AMD's upcoming Fury release next week has been much anticipated – the incredible level of global coverage so far gives a firm indication that this is indeed one of the most anticipated hardware launches of 2015. Many enthusiast gamers are hoping that AMD will become competitive again in the high …
Read More »Winner of be quiet! competition announced!
Several thousand people recently entered our competition run in partnership with our good friends over at be quiet, sadly only one reader will walk away with a spanking new Dark Power Pro 11 power supply and Dark Rock Pro 3 cooler! The competition has been running until 18th May and …
Read More »OCZ Competition winner: final ARC 100 hits 695.5TB!
When OCZ challenged KitGuru back in December to kill five of its Arc 100 SSDs by writing and rewriting to them constantly for the foreseeable future, nobody could have predicted that four months and several hundred terabytes later we’d still be talking about it. However we need to really, since a …
Read More »OCZ Challenge update: All 5 ARC 100 SSD’s hit 200TB mark
Regular readers will know of the challenge submitted to KitGuru by OCZ – to kill 5 of their ARC 100 Solid State Drives. If you need a recap, then head back to this original page posted on December 10th. The drives all passed the warranty figure of 100TB on 10th …
Read More »OCZ Challenge update: All 5 ARC SSD drives hit 100TB mark
Regular readers will know of the challenge submitted to KitGuru by OCZ – to kill 5 of their ARC 100 Solid State Drives. If you need a recap, then head back to this original page posted on December 10th. The drives all passed the warranty figure of 22TB at the …
Read More »Festive tidings from the KitGuru team!
2014 has been a great year for KitGuru and I wanted, on behalf of the team, to thank you all for the support throughout the year. Before you fall asleep fat and happy on the sofa watching the TV, never fear, our content hasn't quite stopped for the year – …
Read More »KitGuru quarter of a million ‘reviewer’ giveaway!
Holy Giveaway! Carl Muller here – the Kitguru Social Media admin. We wanted to thank our loyal readers for all the great support this year. With your help we have had fantastic growth in 2014, both on our main site at Kitguru.net, and on social media. Facebook contacted us a …
Read More »Nvidia to launch Grid – the Netflix of PC gaming
Nvidia's Shield tablet is going to receive some massive updates over the next couple of months. We've known for a while that Android Lollipop will be coming to the device but Nvidia has a lot more than that up its sleeve. Game streaming has become very popular over the past …
Read More »Richard Huddy ‘Totally Trival’ responses to OCUK forum members
While we'd like to think that the OcUK Forum was full to the brim with questions analysing the quantum gravitational effects of electron movement inside a Radeon graphics card – we got more questions about Richard's right to be bald and a Chief Gaming Scientist at the same time. In …
Read More »Up close and personal with the MSI GT72 Gaming Laptop
Without doubt, the MSI GT72 2PE Dominator Pro was one of the best received laptops we have ever seen in the KitGuru Lab. But still pictures can only take you so far. We were lucky enough to get MSI Laptop Guru Kian into the studios for an on-camera walk through …
Read More »Build your first PC: Step by step video guide with KitGuru TV
Building a PC does not need to be difficult or complicated – and it can be hugely rewarding. Today, we are launching our first system building tutorial. A simple step-by-step video that will take the beginner by the hand and lead them down the path to independence and true knowledge. Your …
Read More »Name calling makes #gamergate divide impossible to fix
Update: I didn't want to provide too much context as it's such a big, lengthy story with lots of sides to it, so I'll just link to this. It doesn't necessarily represent mine or KitGuru's take on the whole thing, but it is at least fairly comprehensive. Original Story: I must …
Read More »Nvidia officially reveals the Shield tablet
Last week, KitGuru was invited to a press event in London, where Nvidia showed off its Shield tablet and controller for the very first time. The Shield tablet has been designed to deliver a console experience through Nvidia's own technologies such as Shadow Play and Game-Stream. The device aims to deliver console …
Read More »Kitguru updates test rigs with DINOPC
KitGuru reviews hundreds of products every year and having high performance, up to date test systems at hand to partner with the latest components is always important. This is particularly true when we are reviewing the latest graphics cards. In the last week several of our older 4770k systems have …
Read More »MSI competition prize winners announced!
We had over 10,000 entries for this competition to win an MSI Z97 Gaming 9 AC Motherboard (product page here) an MSI R9 290X Gaming GPU (product page here) and a Steelseries Limited Edition Siberia V2 in MSI colours! Sadly we could only pick a single person out of the …
Read More »Gigabyte prize winners announced!
