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Today we have a very special review for our readers, a look at the world's slimmest and lightest 15.6 inch Gaming Notebook. The MSI GS60 2PE Ghost Pro is currently available in 3 different flavours – one will ship with a 3K screen, another with Nvidia GTX860M discrete graphics. The …

More and more of us are using Smart TV's, but invariably we try and control this awesome power with a traditional magic wand. Plugging a media centre PC into the TV brings advantages – and challenges of its own. The problem of ‘remote control' is central to this. Logitech has …

While 98% of all competitions flagged on KitGuru are ‘home grown', in the sense that they are all about us – every now and then we hear of an opportunity to win something through a partner or two and we don't want you to miss out. This is one of …

KitGuru focuses primarily on PC oriented hardware reviews – but that doesn't mean from time to time we won't find something genuinely interesting enough for our readers in other hardware related areas. With this in mind we were recently offered a look at the Seagate 1TB SSHD drive, a hybrid …

Well guys it's that time again- the winners have been picked for our giveaway in collaboration with CyberPower UK and Gigabyte! Thanks to everyone who entered. The winner of the grand prize is Owen Davies, enjoy your brand new £1399 PC featuring an Intel Core i5 4690 CPU and a …

I recently took a look at Corsair's Raptor gaming keyboard and although I wasn't overly impressed due to a lack of mechanical keys, the backlighting was top notch. Today we look at the Raptor M45 gaming mouse to find out if it can tickle our gaming sweet spot. Features Adjustable …

You probably read our analysis earlier this week of the MSI R9 280 Gaming v PNY GTX760 XLR8 graphics cards. If you want a solution to game around the £200 sweet spot then you won't get much better! Over the next week KitGuru is giving these cards away to two …

MSI is celebrating the World Cup by launching two new competitions. From now until the 27th of June, anyone who buys an MSI gaming laptop will be entered to win a Samsung 65″ Slim LED HD 3D TV worth £2499.99. Second place will receive a Budweiser fridge and third place will …

We all love to play games! It is likely your dream graphics card will be either a GTX 780 Ti or R9 290X. Not fast enough for you? – then how about AMD's R9 295X2 or Nvidia's Titan Z? Be prepared to dig deep into your bank account at £1,100 …

Mechanical keyboards have been popular with the gaming audience now for some time, but they can often be rather expensive. Corsair recently released their K40 gamer keyboard which uses more mainstream rubber domes but takes a leaf out of the ‘mechanical playbook' by keeping the switches separate from one another. It also …

If you are shopping for a new high performance graphics card, then Nvidia's GTX780 Ti surely has a spot right at the top of the list. Today we look at a highly overclocked and customised model – the Inno3D GeForce GTX 780Ti iChill DHS. This card ships with one of …

We have had a lot of competitions running in the last month and today Gigabyte join the giveaway madness by offering up motherboards, coolers, pen drives and headsets! These prizes are open to residents in Europe. The 1st Prize is a Gigabyte Z97X-SOC Motherboard, Corsair Raptor HS30 Gaming Headset and …

One of the most popular sites at any technology show, is that of an expert overclocker pouring LN2 into a record breaking build. Gigabyte's suits in Taipai 101 was no different. KitGuru gets an introduction. To say that someone ‘ Wrote the book on overclocking', might sound like an overstatement. …

Founded in 1986, Gigabyte is one of the Taiwan Top 20 Global Brands, with a company motto that suggests you ‘Upgrade your life'. With four new ranges of boards coming into the market, we wanted to make sure we got a complete tour. Enter Nigel Sutch, regional sales and marketing …

Seasonic have had an active couple of months – in May we reviewed their Platinum 1,200W Modular PSU and today we are looking at the new X-Series 1250W – a refresh on the older model which we looked at, way back in 2012. The new model is a pure modular …

Nobody ever wants to feel left out, which is why even though our recently reviewed AVIOR mouse was designed to offer a grip for both palm and claw grip gamers, Mionix didn't release an ambidextrous mouse and tell you to ‘get on with it'. No it's also got an ergonomic …

Approaching Computex from the Geeks point of view – it provides a gorgeous concentration of technologies spread across multiple locations in Taipei for a week. But this year, there was a serious restriction placed on the number of local folks who could get in. The show's organisers had listened to …

Today we have a monster competition starting courtesy of our good friends over at MSI. One lucky KitGuru reader will win one of their new flagship Gaming 9 AC motherboards, as well as an R9 290X Gaming graphics cards and a limited edition Steelseries Siberia V2 headset! MSI will be …

Last week we reviewed two new cost effective Ultra HD 4K monitors from ASUS and AOC. No longer do you need to pay £2,000+ to land a 60hz 4K monitor for gaming –  these new models have hit retail for less than £600. Buying the monitor is only part of …

If like many millions around the world, you're gearing up to watch the world cup with fevered excitement, then why not join in with be quiet!'s tipster competition and be in with a chance of winning some brand new be quiet! gear? Beginning on 12th June and open to those …

There are a lot of household names in the PC peripheral industry, especially when it comes to gaming. However, like the games themselves, there are brands that are more dominant in certain parts of the world – it is often only after much time and growth that they start showing up outside …

We had a lot of entries for a chance to win one of three BioStar Hi-Fi Z97WE motherboards. We picked the three lucky winners today! The winners are! 1: Jordon Dicks – (FB page) 2: Dylan Houser – (FB page) 3: Johnna Rhodus – (FB page) Check your email guys …

We had thousands of entries for this fantastic competition with ASUS and SEASONIC. We looked through the entries over the weekend and one lucky winner will be walking away with a brand new Asus Sabertooth Z97, Asus GTX760 DCUII and Seasonic Platinum 860W power supply! The winner is Shane Russell …

The SteelSeries Sensei mouse was a hit with gamers and tournament players but now the peripheral has taken the next step in its evolution. SteelSeries has released the Sensei Wireless with an improved sensor and a slightly different aesthetic amongst other additional features- but is it worth the extra cost? …

Networked storage maker Synology has today announced the beginning of a World Cup themed competition on its Twitter, giving fans the chance to win one of five Hauppage picoStick Golds, just by tweeting a World Cup themed picture with their NAS in it. It can be as simple as you …

2014 is the year of Ultra HD 4K. Prices have been dropping steadily in recent months and today we look at the latest 4K panel from AOC, the U2868PQU. This WLED/ TN panel has onboard speakers, a 60hz refresh rate, 1ms GTG response and a 1000:1 typical contrast ratio. At …

bequiet! is running a worldwide competition from the 28th of May until the 10th of June 2014, giving away four brand new power supplies to four lucky winners. In order to enter, you'll have to head over to the bequiet! competition page. From there, you'll have to answer two simple, …

With growing adoption in laptops and portable devices, as well as desktop systems, 802.11ac WiFi continues to gain pace in the consumer market. With a theoretical transfer speed of well over a Gigabit per second, wirelessly, can the Linksys EA6900 802.11ac router prove that ultra high-speed WiFi connections are indeed …

KitGuru was one of the first websites to regularly start using an Ultra HD 4K monitor in graphics card reviews, mid 2013. We adopted the wallet sapping Asus PQ321QE and have been mighty impressed with the gorgeous IGZO display. PQ321QE prices have dropped from £3,000 to £2,400 recently, but the …

The modern gaming mouse market is a diverse one, from ambidextrous, cut back and clean looking mice, to those festooned with buttons, bells whistles to look like something created in a future space race. Today we review one that looks like it was lifted straight from the latest Tron movie. …