Today we are going to take a look at Corsair's latest flagship CPU cooler, the H100i. This directly replaces the coveted Corsair H100 cooler which is widely regarded as the best ‘all-in-one' liquid cooler on the market. We tested the H100 when it was released a little over a year …
Read More »Intel gets Creative with latest acquisition
Over the past few years, Intel has been acquiring a series of technologies and patents that will, it hopes, position it better for 3-5 years down the road. Alongside operating system technology and – more famously – McAfee in the software/security area, Intel has now purchased Creative's clever bits for …
Read More »Financially flat Intel is very attractive in a new way
KitGuru has spent time, possible too much time, analysing AMD's financial state in recent articles – but not really gone into any depth on Intel and what the future might have in store, financially, for the world's biggest CPU company and its investors. We pull out the trusty abacus and …
Read More »Wear the Intel everywhere, 1984 anyone?
Having cemented its position as the dominant player at the top end of the processor market, Intel is looking to spread its wings over the coming years – to evolve and permeate every part of society – leaving no (st)one unturned. Now, it seams, the tech giant wants to get …
Read More »Intel Gaming Pentathlon powered by everyday devices
Arriving at the plush downtown offices of Hill & Knowlton, one of the world's oldest PR companies, on a chilly October evening – you would have been greeted by the site of a heap of IT journalists squatting, jumping, dancing and laying around big screens playing what appeared to be …
Read More »Slip in Moore’s Law suits Intel product planning
We've all watched the Olympics. How many times have we seen a close-fought race end in a new world record? How many times have we seen one person completely dominate an event, only to pull up before the finishing line and miss smashing the old record by a big margin. …
Read More »Ultrabook sales predictions take a nose dive
The sales predictions by market research firm IHS iSuppli have been drastically reduced by more than half, due to poor sales earlier in the year. While initial expectations were for at least 22 million to be sold by the end of the year, now it only suggests 10 million will …
Read More »AMD Trinity A10 5800k performance demonstration
You always need to be at least a little suspicious when a company shows you a set of comparative benchmarks. But, as they say, forwarned is forarmed. AMD had a number of systems on show in London yesterday and world famous overclocking expert (and now AMD PR expert) Sami Makinen …
Read More »Intel Haswell introduces new power requirement for 1150
While the launch of nVidia's Fermi architecture and AMD's Bulldozer might have had investors running to buy stocks in electricity production companies, overall, the trend for power consumption has been downward. KitGuru listens to rumours coming out of the east about possible changes to mainboard requirements for Intel's Haswell in …
Read More »Intel VP claims RiverTrail will rule in 2013
The world is becoming an inherently more graphical, more tactile place where we – as users – are being pulled to the mainframe data storage concepts of old (where all the important stuff is being held elsewhere), while at the same time seeing big increases in locally available compute power …
Read More »MySN XMG P502 (Clevo P150EM) Notebook Review
Today we are going to look at one of MySn's fully loaded gaming notebooks, the XMG P502, which combines a powerful Ivy Bridge CPU with nVidia's all singing, all dancing GTX 680M graphics card. All of this is contained within a 15.6" form factor which isn't much more bulky than your average multimedia machine.
Read More »Samsung gets into ASML bed with Intel and TSMC
Still smarting from having to pay Apple over $1 Billion because it stole design ideas, Samsung has agreed to outlay around half that amount again to pick up 3% of Dutch photolithography firm ASML. It's nice to get something tangible for your money. KitGuru does a quick check on who …
Read More »EXCLUSIVE: Intel refutes nVidia claims regarding HD4000 game compatibility
EXCLUSIVE INTEL INTERVIEW: At a recent Analyst's Day, nVidia went through its usual array of slides regarding a wonderful history, present conditions and how glorious the future is likely to be. All well and good, we'd have done the same if we had Tegra, Tesla, Quadro and GeForce in the …
Read More »Intel engineer gets 3 years for stealing chip secrets
When Biswamohan Pani decided to leave Intel for AMD in the summer of 2008, he was asked point blank at an ‘exit interview' if he still had any Intel information or property. He lied and, as Intel would later find out, he'd also began working for chip rival AMD. KitGuru …
Read More »Xilence Interceptor Pro Case Review
With an abundance of cooling configurations, support for 480mm radiators and the ability to house two systems, can Xilence prove that they are ready to compete on the basis of innovation?
