June 8, 2011
Announcements, Power Supplies
Corsair have built up a great reputation over the years, and their power supplies have always scored very highly on KitGuru, with the AX range setting a new benchmark standard. Today we are looking at the new HX1050, the replacement for the successful HX1000 unit. Should this be on your …
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June 8, 2011
Featured Announcement, Laptop / Mobile
There is certainly no shortage of high powered gaming laptops available on the market today, but it takes something really special to stand out in such a crowded marketplace. MSI have sent us their GT680 gaming laptop for review which features a dual drive configuration (with SSD), powerful Intel Core …
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June 7, 2011
Announcements, Cooling
Many of you might not have heard of Titan, however they have over 20 years experience with cooling technology. Their headquarters are in Taiwan and they have an office in Germany. Titan are no small player either, with 500 employees and the capability of producing over 2 million coolers every …
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June 6, 2011
Featured Tech Reviews, SSD Drives
When Crucial released the C300 series of Solid State Drives last year they outperformed anything else available at the time. With read speeds around 340MB/s the Sandforce drives had a serious performance disadvantage, only offering around 280MB/s. The market today is in a very different state and the new SATA …
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June 4, 2011
Featured Announcement, Power Supplies
If you are the proud owner of a new high end SLI or CrossfireX gaming system, then you might be in the market for a powerful, future proof power supply. The product we are going to be looking at today will be of interest as it is 80 Plus Gold …
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June 3, 2011
Announcements, Component, CPU
It's been over a year since AMD launched their Phenom II X4 and X6 processor lines and they are certainly showing their age compared to Intel's Sandy Bridge platform. But can they still compete with Intel's latest Sandy Bridge processors? We recently reviewed their latest Phenom II X4 980 Black …
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June 1, 2011
Featured Announcement, Graphics
The GTX580 has been Nvidia's finest moment. The card has been a big seller since it was released and it leads many of the performance charts when we factor out the dual GPU solutions. Today we are looking at the MSI N580GTX Lightning, a heavily modified card designed to target …
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May 31, 2011
Announcements, SSD Drives
This month Kitguru has been at the forefront of many Solid State Drive reviews including the new models from ADATA and OCZ. Today we are looking at the new model from Corsair, the Force 3 120GB which is set to target a wide audience, offering high levels of SATA III …
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May 31, 2011
Featured Tech Reviews, Motherboard
Today AMD are launching their new 990FX chipset motherboards and we are looking at the Asus Sabertooth model which is a board loaded with a plethora of features. The Ultimate Force (TUF) Sabertooth 990FX has a 10 phase Digi+ VRM and it is wired to four DDR3 DIMM slots which …
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May 30, 2011
Featured Announcement, Graphics
Powercolor have been one of the more active AMD partners in recent months, releasing many modified cards with custom cooling solutions for all sectors of the market. Today we are looking at their latest HD6870 PCS++ which is supplied with a proprietary cooler and substantial ‘out of the box' overclocks. …
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May 28, 2011
Featured Announcement, Mouse
Today we are going to look at a new laser mouse designed by Smartfish Technologies. This is no ordinary mouse however because it is specifically designed with ergonomics in mind. Smartfish Technologies feel that this new ground breaking mouse will change how people use a mouse, forever. The Whirl uses …
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May 27, 2011
Cases, Component, Featured Announcement
A few months back we looked at Fractal Design's range-topping Define XL case which impressed us with its great build quality and near silent operation. So we are excited to see what they can deliver at a lower price point where there is much more competition. Today we are going …
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May 26, 2011
Announcements, SSD Drives
This month we have seen the release of a handful of ultra fast Solid State Drives, and Kitguru has been on hand to review them in recent weeks. Today we are looking at the latest drive from market leader OCZ, the Agility 3 240GB. The Agility 3 has been released …
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May 25, 2011
Featured Tech Reviews, Graphics
KitGuru readers love modified, custom graphics cards and today we are looking at one of the most eye catching designs yet, the new HIS HD6970 ICEQ Turbo Edition – a preoverclocked card with a dramatically designed custom cooler. The HIS HD6970 IceQ Turbo Edition is supplied with a modest overclock …
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May 24, 2011
Featured Announcement, Power Supplies
Antec have been releasing some great products lately, many of which have been reviewed on these very pages. I personally really like their latest Kuhler 620 and 920 liquid coolers and the Rockus speakers certainly hit the spot. They are updating their mainstream ‘high value for money' power supplies and …
