Apple made recent announcements regarding their iPhone 4 last week and they have since placed price cuts on the 3GS model to clear stocks for release. The good news is if you bought a 3GS in the last couple of weeks, the company are now price matching and are offering …
Read More »Sapphire HD5550 Ultimate Edition review
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 …
Read More »GTX485 Launch: Less hot and noisy in the sack?
While we all like the idea of hot lovers, GPU hotspots are a killer. Each generation of chip gets more and more complicated, creating unwanted ‘electrical friction’ – with billions of microscopic components interacting in unpredictable ways to generate current loss and heat. However, give an engineer time and he …
Read More »EVGA goes on the offensive – invites all comers!
nVidia’s number one partner (for many countries) has recently been the subject of a lot of half-baked rumours. Classy companies would rise above this kind of innuendo and go on the offensive. Which is exactly what Andrew Han’s team has done. Timed perfectly to begin at the start of the …
Read More »Adobe Flash Player 10.1 released – GPU acceleration
Adobe have been in the press almost daily lately, as their feud with Apple continues. Fans of Flash Player will be pleased to hear however that they have finally released 10.1 player to the public today with the mobile version due to hit around October this year. 10.1 is not …
Read More »nVidia Xmas sale starts early on GTX470/480
KitGuru spends far too much time trolling bars and eavesdropping on conversations. We admit it. We need help. However, in the meantime, when we frequent the ale houses of Theale, it's always possible to hear something juicy. Especially about price drops. Supping on cider at 22 Church Street, Theale in …
Read More »Mesh Elite GTX 465 & GTX 480 systems review
Numbers vary, but we reckon at least 500,000 people build a PC in the UK each year. Once you’ve built your own, it’s unlikely that you’ll ever go back. But that’s a small fraction of the PCs that actually get sold. So what can you do if you need a …
Read More »Was Crysis a masterpiece ahead of its time?
Every gamer worth his salt has tackled Crysis, even today many of us have dusted it off for a quick replay. When it was released in 2007 it was a total system killer, and only a handful of people at the time were able to even touch close to maximum …
Read More »Asus Bravo 220 review – media card
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 …
Read More »Apple to face upcoming antitrust investigation
Apple have had a hell of a profitable year, overtaking the net worth of giant competitors such as Microsoft. It seems that we can't go a day without them making news headlines and we reported yesterday that they have coded an ad removal option into their Safari 5 reader. It …
Read More »AT&T iPad IDs leaked to ‘Goatse security’
AT&T Inc. were left in a bad situation yesterday when they had to apologise to their userbase stating that a security hole in their website has exposed iPad users email addresses. Goatse Security, a small group of ‘computer experts' said they were responsible for the attack and that they had …
Read More »Free edition of 3dmark 11 will be available
Futuremark have been creating leading PC benchmarks for many years and with the imminent release of 3dmark 11, news has just reached us that there will be a free edition available with unlimited runs. Thanks to sponsorship from MSI – Futuremark can offer a free version of the benchmark with …
Read More »Sapphire HD5770 Vapor X Edition 1GB
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 …
Read More »Nintendo ditch nVidia for 3DS – sources confirm
Contrary to popular rumour on the net, Nintendo will not be using nVidia's Tegra in their upcoming state of the art 3DS handheld. KitGuru spoke to an industry insider yesterday who confirmed that the recent news on sites such as IGN and Eurogamer were in fact true – Nintendo are …
Read More »Time to buy great separation? Thermaltake audio
Can you really achieve a deep, open sound with just 2 channels ? Audio engineers have been trying this trick since the invention of stereo. With headphones it's even more of a challenge. Given the difficulty, what can we expect from Thermaltake? The whole world and its war-dogs are focused …
Read More »Safari 5’s reader removes ads – fears for publishers
Everyone has been talking about Steve Jobs keynote presentation at WWDC a few days ago, but one thing that the public aren't mentioning is the fact that Safari 5 will have a prominent ad blocking option which will strip advertisements and other design code from any web page which appears …
Read More »Fermi @ 1ghz – EVGA deliver the goods