We had over 8,000 entries for our Gigabyte Z97X-SOC competition and sadly we can only pick three winners today! The winner of the Gigabyte Z97X-SOC Motherboard, Corsair Raptor HS30 Gaming Headset and bequiet! Shadow Rock Pro 150W TDP CPU Cooler is Christopher Hill (facebook page here). The first runner up …
Read More »3 Winners announced for Biostar Hi-Fi Z97WE motherboards!
We had a lot of entries for a chance to win one of three BioStar Hi-Fi Z97WE motherboards. We picked the three lucky winners today! The winners are! 1: Jordon Dicks – (FB page) 2: Dylan Houser – (FB page) 3: Johnna Rhodus – (FB page) Check your email guys …
Read More »Winner of Asus Sabertooth Z97/GTX760 DCUII and Seasonic Platinum 860W!
We had thousands of entries for this fantastic competition with ASUS and SEASONIC. We looked through the entries over the weekend and one lucky winner will be walking away with a brand new Asus Sabertooth Z97, Asus GTX760 DCUII and Seasonic Platinum 860W power supply! The winner is Shane Russell …
Read More »Winner of OCZ Vertex 460 240GB SSD announced!
We had a lot of entries from our readers who wanted to win a shiny, ultra quick new Solid State Drive from OCZ. Only one reader can win however! The answer to the question was c: ‘four times as fast'. The winner is David Palmer! (Facebook page HERE). Congratulations David, …
Read More »ASUS R9 290 GPU winner announced!
Our competition with ASUS was a huge success – we had over 11,000 entries to win a stunning R9 290 graphics card. We had so many entries that ASUS have taken longer than expected to work their way through the list! We apologise for the delays with this one. We …
Read More »Winner of MSI GTX760 Gaming and Z87I Gaming ITX combo!
Our competition with MSI was a huge success, we had over 6,000 entries since it started. Sadly only one person can win the incredible list of goodies, which you can see here. The winner was Jack Stewart who correctly answered with ‘A – Military Class 4 Components'. Jack's Facebook page …
Read More »Gigabyte MEGA competition winner announced
Thanks to everyone who entered our MEGA joint competition with Gigabyte – we had thousands and thousands of entries for this one so apologies in advance to everyone who didn't win. Gigabyte have just announced the winner on their page – It was Michael Taylor. Don't forget we have more …
Read More »Winner of Nvidia GTX780Ti announced!
This proved to be a very popular competition, with almost 10,000 entries from our readers in the last month. Sadly not everyone could win today, but one lucky reader will be walking away with a stunning new GTX780 Ti, sent directly from Nvidia! The winner is: James Draper from Leamington …
Read More »KitGuru Annual Awards 2013
Every year, KitGuru considers hundreds of products and puts the best into the KitGuru Labs for testing. While you may tend to see things in terms of conclusions and awards, we actually have a pretty sophisticated scoring system on the backend, that allow us to rank everything we have seen. …
Read More »Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD Winner announced!
We had many thousands of entries for this competition and a lot of people will be unhappy to hear they didn't win. abortion argumentative essay The winner of the 240GB SSD is Harry Jeffries from Merseyside. His Facebook page is HERE. Remember if you didn't win, then be sure to …
Read More »Winner of the Phanteks Enthoo Primo (and more) competition !
Today we close our Phanteks competition, and boy did we have a ton of entries for this one, around 8,000 people wanted this case, badly! We were one of the first publications in the world to review the Phanteks Enthoo Primo chassis – way back in August 2013. It earned …
Read More »Winner of £250 PC WORLD Gift card announced!
Our PCWORLD £250 gift voucher competition was popular – we had many thousands of entries from readers wanting a chance to buy some tasty new goodies before Christmas. buy autocad online Sadly we can only pick one winner – and the prize goes to reader Nelia Freitas from Norfolk in …
Read More »Win limited Edition 120mm Kitguru fans!
This weekend we have a very special competition in place to celebrate KITGURU's partnership with Sharkoon to create a limited edition run of Silent Eagle 2000 fans sporting Kitguru site branding and colours. You could be one of only a handful of people to own these collectors items! The Sharkoon …
Read More »Winner of Astro A50 Wireless headset announced
Our Astro A50 Headset competition proved popular, with many thousands of people entering for a chance to win a pair of these stunning flagship headphones. The answer to the question was simple, it was b: 5.8ghz STS Module. The winner was Ceelie, who has a shiny pair of Astro A50 …
Read More »Winner of Seasonic Platinum 660W power Supply!
We had several thousand entries for our Halloween Seasonic Platinum 660W power supply competition over the last week and today we pick one lucky winner. The answer to the question was simple – it was c: Sanyo Denki San Ace Silent Fan. The winner was Robin Hormel from Germany – …
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