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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 …

eVGA are selling a GTX 560 graphics card with a ton of Duke Nukem goodies as part of the deal. The card is a ‘limited edition' model with the full Duke Nukem Forever game. They are also throwing in a Duke Nukem art book, radioactive belt buckle and Limited Edition …

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 …

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 …

Creating a cool piece of hardware is really just one of many steps needed to create a great user experience. Almost everything made out of silicon has microcode, drivers and program code loaded onto it from every angle – to try and make it as good as it can be. …

What price can the fastest card in the market command?  It's a good question and one that AMD and nVidia have both been seeking to answer recently. KitGuru noticed a price move by accident. Here's what we found and how we found it. The fight for the title of the …

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 …

According to IC Insights, Intel have extended their lead over nearest rival Samsung by a whopping 44 percent. The report shows the strength of Intel sales right now, with Samsung literally miles behind. Another chipmaker in the report, Nvidia, recorded sales down by six percent with Panasonic also shows a …

Intel announced that their SSD 320 range of solid state drives are getting a warranty increase from three to five years. SSD's have a good reputation for being reliable and while it makes sense considering a lack of moving parts, Intel are ensuring that customers feel more comfortable with their …

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 …

KitGuru is a boring old windbag. When we're not writing 40-page reviews on the world's most advanced technology, we trundle down to the local stores in search of the new/different/interesting. This bright spring morning saw us inside PC World – and what value we found! PC World is part of …

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, …

Earlier this week Kitguru reported on story of the upcoming Windows 8 platform. Intel executives said that Microsoft would be releasing different versions of Windows 8, with specific versions for the ARM series of processors. Microsoft have said that this is ‘factually inaccurate'. At an analyst meeting this week, Intel …

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 …

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 …

Microsoft will be porting Windows 8 to support the ARM Architecture but the general manager of Intel's software and services group has said that she isn't going to be losing sleep over a competitive market losing battle in the future. Renée James spoke at the Intel's Investor Meeting 2011 in Santa …

Word just into KitGuru is that AMD's Head of Developer Relations has decided to go off and explore another business opportunity. KitGuru uses the available data to shade in the pixels and render the scene. As one of the original co-inventors of DirectX, Richard Huddy has made a significant impact …

I remember vividly when Silverstone released the Raven RV02. It has been one of the stand out products for me in the last decade, utilising the simple theory that ‘heat rises' as the foundation of the design. Until then I had been astonished that no chassis designer had built a …

ASUS today launched the GTX 560 DirectCU II TOP graphics card, based on the powerful NVIDIA GTX 560 released earlier this year. The ASUS GTX 560 DirectCU II Top is pre-overclocked and combines exclusive features such as DirectCU II cooling and Super Alloy Power technology. With these advantages, the GTX …

For those looking for a new slimline graphics solution, this new midrange card from Powercolor might just tick all the right boxes. If space is at a premium then this card offers ‘full fat' gaming performance with 775mhz core speed and up to four cards supported in CrossFireX. The Powercolor …

If, like me you wish your iPhone could get quick access to more storage, then this device might just be the answer to your problems. Seagate are bringing out a new product called the GoFlex Satellite which will make mobile storage concerns a thing of the past. This is one …

According to VR-ZONE, Nvidia are planning on fixing the poor design of the GTX590 and will re-release it in June. They claim a ‘much needed hardware fix where the new inductors are added to the card'. Kitguru reported on this many months ago, after many cards were failing due to …

Solid State Drives are selling well in 2011, with a growing percentage of enthusiast users adopting one as a fast, primary boot drive. A few weeks ago we reviewed the OCZ Vertex 3 240GB drive, and today we will compare it against the ADATA S511 240GB, a hot new model …

If you are in the market for a 1U Mini ITX server power supply then today's product will be of interest. The Athena Power 350W FlexATX supply is designed to provide compact flexibility for mini servers. It is also compatible with many Shuttle XPC, HP Pavilion and IBM SurePOS systems. …

It's hard to understand how nVidia has a non-disclosure in place for a product that was launched ages ago and which has been a very nicer seller indeed thank you. KitGuru turns on the fog lights and enters the mists that surround something we like to call ‘nVidia logic'. Graphic …

We love modified graphics cards at Kitguru, and today's review product should really tickle the taste buds. Not only have Powercolor overclocked AMD's award winning HD6950, but they have added an dual fan cooler, which is height adjustable. Today we will find out if it is worth your money. The …

Intel's Sandybridge has been dominating the headlines in 2011 with a heady combination of performance and competitive pricing. The H67 chipset enabled on-CPU graphics and Intel's new Quick sync transcoding engine and the P67 chipset delivered great overclocking capabilities with the new K series processors. The Z68 is set to …

It's one thing to launch a technology, it's quite another to get people to buy it. While the journalistic reception for Fusion-class processors has been universally positive – are people actually buying them? KitGuru uses quantum techniques to stand outside every store in the world and do a quick chip …

While most of the talk about Intel's new Z68 chipset seems to have centred on Gigabyte initially and Asrock later, the first board seen in the wild looks to be on the shelves in London. KitGuru picks up a hammer, eyes the Z68 offer and decides if the piggybank gets …

In the third and final part of our interview with AMD Developer Relations Guru, Nic Thibieroz, we get him talking about the latest Deus Ex, how DirectX may not be so relevant in the future and how consoles might actually take the lead again. KitGuru dons a nano-suit to help …