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Earlier this year, KitGuru broke the story that Manju Hegde, nVidia's VP for PhysX and Cuda moved across to AMD. We've just heard that the person managing nVidia's professional product sales across a massive region (including the UK) has also defected to Team AMD. Interesting development. KitGuru investigates. Originally with …

With the whole web running hot on whether or not the GTX570 will be a hit, it seems that nVidia has been squeezing out as many chips as it possibly can for the launch. KitGuru's spies have reported ship-out details from the Far East and we're now prepared to reveal …

Oracle billionaire chief Larry Ellison has recently announced their launch of a new SPARC Supercluster – a lightning fast enterprise computing system that can perform 30 million database transactions per minute. This figures is 3 times faster than the previous record, held by IBM's DB2 on a P7 cluster. So …

We've never met anyone who's bought anything from More Computers, but their customers certainly seem happy with them. Their home page looks like a monument to how much their customers love them. Today, they will probably love them more. KitGuru broke the world exclusive story yesterday that the GTX570 has …

Jonathan ‘Fata1ty' Wendell has joined forces with ASrock to promote their latest P67 ‘gamer' motherboard. This is called the ‘Fatal1ty P67 Professional' – a 1156 board sporting a red and black design with a heatsink which looks very like the Republic of Gamers products from Asus. Tweaktown have posted a …

While the main players look to be settling at just under the £300 mark, it seems that some folks believe that demand for the GTX570 might push the price up. One store in South London seems to be optimistic. KitGuru investigates. Since 1999, CD-Writer have been supplying exactly what you …

Earlier today, KitGuru broke the story that nVidia's latest GTX570 card was now showing as available to order in the UK. Looks like the dams burst and more are following. Pricing looks to be very competitive. The second vendor we've spotted with the live link is LamdaTek. This time is …

With KitGuru and the other major sites all reporting the full specification etc for the GTX570 last week, everyone has been wondering how long we would have to wait until the product launches. Apparently, no time. It's happened. KitGuru has more spiders crawling the web for hints and gossip than …

The Corsair Sandforce powered SSD's have proved popular with the enthusiast community and rightly so – the performance of these drives is spectacular. Corsair are expanding the range by adding new 90GB and 180GB capacities which will probably be replacing the 80GB and 160GB models. Performance levels should be close …

Asetek have been quiet recently but they have announced a new range of sealed, liquid cooling system designed for systems with confined space, such as high end HTPC rigs. The cooling systems are based around radiators which fit 92mm fan fans, rather than the 120mm size which is commonplace today. …

We have given away thousands of pounds of hardware in only a few short months at KitGuru and today we have a monster Antec competition for all our readers in the run up to Christmas. ‘Tis' the season to give away hardware', thats our motto. Antec have donated 11 very …

The AMD HD6850 was released just over a month ago and has been warmly received by critics and the public. We have already looked at boards from Sapphire, XFX, Powercolor and HIS and today the Asus EAH6850 Direct CU Overclock Edition is next in line for a thorough workout. Like …

Antec produce some of the finest power supplies on the market and we thought we would share this rather interesting video of the high end Antec HCP-1200 powering four GTX 580's in an overclocked state. According to their video, the system was taking 2200watts of power. One thing you can …

As Palit's sales sheets for the GTX570 begin to get distributed globally ahead of nVidia's launch on 7th December, AMD has now had a good chance to evaluate the specifications and it's decided to react. KitGuru hits the bars and snoops like a pro. Once in each generation, one of …

Whenever a deal comes together, you can look at the component parts and make some kind of guess as to how the reduction was made possible. KitGuru gets tons of emailed offers every day, but this one grabbed our attention. Here's why. The deal itself is for a CPU with …

Most of the stunning overclocking results seem to be based around Intel processors, but the AMD Phenom II X5 975 Black Edition was been caned within an inch of its life, to 7.13ghz. No they didn't get this with a Noctua NH D14- this was achieved on nitrogen. Over 7ghz …

Enermax are revising their Modu82+ II and Pro82+ II power supplies. These revised power supplies have an improved, efficient 5Vsb rail to support the new EU Regulation ErP Lot 6 for modern day systems. So what exactly is ‘ErP Lot 6'? These are Energy related Product, previous EuP=Energy-using Products), part …

A few days ago, a forum member posted information regarding image quality concerns with popular flight combat game Tom Clancy H.A.W.X. There has been much debate about this across the net over the weekend. KitGuru followed up on the forum post to clarify exactly what was being noticed. As we …

Over the years, there have been many famous ‘app detection' revelations. Probably the most famous was revealed by Beyond3D when genius uber-geeks discovered that changing the name of the 3DMark 2003 executable file created a huge difference for the performance of nVidia cards. Looking at recent documents posted into the …

It seems there is much discussion online about nVidia possibly lowering the driver IQ in Tom Clancy H.A.W.X. to increase benchmark scores. This is nothing new as HARDOCP reported about a similar issue in October within HAWX 2 Benchmark. Sadly it appears that this is in the actual game itself, …

One of the most persistent rumours of the past 5 days has been that nVidia might be in play on the market. The market for desktop graphics has not suddenly become significantly bigger over the past 3 months, yet nVidia's share price has been steadily inflating updward. Overall bouyancy in …

Hitachi are set to release information on the upcoming capability to release hard drives with capacities up to 24TB. We spotted this news story over at Hexus and wondered where it was all going to end. The research team has been working with Japan's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development …

Kitguru has reviewed many MSI products over the last few months and we have always been impressed with their build quailty and overclocking headroom. They informed us last night that they are releasing their new HD6870 with Twin Frozr II cooler. As with all quality MSI products they feature ‘Military …

Here at KitGuru we have tested a whole host of motherboards from different manufacturers, encompassing all the major platforms on the market today.  One variety that we haven’t ever tested is a Micro-ATX form factor board on any platform. Today we are going to look at the Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H motherboard …

Powercolor have really been delivering the goods in 2010 and their latest model might not sound too exciting until we point out that it is a passively cooled HD6850! Kitguru loved the XFX HD5670 and Sapphire HD5670 passively cooled solutions as they were ideal for media centers and people who …

Corsair have just released a new memory series which uses a sexy new heatspreader design – dubbed “Vengeance”. These will be available in both AMD and Intel kits. The Vengeance memory will feature single, double and triple channel DDR3 kits which are clocked at 1,600mhz. All of the kits will …

It's nice when the multi-national, multi-billion dollar corporations that we have all (at some point) helped fund, turn around and do neat little competitions to win cool stuff.  nVidia has today stepped up to that plate. Here's the detail you need to enter. The GeForce community site is in its …

We love Noctua coolers at Kitguru and the Austrian cooling wizards have just announced their new NH-C14 cooler. Sporting an exquisite, uniquely flexible 140mm dual fan setup of two Noctua NF-P14, the NH-C14 is a highly customisable, premium-class top-flow solution that further boosts the renowned quiet cooling performance of the …

Well it was a long time coming, but finally we have a HD6870 with a custom cooling solution. Powercolor have just released the HD6870 PCS+ graphics card which is not only supplied with a rather sexy heatpipe cooler, but substantial overclocks. Both HD6850 and HD6870 were received warmly by the …

Will Intel reduce overclocking options on its next generation processors?  That's what KitGuru spies are hearing and it is slightly worrying. A concerned KitGuru investigates. Back in the 90s, AMD managed to stretch out a significant lead over Intel in the enthusiast space for one simple reason. Intel doggedly refused …