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Once the cool weather starts to roll in, we're sure that PC-related sales will increase and everything will be much better for manufacturers across the globe. In the meantime, pucker up – here come more price cuts on juicy Solid State Drives. Samsung's 840 series has proven to be one …

If you are shopping this month for a high performance video card and want to keep the cost to a reasonable £200 inc vat, then today's review product will be particularly interesting. The Asus GTX760 Direct CU II OC is currently on offer at OverclockersUK and comprises a custom two fan …

The HD7870 Tahiti LE has been a good seller for AMD partners – offering a great price point when it was launched, close to £200. ARIA are currently selling the remainder of their stock at a cut throat £159.95 inc vat, although it looks like there won't be any more …

While the senior management of Seasonic don't like to talk about it, as a company, they have produced some of the finest and most famous power supplies the PC market has ever seen. Chances are, even if a PSU won a mantelpiece full of awards and was designed and manufactured …

If you missed our tip-off of Overclockers UK's current GTX 670 deals on Friday, then you're in luck because the retailer still has stock at the excellent prices. To sweeten the deal even further, Overclockers UK is giving FREE next day delivery on the entire order to anybody who purchases one …

Built for hardened overclockers, does ASRock's Z87 OC Formula have what it takes to compete with the likes of MSI's Z87 XPower and Asus' Maximus VI Extreme? Utilising an E-ATX form factor and packed with overclocking-geared enhancements, ASRock's Z87 OC Formula represents the company's motherboard designed specifically for hardened tweakers …

Today we are going to look at the Shadow Rock 2 CPU Cooler from Be Quiet!. It is the first model we have looked at from the second generation of the ‘Shadow Rock' series of products.  We are excited to see how it fares in our tests as previous models …

Almost exactly one year ago, KitGuru covered the news that the price of a 4TB drive had been slashed down to just outside the £200 mark. With a few wobbles along the way, that price continues to fall. KitGuru eyes up another offer in the storage department. When things spin …

Just a few weeks ago, KitGuru was chatting internally and wondering what happened to all the cool SSD deals from last summer. We remembered a time when drives dropped below £70 and then headed down to settle around £60. Why were 2013's prices so much higher? Looks like movements in …

In a tactical bid to take the ongoing Nvidia GTX 670 and 680 price war by the throat, Overclockers UK is slashing the price of Asus DirectCU II cards for this weekend only. The move sees Overclockers UK offering up some of the best deals currently available, and better still, …

G.Skill has reclaimed its position as performance king after professional overclocker James “YoungPro” Trevaskis reached 4400MHz using G.Skill's TridentX memory earlier this morning. The set-up used to achieve this result consisted of an Intel Core i7 4770k, ASUS Maximus 6 Impact and G.Skill TridentX DDR3 3000MHz C12 4GB. As is …

Today we are going to look at SilverStone's latest addition to the CPU cooler market, the Argon Series AR01. This cooler incorporates three 8mm thick copper heat pipes, a 120mm fan and SilverStone's own anti-vibration fan mounts to strike a balance between performance and silence. Retailing for £23.98 inc. vat, …

Cooling hardware manufacturer Prolimatech has released a new version of its high-performance Armageddon CPU cooler. The new version sees the single-tower CPU cooler getting a blue and black colour scheme similar to that found on Ford's Mustang sports cars. Weighing in at 750g, the black-with-blue-stripes heatsink features six heatpipes that …

It has been an amazing week in the land of GPU price cuts, with wave after wave of deal lashing the inbox shores of the UK's hard core enthusiasts. Almost all of the action has been coming from NVidia, but now it seems that AMD is ready to get in …

ARIA, UK retailer are stocking the new Club3D Multi Stream Transport Hub – a device which receives a DisplayPort 1.2 signal from a source and splits up and routes the video streams independently to each display device. The UK retail price is £99.95, but it is currently on offer at …

Providing a fresh burst of excitement in Asus' premium Republic Of Gamers series, the Maximus VI Hero is the first ROG motherboard built specifically for the mid-range gamer. Has Asus' price-constricting approach paid off? Sparking attention due to its true gaming-orientated design and a price tag to match, the Maximus …

The past days we have reported on price drops from retailers such as Scan, Aria and Ebuyer. Happy to jump into the fray, Overclockers are hot on their heels with some price drops of their own. KitGuru pulls out the company credit card, ready to pick up some deals. The …

It has been a hectic few days since the EVGA move to bring GTX580 cards to market for just £137 at the end of last week. Things got really heated yesterday afternoon when it seemed at one stage that price cuts were coming every half hour. KitGuru checks the latest …

KitGuru loves a fight. The best fights in the tech industry resemble the loudest battles between Transformers and Decepticons. Massive organisations – bashing away at each other with cut-throat deals. But ever we're SHOCKED by the way nVidia pricing has been SLASHED today.  UPDATE: In the past few minutes, we're …

Today we are going to look at the Touch 2100 fan controller which is the latest model in Aerocool's range.  It's targeted at those users who are looking for a fan controller which makes their case stand out visually, whilst being easy to use. Aerocool are well-known for producing high …

As we move to a world where all of the nVidia graphics cards are in the GTX700 series, more and more deals on end of life stock are appearing on the web. KitGuru scans places for electronics buyers for details.  When KitGuru had a look around 2GB Asus GTX680 Direct …

Thermaltake's mid tower Chaser A31 chassis is built to compete in a mid-range war zone that is laden with gamers. Can the Chaser A31 case's features allow it to shine in an overcrowded market? Designed for gamers, Thermaltake's Chaser A31 supports standard ATX hardware and multi-VGA configurations. Cooling is covered …

Following one reseller's announcement last week of a final load of GTX580 cards at £137, it now seems that prices are being cut on a much broader range of older nVidia cards. KFA2 is getting in on the act with Overclockers, so KitGuru has a finger poised over the ‘Print …

A few months back, KitGuru was analysing the slow down in system sales brought on by the start of the summer holiday period, combined with an overall sluggishness in the economy, and wondering why SSD prices were looking decidedly higher than for the same period in 2012. Prices had to …

With Intel's fourth generation Core series processors and the Z87 platform still fresh on the market, memory manufacturers are taking the opportunity to release some high-speed kits built for the new hardware. Featuring a frequency of 3000MHz and timings of 12-14-14-35-2T, Avexir has some of the fastest memory available to …

While most of the PC using population is content snoozing around with 1600MHz memory, ADATA has just moved the goal posts a little bit higher. KitGuru pulls out a stop watch to investigate. How much is anything worth?  It's an interesting question and one that permeates every aspect of life …

Built to serve extreme overclockers and hardcore enthusiasts, can the Z87 Republic Of Gamers series' flagship model compete with the finest motherboards that ASRock and MSI have to offer? Perched at the top of Asus' Z87 ROG tree, the Maximus VI Extreme features support for 4-way graphics configurations via a …

Regular readers will already be aware that KitGuru has been following the development of the Phanteks Enthoo case now for months. In the United Kingdom Overclockers UK have struck a deal with the company – selling direct to the enthusiast user. We are excited about this case and have one …

Lets face it, owning a GTX Titan or even a HD7970 is a pipe dream for most people, verified by the fact that the biggest chunk of sales for both AMD and Nvidia is under £100. To satisfy your budget cravings today we look at the latest HD7730 cards from …

Today we are going to look at the latest model to feature in Silverstone’s critically acclaimed Raven series of cases, the RV04. It promises to build on the success of the previous model, the RV03, offering higher levels of performance.  We are interested to see what Silverstone have implemented to …