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As we reported yesterday, nVidia is prepared to pull out all the stops to re-take market share from AMD in the tough graphics market. Information KitGuru heard about the latest round of price cuts was that the GTX470 could be cut by over 21%. Searching the big sites today, we …

If you have been following KitGuru recently, you will have seen us reporting on the dichotomy nVidia faces. Ever better cards being launched, while price cuts keep being applied to try and stimulate sales. KitGuru can say, with certainty, that things are getting better for nVidia fans. Or are they? …

The Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition is the most powerful CPU we have tested at KitGuru and while it still holds the enthusiast market performance crown, not many can afford the £850+ asking price. I have received quite a few emails recently asking if we were going to review the …

Corsair are following up on the success of their H50 cooler with the release of a new Hydro series cooler. This ties in perfectly with their recent release of two air based coolers – the A50 and A70, which KitGuru reviewed a while ago over here. ‘A' for air cooling …

The nVidia GTS450 will not only be in UK stores by 14th September, it will also be available at the magical £99 mark. Sure, some of them will cost more, but we believe that nVidia wants the volume and it wants to kick AMD out of system builder SKUs. To do …

Everyone at KitGuru has to turn sideways to get through a lab door this morning. Has the building shrunk? No. Have the doorways become narrower? Nope. So what's the deal? Well, we planted another of the famous ‘Flags of our Predictions' a while back and, guess what, we seem to have …

Today in the KitGuru labs we are looking at the latest offering from NZXT.  This is the third chassis from NZXT that we have recently dissected and after the mixed results we experienced with the Beta EVO, we are hoping for a better showing this time. The NZXT Vulcan is …

OCZ have been highly regarded over the years as producing some of the finest memory available on the market and much in the same way as Corsair they have expanded over the years into other hardware markets to enhance their product range. They have recently updated their StealthXStream range of …

Coolit informed us yesterday that they have a large scale competition starting on the 4th August. The concept behind this is to find a use for your old heatsink. Users simply have to take video footage of uses for an old air cooler which they are no longer using. “We …

We currently have some Powercolor and XFX single slot HD5770s heading into our labs and we wanted to show you a picture of the new XFX model. Single slot is the new ‘in thing' for the HD5770s and we feel its long overdue, we have reviewed a plethora of HD5770's …

Not many of us have the luxury of being able to afford three 1080p monitors in the home, however if you are lucky enough to already own a multitude of screens then these prebuilt systems might appeal to you. NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 400 GPUs generate the graphics horsepower to drive …

Today at KitGuru we are going to be looking at the HIS IceQ 5 Turbo 5770 I GB graphics card.  In the efforts to attract the educated enthusiast audience HIS have enhanced the reference solution and used their IceQ 5 cooling technology on this particular unit. The 5770 has established …

Jon Peddie Research just in shows that nVidia are suffering from double digit drops in sales within most market segments. Intel and AMD are gaining ground. KitGuru has reported AMD and Intel's successes many times recently, but some of that growth will, naturally, at the expense of nVidia. Let's see …

It seems that performance figures for the first Fusion product from AMD have leaked online. Hardware Info – a german site, appear to have gotten their hands on a leaked table that details the Ontario based accelerated processing unit (APU) is capable of 1.352 GFLOPS of floating point performance. When …

Serious speed is something you build up slowly. Especially when the mainboard presents you with more options than Subway has fillings for its 12″ sub.  For the Oh My God series, we've been making adjustments, monitoring progress, up-ing the ante, checking for stability and then repeating all over again. For those with …

Speak with the average Jo(sephine) and they will tell you that the biggest memory brands are Corsair and OCZ. Overclocking enthusiasts might also add Apacer, Geil, G-Skill, Crucial and others to the list. However, real Gurus of the Kit know different. Real KitGurus know who the big dogs are in this …

If you have been following the news and reviews lately you will have assuredly seen mention of nVidia's stellar new ‘mass market' Fermi card the GTX460 – KitGuru reviewed the overclocked eVGA version and it walked away with very high praise indeed. While it is capable of delivering a fantastic …

A University of Abertay Dundee researcher believes his studies into facial expressions could shape the future of animation by making film and computer game characters more credible. Robin Sloan, PhD student and lecturer based in the Institute of Arts, Media and Computer Games, has devised a set of rules to …

High performance coolers are much loved by the KitGuru audience and today we are going to review a cooler from Spire, a European manufacturer. This is a product we believe our readers will find rather intriguing. After all, the company claims that “this towering cooler is built to deliver the …

For a long time now there has been a legal battle between Rambus and nVidia over the use of three specialised patents. The Trade Commission (ITC) has finally delivered a verdict, in favour of Rambus. This case has been centered around the use of three patents which handle the control …

Word in the UK channel today is that Asus has issued a price cut of around 15% on its GTX460 cards. KitGuru has been following the fate of nVidia's best Fermi card to date and the picture painted is one of confusing shades and tones. Asus is one of the …

Intel Corporation today announced an important advance in the quest to use light beams to replace the use of electrons to carry data in and around computers. The company has developed a research prototype representing the world‟s first silicon-based optical data connection with integrated lasers. The link can move data …

Silverstone have created some stunning products and we have always been avid followers of the Sugo Range which redefined small form factor chassis designs when they were first released, making HTPC both practical and quite beautiful to look at. The Sugo range has been in production for many years now …

ATi have released a new set of drivers – Catalyst 10.7 (which stands for 2010, July month) and they bring some interesting new features to the table. 10.7 driver has GPU acceleration for H264 content in the ever popular VLC media player V 1.1.1. This pull down detection has been …

Are you shopping for a new motherboard for your Core i7 upgrade? then be sure to check this out over at ebuyer. We don't often pimp products by linking directly to stores, but it seems there is a bit of a price war over the Asus P6X58D-E X58 which normally …

KitGuru staff always use the best quality fans we can find and this week we already reviewed the excellent Silverstone 18cm Penetrator. Today we are going to look at several fans within new cooling ranges, from Enermax. The 120mm and 140mm TB Silence fans (UCTB12 and UCTB14) and a glitzy …

KitGuru has been impressed in 2010 with Corsair's range of products. A short while ago the Corsair AX1200 power supply walked away with our most prestigious award and is to date the highest scoring product in our reviews database with a phenomenal rating of 9.5/10. The latest products Corsair have …

Not many things will increase the performance of an existing system as much as GPU, CPU and SSD. KitGuru spends a lot of time in the Lab looking at this kind of thing, so we know what we're talking about. While every PC has some form of CPU and GPU, …

KitGuru has spoken with 3 different graphic card companies and none of them has any visibility on the new GF106 core parts that nVidia will market under the GT440 to GTX450 brands. Interesting, but what does it mean for technology buyers? Back at the start of May, KitGuru put its …

KitGuru loves SSD's – and with small affordable units hitting the market such as the excellent Intel X25-V 40GB and the upcoming Corsair 40GB Force there has never been a better time to take the plunge. Many of the new performance units feature the SandForce controller however the model are …