One of the best things to come out of the internet in recent years is crowd funding. Yes it's led to some terrible products and terrible let downs, often promoted by terrible people, but more often than not it lets the public decide what's worthy of being made. And that's exactly what's happened …
Read More »UK Mobile internet could speed up after Qualcomm sale
Semiconducter manufacturer, Qualcomm, is set to put a portion of the radio spectrum up for sale in the UK, with mobile operators expected to compete for it in a bidding war. The “L-Band,” as it's termed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is part of the 1-2Ghz radio …
Read More »Thermaltake CEO Kenny Lin: We created some memorable designs over the years
At Computex 2015, KitGuru managed to catch up with Thermaltake CEO Kenny Lin. After a hiatus from product design, Kenny became very much more hands and a wave of new designs began to flow last year – including a KitGuru Annual Award for the Frio 14. In the Nangang Exhibition …
Read More »Computex closing press conference and final thoughts
For about a week I have reported to you about what was going on at Computex 2015, one of the world’s most important high-tech industry trade-shows. To conclude the exhibition I visited the closing press conference held by Taiwan external trade development council (TAITRA), the organization, which organizes Computex. I …
Read More »Patriot Memory is reinventing itself to offer more than memory
When Patriot Memory was founded in 1985 – some 30 years ago – its main goal was to provide high-performance random access memory solutions for PCs. When I first met with Patriot Memory reps in person about a decade ago, the company was all about offering advanced memory modules, but …
Read More »EVGA readies Z170 Classified mainboard for extreme overclockers
EVGA Corp. is working on two new mainboards based on Intel Corp.’s Z170 chipset for the upcoming Core-series “Skylake” processors. One of the mainboards is designed for gamers with overclocking ambitions and will not be too expensive. The other one is aimed at hardcore enthusiasts, who demand to have a …
Read More »Valve is sending off SteamVR dev kits
At the Game Developer Conference this year, Valve revealed its step in to the virtual reality headset market with The Vive, built in collaboration with HTC. Shortly after, Valve began accepting sign ups from developers to get early editions of the headset in order to start working on VR projects, …
Read More »Patriot displays USB type-C flash drives at Computex
Although virtually all leading makers of mainboards demonstrated their new products with USB type-C receptacles at Computex, it does not seem that makers of various peripherals are ready to embrace the new connector just yet. In fact, Patriot was one of a few companies at the trade-show displaying USB-C products. …
Read More »Gigabyte details premium Z170 platforms: DDR4, 32Gb/s M.2, 16Gb/s SATAe, Thunderbolt 3
Gigabyte Technology at Computex revealed details about its upcoming premium mainboards based on the Intel Z170 core-logic designed for the Intel’s “Skylake” microprocessors. As expected, the new motherboards will provide rather extreme capabilities when it comes to overclocking, multi-GPU and high-performance storage. Gigabyte’s premium Intel Z170-based motherboards for LGA1151 microprocessors …
Read More »Lian Li showcase range of cases at Computex
Lian Li is most well known for its brushed aluminium chassis and this year's Computex backs that up considerably. However, that doesn't mean that the Taiwanese chassis manufacturer isn't showing off something new and exciting. It has cases built into desks, cases with entire see through side panels and some more …
Read More »KitGuru visits Gigabyte’s Nan Ping factory
Gigabyte is one of those companies that has been a big name in the enthusiast PC industry for a long, long time. It makes motherboards, graphics cards, peripherals, laptops, tablets and more and all of them need putting together at some point. Which is why when we were given the …
Read More »Synology rolls out its first router: 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Ethernet and NAS capabilities
Synology, a well known maker of network area storage solutions, introduced its first router – the Synology RT1900ac – at Computex. The device boasts all modern technologies as well as integrated NAS capabilities, reports Leo Waldock, a KitGuru editor, from Taipei. The product is set to hit the market shortly …
Read More »EVGA 980 Ti Classified K|NGP|N Edition: Engineered to overclock
At the Computex 2015 trade-show, EVGA is demonstrating its new graphics card that has all chances to become the highest performing GeForce GTX 980 Ti-based solution on the planet. The graphics adapter is designed to offer maximum overclocking potential and will also feature very high clock-rates out-of-the-box, when it becomes available later this …
Read More »Mojang staff were offered $300k to stay after Microsoft buyout
Microsoft acquired Minecraft development company, Mojang, quite a while back and at the time, the Minecraft community was shocked. As you would expect, some of the Mojang staff probably had some concerns of their own so in order to keep people from leaving, Microsoft offered all Mojang employees the currency equivalent …
Read More »Antec shows off new PC cases at Computex 2015
Our coverage of Computex 2015 continues, today our own attendee, Leo Waldock, swung by to visit Antec, who have been showing off some new desktop PC cases- one of which we saw teased last week, just ahead of the event. First up, we got a look at the upcoming signature …
