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Looking for a curved 27in monitor that won't cost the earth? This Acer ED273 could be just the thing

At Computex this year, AMD announced that 2nd Gen Threadripper is on the way, one-upping Intel in the process. We know that the flagship CPU will be a 32 core 64 thread monster, but we didn’t know much about the models below it, that was until a recent listing by …

Earlier this month, we launched a new competition, giving our readers the chance to win a brand new Alienware 17 R5 laptop. This is quite the beast, with an 8th Gen Core i9 processor, a 1440p 120Hz display and a GTX 1080 GPU. There were many entries for this one, …

Last week it was confirmed via leaks from ASRock that the upcoming eight-core CPUs from Intel will work on existing motherboards. ASUS has now also confirmed that there will be a new chipset available, dubbed Z390, and they will be releasing no less than 19 motherboards for the platform. Over …

Despite many hoping for an earlier launch, Intel’s 10nm Cannon Lake processors have been delayed once again, this time aiming for a late 2019 launch.

Following last week’s announcement of Origin Access Premier, Electronic Arts has quietly put its “On The House” freebie program on the shelf. PC players will get to keep their claimed games, however the promotional page now redirects to EA’s Origin Access. EA introduced its On The House scheme back in …

Over the last couple of years, we've seen an exodus of writers at Valve, with multiple veterans leaving the studio to work on other projects. This included Half-Life writer, Marc Laidlaw, The duo behind Left 4 Dead and Jay Pinkerton, who worked on Portal 2 and some of the Team …

Despite a tiny £1.29 price tag, the collective sales on indie game Little Adventure on the Prairie has managed to fund developer Infinite Madaa Studio’s next title. This is thanks to its shift in target market, aiming to please achievement hunters with an easy-to-unlock Platinum trophy for an accessible price. …

We've known for years now that Samsung is working on fully flexible displays. There have been rumours about this technology landing in smartphones almost every year for the last four years. However, it is starting to look like 2019 might finally be the year, as Samsung Display has announced that …

Since early 2017, we've been hearing about DRAM shortages and strains when it comes to supply and demand. In fact, the situation has been so seemingly odd that China's economic regulator launched an investigation into market collusion. It looks like there might be light at the end of the tunnel …

VLC media player has received a slew of bad reviews on Google’s Play Store recently, reporting numerous bugs on Huawei devices. Developer VideoLAN has since blocked newer Huawei smartphones from downloading the application, blaming the manufacturer’s “ridiculous” new policy for all of the problems. Taking to Twitter, VideoLAN states that …

The Summer season is still in full swing here in the UK and the heat wave isn't slowing down. To celebrate the good weather, Overclockers UK is holding a ‘Red Hot' sale, with graphics cards, peripherals, full systems and other bits of hardware all getting price cuts. While Overclockers UK …

Microsoft has taken a decidedly aggressive approach with Windows 10, with the operating system regularly interrupting users in order to push updates and installations. The introduction of the snooze button last year did little to quell complaints of random reboots, prompting the company to look into machine learning to teach …

There have been a lot of rumours and leaks surrounding Intel’s 9th generation CPUs, which are said to be launching fairly soon. Will there be an eight-core SKU? Will the i7 have hyperthreading? Will it be a new platform? A leak from ASRock has at least answered some of these …

Respawn Entertainment has been decidedly quiet since EA placed the studio in charge of a brand new Star Wars title, leaving fans curious as to how the Titanfall developer plans to handle it. Revealing the name to be Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order last month, EA is currently looking ahead …

At E3 this year, EA announced that it would soon be launching Origin Access Premier. Similarly to Microsoft's Game Pass, Premier will give players day-one access to brand new games from EA's library, including the likes of Battlefield V, FIFA and Anthem. At the time, EA didn't announce a launch …

Microsoft’s new Xbox One Adaptive Controller made its debut back in May, designed to make gaming with disabilities significantly easier. Working alongside specialist companies, a lot of thought has been put into every area of the controller, including how users will open its packaging. The Xbox One Adaptive Controller gained …

At KitGuru, we are always looking to improve our content which often means hiring the best people in the industry. Today, we are pleased to announce that industry veteran, Aris Bitziopoulos, is joining the review team with a focus on power supply reviews. Aris has worked with Tom's Hardware, TechPowerUp …

Fancy winning a new Alienware 17 R5 laptop featuring a 6 core Intel processor, 1440p 120hz G-SYNC panel and overclocked GTX 1080 laptop? There are just two days left to enter for your chance to win!

If you've got nearly 3 grand for a top of the line NAS, this could be for you

AMD has had a lot of success over the last 18 months, in large part thanks to the launch of Ryzen, Threadripper and EPYC CPUs. AMD kept the pressure on with Ryzen 2nd Gen and new APUs earlier this year and all of that work is paying off nicely, as …

Google recently made it known that its security key trial for 85,000 members of staff was a resounding success, with no account compromises since the introduction of the YubiKey. Google has now announced its own security key for the public- the Titan Key, which will be available in both USB …

Is this the future of mechanical keyboards? keys that are pressure sensitive? Imagine playing a first person shooter and being able to crawl, walk and run forward - all with the same key. Like an analogue stick on a console controller.

GPU prices are returning to normal and new bundles are coming into play. Nvidia is now bundling GTX 1050TI and GTX 1060 graphics cards with 120GB and 240GB SSDs.

Over the last couple of years, a cracker known as Voksi has been tearing down Denuvo's anti-tamper protection one game at a time. Voksi became renowned for getting through the protection pretty quickly over the course of 2017, but it looks like the police have managed to track him down. …

ASUS ROG delivers a mid-range marvel for AMD's new X470 chipset.

SX OS is colloquially known as a “piracy-enabling” custom firmware that stole code from open-source projects and sold it back to the community. Various groups have been working on a crack for SX OS since its release, but this has led to someone exploiting that and packaging brick code as …

The cost of PC components is often in flux, with graphics cards, RAM and storage in particular soaring in price throughout the past two years. While prices are beginning to come down, it looks like Amazon could have you covered in future as it launches a trial for interest-free finance …

Back in early 2017, the European Commission began investigating several hardware companies for price fixing, including ASUS, Philips, Pioneer and Denon & Marantz. Now that investigation has come to a close, with €111 million in fines being handed down. The European Commission announced today that it has issued fines in …

Mozilla has pointed the finger at Google for slowing YouTube down on browsers other than Chrome, while providing a fix for Firefox, Edge and Safari.