What do you guys do with all the hardware you review ?

Each year Guru3D.com tests hundreds of products. After we reviewed the items often the hardware is send back to the manufacturer or rotated to other reviewers. However a lot of hardware however does not need to be returned as shipping and importing back exceeds the cost price, or due to the simple fact that a manufacturer doesn't want it back. Such hardware is used in our office for test systems and future articles. Next to that all reference graphics cards stay in house so that we can update articles and post our game performance articles. The rest ends up as unused inventory.

Why this information page ?

There's not a day that goes by that somebody is contacting us asking if they can purchase hardware from us, we want to be clear and transparent about it. We do not sell hardware that we reviewed to individuals, do not even bother asking us. Every so often inventory exceeds storage capacity with hardware that we have no use for. We could throw inventory away, however decided to put it to good use. The items are given to a re-seller/dealer to be sold at places like ebay/marktplaats. From these sales (which is outsourced and we are not involved in) we donate all the proceedings to ‘Stichting Kika’ based in the Netherlands.

What is Stichting Kika ?

Kika is an organization that helps out children with cancer. Each and every year over half a thousand children here in the Netherlands alone get diagnosed with cancer. We have chosen Kika as they help affected children by offering a nice fun day to forget all their sorrow and pain. But this organization also helps in the development and research in the fight against this horrible illness. Please give Kika (Kids with cancer) a visit here and if you can, make a donation.

Why ‘Stichting Kika’ ?

The editor in chief of Guru3D.com lost both his father and sister to cancer, both died at relatively young age. Something that most people have to deal with at one point in their lives as cancer is the #1 cause of death by illness these days. It is even worse when that happens to children. Guru3D tries to do its part, we actively evangelize cancer research and prevention. This website strongly believes in helping wherever we can to fight this killing disease. Within this context Guru3D.com created the United Devices folding team that later on evolved into the Folding@home team. Dozens of active users have participated and donate compute time. Currently we rank on the world global top 50 chart, crunching data to investigate the most complex diseased like cancer. Next to that money is needed, all proceeding revenue as mentioned above, are donated to Kika.

PANTHER DDR4 is shipping single-module package and it comes in 4GB or 8GB capacity. The three available clock frequencies are 2133/2400/2666MHz with tight 15-15-15-36, 16-16-16-36 timings. It supports XMP 2.0 profiles for simple and easy overclocking with 2400MHz and the frequencies above.

Yesterday the news broke that some users have reported that their AMD Radeon graphics cards have died, likely due to the new Crimson Driver software. AMD now acknowledges a software issue and is preparing a hotfix for a potentially serious fan-bug.

As Guru3D regular Hans Peder Sahl has built himself a PC worthy of being called, the “Engineering Station”. His build is intriguing in many ways and all about the design and liquid cooling. Well that and the coolant flow, check out the video to understand it. The end result, if you ask us is vastly impressive.

Read the article here.
 

As Guru3D regular Hans Peder Sahl has built himself a PC worthy of being called, the “Engineering Station”. His build is intriguing in many ways and all about the design and liquid cooling. Well that and the coolant flow, check out the video to understand it. The end result, if you ask us is vastly impressive. 

Avalanche Studios has announced a patch for its action game, Just Cause 3, which is released early in some parts in the world. 

Lenovo (HKSE:992) (ADR: LNVGY) and Razer revealed their first-ever gaming desktop prototype that will officially launch at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2016. The two companies announced that together they will co-brand and co-market special Razer Edition models of Lenovo's Y series gaming devices.

Interesting, Johan Andersson from DICE posted a tweet with the text "Dat feeling when your just arrived closed liquid cooling pre-release GPU turns out to not be so closed after all" and a photo of leaked coolant. Now that leaking info is not so relevant, but the fact that he mentions a pre-release card that obviously has liquid cooling, does.

The Skall is a spacious midi-tower that combines functionality, a stylish design and quality and all that at an attractive price-performance ratio. We will offer three different variants of the case, each with two 120 mm LED-fans behind the front cover, either in blue, green or red. The centrally located MESH element in the lower part of the front allows them to shine through in a magnificent way. 

Wowzers, we reported about this card back in July already, see here. It is finally released though. Featuring the latest GeForce GTX 980 Ti graphics processing units (GPUs) - clocked at 1367MHz - this graphics card delivers up to 21.6%-faster performance than reference cards in the 3DMark 11 Extreme benchmark test.

The G2460VQ6 is an AMD FreeSync ready screen to eliminate tearing, stuttering and input lag, this new 24-inch LED-backlight monitor supports a native resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels and provides 1000:1 contrast ratio (80M:1 DCR), 250 cd/m2 brightness, 1ms response time and 178/170 degree viewing angles.

MSI announces its 2nd generation of ECO motherboards, based on Intel's 100-series 'Skylake' chipset. Introducing 3 new models, the MSI H170M ECO, B150M ECO, and H110M ECO. 

The new revision in this SilentBase series is a more compact version of the silent series chassis. The chassis has some cool features like a double-glazed polycarbonate window. A lovely chassis design that remains tool free, it offers decent space to work in and it has very quiet airflow plus is prepped for liquid cooling. Have a peek at the product we'll review today, the Silent Base 600 Window.

Read the review here.

We review the Be Quiet! Silent Base 600 with side panel window. The new revision in this SilentBase series is a more compact version of the silent series chassis. The chassis has some cool features like a double-glazed polycarbonate window. A lovely chassis design that remains tool free, it offers decent space to work in and it has very quiet airflow plus is prepped for liquid cooling. Have a peek at the product we'll review today, the Silent Base 600 Window.

Mionix launches new generation of advanced microfiber surface in extreme sizes. Special woven cloth microfiber prevents data loss and improves tracking performance for both optical and laser gaming sensors.

That's right, 128GB - Samsung  announced today that it is mass producing the industry's first "through silicon via" (TSV) double data rate-4 (DDR4) memory in 128-gigabyte (GB) modules, for enterprise servers and data centers. 

QPAD's DX-20, the company's latest mouse, breaks new ground in more ways than one. The DX-20 is the first new mouse shape from QPAD in seven years. Equally important, it's an multi-surface mouse, meaning you can use it on more surfaces than any previous optical gaming mouse.