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It has certainly been an interesting couple of months for the high end gaming enthusiast. In October AMD brought out their R9 290 and R9 290X which took the performance crown from Nvidia. We felt both cards were fantastic, but the substandard reference cooler forced us to offer a hesitant …

Today we are revisiting a power supply that hit the scene in late 2012 – the Bronze certified Fractal Design Integra R2 750W. This budget unit recently received a price reduction in the UK, taking the cost to just £60 inc vat. Today we find out if this is a …

Nvidia has just released an updated ‘game ready' driver just in time for the releases of Assassins Creed IV and Need for Speed: Rivals. Amongst these last minute tweaks, the new driver is going to help SLI profiles and games running at 4K resolutions. “These Game Ready drivers will also …

Overclockers is, like other retailers, looking to make sure we all get a new GPU by Christmas and is now offering up one of Sapphire's new R290 GPUs, for not only a decent price, but also with a bunch of free games too. Priced at £323.99, the card comes equipped …

AMD graphics card partner SAPPHIRE, has announced a partnership with eSports team, Natus Vincere, or Na'Vi (which literally means, born to win in Latin) to give away a few graphics cards, as well as some Na'Vi gear and in-game DotA 2 items. The Na'Vi swag includes a Tshirt, game shirt …

The graphics card market might already be competitive as hell, but it's going to get that little bit more so in the US now that Club 3D is extending its influence into more than just Europe, partnering with Newegg to sell its hardware to a whole new customer base in …

Today we review one of the power supplies in the new Corsair range, a semi modular unit featuring 80 Plus Gold Certification. Corsair are targeting a wide audience with this specific range … the CS650M unit we review today is priced at a very competitive £75 inc vat. Is this …

When it comes to technology, value is everything. While some products can command any amount of money – most things in life come down to a balance. Looks like the balance point for Sapphire's Radeon R9 290 has moved. KitGuru packs a first aid kit as it checks for cuts. …

MSI has released some teaser images for its upcoming miniature gaming hardware, including a new motherboard and a small form factor GPU, both designed to fit into half size cases, whilst still giving you enough oomf for all the latest games. “We’re very close to expanding our #GAMING family with …

Today we look at the latest graphics card from ASUS, the GTX 760 MARS. This solution comprises two GTX760's in an SLi configuration, all on a single PCB. ASUS have incorporated a hefty DIGI+VRM configuration featuring 12 phase power. They are promoting this card to go head to head against …

Today we take a look at the latest addition to the Sapphire R9 family of graphics cards. The R9 270X Toxic Edition follows in the footprints of the class leading R9 280X Toxic Edition which we reviewed last month. Is our review subject worthy of the ‘Toxic' moniker? Sapphire have …

Today we are going to take the look at the latest product in Corsair's Hydro series of liquid CPU coolers, the H75.  This is a mid-range option, offering a standard 120 mm radiator with twin 120 mm fans.  We have been very impressed with Corsair's previous Hydro models and are …

Today we are reviewing the new Aerocool Strike-X One Advance chassis. Aimed at the budget market, the Strike-X One Advance ships with two fans pre-installed and support for up to 6 storage drives … all combined with an aggressive looking design. So, is the Strike-X One Advance worth its £30 …

G.Skill is looking to push the current envelope as much as possible with the unveiling of its latest Ripjaws kit designed with laptops in mind. That's right, this new high performance DDR3 kit with an 8GB capacity (2 x 4GB) is a matched pair of SO-DIMM, featuring a bandwidth of …

With a guest list of speakers that includes Intel, LSI, Box, VMWare and the Open Compute Project, AIS (Accelerating Innovation Summit) is a major conference aimed squarely at how the data processing market can handle the next generation of datacentric processing. Adata has put its hand in its pocket to …

Today we look at the latest Seasonic S12G 750W power supply, a new 80 Plus Gold design using top grade Japanese components. This is the highest output model in the new Seasonic range, alongside a 450W, 550W and 650W unit. Seasonic are gunning for the mass market enthusiast audience, aiming …

Technology products are strange. Viewed in their plain cardboard boxes, piled high on pallets in a factory, they emit almost no appeal at all. Open the external packaging and the consumer box will normally emit a little ‘wink' of attraction. Once you get hands on, out of the box, you …

AMD has announced a new initiative to bridge the gap between the traditional high powered, productivity focused “old Windows ecosystem,” and the high end displays and thin, light and easy to use Android/iOS ecoysystem, powered by a new line of AMD APUs set to be released over the next 12 …

While there might have been a bit of a cafuffle here recently over non-reference coolers, I feel confident in saying that this one from Asus isn't the norm. It's the DirectCU II type we've seen on previous cards from the GPU partner and this time it's attached to the company's …

While each PlayStation 4 and Xbox One may come packing half terrabyte drives in them at launch, Sony's new console will only give you about 400GB of space right off the bat – at least according to the reports coming out of a lucky early owner. This comes from screenshots …

This week AMD launch their new R9 270 graphics card – set to replace the HD7850 at the lower end of the enthusiast gaming market. Thankfully today we haven't been forced to review a reference AMD solution and instead we can focus on some higher grade partner cards. We all …

This week AMD launch their new R9 270 graphics card – set to replace the HD7850 at the lower end of the enthusiast gaming market. Thankfully today we haven’t been forced to review a reference AMD solution and instead we can focus on some higher grade partner cards. Our second …

With the huge flooding tragedy that took out Western Digital toward the end of 2011, hard drive prices climbed faster than an F15 in intercept mode. Things calmed down in 2012 and over the course of 2013, we have seen strong competition. But can prices drop much further? With a …

How does a company make a multiple award-winning, enthusiast-grade motherboard even more ‘extreme'? By making it into a black edition version, of course. Asus has updated its critically-acclaimed Rampage IV Extreme X79 motherboard to ‘Black Edition' status. Have the upgraded components and IVB-E tweaks resulted in yet another rampaging master …

Following on from AMD's recent release of the impressive R9 290x, Nvidia has hit back with the unveiling of its newest performance crown taker, the GTX 780 Ti. Packing in 25 per cent more CUDA cores than the base 780, impressive clock speeds and a price tag that's almost half …

With a huge release of updated AMD products in Q4 this year, many manufacturers decided to launch with standard coolers (reference design). When KitGuru looks back across all of the new Radeons, one cooling solutions stands out – and that is the Toxic cooler fitted to the R9 280X and …

AMD have just released a new beta driver for the R9 290 series. They issued an email today which reads … “We’ve identified that there’s variability in fan speeds across AMD R9 290 series boards. This variability in fan speed translates into variability of the cooling capacity of the fan-sink. …

OCZ have been at the forefront of Solid State Technology now for years, and today we look at their new Vector 150 drive. The Vector 150 is built on the latest 19nm process geometry NAND to deliver the best performance with both compressible and incompressible data. OCZ are focusing now …

AMD have been taking all the headlines in the last month, releasing a slew of graphics cards – including the class leading (but noisy) R9 290 and R9 290X. The R9 290X managed to take the  performance crown from Nvidia's GTX 780 and GTX Titan in the ultra high end …

The Samsung HDD division was purchased by Seagate back in 2011 and they have developed the world's thinnest 2TB hard drive. The Samsung Spinpoint M9T ships in a 2.5 inch form factor and measures just 9.5mm thick. Ideal for power users who have a full sized slot in their laptop. …