February 3, 2011
Accessories, Announcements, Cooling
Kitguru readers have great taste in hardware, of that there is no question. Many of you will already have a high performance laptop, probably for gaming duties. Those of you who have tried to use a high performance machine on their lap will generally agree that it can get really …
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January 19, 2011
Cooling, Featured Announcement
Every performance enthusiast system needs high levels of cooling. An unfortunate side effect is that many fans on the market today can generate excessive noise. There is nothing you will regret more than buying a handful of cheap fans online without research. Unless you want to end up with a …
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January 9, 2011
Cooling
A couple of weeks ago a company that we hadn't heard much about before asked if we would like to look at some of their fans. So imagine our surprise when a huge box, about the size you would expect for a PC case, arrived from said company. We opened …
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January 5, 2011
Cooling, Featured Tech Reviews
Regular readers of KitGuru will already know that the Noctua NH D14 is always at the center of our high end system builds, especially when it comes to overclocking articles. Today we are looking at the NH C14, a dramatic design combining two 140mm fans, in a stack based air …
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November 19, 2010
Component, Cooling, Featured Announcement
Over the past months we've looked at numerous products from Arctic which have generally left us with positive feelings. Even though they have diversified into different markets, they still have a plentiful range of cooling products, some of which we have for review today. Today we are going to look …
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November 17, 2010
Announcements, Cases, Component, Cooling, Hard Drives
KitGuru has probably looked at more of Arctic’s products than any other brand since we started out. We can’t say that any of their products have failed to impress with many winning our most sought after awards. Arctic are very well known for their top-notch cooling products but are much …
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November 8, 2010
Cooling, Featured Tech Reviews
Many of you reading this will have overclocked a processor at one time or another – we all love added performance for no extra cost. For those who have yet to pop their OC cherry, then the first course of action is to get hold of a good cooler. This …
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October 26, 2010
Announcements, Cooling
Arctic Cooling have been releasing some great products this year and we have reviewed many of them on KitGuru, such as the incredible Arctic Cooling Accelero XTREME Plus cooler, which we really liked. Today we are looking at the baby brother of the Freezer 13, the new Freezer 11 LP …
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October 21, 2010
Cooling, Featured Announcement
Enthusiast PC users are rarely satisfied with the performance or appearance of reference bundled CPU coolers. These coolers are either not good enough, too loud or lack aesthetic appeal to be installed inside a very carefully designed system. This alone explains the huge demand for aftermarket cooling solutions and the …
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October 19, 2010
Cooling, Featured Tech Reviews, Memory
Kingston can sometimes be overlooked in enthusiast circles, which is a shame as they have some fantastic solutions on the market. They recently announced several new memory products and today we are looking at their high end HyperX H20 memory modules. The HyperX H20 are targeted at demanding gamers and …
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October 5, 2010
Announcements, Cooling
It has been a great year for Thermaltake, they have been releasing a wealth of competitive and high performing products within many enthusiast sectors. Their Frio and Contac29 coolers have met with critical acclaim and have successfully targeted two very different sectors. While the Contac 29 is a modestly priced …
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September 30, 2010
Announcements, Cooling
Arctic Cooling have been releasing some great products lately and we have covered most of them on KitGuru – such as the excellent Accelero XTREME Plus. AC are a company who combine high performance with ease of installation at reasonable prices. Today we look at the follow to the excellent …
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September 17, 2010
Component, Cooling, Featured Announcement
KitGuru has looked at a number of Arctic Cooling's products over the past weeks and they've all been impressive, winning some of our most sought after awards. One of these products was the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro (Rev.2) which proved to be a great upgrade from the Intel Stock …
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September 10, 2010
Component, Cooling, Featured Tech Reviews
Arctic Cooling's MX-3 thermal paste is currently one of the best on the market and is favoured by many enthusiasts as it performs very well and is non-conductive. In fact, KitGuru uses MX-3 to test most of the CPU coolers that pass through our labs. Despite the numerous upsides of …
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September 6, 2010
Announcements, Component, Cooling, Memory
KitGuru readers love sexy gadgets, and today we are looking at such a device from Corsair – The AirFlow Pro. What does it do? Well it fits above the Corsair AirFlow 2 fan and connects to any Dominator memory that supports DHX Pro technology to provide a dynamic display of …