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May 23, 2011
Cases, Featured Tech Reviews
Enthusiast users with a constrained budget often have to make compromises in regards to quality, building a PC around a chassis that emits a lot of fan noise due to thin panel design and the inclusion of low quality fans. Enter Cooler Master with their new Silencio 550, a case …
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May 22, 2011
Featured Tech Reviews
Kitguru has been using PowerDVD now for a year in many of our reviews. It is without question a great real world test for processors, and with hardware acceleration enabled it can give a good indication of how a new graphics card can help with high definition media playback. Today …
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May 22, 2011
Announcements, APU, CPU, Graphics
AMD's latest Brazos Platform has proven popular over recent months, with many users adopting a secondary low powered system for general, light duties or as the foundation of a high definition media center. Today we are looking at the Gigabyte E350N USB 3 motherboard which is built to the high …
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May 21, 2011
Featured Tech Reviews, Graphics
There are no shortage of video cards on the market today, with all sectors perfectly covered with solutions from both AMD and Nvidia. Today we are looking at the new card from VTX3D – a custom cooled Radeon HD6670. The HD6670 was released by AMD to target the HTPC audience, …
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May 19, 2011
Featured Announcement, Graphics
Today we are looking at Zotac's take on the new Nvidia GTX560, a card which should NOT be confused with the GTX560 ‘Ti'. The Ti was released at the start of the year and is a higher end part targeting a slightly different market. Nvidia have released the latest GTX560 …
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May 19, 2011
Featured Announcement, Headphones, iPhone, Mobile
KitGuru has looked at a number of Arctic Sound headsets over the past year which have impressed us by offering great performance at little cost. We were very excited when Arctic offered us a sample of their latest earphones to review which also offer an impressive feature set for the …
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May 18, 2011
Announcements, SSD Drives
There have been many Solid State Drives released in the last couple of months, and today we are looking at the new 240GB Vertex 3 from OCZ which is tagged with the ‘Max IOPS' moniker. This drive has been tuned for users who require greater transactional throughput. Today we will …
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May 17, 2011
Cases, Featured Tech Reviews
I remember vividly when Silverstone released the Raven RV02. It has been one of the stand out products for me in the last decade, utilising the simple theory that ‘heat rises' as the foundation of the design. Until then I had been astonished that no chassis designer had built a …
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May 17, 2011
Announcements, Graphics
For those looking for a new slimline graphics solution, this new midrange card from Powercolor might just tick all the right boxes. If space is at a premium then this card offers ‘full fat' gaming performance with 775mhz core speed and up to four cards supported in CrossFireX. The Powercolor …
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May 16, 2011
Featured Tech Reviews, SSD Drives
Solid State Drives are selling well in 2011, with a growing percentage of enthusiast users adopting one as a fast, primary boot drive. A few weeks ago we reviewed the OCZ Vertex 3 240GB drive, and today we will compare it against the ADATA S511 240GB, a hot new model …
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May 14, 2011
Featured Tech Reviews, Power Supplies
If you are in the market for a 1U Mini ITX server power supply then today's product will be of interest. The Athena Power 350W FlexATX supply is designed to provide compact flexibility for mini servers. It is also compatible with many Shuttle XPC, HP Pavilion and IBM SurePOS systems. …
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May 13, 2011
Featured Announcement, Graphics
We love modified graphics cards at Kitguru, and today's review product should really tickle the taste buds. Not only have Powercolor overclocked AMD's award winning HD6950, but they have added an dual fan cooler, which is height adjustable. Today we will find out if it is worth your money. The …
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May 12, 2011
Announcements, Motherboard
Intel's Sandybridge has been dominating the headlines in 2011 with a heady combination of performance and competitive pricing. The H67 chipset enabled on-CPU graphics and Intel's new Quick sync transcoding engine and the P67 chipset delivered great overclocking capabilities with the new K series processors. The Z68 is set to …
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May 11, 2011
Announcements, Mouse, Peripheral
A couple of months back we looked CM Storm's latest gaming mouse, the Spawn, which impressed us greatly and achieved our prestigious must have award. We were very excited when CM Storm offered us a sample of their latest gaming mouse for review which has recently been released. The Sentinel …
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May 10, 2011
Cases, Featured Tech Reviews
You may not have heard much about Cubitek before as they are a very new player in the PC case market. In fact they only broke cover from the OEM market at the end of last year, releasing a small range of retail PC cases to compete with the likes …
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