October 12, 2010
Featured Announcement, Graphics
We have reviewed many GTX460's on KitGuru over the last month and we are confident that this nVidia product is quite possibly the best value for money gaming card on the market today, bar none. It has won our highest awards, and deservedly so. We have already compared the GTX460's …
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October 11, 2010
Featured Tech Reviews, Graphics
nVidia launched DX11 a full 6 months behind AMD's Radeon 5000 series and it's been playing catch-up ever since. Today we are looking at the GT430, the latest and lowest priced model in the new Fermi range. It will be nVidia's first Fermi fired into the huge sub-£100 market. Winning …
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October 7, 2010
Featured Tech Reviews, Graphics
If the emails we have been receiving for the last month have been anything to go by, the enthusiast gaming audience is warming to the thought of low cost multiple monitor configurations. We recently reviewed the mouth watering XFX HD5970 Black Edition Limited 4GB in CrossfireX, but as many people …
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September 21, 2010
Featured Announcement, Graphics
nVidia have had a rocky year, with Fermi delays costing them sales and market place. With the release of the GTX480 and 470, people still weren't sold on the new architecture as it ran hot, sucked a lot of power and didn't really offer considerable improvements over the current HD5000 …
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September 18, 2010
Featured Announcement, Graphics
Today we have another graphics card from HIS to test. This time around we will be focusing our attention on the HIS HD 5830 1GB PCI-e. This is a product that sits somewhere between the 5770 and 5850 both in terms of price and performance. Currently here in Canada the …
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September 14, 2010
Featured Announcement, Graphics
Imagine for a moment that you were a multi millionaire and had no limits when it came to budgeting for your gaming rig. Well, today we hope to take you on a trip down fantasy lane as we look at not one, but two of the XFX Radeon HD 5970 …
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September 13, 2010
Featured Tech Reviews, Graphics
With the launch of the GTS450, those with around £100 ($150) to spend on a new graphics card are in for a treat. Not only is the new nVidia product exciting on paper but we are also seeing some price movement from AMD that's going to make the whole market …
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September 11, 2010
Featured Tech Reviews, Graphics
If you share our mindset, then no matter what cooling you have, it will never be enough. With graphics cards getting faster and hotter all the time, manufacturers are releasing third party coolers on a regular basis … these offer lower running temperatures and reduced noise levels. If you are …
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September 7, 2010
Announcements, Graphics
The GTX 460 has been nVidia's finest card series in the current generation and the popularity is proving to help generate a good amount of revenue for the guys in green. Compared to other Fermi cards the GTX 460 uses less power, runs cooler and overclocks extremely well, even with …
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August 26, 2010
Component, Cooling, Featured Tech Reviews, Graphics
Here at KitGuru we understand that many of our readers won't be running the latest and greatest tech in their system yet will still be interested in squeezing every ounce of performance out of their components. So we shall be looking at how we can improve a low-end graphics card …
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August 21, 2010
Announcements, Graphics
KitGuru has reviewed many HD5770 graphics cards since we opened and we still believe it is one of the best value cards on the market, combining very reasonable pricing with decent DX11 gaming performance. There have already been a massive selection of third party cards in recent months with faster …
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August 17, 2010
Featured Tech Reviews, Graphics
nVidia's GTX460 is without a doubt the strongest card in their current lineup, the pricing is right and the performance has surprised more than a few naysayers. Even though the reference performance is excellent this hasn't stopped manufacturers from releasing their own modded boards and KitGuru recently reviewed the MSI …
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August 17, 2010
Announcements, Graphics
Today we are looking at another 5000 series card from HIS, the HIS HD5850 iCooler V Turbo. The last HIS card we reviewed was the IceQ 5 5770 and in a similar fashion the HD5850 shares a factory pre-overclock. This particular product features a center mounted fan to disperse air …
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August 13, 2010
Featured Announcement, Graphics
ATI's HD5770 has been a monster success story for them – and rightly so, it combines a killer combination of gaming performance and value for money. KitGuru has reviewed many HD5770's in the past and we have also concentrated on Crossfire performance. Today however we have something special in mind …
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August 9, 2010
Featured Announcement, Graphics
The nVidia GTX460 has been well received both by the enthusiast community and hard to please critics. It is the first card in the Fermi range that everyone seems to agree is a fantastic buy, even when against competition from ATI. We have already looked at the excellent GTX460 Superclocked …
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August 2, 2010
