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Last night AMD held its ‘New Horizon' event and officially unveiled Ryzen, its next CPU, which went head to head against the Intel Core i7 6900K in a few tests. However, CPUs wasn't all AMD had to demo as there was also a small sneak peek at Vega too, this …

Oculus VR has completed a major restructuring of its business, splitting its venture into two distinct divisions. One will focus entirely on improving the PC virtual reality experience and will be headed by now ex-CEO, Brendan Iribe, who wanted a more hands-on role with the company. Oculus is now on …

Integral may be a new name to some but they have been in the  memory business since the late eighties with all the design, R&D and testing of products done in the UK. The company has a wide portfolio of SSD's from M.2 drives up to specialist hardware encrypted drives …

AMD's big New Horizon show last night went a long way to giving people confidence that its upcoming Zen processors will be competitive with Intel's best. However beyond stock performance, Ryzen CPUs will also be able to take advantage of AMD's Extended Frequency Range (XFR) feature, which should automatically overclock …

AMD kicked off its New Horizon event this evening, giving us our best look at the company's next flagship desktop processor yet. For starters, the official name for AMD's next CPU is ‘Ryzen' but AMD had much more to show off, including some performance demos putting Ryzen up against an …

Samsung is well-regarded in the chip manufacturing business but this year, the company suffered a bit of a loss as Apple chose to go with TSMC for the creation of the iPhone 7's A10 processor. This has been quite the blow to Samsung's foundry division so going forward, Samsung may …

Corsair is revamping its SSD line-up with its fastest SSD ever- the Force MP500. This is an enthusiast-grade M.2 drive that offers performance up to five times faster than traditional SATA 6Gbps SSDs by using an NVMe controller and a high-bandwidth PCIe Gen 3 M.2 2280 interface. In total this …

While not everyone is particularly pleased about Oculus VR's game funding strategy, which has led to plenty of timed exclusives for the Rift, there is no question that the company is sparing no expense to ensure that quality games are hitting the market during VR's early years. One big example …

Announced at the tail end of November, AMD's New Horizon event to show off its upcoming Zen CPU architecture takes place later today, 13th December. Although attendance will be restricted, any and all can view online. If you'd like to check in on the livestream, make sure to be ready …

Recently at KitGuru, we have reviewed a number of (pricey) all-in-one liquid coolers. While AIOs typically offer good performance and funky visuals, there are several valid reasons why you may not want to go with a liquid cooler. Because of that, today we look at the Arctic Freezer i32 air cooler. …

We aren't expecting to see AMD's first gaming-focused Vega graphics card until January but it looks like someone attending the Radeon Vega Tech Day was willing to break NDA as footage of a consumer Vega GPU with 8GB of HBM running DOOM at 4K has been posted online. The Vega …

Last month, AMD took its first steps into the AI/Deep Learning world by teaming up with Google to supply GPUs for the Google Compute Engine. Following that news, AMD stock began to rise but the company isn't done just yet as today, AMD unveiled the Radeon Instinct, a GPU for …

Last month, Oculus and Microsoft announced that their Xbox One VR streaming app would finally be coming to the Oculus Rift. This streaming app allows console owners to stream their Xbox One games directly to the Oculus Rift to be played in a virtual cinema environment. It has taken quite …

Aerocool Project 7 C1 is a mid-tower case with a windowed side panel, integrated lighting in the front panel and a PWM hub behind the motherboard tray. These are all useful features however none of them is unique so the simple fact is that Aerocool faces a stiff battle in …

Looking to become the Angry Birds of virtual reality, the developer of Flushy Fish VR, Silvermile, has said that it's targeting a billion downloads of its simple puzzle game by 2020. This is perhaps the most ambitious claim by any virtual reality developer to date and suggests some real confidence …

It looks like Intel and AMD are getting into the holiday spirit with a new CPU/GPU/Game bundle for Christmas, before January hits and the two have to become rivals once again. This month, AMD Radeon is joining forces with Intel to offer a bundle that includes a Core i5 6600K, …

Microsoft is set to get into the Virtual Reality space next year with new Windows 10 based headsets that are geared towards creative use. The most exciting part about Microsoft's plan was the low $299 price tag but as it turns out, the minimum system requirements are also helping keep …

With its aggressive, angular fascia – and a name to match – the Corsair Carbide SPEC-ALPHA is certainly a case that grabs your attention. While the SPEC-ALPHA does have an emphasis on its ‘modern' styling, Corsair are also keen to point out the range of features included with the case …

There has been a lot to talk about in the world of AMD recently, with plenty of leaks and rumours surrounding upcoming graphics cards. Yesterday, we caught a glimpse of Polaris 12, Polaris 10XT2 and Vega 10 in a new AMD driver and today, it is being claimed that Vega …

We have had Broadwell-E for around six months now, which means its about time we started hearing rumours about its replacement. This week, reports have begun popping up with new details on Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X, which will feature a new socket and a new chipset. The initial report comes …

KitGuru despatched Leo Waldock for an exclusive interview with Andrej Zdravkovic, Corporate Vice President for Software and Platform Engineering at AMD and Terry Makedon, Director – Product Management at AMD about the latest release of their latest graphics software. In 2014 AMD launched Catalyst Omega In 2015 we had Crimson …

It looks like a bunch of companies are currently scrambling to become the authority on virtual reality standards, with Razer co-founding OSVR, Khronos launching its own VR standards effort and now, Google, HTC and Oculus have teamed up to create the ‘Global Virtual Reality Association, which could make VR software …

The one thing that was missing from Samsung’s range of SSD’s was a low price value oriented drive.  This has been rectified by the arrival of the SSD750 EVO product line. To keep production costs and therefore the cost of the drive down, Samsung has forsaken the 3D V-NAND of …

It looks like Qualcomm is getting competitive with Intel in the server market by launching the ‘world's first' 10nm FinFET Centriq 2400 CPU featuring 48-cores. Qualcomm is primarily aiming this processor at datacenter use and the first 48-core samples are ready. The Centriq 2400 is the second generation of Qualcomm's …

We have been coming across plenty of leaks from AMD over the last week or so, not only did we get a benchmark for a previously unseen GPU and learn that Intel may license Radeon tech for future iGPUs, but now we have also found references to Polaris 10 XT2, …

We have already had the opportunity to take a good look at Cooler Master's new case line with the MasterCase Pro 5 but this week, a new wave of cases are arriving in the form of the MasterCase maker 5t. The 5t puts the unique FreeForm modular system back at …

At the end of last month we reported on a Nvidia blog entry which claimed that a single Quadro P6000 was capable of powering four VR simulations on Oculus Rifts and HTC Vives at the same time. However it turns out this was based on a mistake in the original …

Micron has unleashed its new 5100 Series of enterprise Solid State Drives, which go all-in on 3D TLC NAND, paving the way for configurations with as much as 8TB of capacity. This will be a strong step towards data centres switching to flash, as SSDs keep becoming faster and increasing …

If you've been thinking about upgrading to an SSD at some point, you may want to do it sooner rather than later as analysts this week are claiming that prices are about to spike due to increased demand and lower supply. It looks like the pricing of NAND Flash has …

Just last week we learned that Razer would be joining the Khronos Group, which is behind open-source graphics technologies like Vulkan, OpenGL and OpenCL. Now it looks like we may have a good idea as to why, because today the Khronos group announced their new VR Standards Initiative with the …