Tag Archives: price cut

Although Microsoft Corp. decided not to promote its second-generation Kinect motion sensing accessory last year, it looks like the company wants give it another try. The software giant has slashed the price of its Xbox One with Kinect to $449 in the U.S. For two weeks, starting Sunday, the 8th …

Partners of Advanced Micro Devices this week started a new round of Radeon R9 290-series price-cuts. Traditionally, companies start to drop prices of graphics adapters in the U.S. and then do the same in other parts of the world. This week the U.S.-based Newegg store drop prices of Radeon R9 …

Following months of excessive inventory of AMD Radeon graphics cards in the channel, the situation has finally gotten better for Advanced Micro Devices. As a result, rapid price drops on Radeon graphics cards may stop shortly. Early this year the value of cryptocurrency increased to new heights and mining enthusiasts …

Advanced Micro Devices has announced that select retailers will sell its flagship dual-chip AMD Radeon R9 295X2 graphics card for £500 for a limited time. A number of leading stores in the U.K. already offered the dual-GPU graphics board for about £500 on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Apparently, the …

Thanks to the fact that the new-generation graphics cards from Nvidia Corp. arrived to the market and next flagship graphics solutions from both AMD and Nvidia emerged on horizon, current top-of-the-range graphics solutions began to rapidly drop their price. The Radeon R9 295X2 graphics cards are now available at price-points …

Advanced Micro Devices plans to lower prices of its A-series “Kaveri” accelerated processing units, according to a media report. The company wants to fight back some market share from Intel Corp. before the end of the year and will lower prices of popular APUs so that to make them more …

At least two online stores in North America recently started to sell AMD Radeon R9 290 and AMD Radeon R 290X graphics cards at or below $300, a price-point that is unprecedented for high-end graphics adapters. While the deals seem to be limited by time, it is possible that AMD …

Advanced Micro Devices this week quietly updated its official price-list and published the new prices of its A-series accelerated processing units. In addition to updating its official price-list, AMD also notified several web-sites about price-cuts on low-end models not listed at the company’s web-site. For the first time since the …

We looked here and asked there to bring you everything you need to know about AMD Radeon R9 price reductions and promotions. Last week it was reported that Advanced Micro Devices and its partners among suppliers of graphics cards reduced prices of AMD Radeon R9-series graphics adapters in a bid to …

The Xbox One has reportedly managed to pull ahead of the PS4 in the UK for the first time this month thanks to its recent price cut coupled with the release of FIFA 15. Ever since the launch of Sony and Microsoft's new consoles, the PS4 has had a clear …

UK retailers are continuing to lower the price of Microsoft's Xbox One console in an effort to shift more units. The Xbox One had an official price cut a few months ago, bringing the price down to £350, matching the Playstation 4 and now UK based retailers are cutting the …

Nvidia Corp. has quietly began to provide subsidies to system builders who sell gaming personal computers with its GeForce GTX Titan Z graphics card inside. Nvidia’s GeForce GTX Titan Z graphics card has always looked like a rare exotic rather than a solution for gamers. At the price of $3000/£2000 …

Although Advanced Micro Devices pins most of its hopes on hybrid accelerated processing units (APUs) these days, it continues to supply traditional central processing units for performance enthusiasts. In a bid to make its FX-series line a little bit more competitive, the company plans to cut-down their prices in the …

Microsoft has been getting pretty aggressive with its pricing recently, once Titanfall launched, the Xbox One dropped in price to £399.99 and now the Titanfall bundle has been cut down further to match the PS4 at £349,99, which is closing in on £100 off of the console's original launch price. …

The Xbox One has been lagging behind the Playstation 4 in terms of sales and performance in some multi-platform titles but exclusives are a powerful thing and Microsoft certainly intends to take advantage of Titanfall's impending release. From the 28th of February the Xbox One will be receiving a UK …

When KitGuru ran a preliminary analysis of the price/performance for the AMD FX-9590, we calculated a bang-per-buck based only on early info from the channel. The conclusion at that stage was clear: The price was well out. Now that has changed – and in a big way. The idea of …

While the senior management of Seasonic don't like to talk about it, as a company, they have produced some of the finest and most famous power supplies the PC market has ever seen. Chances are, even if a PSU won a mantelpiece full of awards and was designed and manufactured …

With all the furore surrounding the way that component prices have been dropping recently, space a thought for any resellers or distributors who presently have stock on the Samsung Galaxy Note II. A KitGuru associate was considering one of these, but hit a snag when they went to do a …

Almost exactly one year ago, KitGuru covered the news that the price of a 4TB drive had been slashed down to just outside the £200 mark. With a few wobbles along the way, that price continues to fall. KitGuru eyes up another offer in the storage department. When things spin …

With all the price cuts on nVidia desktop graphics cards, we guess it was only time before the mobile space also started to throw up some GeForce bargains. Having broken into the world's Top 10 for laptops a few years back, this Taiwanese outfit still pushes hard to create original …

Serious followers of KitGuru will know that we have been tracking the advances being made in Quad HD TV for a very long time. As the new generation of visual entertainment prepares to land in our living rooms, what happens to the existing dinosaurs?  A shot sent in by an …

As we move to a world where all of the nVidia graphics cards are in the GTX700 series, more and more deals on end of life stock are appearing on the web. KitGuru scans places for electronics buyers for details.  When KitGuru had a look around 2GB Asus GTX680 Direct …

Following one reseller's announcement last week of a final load of GTX580 cards at £137, it now seems that prices are being cut on a much broader range of older nVidia cards. KFA2 is getting in on the act with Overclockers, so KitGuru has a finger poised over the ‘Print …

When KitGuru Labs put the 240GB OCZ Agility 3 under our powerful performance microscope in 2011, we were left surprised that such performance was possible in a drive that cost less than £400. Today's latest offer from eBuyer takes OCZ's hugely impressive drive and makes it affordable for everyone. KitGuru …

One of the most discussed topics at KitGuru HQ is ‘Just how much do you need to spend in order to get a decent gaming experience?' – with opinions varying wildly. It really comes down to the image quality and resolution you want to enjoy Vs the size of your …

Sometimes you get a serious bargain because a product is end of life. Other times because it has just launched. Then there are the times when neither of these conditions has been met – but the bargain is there none the less. KitGuru has come across an OcUK offer that's …

From the time of AMD's graphics price cut announcement, it took all of 24 hours for the first resellers to implement the drops. KitGuru happens across a forum announcement that indicates the price war has not finished. Not yet at any rate. Whatever your opinion on the GTX660 and the …

We all knew it would happen, the only question was “Which of the major SSD brands would want to be first?”  The latest deals coming out of eBuyer show that the 240GB Agility drive from OCZ has ducked under the magic £150 mark. KitGuru hangs in a buffalo stance and …

It seems that hardly a day passes without an exclamation of shock from at least one of the Gurus of the Kit. Today's news from Kingston has been highly anticipated, but why is the number being quoted so shocking?  KitGuru prepares to go head to toe in order to find …

While Samsung has been rubbing its corporate hands together with glee at an overall increase in memory prices, some companies are still working hard to deliver value for UK enthusiasts. KitGuru does a quick price check and discovers some interesting results. If you're building an AMD Fusion system, then faster …