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It looks like someone broke the Ryzen 5 street date as a Spanish site this week published an early review for the Ryzen 5 1600 CPU, using a retail sample obtained prior to the official release. The review is fairly comprehensive too, showing AMD's affordable 6-core in a wide range of …

If you recently picked up a HTC Vive and need a way to kickstart your virtual reality games library, then you may want to check out HTC VIveport. The new subscription service offers up five games a month to Vive owners, giving you a cheaper way to try out different …

Today we finalise our coverage of the latest Seasonic PRIME Platinum platform by analysing the 650 watt model in the range. This fully modular, 80 Plus Platinum certified model is priced at £155 in the United Kingdom, around £30 less expensive than the PRIME 650W Titanium supply which we reviewed …

Leo doesn't get excited often, but he loves this memory. Read on to find out why

Rumours and leaks over the past month have all led us to believe that AMD's RX 580, RX 570 and RX 560 reveal would be happening by the middle of April. Now, it seems that we are very close to launch indeed as retailers have begun leaking listings for AMD's …

While DDR4 RAM has only just broken into the mainstream in the last few years, the Joint Electronic Devices Engineering Council (JEDEC) is already looking ahead and planning out the jump to DDR5 memory. This week, it was revealed that the DDR5 memory specification is already being worked on, with …

Last week, Intel launched its new Optane Memory technology, aiming to boost the performance of traditional hard drives and even some SSDs by offering a large 32GB high-speed cache. Since then, Gigabyte and ASUS have already begun pushing out BIOS updates to support this new tech but MSI is taking …

Over the years, while Apple has been designing its own processors for its iOS devices, the company has heavily relied on third-party graphics technology. Right now, Apple is partnered up with Imagination technologies for all of its iOS GPU needs, which means Imagination gets a cut from every iPhone and …

Buffalo's MiniStation Velocity range is the flagship of company's portable SSD range of storage drives. Based around an SSD drive, the MiniStation Velocity uses a USB 3.1 (Gen 2) interface and Buffalo claim it to be the slimmest portable SSD of its class at just 8.8mm thick. The 960GB drive is …

The Greek god of the sea and earthquakes will strike you down if you don't check this reveal out ...

Earlier this week, Intel held its own ‘tech day' during which it went over various technologies it is currently working on. One of the major points of the presentation was the upcoming 10nm process node, which Intel claims is a ‘full generation ahead' of the 10nm technology competing chip makers are …

Earlier this month, we started hearing new rumours surrounding Samsung's long-awaited standalone virtual reality headset. At the time, various anonymous sources claimed that Samsung standalone headset would have a much higher resolution than current high-end PC offerings. Since then, a Samsung's VP of global marketing has confirmed the company's standalone …

After founding the company and helping it get to the point where it is today, Palmer Luckey has officially left Oculus VR and by extension, Facebook as well. This move has been somewhat expected for several months now, as Luckey has remained silent since September, when he was found to …

ASUS puts a dual-fan cooler and sizeable overclock onto GTX 1050 Ti.

A worthy consideration if you want to extend an AM3+ system's life?

Over the last few weeks, we have been hearing more and more about AMD's upcoming Radeon RX-500 series. These new graphics cards are set to be a refresh of the Polaris lineup and according to what we have heard previously, they are set to be announced in just a couple …

It isn't taking long for motherboard manufacturers to jump in and start supporting Intel's new Optane Memory SSDs. These tiny but speedy M.2 cache drives were first announced earlier this week, sporting 3D XPoint technology. Since then, ASUS has announced its plans to release a BIOS update to support it …

AMD has had quite a lot of success with its new Ryzen 7 processors but one area where the chip does let us down a bit is 1080p gaming. Earlier this month, AMD explained that this was simply due to the way games are currently optimised, adding that the situation …

Back when Nvidia first announced the GTX 1080Ti, the company also announced some improvements coming to its older Pascal cards. The GTX 1080 and GTX 1060 were both due to get faster RAM modules and now, it looks like board partners are catching up with that, as ASUS has revealed …

Titanium styling and an enthusiast design, this is MSI's £300 AM4 flagship.

Earlier this month, Intel officially started rolling out products based on its new 3D XPoint technology, which aims to be the future of SSDs thanks to its much faster speeds when compared to NAND. This all started out with a very expensive 375GB SSD, which would only really be useful and …

The heart of any decent PC build is the power supply. However, when it comes to small form factors, options can be limited. Fortunately, FSP has some high-efficiency options hitting the market this year to help expand the market a bit. These new SFX Dagger supplies offer modularity, DC to …

Over the last couple of months, Nvidia and Ubisoft have been teaming up to run a ‘Prepare for Battle' promotion. This essentially meant that anyone buying a GTX 1080 or a GTX 1070 would be able to redeem a free copy of either For Honor or Ghost Recon Wildlands. While …

Back in February, KitGuru has the opportunity to head to Brussels to visit Calyos and take a look at their completely-passive NSG S0 chassis prototype. We were fairly impressed at the time and today, the Kickstarter campaign for the chassis officially kicked off and has already managed to climb 50 percent of …

On Monday we ran a little public poll on our Facebook page. Around 2,000 readers answered and today, as promised, we share the results. No, This is not an AMD versus Nvidia editorial because that always gets much too heated and people end up arguing over nothing. We simply wanted …

Platinum is the new gold! Not really, but the Seasonic PRIME 850W Platinum is a killer supply.

Does Gigabyte's Aorus AX370-Gaming 5 back up flashy lights with its performance?

Back in February, Leo and I went to Brussels to visit Calyos and take a look at their completely-passive NSG S0 chassis prototype. Today, Calyos has announced that the finished product will be launching on Kickstarter tomorrow, March 29. According to our information, the early-bird price will be just 479 Euros – …

Back in January, we started coming across the first rumours surrounding Intel's next HEDT CPU launch. At the time, we heard that Skylake X and the X299 platform would be launching in August but it seems that things might be further along than we thought as this week, AIDA 64 …

Just last week, Intel kicked off its rollout of Optane products, featuring its long in development 3D XPoint technology. It all began with the Optane DX P4800X SSD for data centres but this week, Intel is launching something more consumer-oriented. In April, Intel will begin shipping Optane Memory in 16GB …