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The EU's new GDPR regulations come into effect this week. With that in mind, we are updating our privacy policy today and pushing it to the front page to ensure that our readers are aware. You can view our policy at any time by clicking the ‘Privacy' link at the …

Hello KitGuru readers! We are currently looking to expand our news team with an additional writer. This is a paid part time position for someone who is able to commit a couple of hours each day to work with us on news posts. Prior experience working for another website isn't …

Razer has a new Blade Pro - this time with a GTX 1060 and 1080p display. Is it worth £2099?

Core i7, GTX 1070, SSD, 17.3 inch screen - all for £1,399? Is this too good to be true?

It looks to tick all the boxes, but there are some issues - read on to find out what's what!

Here at KitGuru we give away a lot of great hardware to our loyal readers and that is no more true a statement than in the run up to Christmas. We gave away a lot of stuff leading up to the holiday period, but we ran a couple of competitions …

With Christmas nearly upon us and the KitGuru community full of nerds, geeks and lovable enthusiasts, there will no doubt be a lot of games and a lot of tech coming down the chimney in the next few days. The question is, what are you all hoping will show up? …

Seasons Greetings from myself and the KitGuru team, It is that time of the year again and yes it is hard to believe that 2016 is almost over. Many of us are starting to wind down in preparation for the Christmas holidays. You may even be buying yourself something as …

With Black Friday giving sites like GoG and GreenManGaming a good excuse to discount games, and Steam running its usual Autumn sale, there are a tonne of games on offer today and over the next few days. That means that there's a good chance that this weekend you guys are playing …

If you have a great screenshot of your favourite game… too late, you missed the boat on this contest. Last week we asked every KitGuru gamer to join our Steam Group and send us their best screenshot of recent months. We were looking for funny, pretty or bizarre screengrabs and …

Last month we teamed up with be quiet! to give our readers the chance to take home the excellent Dark Base 900 chassis, which features an all-new modular design, giving builders more freedom in customising their rig. We received a ton of entries for this contest and since then, we have …

We have another little competition running today over on our Facebook page – the chance to win a STEAM game of your choice! There's no major catch, all you need to do is head over to our Facebook page and give an entertaining caption to the image below from Dark …

CeBit is underway this week and our man on the ground, Leo Waldock, has been taking a look at what's on offer on the show floor. Today, he stopped by the Deepcool booth, where they are showing off their new Genome ATX case, designed with water cooling in mind, complete …

You might have heard myself or one of the other writers here at KitGuru discussing virtual reality games, controllers and headsets at some point over the past couple of years. You could say we're a little excited, but nothing in the past can compare to the final few weeks of …

Virtual Reality topped the charts as the European Hardware Association today revealed the results of a massive survey into European technology buying trends for 2016. Almost half the respondents chose VR as their ‘most likely to buy’ new technology, with Smart Home and Connected Audio coming second and third. KitGuru …

Last week, I had the chance to take a good detailed look at the PC version of Rise of the Tomb Raider and while I came to the conclusion that it is an excellent game, some have had their issues. Fortunately, the team behind the PC version, Nixxes, has already issued …

Earlier this month, we announced that we were teaming up with VIBOX to give away one of their Element Blue AMD-powered gaming rigs to one lucky KitGuru reader. After receiving thousands of entries and scrolling through all of your pictures, we have finally decided on a winner! The system itself …

Over the last 18 months, Asus has been expanding on its STRIX brand with new headsets. Today, we are taking a look at the STRIX 2.0, which packs in 60mm drivers, multi-platform compatibility and a unique dual microphone design. How does it stack up to the competition? The ASUS STRIX 2.0 …

We have been asked for our opinions on gaming/racing chairs plenty of times throughout the year, though we had yet to review one. Today, that changes as we are taking a look at the SL4000 Racing Chair from Vertagear – a newcomer to the market. Is the chair worth its £215 …

Last week we asked you guys to send us your strangest, funniest, most creative in-game screen-grabs to be in with a chance of winning a Steam game of your choice in our latest Steam Group Competition and you responded in droves. After trawling through the many, many screenshots you sent our …

If you have been around the KitGuru site or Facebook page over the last few weeks, you will have noticed that we ran a pretty huge giveaway with Overclockers UK, giving one reader a chance to win the Powercolor Devil 13 390X2 graphics card, worth £599.99, in return for a …

If you entered last month's be quiet! Silent Base 600 case competition, you weren't alone as more than 3,000 of you threw your names in the hat to be in with a chance of winning one of three chassis that we reviewed very highly not too long ago. Of course …

We like to give back to our audience as much as we can at KitGuru, which is why this month, we are once again teaming up with be quiet! to give away not one but THREE Silent Base 600 PC cases! We will even let you pick your own colour …

Have you ever wanted to try your hand at reviewing hardware? Well we would like to give you that chance. This week, we are running a giveaway for an MSI Mini-ITX GTX 760 graphics card, all we ask in return is that you submit a review for us to share …

A few weeks back we launched a competition to win Deepcool's unique Tristellar case, a 750W 80Plus Gold modular power supply and finally, Deepcool's Captain 120 liquid CPU cooler. We had thousands of entries for this contest but there can only be one winner. The entire bundle is worth around …

Although KitGuru may give away a Steam game to a smart-aleck caption writer every single week, we also run much bigger and more elaborate competitions with more impressive prizes. Like the Silverstone giveaway of a Milo ML06-E mini ITX chassis, 450w SFX 80Plus Gold rated Power Supply and Argon AR06 Low …

So far in this series, we have made some initial tests and conclusions about the balance between CPU and graphics in a workstation, and then focused specifically on the types of application covered by the industry-standard SPECviewperf 12.02 tests. In this article, we turn our attention to two very significant …

eSports is becoming more and more popular by the day and in turn, so are team-based competitive games. This is something that gaming peripheral companies have definitely noticed. Today, we are taking a look at the Ozone Argon, an ambidextrous mouse aimed at competitive gamers. There are two variants of this …

In the second part of this series, we presented some initial tests to illustrate how CPU and graphics can affect different types of performance in a PC workstation. In this third part, we focus down on one particular, industry-standard benchmark that puts a workstation through a range of tests with …

If you have been following KitGuru for a while, then you have probably noticed that we have a knack for awesome giveaways. We recently teamed up with Cyberpower to give away an X99 Infinity Xtreme Cube gaming PC worth £2000 in total and today, we have found our winner. The Cyberpower …