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 …
Read More »Corsair release Gaming Audio Series HS1 headphones
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 …
Read More »Enermax Revolution 85+ 1020W Power Supply Review
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. …
Read More »Halo Reach leaks banning consoles from Xbox Live
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 …
Read More »Foxconn labour cost increases cause gross margin down 1H10
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 …
Read More »Xbox Live Gold Price rising by £1pm – from November 1st
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 …
Read More »Intel spending spree continues
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 …
Read More »Samsung Galaxy S Phone sells 1 million units in 6 weeks
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 …
Read More »Panther 2 – Most powerful laptop ever? featuring 300w power supply!
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 …
Read More »New nVidia GPU info released in Driver
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 …
Read More »Google Youtube to offer pay per view Hollywood movies
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 …
Read More »Active Single-Link Display Port Adapters, ATI Eyefinity for the masses
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 …
Read More »Apple and LG catch up with iPad demand – only 24 hour wait time
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 …
Read More »First ATI HD6870 benchmark – author of GPUz says card ‘not fake’
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 …
Read More »KitGuru @ Insomnia 40
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 …
Read More »Potential solution for global food shortage – wheat genome cracked
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 …
Read More »IBM release Z196 5.2ghz processor – fastest single CPU in world
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 …
Read More »DDR4 SDRAM aiming to break 4GHZ speed barrier
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 …
Read More »Samsung plan to go head to head with Apples mini iPad
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 …
Read More »HP and Dell Bidding war for 3Par gets hot and heavy
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 …
Read More »Quad Core i5 gaming/rendering system @ 4.2ghz, for less than a grand?
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 …
Read More »Coolink GFXChilla Cooler (with Zotac GT 240) Review
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 …
Read More »Intel Core i3 560: For a Few MegaHz More
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 …
Read More »iPad case features new integrated Bluetooth keyboard!
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 …
Read More »Catalyst 10.8 driver details new ATI product names
Last night we published news on the release of Catalyst 10.8, which features many performance fixes. After looking at the atiicdxx.da_ file this morning we have seen a 35 new cards listed for support. It seems that Fudzilla also have a story up discussing this today. Going on the information …
Read More »Microsoft Russia leaks new IE9 appearance
A Russian website has revealed details about the new Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) which showcases the user interface – highlighting new features such as quick release tabs and a ‘Chrome' style address search bar. Microsoft have issued several developer previews of IE9 since March but they have all, to date, …
Read More »ATI Catalyst 10.8 released – 2-10% performance boost
AMD have just released Catalyst 10.8 with promises of some very nice performance increases. Performance highlights: Far Cry 2: Performance increases 2-6% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series single and ATI CrossFireX™ configurations. Performance increases 2-4% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series single and ATI CrossFireX™ configurations. ·Performance increases 3-8% …
Read More »Corsair H70 Review – versus Vantage & NH D14 @ 4.53ghz
Corsair and Coolit are fighting head to head with ‘high end', yet mainstream all in one liquid cooling solutions and as KitGuru recently reviewed the Coolit Vantage we felt it was time to publish our analysis of the Corsair H70 … the successor to the class leading, and very popular …
Read More »Arctic Sound P531 5.1 Surround-Sound Gaming Headset
KitGurus across the globe will be familiar with Arctic Cooling, a company renowned for producing some of the best cooling accessories on the market. Earlier this year, they rebranded themselves to ‘Arctic' to reflect their growing range of non-cooling products. Today we are going to look at the Arctic Sound …
Read More »Dabs give FREE Battlefield 2 BC2 with XFX HD5770 Crossfire bundle!
KitGuru was impressed with the new single slot XFX HD5770 Crossfire bundle which we reviewed last week. This bundle is exclusive to highly regarded UK retailer DABS and word has just hit the KitGuru newsdesk that they are offering a free copy of Battlefield 2 Bad Company 2 for the …
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