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We all love to play games! It is likely your dream graphics card will be either a GTX 780 Ti or R9 290X. Not fast enough for you? – then how about AMD's R9 295X2 or Nvidia's Titan Z? Be prepared to dig deep into your bank account at £1,100 …

Mechanical keyboards have been popular with the gaming audience now for some time, but they can often be rather expensive. Corsair recently released their K40 gamer keyboard which uses more mainstream rubber domes but takes a leaf out of the ‘mechanical playbook' by keeping the switches separate from one another. It also …

If you are shopping for a new high performance graphics card, then Nvidia's GTX780 Ti surely has a spot right at the top of the list. Today we look at a highly overclocked and customised model – the Inno3D GeForce GTX 780Ti iChill DHS. This card ships with one of …

We have had a lot of competitions running in the last month and today Gigabyte join the giveaway madness by offering up motherboards, coolers, pen drives and headsets! These prizes are open to residents in Europe. The 1st Prize is a Gigabyte Z97X-SOC Motherboard, Corsair Raptor HS30 Gaming Headset and …

One of the most popular sites at any technology show, is that of an expert overclocker pouring LN2 into a record breaking build. Gigabyte's suits in Taipai 101 was no different. KitGuru gets an introduction. To say that someone ‘ Wrote the book on overclocking', might sound like an overstatement. …

Founded in 1986, Gigabyte is one of the Taiwan Top 20 Global Brands, with a company motto that suggests you ‘Upgrade your life'. With four new ranges of boards coming into the market, we wanted to make sure we got a complete tour. Enter Nigel Sutch, regional sales and marketing …

Seasonic have had an active couple of months – in May we reviewed their Platinum 1,200W Modular PSU and today we are looking at the new X-Series 1250W – a refresh on the older model which we looked at, way back in 2012. The new model is a pure modular …

Nobody ever wants to feel left out, which is why even though our recently reviewed AVIOR mouse was designed to offer a grip for both palm and claw grip gamers, Mionix didn't release an ambidextrous mouse and tell you to ‘get on with it'. No it's also got an ergonomic …

Approaching Computex from the Geeks point of view – it provides a gorgeous concentration of technologies spread across multiple locations in Taipei for a week. But this year, there was a serious restriction placed on the number of local folks who could get in. The show's organisers had listened to …

Today we have a monster competition starting courtesy of our good friends over at MSI. One lucky KitGuru reader will win one of their new flagship Gaming 9 AC motherboards, as well as an R9 290X Gaming graphics cards and a limited edition Steelseries Siberia V2 headset! MSI will be …

Last week we reviewed two new cost effective Ultra HD 4K monitors from ASUS and AOC. No longer do you need to pay £2,000+ to land a 60hz 4K monitor for gaming –  these new models have hit retail for less than £600. Buying the monitor is only part of …

If like many millions around the world, you're gearing up to watch the world cup with fevered excitement, then why not join in with be quiet!'s tipster competition and be in with a chance of winning some brand new be quiet! gear? Beginning on 12th June and open to those …

There are a lot of household names in the PC peripheral industry, especially when it comes to gaming. However, like the games themselves, there are brands that are more dominant in certain parts of the world – it is often only after much time and growth that they start showing up outside …

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 …

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 …

The SteelSeries Sensei mouse was a hit with gamers and tournament players but now the peripheral has taken the next step in its evolution. SteelSeries has released the Sensei Wireless with an improved sensor and a slightly different aesthetic amongst other additional features- but is it worth the extra cost? …

Networked storage maker Synology has today announced the beginning of a World Cup themed competition on its Twitter, giving fans the chance to win one of five Hauppage picoStick Golds, just by tweeting a World Cup themed picture with their NAS in it. It can be as simple as you …

2014 is the year of Ultra HD 4K. Prices have been dropping steadily in recent months and today we look at the latest 4K panel from AOC, the U2868PQU. This WLED/ TN panel has onboard speakers, a 60hz refresh rate, 1ms GTG response and a 1000:1 typical contrast ratio. At …

bequiet! is running a worldwide competition from the 28th of May until the 10th of June 2014, giving away four brand new power supplies to four lucky winners. In order to enter, you'll have to head over to the bequiet! competition page. From there, you'll have to answer two simple, …

With growing adoption in laptops and portable devices, as well as desktop systems, 802.11ac WiFi continues to gain pace in the consumer market. With a theoretical transfer speed of well over a Gigabit per second, wirelessly, can the Linksys EA6900 802.11ac router prove that ultra high-speed WiFi connections are indeed …

KitGuru was one of the first websites to regularly start using an Ultra HD 4K monitor in graphics card reviews, mid 2013. We adopted the wallet sapping Asus PQ321QE and have been mighty impressed with the gorgeous IGZO display. PQ321QE prices have dropped from £3,000 to £2,400 recently, but the …

The modern gaming mouse market is a diverse one, from ambidextrous, cut back and clean looking mice, to those festooned with buttons, bells whistles to look like something created in a future space race. Today we review one that looks like it was lifted straight from the latest Tron movie. …

If you are in the market for a high end graphics solution then Sapphire surely have to be on your final shortlist. The company have been releasing award winning graphics cards consistently for the last year – featuring the best coolers that money can buy. Today we look at their …

While there is no doubt that in the not too distant future we will be transferring gigabytes quickly across the planet at very little cost – right now the movement of very large files still requires a physical device. Always happy to play at the high end in terms of …

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, …

There are no shortage of high grade power supplies in 2014. Already we have reviewed the Super Flower Leadex Platinum 1,000w, The Antec High Current Pro Platinum 1,300w, Cooler Master V1200 Platinum and the Corsair AX1500i Titanium. All of these units claimed our top awards. Today we look at the …

Continuing our recent focus on gaming motherboards, we have the Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7 in for review. Hitting retail with an aggressive sub-£140 price tag, Gigabyte is aiming to lure in potential buyers with the Gaming 7 motherboard's gaming-orientated features, striking colour scheme, and four-year warranty.  Fusing together the company's high-performance G1 Audio with …

KitGuru was invited to a recent Gigabyte event, and we saw new cooling products as well as a specially designed cooler for the Nvidia Titan graphics card. Gigabyte also wanted to show their new AORUS products, including new gaming laptops, keyboard and mice. The other cooling news centred around WaterForce which is a liquid cooling system that is suitable for triple graphics card systems. The radiators and control system are located in a bulky unit that sits on top of your case.

The MSI A88X-G45 Gaming is a handsome AMD A88X motherboard that sports a long list of features including triple graphics slots. That explains the ‘Gaming' part of the name and as you would expect the A88X chipset means this MSI board supports the latest FM2+ range of Kaveri APU. There …

Today we look at a new rig from system builder Cyberpower. The Achilles Pro incorporates the latest Intel i5 4690 processor, alongside a Gigabyte GTX780, Gigabyte Z97 Gaming motherboard and a 256GB Plextor PCIe SSD. Cyberpower have decided to adopt the exciting new In-Win 904 case as well in this …