As interest slows in the GTX470, nVidia has been working to position its new chips to be significantly more competitive against ATI. While the GTX480 can claim the crown of being the fastest single GPU in the market, nVidia has struggled to find a good position for the GTX470. ATI's …
Read More »PSU prices to rise by 10%
Our sources in the Far East tell us that Taiwan based PSU makers are going to raise the price of PSU's by a whopping 10%. Delta Electronics CEO Yancey Hai has confirmed that the company has already raised prices to transfer some costs to the consumer. An Acbel spokesperson told …
Read More »Low Voltage Athlons on the way
AMD recently announced new 45W desktop processors and from what we have heard today they will be released in the coming week. The Athlon X2 245e will be clocked at 2.9ghz and is going to sell for around 75 euros and this will be followed up by a 3ghz clocked …
Read More »Drop your laptop CPU temperature by 10 degrees
KitGuru can't count the times we've toasted our collective groins with a laptop running full pelt for too long. Now Cindy from Evercool has a solution to excessive heat build up in this area – and it is ‘Fit'. Evercool's Fit is a special CPU cooler designed for laptops. It is …
Read More »No need for quad core Atoms (just yet) says Intel
No additional cores on the horizon for the users that might need them most? While professing that more cores are always better, it seems that the Intel hierarchy have no immediate plans to bring quad core goodness to netbooks yet. Intel Insiders KitGuru spoke to earlier today said that “Software still has a …
Read More »“Little Idiot” designs world’s best mainboard?
To Italians, Shamino means little idiot. However, in EVGA's labs, it means Peter Tan: The Godfather of modding mainboard design and he's about to put horses in the beds of anyone who doesn't take him seriously. As Intel processors move from single to dual to quad and finally six core …
Read More »Rival’s Crucial taunt: Can its DDR3 really go ballistic?
Professional applications and benchmarks can be as sensitive to memory response times as they are to overall throughput. On that basis, what has happened to Crucial's top performaing memory – why has it fallen behind? Now that rivals Corsair, Kingston and OCZ are all shipping DDR3 with a CAS latency of …
Read More »Intel SSD price cut: Sales-on-fire or fire-sale?
Intel drops pants on SSD price, but did those prices fall or were they pushed?
Read More »Memory Buying Guide
Some people swear that memory is crucial to performance, while others think it's the ‘Emperor’s New Clothes' of upgrades. How much memory do you need, what speed should it run at and is it worth upgrading at all? Technologies Actual memory comes in tiny chips. These chips are mounted in …
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Read More »Graphics Card Buying Guide
Almost nothing affects your PC experience as much as the graphics procssor you choose, from integrated chips that come with the mainboard – through to running multiple high-end DX cards – KitGuru breaks this complex subject down into some very simple, practical advice. So what are the main considerations? Do …
Read More »AMD 1090T: The Lion Roars @ Intel
Will AMD's Leo platform be hopelessly outgunned by the awesome power of Intel's latest, top-end, 6-core, i7 Extreme Edition… or are they aimed at totally different markets? KitGuru gets in the ring to investigate who LEO wants to tame. In 2007, Pat Gelsinger gave an open interview about Intel's future …
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