July 6, 2011
Featured Tech Reviews, PC
ASrock have been active in the last 12 months, releasing a high quality range of motherboards and small form factor computers. Today we are looking at their latest range of media centers – the Core HT HTPC, which is based around the Intel Sandybridge platform. The Home Theater computer we …
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July 5, 2011
Announcements, Power Supplies
A few weeks ago we reviewed the Silverstone Strider Gold 1200W power supply and we were very impressed with the results. If you can't quite stretch to the £200+ asking price, then today's review product might just hit the spot. The SilverStone Strider Plus 1000W power supply costs around £100 …
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July 4, 2011
Featured Tech Reviews, Memory
A short while ago we reviewed the G.Skill Ripjaws 4GB DDR3-2133mhz kit which was retailing for an incredibly low £50 inc vat. Today we are looking at the latest G.Skill 1600mhz RipjawsX bundle which is an 8GB kit retailing for £59.15 inc vat. Is this an ideal upgrade for your …
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July 4, 2011
Featured Announcement, Graphics
When Asus put time and effort into creating a modified, custom cooled graphics card the world sits up and takes notice, especially when it is based around Nvidia's stunning GTX 580. Today we are looking at the new GTX 580 Matrix Platinum 1.5GB, which gets the special Republic Of Gamers …
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July 1, 2011
Apple, Cooling, Featured Announcement, Laptop / Mobile
If you have just purchased a new laptop, the next peripheral on the ‘to buy' list is generally a protective carrying case or a stand/cooler. For those people who have just bought a sexy superportable laptop, they certainly won't want to be carting around a bulky stand. The review product …
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July 1, 2011
Announcements, Laptop / Mobile
MSI have been consistently releasing some of the finest enthusiast grade hardware in the last year and today we are looking at their competitively priced CX640 15.6 laptop which features a capable Core i5 processor, Nvidia discrete graphics, 500GB hard drive and 4GB of DDR3 memory. For under £600 is …
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June 30, 2011
Featured Announcement, Power Supplies
Corsair certainly seem to have the Midas touch – earning a great reputation within whatever market they decide to target. Their reputation in the power supply sector is already one of the best and today we are looking at the follow up to the original CX430 – the new CX430 …
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June 30, 2011
APU, Featured Tech Reviews, Motherboard
A couple of weeks back, AMD released the notebook portion of their Llano platform, dubbed ‘Sabine', which we explained in detail over here. This left many people wondering when the desktop variant of Llano would be released, and how it would perform compared to the latest offerings from Intel. Today …
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June 29, 2011
Cooling, Toys
KitGuru has reviewed many items from NZXT since we opened a little over a year ago. Today we have one of their latest items to hit the market, the Sentry Mesh. The Sentry Mesh is a new fan controller that features 5 individual 30 watt channels and it fits into …
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June 28, 2011
Featured Announcement, NAS, Network
Kitguru has reviewed many of the Synology range over the last year and today we are looking at something very special indeed. The new Diskstation DS3611xs, which is an ‘ultra high' performance NAS server which can scale up to 100TB, for larger businesses. Synology claim that the Diskstation DS3611xs can …
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June 27, 2011
Featured Tech Reviews, Motherboard
If you enjoyed our review of the new Sapphire Mini ITX H67 motherboard, then today's review product will be just as appealing. We are looking at the latest Micro ATX Asus Maximum IV Gene-Z motherboard which brings the Z68 chipset to the HTPC audience. The Asus Maximus IV Gene-Z motherboard …
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June 25, 2011
Console, Featured Tech Reviews, Headphones
Over the past year or so, we've seen a number of PC gaming peripheral manufacturers like SteelSeries and Sharkoon adding Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 headsets to their lineups, building on the products they have in their PC ranges. Despite not having had a range of PC gaming headsets on …
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June 24, 2011
Announcements, Power Supplies
Be Quiet! are well known in enthusiast circles, they combine quality German engineering with an attractively designed range of products. Today we are looking at their latest ‘P9' version of the Dark Power Pro 550W, a supply that will suit a wide audience of enthusiast user, especially those seeking an …
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June 24, 2011
Announcements, Motherboard
While everyone waits with baited breath for AMD to release their new range of processors, we felt it was a good time to have a look at another Intel Z68 motherboard – the Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3. Gigabyte have earned a good reputation in the industry over the years for producing quality …
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June 23, 2011
Cooling, Featured Tech Reviews
If you read Kitguru regularly, there is no chance you will have missed us singing the praises of the Noctua NH D14 cooler which we have affectionately dubbed ‘The Austrian Sandwich'. Even all this time after the initial release, competitors are still using it as the yardstick to judge cooling …
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June 22, 2011
