Today Kitguru are partnering with YoyoTech to provide one lucky reader with a state of the art media center. Over the last year we have given away crates of hardware to readers and forum members – this competition today is quite easily one of our best. Regular readers will already …
Read More »ICY DOCK MB982SPR-2S SATA HDD & SSD Raid Review
Today we are going to look at a very impressively designed drive caddy which can convert both 2.5 inch mechanical and solid state drives into RAID arrays. It is also built to withstand serious abuse and to fit inside a standard 3.5 inch drive bay. If you have several older …
Read More »Win 20GB of 1600mhz & 2000mhz DDR3 Gaming Memory with ADATA!
Kitguru has some of the best competitions on the net, we have given away video cards, computers, power supplies, and even a brand new iPad 2 in recent months. Today something very useful for your next system build, or even for a current upgrade. Our good friends over at ADATA …
Read More »Enermax MaxRevo 1350W Power Supply Review
There are no shortage of quality 80 Plus Gold Certified power supplies on the market today, but when a new model is released from Enermax it always deserves a closer look. The MaxRevo range is their new flagship series of power supplies with three hardcore flavours – 1200W, 1350W and …
Read More »Dirt 3 competition winners
We would like to thank everyone for entering the Dirt 3 competition and we had many entries in the last couple of weeks. The five lucky winners are David Holt ‘Bruno' Padre Schlauch Kurt san juan Edmund Trent Please check your email for the key to get your game online …
Read More »Powercolor HD6850 Single Slot CrossfireX Review
One of AMD's most active partners in recent months has been PowerColor. They have been releasing a wide selection of quality HD6000 series cards with custom PCB and proprietary cooler designs. Today we are looking at an affordable CrossfireX configuration which will work perfectly inside a chassis with limited physical …
Read More »Building a Core i7 HTPC with Sapphire Mini ITX H67
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 …
Read More »Cooler Master GX650 Bronze Power Supply Review
Cooler Master have been releasing power supplies now for many years and today we are looking at an upgrade to their long standing 650w non modular unit. It receives 80 Plus Certification and a range of internal design changes, with a new Enhance implementation. Cooler Master are also aiming for …
Read More »Win an XFX HD6990 with KG!
Hands up if you need a new video card? Well Kitguru might just have the cure for that. Today we are giving away an XFX HD6990, the fastest video card on the market! Amp up your graphics with the XFX Radeon HD 6990 dual GPU graphics card. With GDDR5 high-speed …
Read More »Foxconn AMD Fusion NT-A3500 Nettop Review
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 …
Read More »Corsair HX1050 Power Supply Review
Corsair have built up a great reputation over the years, and their power supplies have always scored very highly on KitGuru, with the AX range setting a new benchmark standard. Today we are looking at the new HX1050, the replacement for the successful HX1000 unit. Should this be on your …
Read More »MSI GT680 Gaming Laptop Review (SSD/Bluray/i7/Nvidia)
There is certainly no shortage of high powered gaming laptops available on the market today, but it takes something really special to stand out in such a crowded marketplace. MSI have sent us their GT680 gaming laptop for review which features a dual drive configuration (with SSD), powerful Intel Core …
Read More »Titan Hati Cooler Review (TTC-NC15TZ/KU(RB))
Many of you might not have heard of Titan, however they have over 20 years experience with cooling technology. Their headquarters are in Taiwan and they have an office in Germany. Titan are no small player either, with 500 employees and the capability of producing over 2 million coolers every …
Read More »Crucial M4 256GB SSD Review (C400)
When Crucial released the C300 series of Solid State Drives last year they outperformed anything else available at the time. With read speeds around 340MB/s the Sandforce drives had a serious performance disadvantage, only offering around 280MB/s. The market today is in a very different state and the new SATA …
Read More »SilverStone Strider Gold 1200W PSU Review (SST-ST1200-G)
If you are the proud owner of a new high end SLI or CrossfireX gaming system, then you might be in the market for a powerful, future proof power supply. The product we are going to be looking at today will be of interest as it is 80 Plus Gold …
Read More »Competition winners announced
We had so many entries for both the Asus GTX580 and AMD HD6990 competition that it took us literally days going through all the emails. Sadly, there will be many disappointed people when the two winners are announced, but rest assured we will have many more competitions coming up, with …
