Following on from its rollout of EPYC CPUs for enterprise and data centres, today AMD is announcing the new Ryzen PRO CPU lineup, adding another tier to the Ryzen portfolio. The PRO versions of Ryzen 7, Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 3 are intended for businesses, providing ‘professional-grade' performance and additional …
Read More »Strongbox and ASUS break world records with fastest 8GPU computer in the world
Strongbox, a company known for its workstations and render farms, has teamed up with ASUS this week to break some world records. As part of a partnership with ASUS, Strongbox put together a rendering-focussed build featuring a whopping eight GTX 1080Tis. In all, the system ended up setting a new …
Read More »Win a 4,500 watt Devialet Phantom Gold speaker with remote control!
This is your chance to win a £2,200 4,500 watt bluetooth speaker from French audio masters Devialet!
Read More »Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs Titan Xp performance detailed
While the enthusiast gaming audience will need to wait a little longer to get their hands on the RX Vega, we will be getting our first taste of AMD's latest GPU architecture quite soon. The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is supposed to start shipping next week and while it isn't …
Read More »The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is available to buy, shipments to go out soon
While gamers do have to wait a bit longer to get their hands on the upcoming Radeon RX Vega, for Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is launching before the end of the month for the professional crowd. AMD promised a late June launch for this GPU and it seems they will …
Read More »Which Power Supply do you need? – Seasonic showcase 2017
Buying the correct power supply should take a little thought. Some people think they can just buy the cheapest power supply, slap it in a system and forget about it. How wrong they are.
Read More »The first Ryzen-powered gaming laptop is up for pre-order
Ryzen has been a huge success for AMD and while these processors are already well-established in the desktop space, we are still waiting on laptop versions. Fortunately, it doesn't look like we'll be kept waiting much longer, as the first Ryzen-powered gaming laptop has gone up for pre-order at UK …
Read More »MSI launches GTX 1080Ti Lightning Z
Today, MSI has officially launched the GeForce GTX 1080Ti Lightning Z. This is MSI's flagship graphics card and in the company's own words, it is “built to be perfect”, combining the tried and true Tri-Forzr cooler, Military Class 4 components and new SuperPipe technology to deliver an engineering masterpiece. We …
Read More »Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming 3 UNBOXING
While Luke works hard to review the new range of Intel X299 processors which have been officially sampled by Intel UK, he has managed to find some downtime to unbox the latest Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming 3. Spoiler - its a great looking bit of kit.
Read More »Up close and personal with Acer’s new Predator 21X laptop, curved monitors and more
Dom takes a trip to check out Acer's ultra-wide behemoth.
Read More »MSI Gaming Notebook Factory Secrets Revealed
KitGuru was fortunate enough to be invited one of MSI's giant factories in Shanghai, China. We expected to be given a limited tour and told to ‘keep behind the barriers', but we were actually given full access to the entire process – from the soldering of components onto the mainboards, …
Read More »Win WD Blue SSDs and Ubisoft Game Codes!
To celebrate the launch of its latest high-end SATA SSD, WD is running an exclusive competition with KitGuru!