Read More »Canadian ISP owner calls her own child a ‘VPN thief’
Restricting content to certain parts of the world always seems like a bizarre choice for media companies. In the hope of securing licensing deals in different continents for the same content, they limit where in the world it can be viewed, leaving those that want to watch it two options: use …
Read More »Biggest telescope ever gets the go ahead for construction
The wonder of telescopes, is that they let us look into the present, past and our potential future all in a single piece of hardware. They can be used to view objects that aren't far beyond our own atmosphere, peer back into the multi-billion year history of our universe by …
Read More »Plextor’s Computex PCIe SSD is not NVMe
Even as fast as SATA III SSDs are, the new battleground for the storage performance crown lies with PCIe drives, as the potential read and write times with that interface blow everything away. Which is why Plextor has been showing off its own PCIe solutions at Computex this year, but …
Read More »Gigabyte’s mainboards for ‘Skylake’ to integrate Thunderbolt 3, USB 3.1 type-C
Gigabyte Technology has announced that some of its upcoming mainboards for Intel Corp.’s code-named “Skylake” processors will support the Thunderbolt 3 technology as well as USB 3.1 type-C ports. Gigabyte is one of the largest makers of mainboards in the world and its support of the new standard is hard …
Read More »Asus readies Strix GTX 980 Ti: The ultimate GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Asustek Computer is working on a new Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti-based graphics card that promises to offer no-compromise performance. The new adapter is based on Asus’ own design and will feature increased clock-rates and an advanced cooling system. The board is demonstrated at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan. The Asus …
Read More »Asrock Beebox: Intel ‘Braswell’ NUC with USB type-C and 4K video playback
Intel Corp.’s ultra-small form-factor NUC [next unit of compute] desktops have become pretty popular on the market and many makers of mainboards, PCs and barebones are now trying to offer something similar. Asrock at Computex 2015 introduced its first NUC-like PCs that feature Intel’s new-generation ‘Braswell’ system-on-chip and boast with …
Read More »Asus demos Z170 Pro: Digital VRM for CPU and RAM, USB 3.1, 802.11ac
Asustek Computer this week demonstrated one of its upcoming LGA1151 mainboards for Intel Corp.’s “Skylake” microprocessors at Computex 2015. The Asus Z170-Pro motherboard is a high-end, but not the flagship, platform powered by the Intel Z170 core logic from the company. While the new mainboard in many ways resembles last …
Read More »Skype users experiencing continuous crashing thanks to message bug
Just last week, Apple iPhone users were experiencing messenger app issues thanks to a bug caused by a specific string of text. Now, it looks like Skype is having the same problem. Microsoft's messaging app has become prone to continuous crashing on iOS, Android and Windows PC thanks to a …
Read More »MSI has high-end laptops galore at Computex
There are a lot of companies vying for attention at this year's Computex, with everything from NAS drives to drinks dispensing desktop cases. MSI has taken a different route however and merely put front and centre some of the most powerful gaming laptops ever seen. The first one up is …
Read More »Cooler Master shows off drinks dispensing PC at Computex
Cooler Master's whole ethos at Computex this year has been “Make it Yours,” a slogan it's hoping will help promote its new Master Case which isn't that far off from release. To that end, it's been giving visitors access to all sorts of case customising tools, like an angle grinder, …
Read More »G.Skill developing dual-channel DDR4 kits for Intel Z170 ‘Skylake’ platforms
G.Skill, one of the world’s leading suppliers of enthusiast-class memory modules, at Computex introduced its new Trident Z-series DDR4 memory solutions that will be aimed at high-performance systems. The new kits will address not only Intel X99 high-end desktop platform, but also enthusiast-class Intel Z170 platforms featuring “Skylake” processors. The …
Read More »ASUSTOR shows off new NAS drives at Computex
Computex has a lot of exciting products and services on show this year, but for those looking to back up their important files and folders to a local server, ASUSTOR's new collection of NAS drives aimed at home and enterprise users may be the most enticing. There's a full line …
Read More »Presidential candidate Ted Cruz: ‘I’m a gamer’
While many in the UK grew bored of the rhetoric, chest pounding and thug life-like quips in the few months of build up to Britain's General Election in May, the US has it far worse. Almost a year and a half out from the next presidential election and already we're starting …
Read More »Be quiet! unveils Silent Wings 3 fans: Quiet becomes inaudible
Be quiet’s Silent Wings series case fans have deserved reputation of one of the best fans available in the market. Thanks to impressive design, great airflow-to-noise ratio and high reliability, the Silent Wings 2 are among the most popular fans of performance enthusiasts. But be quiet! is not standing still …
Read More »Hola speaks out on recent botnet accusations
Last week, it was revealed that one of the most popular VPN extensions for Google Chrome, Hola, had been caught out selling its user's bandwidth via a separate company in order to allow attackers to send DDOS attacks to other sites or services. At the time, it was 8Chan that …
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