Intel teamed up with the folks at GraVT to develop a ‘studio-in-a-box’ PC for hobbyist and aspiring professional content creators. The result is a system that is powered by a 2nd generation Intel Core i7-2600K processor and a Intel Solid-State Drive to give you the performance you crave. Read on to see what parts this system uses and how it performs. You can also enter to win this PC as we are giving it away!
Antec announced the Eleven Hundred, the newest member of the company’s Gaming Series this morning. The Eleven Hundred has an all-new attractive design and a revamped lineup of expandability, cooling and convenience features. The new Eleven Hundred has some of the updates that the P280 received and a couple more. Join us as we give the new Antec Gaming Series Eleven Hundred Super Midtower a closer look.
Are your NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 or GTX 570 running hot and loud? Overclocking potential limited? Koolance, a company well known for water cooling, has the answer with a full coverage water block that is just dead sexy. Legit drops this on one of our recently reviewed GTX 570’s and sticks it into one of our under water systems to see if it performs as good as it looks.
Legit Reviews has a great forum drawing this month thanks to GraVT and Intel! Our good friends over at Intel and GraVT have assembled an amazing photography focused system for Legit Reviews to give away this holiday season! With Thanksgiving right around the corner it only makes sense to give back to our faithful followers. Legit Reviews turns nine years old on November 25th, so this is a way to thank the millions of readers that have visited the site over the years!
Since we posted our launch article on the Intel Core i7-3960X we have been getting e-mails asking about detailed memory questions on the Intel X79 platform. Today, we show you how single, dual, triple and quad-channel performs on the Intel DX79SI motherboard! We also test out 1066, 1333, 1600, 1866 and 2133 MHz memory performance with a quad-channel kit to see what happens to performance at various clock speeds. This is a must read review if you are going Intel X79!
With the rise of SSDs, many notebook computers lack the plethora of storage they once had so G-Technologies offers their G-DRIVE Mini 750GB external drive for expansion. While more Mac oriented in design and function with its FireWire 800 connectors, it’s just as at home on a Windows machine through FireWire or USB 2.0 connections. How well does it perform? Read on to see.
Today we have Antec’s newest addition to the Performance One series, the P280. Continuing the legacy of Performance One enclosures, the P280 integrates quiet technologies such as sound-dampening steel / polycarbonate side panels, a triple-layer front door and hard drive trays with preinstalled vibration-reducing silicone grommets. Antec says that with the P280 they have fixed some things that users didn’t care for, so let’s find out if they did!
With the introduction of the new Intel LGA2011 socket and X79 chipset comes new processors and today Intel announced the Core i7-3960X, Core i7-3930K and the Core i7-3820. The bad news is that only the Core i7-3960X and the Core i7-3930K are available for purchase today at $990 and $555, respectively. Read on to see how the Core i7-3960X performs against numerous other processors!
The Intel X79 Express motherboards are finally here! Today we have the first of what will likely be many LGA2011 motherboards, the ASUS P8X79 Pro. The ASUS P9X79 Pro is an Intel Socket 2011 motherboard from the middle of the ASUS product stack. We are going to put it through the paces to see how it compares to an Intel X58 system, an Intel Z68 system, and AMD ‘Bulldozer’, and Phenom II X6 system! Does it crush the competition, or did it get bulldozed? Join us as we find out what the new Intel X79 system is capable of!
This summer BitFenix launched a mid-tower ATX enclosure called Outlaw that is aimed at PC builders on a budget. At $49, this case still manages to offer premium features, an innovative layout, and superior styling. This case has a motherboard tray that has been flipped upside down, placing the graphics card close to the top of the case. Read on to check out the BitFenix Outlaw.
The GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD7 AMD 900 series motherboard was designed from the ground up to be a stable, high-speed platform for AMD Socket AM3+ processors. We test out this AMD 990FX mainboard by using the recently released AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer 8-core processor on it to see how it performs and overclocks. Read on to see how this $209.99 motherboard does in all of the tests we throw at it.
Back in 2006, Zaward implemented a patent for dimpled surfaces on the impeller of a cooling fan, and followed up with the release of their Generation 1 Golf Fans to the market. The distinctive shape of the GOLF FAN has become a trademark of Zaward products and has been reused by companies like Sharkoon & Rosewill with cooling fans, heatsinks, and power supplies. Today we get to look at the brand new Generation 3 Golf fans from Sharkoon and test their performance for ourselves!
ASUS officially announced the successor to the Eee Pad Transformer tablet PC and the world’s first tablet with the NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor with the introduction of the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime. Read on to see what the features ASUS include on this 10.1-inch Android tablet and if it is worth waiting for!
Since we’ve already looked at the flagship AMD FX-8150 8-core processor and had disappointing results we thought we’d look at the entry level AMD FX processor, the FX-4100. The AMD FX-4100 is a quad-core processor is basically a FX-8150 with 4-cores disabled. The AMD FX-4100 even has the same 3.6 GHz base clock speed as the FX-8150! Read on to see how this $110 processor performs and if it is the processor to get!
Is it a coincidence that it is around Halloween and ASUS would send us a wolf in sheep’s clothing? The GTX 570 DirectCU II is a triple slot cooling monster with a sheepish factory overclock and sexy sweet looks. Sure it is massive and looks good but how does it perform? Legit Reviews throws it onto our test bench to find out if giving up three slots allows us to overclock this sheep into a wolf.