Read More »MSI N580GTX Lightning Review
The GTX580 has been Nvidia's finest moment. The card has been a big seller since it was released and it leads many of the performance charts when we factor out the dual GPU solutions. Today we are looking at the MSI N580GTX Lightning, a heavily modified card designed to target …
Read More »Corsair Force 3 120GB SSD Review
This month Kitguru has been at the forefront of many Solid State Drive reviews including the new models from ADATA and OCZ. Today we are looking at the new model from Corsair, the Force 3 120GB which is set to target a wide audience, offering high levels of SATA III …
Read More »Asus Sabertooth 990FX Motherboard Review
Today AMD are launching their new 990FX chipset motherboards and we are looking at the Asus Sabertooth model which is a board loaded with a plethora of features. The Ultimate Force (TUF) Sabertooth 990FX has a 10 phase Digi+ VRM and it is wired to four DDR3 DIMM slots which …
Read More »Powercolor HD6870 PCS++ Review
Powercolor have been one of the more active AMD partners in recent months, releasing many modified cards with custom cooling solutions for all sectors of the market. Today we are looking at their latest HD6870 PCS++ which is supplied with a proprietary cooler and substantial ‘out of the box' overclocks. …
Read More »iPad 2 sells out in Russia
It may be later than many countries, but Russia embraced the release of the iPad 2 with open arms. The official release will help stop black market sales in Russia, a good thing considering the insane prices being asked. Some retailers have claimed that the iPad 2 in Russia are …
Read More »OCZ Agility 3 240GB SSD Review
This month we have seen the release of a handful of ultra fast Solid State Drives, and Kitguru has been on hand to review them in recent weeks. Today we are looking at the latest drive from market leader OCZ, the Agility 3 240GB. The Agility 3 has been released …
Read More »HIS HD6970 IceQ Turbo Edition Review
KitGuru readers love modified, custom graphics cards and today we are looking at one of the most eye catching designs yet, the new HIS HD6970 ICEQ Turbo Edition – a preoverclocked card with a dramatically designed custom cooler. The HIS HD6970 IceQ Turbo Edition is supplied with a modest overclock …
Read More »Antec Earthwatts EA 750W green Review
Antec have been releasing some great products lately, many of which have been reviewed on these very pages. I personally really like their latest Kuhler 620 and 920 liquid coolers and the Rockus speakers certainly hit the spot. They are updating their mainstream ‘high value for money' power supplies and …
Read More »Cooler Master Silencio 550 Chassis Review
Enthusiast users with a constrained budget often have to make compromises in regards to quality, building a PC around a chassis that emits a lot of fan noise due to thin panel design and the inclusion of low quality fans. Enter Cooler Master with their new Silencio 550, a case …
Read More »Cyberlink PowerDVD 11 Review
Kitguru has been using PowerDVD now for a year in many of our reviews. It is without question a great real world test for processors, and with hardware acceleration enabled it can give a good indication of how a new graphics card can help with high definition media playback. Today …
Read More »Gigabyte E350N-USB 3 Review
AMD's latest Brazos Platform has proven popular over recent months, with many users adopting a secondary low powered system for general, light duties or as the foundation of a high definition media center. Today we are looking at the Gigabyte E350N USB 3 motherboard which is built to the high …
Read More »VTX3D Radeon HD6670 Review
There are no shortage of video cards on the market today, with all sectors perfectly covered with solutions from both AMD and Nvidia. Today we are looking at the new card from VTX3D – a custom cooled Radeon HD6670. The HD6670 was released by AMD to target the HTPC audience, …
Read More »Zotac GeForce GTX560 AMP! Edition Review
Today we are looking at Zotac's take on the new Nvidia GTX560, a card which should NOT be confused with the GTX560 ‘Ti'. The Ti was released at the start of the year and is a higher end part targeting a slightly different market. Nvidia have released the latest GTX560 …
Read More »OCZ Vertex 3 240GB MAX IOPS SSD Review
There have been many Solid State Drives released in the last couple of months, and today we are looking at the new 240GB Vertex 3 from OCZ which is tagged with the ‘Max IOPS' moniker. This drive has been tuned for users who require greater transactional throughput. Today we will …
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