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Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X Video Card -- Tue, Nov 03, 2009

Sapphire has added their Vapor-X vapor chamber cooling technology to the Radeon HD 5870 series and has launched a doozy of a card today. Read on to see how this factory overclocked Radeon HD 5870 does with a superior cooling solution in place to keep the RV870 core nice and cool. You might just be surprised to see how well this card does!

Western Digital WD TV Live HD Media Player -- Mon, Nov 02, 2009

The WD TV HD Media Player turns your NAS or external storage drive into an HD media player. Connect your USB hard drive to this device and you can instantly play crisp HD movies, listen to high-quality digital music, and watch slideshows of your family photos on your TV. No need to figure out complicated home networking or reconnect AV and power cables. What could be simpler?

VidaBox Wireless HTPC Media Keyboard with Laser Trackball -- Sun, Nov 01, 2009

The 4th generation Premium Wireless HTPC Media Center Keyboard with Laser Trackball from VidaBox comes with all the features of its previous models, and more! The most significant new addition is the 2000 dpi laser trackball that has been included for more precise, accurate control. Read on to see how this wireless HTPC media keyboard performs!

Unigine 'Heaven' - The First DirectX 11 Benchmark -- Sat, Oct 31, 2009

Last week on October 22, Unigine Corp. announced the release of the World's first true DirectX 11 benchmark "Heaven" that is based on its proprietary Unigine engine. This is fairly big news as we can finally get to see how DirectX 11 will look and run on the latest DirectX 11 graphics cards from AMD. Read on to see how the Radeon HD 5870, 5850, 5770 and 5750 do on this tough DX11 benchmark!

nMediaPC HTPC 8000 Wooden HTPC Case -- Fri, Oct 30, 2009

nMediaPC recently introduced the first retail Wooden HTPC Case! The classic looking HTPC 8000 case not only will meet your HTPC needs, with its smart internal design, it can easily meet most any gamer's expectations. It supports full ATX motherboard, ATX PSU and all full length video cards to boot.

Cogage TRUE Spirit LGA1366 CPU Cooler -- Thu, Oct 29, 2009

Back in April of this year Thermalright announced a new brand called Cogage. Cogage will be the arm of Thermalright that will focus on the mainstream market. Join us as we look at one of their first offerings to the cooling world, the TRUE Spirit.

Gigabyte GTX 260 Core 216 Super Overclock Video Card Review -- Wed, Oct 28, 2009

The Gigabyte GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Super Overclock Video Card comes factory overclocked if you couldn't figure that out by the name. The standard core clock of 576MHz has been bumped up to 680MHz, which is an 18% frequency boost over the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 reference design. With clock speeds like this you can expect 3% better performance than standard GTX 275 graphics cards!

Plantronics Discovery 975 Bluetooth Headset Review -- Tue, Oct 27, 2009

Beneath the sleek exterior of the Discover 975 Bluetooth headset are the advanced technologies that keep your calls clear and your voice sounding natural, even in a noisy environment. Providing the simplicity of one touch control, this headset offers Dual-mic AudioIQ and WindSmart technologies that keep your conversations crystal-clear.

Intel Launches TRIM Firmware For 34nm SSDs -- Mon, Oct 26, 2009

Intel today announced the availability of the Intel Solid-State Drive (SSD) Toolbox, with Intel SSD Optimizer and a firmware update to enable TRIM and to boost performance on select 34nm Intel X25-M Mainstream SATA SSDs. Read on to see how the Intel X25-M Mainstream 160GB Generation 2 SATA SSD does with the new firmware!

Kingston 40GB V Series Boot Drive SSD Review -- Sun, Oct 25, 2009

Kingston today announced the release of the SSDNow V Series 40GB Boot Drive, the latest addition to its V (Value) family of solid-state drives (SSD). This drive will cost a mere $84.99 after rebates when it is launched on November 9, 2009. You'll be shocked to learn that inside this drive is an Intel 2nd Generation controller and 34nm MLC NAND! This might be the bargain of the year when it comes to storage.

Overclocking The MSI 790FX-GD70 Motherboard Revisited -- Sat, Oct 24, 2009

Our first go at overclocking the MSI 790FX-GD70 was not a very good experience. We ended up blowing up a component on the board before we were able to get any results. MSI sent out a replacement board and today we will see if the new board will give us some love, or will it just blow blow up like the last one.

Kingston 256GB SSDNow V+ Series SSD Review -- Fri, Oct 23, 2009

The Kingston SSDNow V+ Solid State Drive (SSD) series features sequential read speeds of up to 220MB/sec. and write speeds of up to 180MB/sec. This makes it nearly twice as fast as the original SSDNow V series of drives, so be sure to read on to check out Kingston's latest mainstream SSD offering!

Corsair Cooling Ice T30 TEC Memory Cooler Review -- Thu, Oct 22, 2009

Corsair has industry’s first thermoelectric (TEC) cooler designed from the ground up for memory modules. Today Legit Reviews has a closer look at this ice cold memory cooler. Read on to see how this cooler works and what it means for memory cooling on some Dominator GT memory modules!

ATI Radeon HD 5870 + 5850 CrossFire - Mixing Video Cards -- Wed, Oct 21, 2009

Today, we are looking at ATI's flagship Radeon HD 5870 video card and will be pairing it together with the Radeon HD 5850 video card to seeing how they work together in mixed CrossFire. We've previously reviewed both of these series in CrossFire before, but never dared to look at them mixed together and running CrossFire.

NZXT Lexa S Mid Tower PC Case Review -- Tue, Oct 20, 2009

The NZXT Lexa S computer case is designed for enhanced airflow with capability for 5 fans including 120mm fans on the front, side, and exhaust with a 140 mm fan on top. Lexa S offers gamers sleek aesthetics with a smoked clear window and all black interior along with a 5.25" stealth bay, turned HDD cage, and punched holes in the motherboard which makes for a cleaner look. Read on to see if this case is right for you!