Component, Featured Announcement, Gaming PC, Graphics
Today at KitGuru we are going to be looking at the HIS IceQ 5 Turbo 5770 I GB graphics card. In the efforts to attract the educated enthusiast audience HIS have enhanced the reference solution and used their IceQ 5 cooling technology on this particular unit. The 5770 has established …
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July 29, 2010
Featured Announcement, Graphics
If you have been following the news and reviews lately you will have assuredly seen mention of nVidia's stellar new ‘mass market' Fermi card the GTX460 – KitGuru reviewed the overclocked eVGA version and it walked away with very high praise indeed. While it is capable of delivering a fantastic …
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July 27, 2010
Announcements, Cases, Graphics, HTPC, Motherboard
Silverstone have created some stunning products and we have always been avid followers of the Sugo Range which redefined small form factor chassis designs when they were first released, making HTPC both practical and quite beautiful to look at. The Sugo range has been in production for many years now …
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July 15, 2010
Featured Tech Reviews, Graphics
KitGuru has looked at many flavours of HD5870 over the last two months. Today we are going to look at a Powercolor version which is moderately overclocked and comes preinstalled with a hefty heatpipe cooler. The HD5870 is still ATI's flagship single core card and has been paving the performance …
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July 12, 2010
Featured Tech Reviews, Graphics
Has the time finally come for multi-GPU solutions? nVidia stakes its claim again with the GTX460 – although the lack of true scalability (to 3 or 4-way SLi) tells us something very important about this market. At the end of this special article is a single graph that will tell …
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July 12, 2010
Featured Announcement, Graphics
GTX460 is ‘Fermi done right' That's what nVidia wants us to believe after a tough year. On Wednesday 30th September 2009, Jen Hsun Huang stood on a global stage with a ‘Fermi card' in his hand and the watching world was treated to a series of demonstrations. Subsequently, we were told …
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July 5, 2010
Featured Tech Reviews, Graphics
KitGuru really likes the HD5670 Ultimate Edition and it appears, based on feedback that our readers share similar warm feelings towards Sapphires latest passively cooled graphics card. While a single card is great for a low powered media center and occasional gaming we decided to follow up our initial review …
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June 26, 2010
Featured Announcement, Graphics
We have reviewed many Sapphire graphics cards on KitGuru over the last month and we have found them all worthy of serious consideration in their respective sectors. They often include some of the finest cooling solutions and we have been particularly enamoured with their silent range of products- such as …
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June 24, 2010
Featured Announcement, Graphics
A few weeks ago we reviewed the GTX480 and walked away with generally favourable feelings – after all there was no doubting the astonishing tessellation performance and frame rate prowess with all of the leading game engines. We did however have reservations as it was running at a shade under …
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June 18, 2010
Featured Announcement, Graphics
If you hate noise and want to build a media center then today's product will be of particular interest – the HIS HD5550 Silence 1GB graphics card. At KitGuru we have focused recently on this market, covering several ATI and nVidia solutions as we know many of our readers are …
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June 15, 2010
Graphics, Site Debate
The ATI HD5870 video card redefined high end gaming when it was released many months ago, taking the performance crown as the fastest single core solution on the market. Even though nVidia have knocked it off the number one perch with the GTX480, many enthusiasts still prefer the HD5870 thanks …
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June 12, 2010
Graphics
KitGuru has already reviewed many products in ATI's impressive 5xxx series over the last month and today we are finally going to get a chance to play with a HD5550 model. The HD5550 is a low profile graphics card which is perfect for small form factor chassis and home theater …
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June 10, 2010
Graphics
I admit it, I am a technology junkie and I always have been, when other kids were playing with Star Wars figures I was disassembling my father's radio and trying to figure out how it worked. “You got an unhealthy fixation, son” he would mutter as he slapped me on …
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June 9, 2010
Featured Announcement, Graphics
It is hard to believe that KitGuru only opened a month ago, we have been working around the clock to ensure that we review the hottest products on the market … even if some of them have been out for a while. For those of you who don't have thousands …
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June 3, 2010
Featured Announcement, Graphics
KitGuru has been concentrating recently on many mid range boards, however today we are going to be looking at the high end custom HIS HD5870 graphics card, a product we know that will get you excited. The HIS HD 5870 iCooler V Turbo is completely redesigned and it ships with …
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