Read More »MSI GT70 0NC 17.3″ Laptop Review (i7 3610QM / GTX 670M)
Touting a 17.3” 1080p screen, 16GB of memory, RAID 0 SSDs, a BluRay drive and Killer Gaming network card, is MSI’s latest ‘Gaming Series’ iteration worth its credit card-crunching £1,999 price tag?!
Read More »AMD, Intel and nVidia work in parallel on new supercomputers
If you believe that competition is a good thing, then the US Department of Energy is going about the problem of ‘How best to construct tomorrow's super computers' in the right way. KitGuru dons flip-flops and heads off to consider the impact of PetaFlops. While PC labs across the world …
Read More »Intel: Android is not properly prepared for multiple cores
Intel's first entry to the smartphone market has had limited success so far, but yes, phones with the Medfield chip have started shipping. Tests have shown that the single x86 core can match some recent ARM based chips in terms of performance and power drain. However, Intel believes that chucking significant amounts of processor …
Read More »Biostar TZ77XE4 Motherboard Review
The Biostar brand doesn't have a massive presence in the UK, at least not in the enthusiast segment of the market. We consider Asus, ASRock and Gigabyte to be the top three enthusiast brands on the market at the moment but this is something Biostar are looking to change with …
Read More »2500k set to become the new Q6600 as prices drop?
As the new Intel processors sweep through the publications and channel, we find ourselves in that twilight world where the new king is putting on its crown, while there's still a few heatbeats left in the old one. KitGuru does a quick scan of the on line retail offers and …
Read More »ASRock Z77 Extreme6 Motherboard w/ Intel i7-3770K Review
ASRock have made a name for themselves in the past few years, releasing some very impressive motherboards such as the Fatal1ty 990FX Professional that we reviewed a few months back. They have a wide range of motherboards across multiple platforms, from mini-ITX HTPC motherboards to high-end ATX boards with a …
Read More »Intel: Retina displays will become commonplace by 2013
One of the biggest trends out there in the mobile industry at the moment is displays with crazy resolutions; often outclassing what me and you are using at home or in the office. A couple of months ago we saw the new iPad with a 9.7 inch display with a …
Read More »Intel predicts 15 billion connected devices by 2015
Roll the clock back two years, and Intel was pushing hard on the idea that every product in the world could benefit from an Intel chip and that all of those chips should be interconnected. We seem to remember this being called the ‘computing continuum'. The chip giant is now …
Read More »Apple readying up Ivy Bridge powered 2012 MacBook Pro range?
It has been determined via several retailers that shipments of 2011 model 15-inch MacBook Pros are slowing down including variants that are based on higher processor clock speeds, which is indicative that Apple is lowering production in preparation for the new 2012 model roll-out. It's not uncommon that we see …
Read More »Intel reveals 7 inch tablet for the education market
Intel has today announced a reference design for a 7 inch tablet as part of its Intel Learning Series initiative. The tablet will be known as the Intel Studybook and will retail for between $199 and $299 and multiple editions will be available by summer ahead of the new school …
Read More »Will the next Einstein be a computer?
Around 10 years ago, a bunch of threads kicked off on science forums around the world, with boffins (pro and amateur) discussing the idea of a computer-based Einstein in the future. A decade ago, most of the contributors thought that the answer was in some kind of amazing new layout …
Read More »Full range of Z77 boards on sale – so what is an NDA?
Its hard to say if the Ivy Bridge launch is the worst in Intel's history, but it's certainly been one of the most confusing. The staggered nature of the ‘event' and complex nature of what can be released to who and by when, has caused a mish-mash of data and …
Read More »No Core i3-branded mobile Ivy Bridge parts at launch
After many months of Ivy Bridge talk and still another month or so to go before its supposed launch date, it's been discovered that there doesn't appear to be any Core i3 models coming out for notebooks; rather, Ivy Bridge mobile parts will be confined to Intel's Core i7, Core …
Read More »A considerably cheaper wave of Ultrabook-like notebooks coming?
With the confirmed delay of Intel's next-gen Ivy Bridge processors for the mobile segment until June this year and current Sandy Bridge Ultrabooks still fetching rather hefty pricing, Taiwanese based notebook vendors are apparently looking to mix the pot in the interim by preparing for market some “Ultrabook-like” notebooks that …
Read More »Singapore retailer hints at Ivy Bridge CPU pricing structure
The first indication of Ivy Bridge processor pricing has come to light through a dealer in Singapore who felt like jumping the gun in sharing an online price list of 7 and 6 series motherboard + Ivy Bridge CPU combos. The table seen above quotes pricing in Singapore Dollars (SGD) …
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