A couple of weeks ago we launched a giveaway with NETGEAR, offering up five prizes to five lucky KitGuru readers in need of a networking upgrade. We received a lot of entries and after going through the selection process, we have now picked our five winners. To recap, here was …
Read More »Acer Predator Z1 Z301CT 30in Curved Gaming Monitor
The super-wide 21:9 aspect isn't that common in PC monitors, and even less so for gaming. But it's potentially a very immersive form factor. The Acer Predator Z1 Z301CT presents this aspect with a 30in diagonal, a curved surface, and good helping of features for the serious gamer. The maximum …
Read More »Cooler Master’s MasterWatt Maker 1200 MIJ brings uncompromised quality for £899
Cooler Master has been making power supplies for a long time now and while many of them have been great in their own right, they usually need to hit an affordable price point, which means things like component selection need to be carefully considered to hit a budget. So what …
Read More »Biostar shows off first Mini-ITX X370 AM4 motherboard
AMD's new Ryzen 7 processors are already turning out to be very popular with 60 percent of our own polled readers apparently planning to buy one. With that in mind, if any of you happen to be looking at putting together a Mini-ITX build, then it looks like Biostar has …
Read More »Nvidia GTX 1080Ti benchmark results leak out ahead of reviews
Unless you have been living under a rock this past week, you should be aware that Nvidia officially confirmed the GTX 1080Ti last week, sporting a GP102 GPU core with a claimed 35 percent performance advantage over the standard GTX 1080. Reviewers already have their hands on these cards and …
Read More »Nintendo’s recommended fixes for Joy-Con connection issues are bizarre
About a week before the Nintendo Switch officially launched, those with early review units began reporting connectivity issues with the left Joy-Con, which appeared to be desyncing during regular play with the Switch docked in TV mode. That problem unfortunately still persists even after the Switch's day-one patch, leading to …
Read More »Riot Games awarded $10 million in lawsuit against cheat service
Riot Games has settled its lawsuit with League of Legends cheating service ‘Leaguesharp', which would take a monthly subscription fee from users in exchange for scripts and bots to help win matches or artificially level up. Leaguesharp would take anywhere between $15 and $50 a month depending on which cheats you …
Read More »AMD Ryzen 7 1700X CPU Review
Take a Ryzen 7 1800X, drop 200MHz off the clock speed, reduce the price by £100 and you get a 1700X. Is this too good to be true?
Read More »480GB OCZ TR150 SSD winner announced!
Back at the start of February, we asked you – our readers – to tell us about the technology that you find most interesting. Essentially, we were asking you to vote on the ‘Coolest Tech for 2017'. You had the opportunity to opt in to a competition at the same …
Read More »60% of KitGuru readers polled will buy AMD Ryzen 7
You read our analysis, but what do YOU think of AMD Ryzen 7? The results are in.
Read More »Asus, MSI, Zotac, Inno3D and EVGA all teasing new custom GTX 1080Tis
The Founder's Edition of the GTX 1080Ti is already available for pre-order directly from Nvidia but there are plenty of people out there who prefer custom-cooled solutions. Fortunately, it looks like there are plenty of them on the way, with Asus, MSI, Zotac Inno3D and EVGA all announcing their own …
Read More »Cougar Deathfire EX Keyboard and Mouse Combo Review
It's a mouse/keyboard combo for £50 - is it worth the cash?
Read More »Is Calyos THE world leader in advanced 2-phase cooling?
Calyos is a young company based in Brussels, Belgium that claims to be the global leader in Advanced 2-Phase Cooling Solutions for electronic components. When you consider that Calyos has a mere 28 employees (and that Belgium is hardly renowned as a hotbed of technology) it sounds like a bold …
Read More »Final Fantasy XV PC version finally shown off at GDC
The Game Developers Conference is underway right now and it appears that Final Fantasy XV director, Hajime Tabata had something very interesting to show off. After months of talking about a PC version of Final Fantasy XV in interviews, we finally got to see a public demonstration of what the …
Read More »AMD explains why Ryzen doesn’t seem to keep up in 1080p gaming
Today was the official launch day for AMD's Ryzen 7 CPUs and as you may have noticed already, plenty of reviews are now up, including our own review of the Ryzen 7 1800x. While the flagship 1800x has been deemed by many as an excellent CPU for productivity, 1080p gaming …
Read More »Seasonic is upgrading PRIME power supplies to an industry-leading 12 year warranty
Seasonic is highly regarded as one of the best power supply makers in the world, with the current PRIME series offering impressive efficiency levels excellent efficiency levels and quality components. In fact, many of Seasonic's power supplies will last more than a few CPU and GPU generations, with that in …
Read More »AMD Ryzen 7 1800X CPU Review
AMD is back with a bang in the processor market. Is a 4.1GHz-capable 8C16T CPU for £490 too good to be true?
