managed to slow the PS/4 down at all. So, given how popular this gaming hub is, how can you make it better? KitGuru has teamed up with storage giant …
Read More »Win 3x 256GB SK hynix Solid State drives!
Having a large SSD capable of delivering data at over 500MB/sec is one of the first ingredients on any KitGuru reader's shopping list – it is also a fantastic way to turbo charge an older, sluggish system. For all lovers of fast data transfer, SK hynix has teamed up with …
Read More »AMD Execs page updated as opportunities get created
Confirmation just in on that third AMD exit, as the corporate web site gets updated to show the future line-up. KitGuru continues to be confused at the number and level of changes. Regardless of the reasons why any of these execs left AMD today, one thing is for certain – …
Read More »AMD Heads of Marketing and Strategy leave company as well
Quite an amazing day over at AMD HQ. News in that a statutory 8K filing has revealed that the company has just lost its heads of marketing and strategy. What is going on in Texas we wonder? From time to time a large organisation will see senior personnel come and …
Read More »Aerocool Strike-X open chassis – revisited
Tis the season for a new system upgrade! What better way to end the year than to treat yourself to some new hardware? Bored of the ‘same old' chassis? Then how about an open case with easy access at all times? We reviewed the Aerocool Strike-X case back in March …
Read More »Xmas PC offers start to roll out before Black Friday
When it comes to the Christmas period, we normally associate it with the season to be jolly. For civilians that may be true but, in the hard fought world of system builders, it's more a case of desk the halls with guns and ammo. The shoot out for your Xmas …
Read More »AMD’s Huddy takes questions on Mantle from the OcUK Forum
One of the largest and most technical forums in the world, the Overclockers.co.uk crew are never short of questions. When they had the chance to grill AMD's Chief Gaming Scientist, they took to the task of grilling him with relish. In this video, Huddy takes to the hot seat to answer …
Read More »AMD Chief Gaming Scientist responds to the OcUK forum
When you've been working in gaming since you left university – and you were a key member of the team that helped create DirectX in the first place – then you have opinions on just about everything. We partnered with the folks on the Overclockers.co.uk Forum to get the toughest questions possible for AMD's …
Read More »Parallels demonstrates Windows apps on Yosemite
At the Digital Seasons event in London's Montcalm hotel, an array of tech companies attempted to woo the audience with their latest and greatest innovations. KitGuru was on hand to sip the Chardonnay on your behalf and filter the presentations to find the most interesting. Around the back of Marble …
Read More »YOYOTech Black Box X99 systems are a popular choice claims MD
Whenever a new high end platform is launched, the early adopters (as the industry likes to call them) tend to go for fully laden systems – either because they are nuts for power or they are looking for a system that will last a good few years. With Intel's X99, …
Read More »Build a PC with KitGuru on YouTube
Everyone loved the video we posted of Kitguru's step-by-step guide to building your first PC – but we did get a load of requests for one thing. KitGuru has powered up the video processing pipelines to give you what you want. This version of the video resides on YouTube, do …
Read More »Gigabyte open up the GTX760 version of Brix for an upgrade
When your gaming rig is so small that it won't hold 0.9 litres of liquid, then what are the chances that you can upgrade? Having taken us around the outside of his company's latest foray into the world of micro-gaming-on-steroids, Gigabyte's Andrew Ditchburn now opens up the Brix for a bit …
Read More »Up close and personal with Gigabyte’s 5 inch GTX760 Brix
While the tide may not have turned 100%, the days when computer chassis simply grew and grew are certainly behind us. There will always be a market for massive cases, but small is not only sexy, it is also cost effective and neat. KitGuru fires up the trusty camcorder. At …
Read More »Synology presents next-gen NAS products in Exclusive Interview
If a data disaster strikes a small/medium sized business then, according to Synology, 48% of them will be bankrupt within 12 months and a further 29% will go down before the end of the second year. If correct for all markets, then that is a staggering statistic. To find out …