Announcements, Cases
Lian Li produce some of the most beautiful cases on the market. Today we are going to look at one of their newest designs – the PC-Z70. Designed for the serious enthusiast, this case features ventilated PCI expansion slots, support for graphics cards up to 390mm long, nine 3.5 inch …
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June 21, 2011
Featured Tech Reviews, Headphones, Peripheral
Recently we looked at the Spectrum 5XB, SteelSeries' first attempt at an Xbox 360 gaming headset …. essentially their 5H headset with a clever adapter which allowed you to plug it into an Xbox controller for Xbox Live chat. Not to rest on their laurels, the SteelSeries' boffins have been …
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June 21, 2011
Announcements, Memory
There was a time when a good kit of memory cost as much as a few weeks salary … how times have changed. With the recent earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan many analysts had predicted that memory prices would rise. While they might still increase by the end of …
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June 20, 2011
Announcements, Keyboards, Peripheral
We recently took a look at Razer's first attempt at a mechanical gaming keyboard which left us with mainly positive impressions. Throughout our review we compared it to SteelSeries' existing mechanical keyboard, the 7G, which has been around for a good few years now and can be found on the …
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June 19, 2011
Component, Featured Announcement
Today we are going to look at a very impressively designed drive caddy which can convert both 2.5 inch mechanical and solid state drives into RAID arrays. It is also built to withstand serious abuse and to fit inside a standard 3.5 inch drive bay. If you have several older …
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June 18, 2011
Headphones, Peripheral
There seem to be an ever increasing number of brands trying to take a slice of the gaming headset pie, especially at the value end of the market where consumers are less ‘brand' conscious. We hadn't actually heard of Cyber Snipa before they sent us a headset for review but …
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June 17, 2011
Announcements, Power Supplies
There are no shortage of quality 80 Plus Gold Certified power supplies on the market today, but when a new model is released from Enermax it always deserves a closer look. The MaxRevo range is their new flagship series of power supplies with three hardcore flavours – 1200W, 1350W and …
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June 15, 2011
Featured Tech Reviews, Graphics
One of AMD's most active partners in recent months has been PowerColor. They have been releasing a wide selection of quality HD6000 series cards with custom PCB and proprietary cooler designs. Today we are looking at an affordable CrossfireX configuration which will work perfectly inside a chassis with limited physical …
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June 14, 2011
Featured Announcement, General Purpose PC, HTPC, PC
This year AMD's Fusion low cost platform has hit the spotlight, offering hardware accelerated performance with miniscule power demands and heat output. While this will suit many people, some of the enthusiast audience will want to spend more money and aim higher up the food chain. Today's article should tickle …
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June 14, 2011
Featured Tech Reviews, Power Supplies
Cooler Master have been releasing power supplies now for many years and today we are looking at an upgrade to their long standing 650w non modular unit. It receives 80 Plus Certification and a range of internal design changes, with a new Enhance implementation. Cooler Master are also aiming for …
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June 13, 2011
Accessories, Announcements, Laptop / Mobile
We have reviewed several exciting products from Cooler Master over the past few months from cases to CPU coolers. They have built up a strong brand in both these markets thanks to a combination of good performance and high value. They do produce other cooling products, though, like notebook coolers. …
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June 12, 2011
Announcements, Component, Motherboard
We have recently looked at two impressive AMD motherboards from Asus which performed well in our tests and offered great feature sets and build quality. Today we are going to look at the M4A88T-M motherboard which offers a similar feature set to the other two boards we've tested but in …
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June 11, 2011
Featured Tech Reviews, Keyboards, Peripheral
If you are in the market for a new keyboard then there are literally thousands available today which use membrane technology – but this won't be the first choice for the discerning enthusiast user as they can often feel ‘spongy' when typing. Where we really see a step up in …
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June 10, 2011
Base Unit, Featured Announcement, PC
We don't often review many Foxconn related products but today we are looking at their new mini PC which is based around AMD's successful Fusion platform. Foxconn are a massive manufacturing organisation who produce many goods for leading tech companies such as Apple. Their NT-A3500 is based around an ultra …
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June 10, 2011
Announcements, Apple, Headphones, iPad, iPhone, iPod
Ever since Apple implemented the App Store on their mobile devices, iOS has becoming a serious contender in the portable gaming space. There are a huge number of games available on the app store from racing games to FPS games so there has never been a better time to buy …
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