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Can Intel’s Haswell beat AMD’s APU in 2013?

We have recently detailed a number of challenges being faced by Intel, mostly centred on ‘How do you build $7 billion fabrication plants when your average chip profit is $10?'. While there's no doubting Core's ‘King of the hill' for pure CPU performance credentials, KitGuru reads the A10 reviews and …

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SAPPHIRE Pure Platinum A85XT supports Trinity APUs

SAPPHIRE Technology, a leading manufacturer and global supplier of graphics, mainboard and multimedia solutions has just announced a new mainboard developed to support the latest Trinity family of APUs from AMD. The SAPPHIRE Pure Platinum A85XT is a full ATX sized board that supports the latest generation AMD APU A10/A8/A6/A4 …

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HE720 drive from ADATA is thinnest in the world

While capacities have been increasing consistently for as long as there have been hard drives around, the actual physical size changes very little over time. ADATA is now looking to change that for the mobile market place with the arrival of the HE720. This drive uses a USB3 interface and …

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AMD Trinity A10 5800k performance demonstration

You always need to be at least a little suspicious when a company shows you a set of comparative benchmarks. But, as they say, forwarned is forarmed. AMD had a number of systems on show in London yesterday and world famous overclocking expert (and now AMD PR expert) Sami Makinen …

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Intel Haswell introduces new power requirement for 1150

While the launch of nVidia's Fermi architecture and AMD's Bulldozer might have had investors running to buy stocks in electricity production companies, overall, the trend for power consumption has been downward. KitGuru listens to rumours coming out of the east about possible changes to mainboard requirements for Intel's Haswell in …

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AMD Radeon HD 8970 and 8950 launch plans revealed

While AMD might struggle to match Intel's tick-tock on the CPU side of life, the old ATi graphics team has no such difficulty in pushing out next-generation GPUs. We have spoken with our sources in the Far East and discovered AMD's launch plans for the Radeon 8000 series. KitGuru orders …

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Antec Three Hundred Two Gaming Chassis Review

Antec are a company who are continually adapting and improving their product range. Today we are looking at the Three Hundred Two, an update to the popular Three Hundred released way back in 2008. The original case sold well at around the £40 mark, although in today's market it is …

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G.SKILL Memory break Overclocking world record

4m 44.609s – The world’s fastest SuperPI 32M score achieved by the renown Russian overclocking team, OCLAB.RU, with G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 memory, Intel Core i7 3770K CPU and ASUS Z77 Maximus V Extreme motherboard Congratulations to the Russian legendary overclockers, Slamms and Smoke, from team “OCLAB.RU” on breaking the new …

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Strong ARM bulges to take more market share

As we've said before on KitGuru, companies communicate in a lot of different ways. The press release is one and the annual report is another. While these don't normally contain downright lies, they are certainly spun in a very specific/positive way. But what about recruitment? It's tough to spin job …

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Thermaltake launches godfather of all Soprano chassis

There's a school of thought in design that says ‘In order to go forward, you must first look back'. Probably one of the more famous examples in recent times was the re-emergence of the roadster sports car. Some of the ideas in the BMW Z4 go back half a century, …

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AMD moves to chop 1% off its wage bill

Over time, companies gain and lose people. In the natural sequence of events, when someone leaves, they are often replaced immediately by someone else with similar experience/salary demands. Right now, that's not the case at AMD. KitGuru looks at the latest changes and believes it has found a pattern. If …

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XFX monster game bundle lands on Aria

Upgrading or replacing your PC is fun, but as soon as you get anything that boosts graphics performance – the first thing you'll be looking at is your tired old games and wondering how many new ones you should buy. XFX has just air-dropped the solution into Aria. KitGuru was …

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