The iMac has been selling well for Apple for many years and PC centric manufacturers are beginning to realise that there is a viable market for an attractive, capable ‘All In One' unit. Today we are looking at the MSI Wind Top AE2400 desktop system which features an Intel processor …

HIS are famous for performance products and today, as AMD releases the Radeon HD 6900 series they were quick to release their new range of  products. To see what this second generation graphics processor is really capable of, we tested a pair of the Radeon HD 6970 cards in CrossFireX …

Long known for its value products, Powercolor has been one of AMD's longest serving and most loyal partners. Over the past 12 months, they have also invested heavily in product design – especially coolers. Today we continue our coverage of AMD's Radeon HD 6900 series launch,  looking next at the …

Ready for eye popping frame rates? This review today might just be the answer to your pre-Christmas hangover. We put AMD's latest and greatest through their paces in a variety of multiple card configurations. While AMD's 6800 series included solid products, the re-naming strategy confused many enthusiast users. AMD effectively …

Synology have been riding high in 2010, releasing some of the finest NAS systems ever to hit the consumer market. We use several of these devices in the KitGuru offices for our network file sharing and have found them to be both extremely reliable and fast. Last month we looked …

Websites which hold personal data of British taxpayers could be next in line for computer hackers – who are keen to target organisations who are seen as enemies of Wikileaks. A wide range of companies have been attacked by ‘Anonymous', an online network, after withdrawing support for Wikileaks in response …

Performance memory used to be a luxury often associated with the wealthier enthusiast user base. This year however, you are now able to buy extremely fast memory kits without causing too much damage to your bank account. Today KitGuru is looking at the new G.Skill Ripjaws F3 8GB memory kit …

Kitguru has reviewed a wide cross section of SSD's since we opened earlier this year, but today we are looking at something a little different. OCZ have been at the forefront of SSD development, continually pushing the technology into new and exciting performance sectors. Their latest ‘X2' is the second …

To celebrate the release of the new 3dMark 11, Futuremark have kindly given KitGuru two Advanced Edition codes to give away to two lucky readers. All you need to do to enter is to tell us on the forums why you want one of these codes. We want to keep …

While sales in the high end market are only a small portion of revenue streams, both nVidia and AMD are keen to be seen to dominate. With the imminent release of AMD's 6900 Cayman cards we thought it was a good time to have a look at the performance of …

This year has been very healthy for the mobile sector with sales of tablets and mobile phones continuing to grow. Laptop sales are also thriving and many people are now able to pick up a well built machine with killer performance without breaking the bank balance. With this in mind, …

Antec recently introduced a new range of High Current Pro series power supplies, including 750W, 850W, 1000W and 1200W models. All of these models have 80 Plus Gold Certification and are rated to 92% efficiency using the highest quality Japanese brand capacitors. The High Current Pro Series of power supplies …

Today AMD release their new Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition processor, the successor to the ever popular 1090T Black Edition. As the 1100T doesn't look that exciting on paper (with a 100mhz clock increase), we felt we would approach this review from a slightly different angle – taking our …

Several days ago KitGuru published an article on the Oracle SuperCluster, with 1,728 processor cores. In this article Oracle CEO Larry Ellison was rather scathing in his comments about Hewlett Packard. Larry Ellison said that HP's high end products were comparible to a ‘turtle' and highly vulnerable in the market. …

KitGuru has reviewed many pre built systems in recent months and we have made sure to cover all market sectors from extreme high end gaming to more modest HTPC creations. What if you want a media and gaming system capable of handling everything you throw at it while still maintaining …

Dutch based A.C. Ryan have been receiving critical acclaim recently for their series of Playon!HD media devices. We have reviewed their full range so far on KitGuru and today we look at their latest edition, the Playon! HD Essential. The Essential is the first ‘no network media player' with the …

We have given away thousands of pounds of hardware in only a few short months at KitGuru and today we have a monster Antec competition for all our readers in the run up to Christmas. ‘Tis' the season to give away hardware', thats our motto. Antec have donated 11 very …

The AMD HD6850 was released just over a month ago and has been warmly received by critics and the public. We have already looked at boards from Sapphire, XFX, Powercolor and HIS and today the Asus EAH6850 Direct CU Overclock Edition is next in line for a thorough workout. Like …

It has been a good year to invest in a new 23-24 inch screen, the technology is improving all the time while the price points are becoming almost irresistible. The 1080p market is booming and many high quality LED 24 inch screens can now be bought for less than £250 …

MSI have released a fine looking AMD based laptop – The FX610. There are two models being offered, based around a dual core P340 Athlon II and the Tri core P840 Phenom II processor. The Phenom II model is going to retail at €699 (thats euros, we haven't got confirmed …

So much happens at Kitguru that it is hard to keep track of all the news, reviews and competitions. I just wanted to let our readers know that we have two very nice giveaways running right now in the runup to Christmas. Unfortunately we aren't giving away the very attractive …

Whether you like them or not, Dell have been working hard to reinvent themselves lately with some very interesting and exciting releases. We have reviewed many of their products in the last 6 months and have often been impressed – particularly with their screen technology and Dell Streak smartphone running …

Well it was a long time coming, but finally we have a HD6870 with a custom cooling solution. Powercolor have just released the HD6870 PCS+ graphics card which is not only supplied with a rather sexy heatpipe cooler, but substantial overclocks. Both HD6850 and HD6870 were received warmly by the …

Kingston have impressed us recently with many of their products, especially the low cost, high performance SSDNow V100 128GB SSD drive. Today we are looking at their new external storage solution called HyperX MAX 3.0 which utilises the latest USB 3.0 superspeed interface. According to Kingston the HyperX Max 3.0 …

Today's market is saturated with SSD drives and it is difficult to know which drive to buy. No one wants to pay over the odds for something they don't need, yet we all want to make sure the performance is up to stratch. This is how Kingston are marketing their …

We already have several competitions running at Kitguru, but we like to make sure all our readers have plenty of chances when it comes to winning, sexy, drool worthy technology. Our good friends at Bigfoot Networks are offering five Killer 2100 Network gaming cards to five lucky readers, worldwide. While …

We have seen many high quality chassis being released this year from various manufacturers, and while it is fun to concentrate on luxury high end products like the Thermaltake Level 10, not many people will be willing to part with £550, just for a case. Enermax, better known for their …

Many thought it actually might never happen, but Apple have finally managed to get The Beatles music for sales on iTunes. It may not seem like such a breaking headline, but the effort to get their music as downloadable tracks has been a long and labourous process for Steve Jobs …

Kitguru has reviewed many monitors over the last year including those from industry leaders Dell and iiyama. In June we reviewed the Asus MS236H, a stylish monitor which appealed on a design level, but left us wanting in other areas. It delivered much unfulfilled potential. Today we are looking at …

Kitguru has been open 7 months now and many forum members wanted to have a folding team operating. While I know some of our forum guys will do this without any ‘rewards' I wanted to help try and push this myself, as it is such a good cause. Therefore, I …