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August 26, 2010
Component, Cooling, Featured Tech Reviews, Graphics
Here at KitGuru we understand that many of our readers won't be running the latest and greatest tech in their system yet will still be interested in squeezing every ounce of performance out of their components. So we shall be looking at how we can improve a low-end graphics card …
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August 25, 2010
Announcements, Cooling
Corsair and Coolit are fighting head to head with ‘high end', yet mainstream all in one liquid cooling solutions and as KitGuru recently reviewed the Coolit Vantage we felt it was time to publish our analysis of the Corsair H70 … the successor to the class leading, and very popular …
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August 23, 2010
Announcements, Cooling
With the vast selection of coolers on the market today it is hard to know which model to purchase. Will an £18 Thermaltake Contac 29 do the job or do you really need to spend over £60 on a Noctua NH D14 ? To make matters even more confusing there …
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August 20, 2010
Announcements, Cooling, Peripheral
Over the past few years NZXT have released 3 variations of their Sentry line of fan controllers. The first 2 models were front mounted inside a case which often meant cables everywhere. Today we have their first external fan controller the Sentry LXE in the KitGuru labs. The Sentry LXE …
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August 19, 2010
Component, Cooling, Featured Announcement
Here at KitGuru we spend a lot of time looking at high end products so it's easy to forget about the cheaper products at the other end of the market. Many people aren't interested in how many megahertz they can squeeze out of their top-end i7-980X CPU with the mammoth …
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August 15, 2010
Announcements, Cooling
2010 has been a great year for processor heatsinks, there are a plethora of options available, from modest budget £12 heatsinks to wallet sapping high end solutions costing in excess of £60. Today we are looking at the Corator DS from Coolink, a company perhaps not recognised by many enthusiast …
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August 6, 2010
Announcements, Cooling
Our recent review of the Silverstone Sugo SG07 stirred a lot of interest with our readers and I received emails asking if it would be possible to passively cool a high performance processor in this chassis. KitGuru seemingly has a core audience of readers who loathe noise, with a vengeance. …
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July 28, 2010
Cooling, Featured Tech Reviews
High performance coolers are much loved by the KitGuru audience and today we are going to review a cooler from Spire, a European manufacturer. This is a product we believe our readers will find rather intriguing. After all, the company claims that “this towering cooler is built to deliver the …
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July 24, 2010
Cooling
KitGuru staff always use the best quality fans we can find and this week we already reviewed the excellent Silverstone 18cm Penetrator. Today we are going to look at several fans within new cooling ranges, from Enermax. The 120mm and 140mm TB Silence fans (UCTB12 and UCTB14) and a glitzy …
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July 23, 2010
Cooling, Featured Tech Reviews
KitGuru has been impressed in 2010 with Corsair's range of products. A short while ago the Corsair AX1200 power supply walked away with our most prestigious award and is to date the highest scoring product in our reviews database with a phenomenal rating of 9.5/10. The latest products Corsair have …
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July 21, 2010
Cooling, Featured Tech Reviews
At KitGuru we believe that good cooling is a primary concern when maintaining stability with a system build, especially if you are overclocking. While we haven't looked at many fans since we opened a few months ago, today we are going to be reviewing an exciting new product from Silverstone …
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July 2, 2010
Cooling, Featured Tech Reviews
Noctua are one of our favourite companies when it comes to high end cooling and it would be accurate to say that their NH D14 ‘Austrian Sandwich' shattered all our preconceptions of just what can be achieved on air. Today we are looking at a model further down their range, …
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June 30, 2010
Cooling, Featured Tech Reviews
I admit that I have a slightly unhealthy obsession about coolers and whenever I build a system I spend a lot of time fine tuning to get the lowest possible temperatures, while achieving the maximum possible overclocks. Thankfully in 2010 there are no shortage of high quality heatsinks to choose …
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June 26, 2010
Cooling, Featured Tech Reviews
We know KitGuru readers love good coolers – our review of the Noctua Austrian Sandwich (NH D14) has been read by over 60,000 people in the last three weeks. That said, we also know that a substantial portion of that readership couldn't afford to pay almost £70 for pride of …
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May 21, 2010
Cooling, Featured Announcement
Noctua are an Austrian company well known in enthusiast circles for producing some of the finest fans on the market. I will hold my hand up – all of my systems at home incorporate their 120mm fans (NF12's) on one level or another, simply because they are class leading products. …
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