Read More »Price drops are coming in for GTX 1080s and Intel CPUs at UK retailers
Earlier this week we heard that retailers in the US were starting to offer reduced pricing for Intel's desktop processors in the build up to AMD's Ryzen launch today and now it looks like UK retailers are joining in the fun. However, it's not just CPUs going on sale this week …
Read More »Cooler Master MasterKeys Pro M RGB Review
Fancy a keyboard with a numpad, but without the bulk of a full-size board? We assess the MasterKeys Pro M RGB.
Read More »Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti Editor’s Day Gallery
This week, KitGuru was invited to San Francisco to witness Nvidia's GTX 1080 Ti launch first hand. We had Dominic there acting as our ‘boots on the ground', reporting on the GTX 1080Ti itself alongside a few other key announcements. However, with this article we want to give you a …
Read More »The GTX 1080 is now $100 cheaper and comes with faster RAM
Last night, Nvidia finally announced the GTX 1080Ti, delivering up to 35 percent higher performance than a GTX 1080 with a $699 MSRP in the US. However, this new addition to the Pascal lineup has also prompted some reshuffling of other GPUs, which is why Nvidia is lowering the base …
Read More »GTX 1080 Ti launch: other announcements you might have missed
While the GTX 1080 Ti was of course the main announcement from Nvidia's event yesterday, we were also briefed on a few other announcements throughout the day that you might have missed. Here we give you the low-down on some of the highlight announcements stretching beyond the GTX 1080Ti. In-case …
Read More »Calyos NSG kit for Thermaltake Core P3
At CES Calyos showed its fanless passive cooling kit for Thermaltake Core P3 and we took a good look at the hardware during the KitGuru visit to Calyos in Brussels. The idea is simple enough: Calyos has taken the hardware used in its NSG-S0 system and applied it to the …
Read More »Amazon cloud outage downs vast swathes of the internet
As much as there are many advantages of using a massive cloud infrastructure for your website, when that service crashes, it can take a lot of the internet with it. Take yesterday's downing of Amazon's S3 cloud service, which pulled down a lot of popular websites and services. Ironically enough, …
Read More »Cooler Master MasterKeys Pro S White LED Review
A ten-keyless keyboard with white-only LEDs from Cooler Master - is it worth the £79.99 asking price?
Read More »Custom AMD gaming PC winner announced
Although we give away a lot of solid gaming gear on KitGuru, it's not often that we run contests for fully built gaming PCs. That's exactly what we did at the start of February though, offering up a customised AMD gaming PC with RX 470 graphics, 32GB of memory, custom …
Read More »Nvidia announces GTX 1080 Ti: Faster than a Titan X, $699
Nvidia has launched the long-rumoured GTX 1080 Ti - $699 and faster than a Titan X.
Read More »AMD announces RX Vega, shows off features of the new architecture
It looks like Vega is more than just a codename as today at AMD's Capsaicin event, the company announced that its next high-end GPU would be called the ‘RX Vega'. However, the presentation didn't stop at simply naming the GPU, AMD also began showing off some of the new features …
Read More »LG’s fixed 5K monitors should start shipping out next week
Around two weeks ago, Apple was forced to pull LG's UltraFine 5K monitor from the Apple Store after a barrage of customer complaints. LG's monitor began shipping without proper shielding, making it prone to electromagnetic interference, screen flicker and other issues, none of which you would expect from a $1300 …
Read More »Middle Earth: Shadow of War is an ‘Xbox Play Anywhere’ title, PC requirements confirmed
Yesterday we received the official announcement for Middle Earth: Shadow of War, a sequel to the highly rated 2014 game, Shadow of Mordor. We have already had an awesome looking trailer and confirmation of an August release date but now, we have a few more details about the game, including …
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