While busy swimming through a sea of rumours, Miodrag Relic, EVGA’s head of European marketing, was able to find time to show off his companies latest foray into the challenge of keeping Fermi cool enough to rock the DX11 world. Not an easy trick, so how do they plan to …
Read More »Interview with EVGA’s Miodrag Relic
In the modern computer market, loyalty is a rare thing. That EVGA has managed to thrive in an ever more difficult market, while selling only nVidia graphic cards, shows just how determined Andrew Han has been. When he formed the company on 16th July, 1999, the dream was to extend …
Read More »ASUS Concept Motherboard: ‘Immensity’ – image gallery
We managed to get hold of some images of an upcoming Asus motherboard called “Immensity”. Can we say onboard Radeon graphics and perhaps even a Hydra bridge chip? Our lips remain sealed. Rather than have me drone on about it, check out the pictures below and come to your own …
Read More »Kingston HyperX 8GB KIT 1600mhz (KHX1600C9D3K2/8GX)
For many years people have been tied to a 32bit Operating system with a 4GB (nearer 3.5 in real world terms) memory limitation. In 2010, the adoption of 64 bit Windows is finally getting off the ground, which is long overdue. Windows 7 64bit is a fantastic OS and the …
Read More »Windows 7 SP1 beta coming your way
Gavriella Schuster, part of the Windows Team has posted on his blog that there will be a new public beta of Windows 7 SP1 released next month. Schuster said: “SP1 will not contain any new features that are specific to Windows 7 itself[, but] will simply be the combination of …
Read More »J&W release new ITX based 6 core Motherboard
J&W, better known under the MINIX brand has just released information on their upcoming feature packed ITX board due to hit the market in the next six weeks. The motherboard is based around the excellent AMD 890GX chipset which has integrated graphics. It supports all AMD AM3 based processors including …
Read More »Guitar Hero and Farmville hit App store
While details on the iPhone 4 dominated Steve Jobs keynote speech at the Worldwide Developers Conference we were more interested in a couple of very high profile games which will be hitting the App store. Farmville, which has been based on Adobe's Flash Technology is one of the most popular …
Read More »Shoot to kill with Gigabyte @ Computex
Most widely known for its mainboards, Gigabyte also has other product divisions that create impressive products from time to time. Graphics is the obvious one, but think about how many Aurora 3D or Sumo chassis you’ve seen around (Packard Bell was using them for high end gaming systems at one …
Read More »Cryo Hydro Nemesis SE system review
At KitGuru we like to cover all the bases – in the last three weeks we have reviewed SSD drives, graphics cards, power supplies, coolers, headsets, drive bays, processors, motherboards, monitors and even the Apple iPad. Today however we have something really special to show you. Imagine for a moment …
Read More »Steam show 8% of users are running Macintosh
Valve made the bold move a short while ago of releasing Steam on Macintosh OSX. Many doubters thought this was a waste of time, after all many have said that OSX is not a particularly good gaming platform and supporting it is too costly. It appears that this might be …
Read More »HP Sales struggle to keep momentum
Hewlett Packard have been experiencing a huge drop in sales lately, according to our sources in the Far East. HP Notebook shipments in May hit 2.6 million which was down dramatically on expectations of around 3.4 million. While the economy is being blamed we can only wonder how Apple managed …
Read More »Why companies rate UPS in VAs and PSUs in Watts
Almost everyone who has went to buy power equipment such as a power supply and UPS has assuredly noticed that while power supply units are rated in Watts, UPS systems are rated in VA or in both VA and Watts. This usually leads to confusion as most people not only …
Read More »Silverstone Raven 03 – featuring VORTEX fans @ Computex
KitGuru have been covering the tech goodies at Computex all week and today we thought we would focus on the upcoming Raven 3 chassis from quality maker Silverstone. Those of you who know me from the forums will already be aware that I have been singing the praises of the …
Read More »Steelseries Siberia V2 Headset (special red edition) review
Steelseries … without even seeing the product in question, the name alone gives an immediate feeling of quality. Rightly so, because for the last few years they have been producing some of the finest gaming equipment on the market. The Siberia was a popular full size headset which won many …
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