Read More »Win a Deepcool GAMMAXX GT RGB CPU cooler
If you have been following KitGuru for a while, then you have probably noticed that we like to give back to our readers whenever we can. That is why this week, we are teaming up with Deepcool to give away not one but two brand new GAMMAXX GT CPU coolers, …
Read More »Source: AMD to launch Threadripper in August
At Computex this year, both AMD and Intel laid all of their cards out on the table with the announcements of Threadripper and Skylake-X. Last night, Intel announced that its 4 to 10 core CPUs would begin shipping from June 19th onwards, with 12 to 18 core SKUs expected to …
Read More »Sony’s E3 conference was good but lacked in wow factor
Sony had two masterful E3 presentations in a row over the course of 2015 and 2016. Unfortunately, at some point you will run out of things to show and it seems that Sony felt that this year. The Sony E3 press conference took place last night and while it was …
Read More »Microsoft’s E3 conference was filled with great game announcements but lacked new IP
While the Xbox One X was of course a key focus for Microsoft's E3 press conference last night, there were plenty of great game announcements to be made too. Not only did we get release dates for Crackdown 3 and Rare's Sea of Thieves, but we also saw the world …
Read More »E3 2017: Here is the schedule for each of the big conferences
E3 is consistently the most exciting time of the year for gamers everywhere and this year should be no different. The event kicks off in just a handful of days, so if you want to tune in to any of the major conferences to catch the announcements live, then look no …
Read More »Dell Ryzen XPS, ASRock X299 Mini-ITX and Nvidia Max-Q: Luke and Leo discuss
Luke Hill and Leo Waldock discuss the Good Stuff they saw at Computex 2017. Dell Ryzen XPS All-In-One and Intel X299 in Mini-ITX by ASRock both look brilliant while Nvidia Max-Q presents something of a puzzle to the intrepid duo. Two new products caught the KitGuru eye at Computex; the …
Read More »Win a STEAM game of your choice!
Win a game on STEAM at our expense, you even get to pick it - have a good start to the weekend!
Read More »AMD Threadripper and Vega: Luke and Leo discuss
We think its going to be a really good year for AMD. Listen to Luke and Leo and let us know what you think.
Read More »MSI Introduce new 2017 Gaming Dimension Laptops
The battle for top spot in the gaming laptop market continues to intensify, with notebook specs improving all the time. MSI is clearly one of the front runners and working hard to innovate its way to a leadership position. At Computex 2017, we caught up with MSI marketing guru, Chris Gough. As …
Read More »Intel SkyLake X and Kaby Lake X: Luke and Leo discuss
Leo and Luke were both over at Computex and they had time one evening in the hotel to discuss their views of the upcoming Intel Skylake X and Kaby Lake X. Is the future so bright we need sunglasses?
Read More »Valve will charge $100 for Steam Direct submissions
It has been several months since we first heard about Valve's plans to phase out Steam Greenlight and replace it with a new service known as ‘Steam Direct'. One of the key changes with Steam Direct was originally going to be the price of submitting a game to Steam, which …
Read More »Win Ryzen 7 1700X and Ryzen 5 1500x Processors!
Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 5 processors for free? How can you say no?
Read More »Computex: AMD RX Vega Consumer Launch July 2017, Threadripper Summer 2017
At its press conference in Taipei, AMD has announced that the RX Vega consumer GPU will launch at SIGGRAPH 2017 which starts on July 30th. Also confirmed was the summer 2017 launch date for Threadripper and the X399 high-end platform, with further details being given. Vega: AMD will launch the Frontier …
Read More »Computex: Intel promises 30% performance boost for 8th gen CPUs
We've had a lot of Intel news over the last 24 hours and while we have managed to tackle the bigger announcements, there was one small but interesting detail that snuck by during the Intel conference at Computex. In the midst of the big reveal for X299 and Skylake-X, Intel …
Read More »Intel’s new Skylake-X chips still use low-quality TIM
We are hearing that Intel is still using poor-quality TIM, not solder, for its new Skylake-X chips which drastically affects thermals.
Read More »Computex: Intel makes Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X official, 18C/36T Core i9 heads the lineup
Over the last few weeks, we have been hearing whispers about Intel's upcoming X299 Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X lineup. In fact, just last night we heard that an 18 core/36 thread CPU was on the cards. Now, Intel has made it all official, announcing its new Core X-series processor family …
Read More »10% of KitGuru gamers play at 4k/5k resolution
10% of KitGuru readers game on a 4k and 5k panel. Do you?
Read More »Computex: ASUS unleashes five new laptops, an AR smartphone and more
At Computex today, ASUS Chairman, Jonney Shih took to the stage to present ‘The Edge of Beyond', which appears to be the ASUS mission statement for Computex this year. During this event we saw five new laptops announced, alongside a new smartphone, two all-in-one PCs and a new ‘Designo' monitor. …
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