Read More »Phones 4U collapses – serious allegations likely to follow
With its roots going back to 1987, the collapse of Phones 4U earlier this evening means a huge hole has opened up in the UK retail phone market – just as Apple and its competitors begin a new roll out of product for Xmas and 2015. The company's original founder …
Read More »Icy Box FlexCage MB973SP 2B Trayless 3-in-2 SATA Backplane
It's a self-evident truth that our requirement for storage will never stop increasing. While the cloud promises plenty for the future, up and download speeds will need to increase several fold before we can do away with local storage. That leaves NAS and internal drives. Icy Box offers a handy …
Read More »WIN the LAST EVER 8GB Sapphire R9 290X with Overclockers
Fans of The Gourmet Club in The Freshman will know the lengths that people will go to (and money they will spend) in order to own ‘the last of a species'. Today you have the chance to own the very last 8GB Sapphire R9 290x in the world- one of …
Read More »KitGuru TV interview – Gigabyte X99 Super OC Force
As a mountain of X99 news, reports and previews go live around the world, KitGuru unveils an exclusive interview that we shot a long time before the launch. Jonathan Geoff is one of Gigabyte's technical marketing gurus from HQ over in Taiwan and he brought something very special with him. …
Read More »Hynix SH920/910A 128GB SSD review
It’s not often that a new manufacturer comes into a mature market, but that’s what we’re seeing in the KitGuru Labs today. SK hynix, one of the world’s largest producers of memory chips, has decided to get serious in the SSD market with the latest SH910A – almost a year …
Read More »BitFenix Colossus M Micro ATX Chassis Review
One of the mysteries of modern life in Western culture is the size of the portion compared to the size of the bill. While Italian restaurants are happy to heap spaghetti on your plate for next to nothing, haute cuisine in a French restaurant can often look like it has …
Read More »512GB Crucial SSD drops below £145
It seems like only yesterday that we were all happy with a 1TB spinning hard drive. Then the technologies around solid state drives dropped to the point where ‘working 100% on memory' became viable – at least for the rich and famous. So how much should you spend on the …
Read More »Apple iPhone 6 Photo Exclusive to KitGuru.net
As many of you will know, on 12th July 2012, KitGuru was able to bring you the world's first photos of the original Apple iPhone 5. We came under immense pressure and within 24 hours the images were gone. Now it's July 2014 and, two years on, we're feeling Six-y. …
Read More »PC Specialist push 64GB Intel-based tablet at just £217
Although Apple has fallen from its peak tablet market share from 3-4 years ago, it is still the single largest single brand in the market with a constant stream of money and willing App Store customers flooding to its banner/bank. Against that background, what does a local hero need to …
Read More »Luxa2 TX-200 wireless dual phone charger review
While the whole world seems fixed on the idea of saving energy, we have more electrical devices than ever before. Anyone who's plugged a 4-way adapter into the end of an extension that was already plugged into a double adapter, knows exactly what we're talking about. We all need the …
Read More »Win a Sapphire FirePro 5000 card with YOYOTech
To celebrate the launch of AMD's powerful new W8100 workstation card, YOYOTech has got together with Sapphire to offer professionals the chance to win a FirePro W5000 card worth almost £300! This simple comparison chart has been drawn up by AMD workstation marketing gurus like Glen Matthews, with the specific …
Read More »Wavemaster Moody 2.1 Speakers Review
The overwhelming audio preference among gamers is headsets. The ability to communicate while playing audio at serious volumes provides a tactical advantage without the need for constant complaints from friends and family. In this review, we’re taking on a set of speakers that is one level of ‘out loud’ above …
Read More »Gamdias Hermes gaming keyboard review
If you are in the market for a new gaming keyboard then there are no shortage of products available from companies such as Razer, Steelseries, Roccat and TTeSports. Today we are seeing how new kid on the block Gamdias fares against the competition with their flagship keyboard, The Hermes. With …
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