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Arctic are a very new player in the gaming peripheral market, competing with much larger manufacturers like Logitech.  We recently looked at their top-end pair of headphones, the P531 which really impressed us as it performed very well, was comfortable to use and carried a surprisingly low price tag. Today …

A new version of dangerous rootkit Alureon is back – this time in the shape of a 64 bit edition. We are always dismayed to hear about new security issues, but this one looks to be particularly nasty as it has been designed to specifically target the ever expanding 64 …

For the last couple of months, Apple have been taking a high priority in the press with the iPhone 4 antenna issues. The solution was to give everyone who experienced issues a free case. Telcel, a Mexican mobile carrier have said that after September 30th Apple are releasing revised iPhone …

Apple have announced that they will be live streaming their video of the September media event across the web. This exciting news has somewhat been dulled however by the fact that the stream appears to be only viewable on OS X 10.6 or an iOS device, such as the iPad, …

Microsoft are planning to release a new Xbox 360 controller which features a transforming D-Pad in November. This has been due to feedback from a sizeable portion of the user base. The most noticeable changes are with the design – the new controller ditches the white appearance with multicoloured buttons, …

Technology advances at a staggering rate, and researchers at the University of Michigan have created a new display with nanometer thin sheets of metal that use slits to create pixels eight times smaller than those used on the iPhone 4. These Nanoresonators could possibly be the future for high quality …

Google email is still widely adopted by millions of people every year and recently Google have released a new system called “Priority Inbox” which apparently helps to unclutter an overcrowded inbox. The system works based on algorithms which sort through email and move the good content to the top while …

Corsair release quality products, there is no denying that. Whether its memory, power supplies or flash drives, they always perform at the top of their respective fields. Today we received a press release detailing the new Gaming Audio Series Hs1 headphones which look to be another class leading product. The …

Every enthusiast knows the Revolution 85+ series of Power Supplies from Enermax, they have been winning awards across the globe for many years. With a lethal combination of performance and efficiency the original 1250W Revolution 85+ powered many of our high end review systems across a 2 year time period. …

Halo Reach on Xbox 360 has leaked a while ago and many people are downloading it from Bitorrent to play on their Xbox 360 consoles. Fudzilla have reported that their sources are telling them that some small retailers are selling the game earlier, breaking release date. Microsoft are still saying …

Foxconn have been in the press for all the wrong reasons lately and yesterday they announced their revenues and profits for the first half of 2010. While their revenues for the first half of 2010 went up by 47.6% on year ($36.5 billion) their gross margins were down 0.99 pp …

Microsoft are going to increase the monthly price of Xbox Live Gold starting November 1st – the price will be rising by £1 to £5.99. The UK are not the only region to suffer from a price increase as similar rises are due for the USA and Canada. UK gamers …

With Intel's recent $7.68 billion takeover of McAfee many wouldn't have been expecting the latest $1.4 billion acquisition of Infineon Technologies AG's wireless unit. Intel's purchase of Infineon marks an expansion into the wireless device market, an area which has been a struggle for them in the past. This purchase …

Samsung will be proud of their latest achievement – selling over 1 million Galaxy S Phones in the USA across a 6 week time peroid. While this falls way short of the 1.7 million iPhone 4's sold in a single weekend (!), it still proves that there is a large …

EUROCOM have released a new laptop called the Panther 2 which is surely staking a solid claim to becoming the world's most powerful laptop ever released. It features 6 core Intel Xeon 5550/5600 series 4 and 6 core processors with SLI GTX 480M graphics card solutions. How does 4.4TB of …

Graphics card drivers are always a good place to check when looking for upcoming product names and with the recent information posted in AMD's latest Catalyst drivers last week, nVidia have listed some interesting information in their latest 295.47 WHQL certified drivers. The new driver lists the GTS450 as well …

The ever popular YouTube website, owned by Google are in talks with Hollywood movie studios to launch a worldwide pay per view video service at the end of 2010 to challenge Apple's dominance for online digital video distribution. Google have been hard pitching to studios on the appeal of streaming …

As you know gaming on multiple monitors has been available for some time now thanks to ATI's Eyefinity technology and now with NVIDIA offering their own 3D Surround solution the competition is heating up in this area.  One area where ATI has as an advantage is that the NVIDIA setups …

iPad sales have been both a blessing and a curse for Apple – they have broken records but have been struggling to meet with the extraordinary demand. With 3.27 million iPads sold to date the demand has been higher than expected and Apple has been forced to push back release …

GPU Design have posted information from a chinese website which shows a GPU Z screenshot and a 3DMark Vantage Extreme benchmark of the upcoming Radeon HD6870 graphics card – expected to retail before the end of the year. – GPU ID: “6718″ according to codenames shown in Catalyst 10.8 driver …

KitGuru spent the weekend at Newbury Racecourse attending the UK's largest LAN gaming event, Insomnia 40 (i40).  Being gurus of kit, we were mostly interested in the hardware on show from the numerous exhibitors. First of all we had a look at Immacula's stand, displaying products from Alienbags, SteelSeries, Synology …

UK scientists have taken the first step toward helping to solve global food shortages by decoding the wheat genome, meaning they can take the DNA data to help improve annual yields. Dr Anthony Hall and Professor Neil Hall from the University of Liverpool and Dr. Gary Barker and Professor Keith …

IBM, creator of the excellent Cell Processor in the Sony Playstation 3 have released details on their newest creation, the fastest single CPU in the world, clocked at a whopping 5.2ghz. The Z196 was announced at the Hot Chip conference this week and is designed to be used in the …

The memory market is extremely competitive, with manufacturers pushing speeds higher and higher every couple of months. News earlier this week hit the KitGuru newsdesk that HyperX DDR3 from Kingston had managed to break the 3GHZ barrier. DDR4 won't be hitting the market overnight, many manufacturers feel there is plenty …

The Apple iPad has been a huge success story for Apple, KitGuru rated the device very highly indeed when we reviewed it months ago. News reached KitGuru weeks ago that Apple were planned to make a 7 inch version of the iPad to appeal to users who find the 9.7 …

HP are going to be removed from Dell's Christmas card list after outbidding them again with a $1.8 billion offer for computer storage company 3Par Inc. HP's latest bid works out 11 percent more than Dell's at $27 per share. 3Par had already accepted a $24.30 a share offer earlier …

At KitGuru we spend a lot of our time playing with high end hardware, and it can be disheartening for many readers. In the cold hard ‘real world' not everyone can afford a Core i7 980X with SLI'd GTX480's and to be honest, for most people this is totally overkill …

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 …

Speed bumping a processor is a very natural way to refresh your range. It's the oldest marketing trick in the book, but what does it actualy buy you? In reality, it's very hard to know. KitGuru looks at the upcoming IntelCore i3 560 processor. In the good old days of …

One of the coolest gadgets we have seen in a long time has been recently released and is available from UK retailer GearZap for £59.95. The KeyCase iPad Folio has an integrated Bluetooth Keyboard and looks to be a ‘must buy' for iPad business users. This innovative product seemlessly connects …