It wasn’t long ago that a 10,000 RPM spinning VelociRaptor drive was the pinnacle of computer storage performance and enthusiasts flocked to them. Now that the SSD has proliferated, many have forgotten about these once coveted drives. Western Digital as increased the capacity to 1TB and upped the performance 25%. How will it compete with the likes of hybrid drives and the older VelociRaptor drives? Read on to see.
The Corsair Vengeance 1300 Gaming Headset is designed to pair with your high-end sound card using dual 3.5mm headphone and microphone connectors and accurately reproduces the 3D positional audio generated by X-Fi CMSS-3D and other sound card-based positional audio systems. With custom-engineered 50mm drivers this headset should sound good, but read on to see what we think after using them for a couple weeks.
The AT&T Elevate is a 4G mobile hotspot for the AT&T network and runs $269.99 without a contract or $69.99 with a 2-year commitment. The AT&T Mobile Hotspot Elevate 4G connects up to five Wi-Fi enabled devices to the Internet with speeds up to 10x faster than 3G. With no software to install and a robust nationwide network, this hotspot should be ready for all the road warriors out there!
Today we are looking at the Venom Voodoo from Akasa. The Akasa Venom Voodoo features two 120mm viper fans and six high capacity heatpipes
that directly touch the processor! With a street price of around $55 shipped, this is an affordable cooler, but how does it perform? Join us as we put the Venom Voodoo on our Intel LGA2011 test bench to see how it handles the heat.
Back on March 21st, we brought you our review on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 reference card. Last week we followed that up with review of that card focused on single card 2D Surround gaming and then in another review featuring 2-way SLI performance. We didn’t have time to run a full set of 2-way SLI performance numbers in 2D surround mode, but we found some time over the Easter break and made it happen.
If you are a hardcore MMO player, one of the most overlooked peripherals is your keyboard and mouse. These are the link between you and taking down Deathwing so Corsair came up with a mechanical keyboard and mouse duo to make that linkage as strong as possible. Do they improve your game play or just get in the way, read on to find out.
The Intel Z77 Express chipset is now out in the wild! To celebrate we are going to be looking at two Intel Z77 motherboards from GIGABYTE. The GA-Z77X-UD5 WiFi and the GA-Z77X-UD3H will be given an in-depth look in this review. How will they do against another Intel Z77 and Z68 motherboard? Read on to find out as we put these boards and the new chipset to the test with a Sandy Bridge processor!
We were about to give up on an affordable triple monitor stand that had articulating arms for a sweet AMD Eyefinity or NVIDIA Surround gaming setup when we ran across the MonMount LCD-1930 Triple LCD Monitor Stand Desk Mount that costs just $48.88 plus shipping! Compared to the other three monitor stands on the market this one looks like a bargain! Read on to see what we think of this space saving mount!
We got our hands on a second NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 graphics card, so we can see how it performs in 2-way SLI! The only thing better than one GeForce GTX 680 is running two of them together right? The focus of this article will be from the single monitor point of view, so we’ll be bringing you performance numbers at 2560×1600, 1920×1080 and 1280×1024 to show you how this setup performs.
It seems like only yesterday when OCZ debuted the original Vertex drive complete with a then little known Indilinx engineered controller. Those drives flew off the shelves and helped put OCZ on the SSD map. For the fourth generation Vertex, Indilinx is back, this time proprietary to only OCZ and ready to take on all comers. Just how does it stack up with the likes of Intel and Samsung? Have a look to see what we found!
When we reviewed the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 graphics card we covered many of the features, but one feature that we didn’t have the time to test for the launch article was NVIDIA Surround. The GeForce GTX 680 has the ability to run 3D Vision Surround off a single card! As you can imagine, this makes for a richer gaming experience and we put it to the test today!
Earlier this month MSI launched the companies AMD Radeon HD 7970 based Lightning series video card, the R7970 Lightning. The MSI R7970 Lightning is clocked at 1070 MHz on the core and 1400 MHz on the memory (5600 MHz effective). This is an impressive 15.7% clock increase on the core and a mediocre 1.8% on the memory. Read on to see how this $599 video card performs against the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 and take a look at how far we overclocked it!
AT&T has been steadily growing the number of 4G LTE devices they offer and one of the more recent 4G LTE tablets has caught our attention. Besides being a very portable and affordable ($299) 8-inch tablet, the Pantech Element also happens to be waterproof! We haven’t ever had the chance to play with waterproof electronics here on Legit Reviews! Read on to see how the Pantech Element performed!
Micron’s P400e RealSSD drive is designed specifically with the enterprise user in mind with extra overprovisioning and a firmware tailored to business applications, and the popular Marvell 9174 controller. As an entry level drive, performance is not going to be top notch but how does it compare to its peers? Have a look at the article to see.
Today we are looking at the smallest of Corsair’s Carbide series, the Carbide 300R. The Corsair Carbide 300R is a compact midtower gaming chassis that can support long graphics cards, large air coolers, SuperSpeed USB 3.0 and up to seven 120mm fans. Not bad for a case that can be found online for $80 shipped. Join us to see if the Carbide 300R from Corsair would be a good fit for your next PC build!
