Have you ever wanted to fly a remote-controlled helicopter with your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad? With the Griffin HELO TC iOS-controlled RC helicopter you can transform your multi-touch display into flight controls for an infrared helicopter for under $50. With the holidays coming up, we couldn’t help but take the HELO TC for a test drive to see how it performs!
ASUS has a reputation for making quality products. Whether it’s a graphics card, motherboard or laptop, if it’s from ASUS it has to be good, right? Today we have the chance to look at the ASUS F1A75-V Pro. The ASUS F1A75-V Pro is one of eight AMD A75 FCH motherboards from ASUS. Will the ASUS F1A75-V Pro live up to the ASUS name? Read on to find out!
Almost 2 years ago, XL-ATX set out to be the defining standard for enthusiast grade motherboards. Some early successes came about since EVGA and Gigabyte released boards using the standard, but it never became mainstream. With that said, today we get to look at another XL-ATX case design for gamers with the Rosewill Thor v2; which is an update to the original Thor that we reviewed back in March 2011.
The ASUS Eee Pad Transformer TF101 tablet is one of the best selling Android tablets on the market today. ASUS is moving 500,000 of these tablet PCs a month and we just had to get our hands on one to try out to see what all the fuss is about! Read on to see the ASUS Transformer and the optional dock perform in a number of benchmarks and battery tests. With an NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processor powering this tablet it should do fairly well!
The ASUS WAVI solves the problem of how to look at something on your PC by wirelessly sending it to your TV! The WAVI uses a pair of boxes to transfer wireless transmission signals via HDMI allow for wireless cross-room transmission with a range of 25 meters at 5GHz, delivering real-time PC content to the living room TV. Could a device like this eliminate the need for a HTPC?
NZXT is a rather new contender to the cooling market, with just in the past year’s time releasing both a new fan series and a new CPU cooler. Today I’ve had a chance to look at and extensively use their new FX-120LB, FX-140LB & FS-200LB-RLED fans. We’ll find out if NZXT has what it takes to contend in the cooling market, what they have done in the case market and find out if these fans are really worth your buck.
Today we are looking at the EVERCOOL Transformer 3 HDT CPU Cooler. The Transformer 3 is EVERCOOL’s newest budget offering released earlier this year. Transformer 3 is equipped with a 12cm silent PWM fan, special designed cooling fins and three U-shape heat pipes with H.D.T Tech to help provide excellent cooling performance. Join us to see how well the EVERCOOL Transformer 3 does on our Intel Core i7-930 test system.
The Western Digital 500GB My Passport Essential portable hard drive features a SuperSpeed USB 3.0 port for fast file transfers along with data backup software called WD SmartWare that helps keep your data safe. Read on to see how the WD My Passport Essential performs and how the backup software actually works as we put this external drive to the test!
Legit Reviews is going covert and has been granted access to something Classified from EVGA. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 video card has been touted as almost a GeForce GTX 580 at a much nicer price and EVGA throws an decent factory overclock on top of that. If you have the clearance to read this classified information see how much farther LR can push this card without extreme cooling.
Corsair officially launched the companies first generation USB 3.0 Flash drives on May 19th, 2011 and more recently on September 9th, 2011 they announced the launch of their second generation USB 3.0 Flash drives. Legit Reviews got our hands on one of these new ‘2nd generation’ Flash Voyager 3.0 16GB drives and just had to run some performance tests on it to see how these new drives perform!
Do you remember the ‘Pipe Dream’ video from 2001? It was done back in by an animation company called Animusic. Intel hired on a company called SISU Devices to help them bring an animators vision to life! It took the company just under 90 days of work and roughly $160,000 to design and develop something in real life that could mimic the original animated video.
While walking around the technology showcase at the Intel Developer Forum we ran across a booth in the future technologies lab that caught our attention as it was a CPU cooling demo that showed a passive cooling design and we are suckers for silent computing. We had to take a closer look and what we saw was different. Read on to take a look at a passive CPU cooler on an Intel Core i5-2500T processor and see how it performs!
What does the real future of computing look like? How will the research and technology advancements today shape and accelerate our tomorrow? Justin Rattner, Intel’s chief technology officer, revealed the latest advances in multi-core and many-core, two hardware architectures that can be used to solve a wide range of computational problems and tasks today during the last keynote of IDF 2011!
When we first tested the M4 drive, we found the performance to be decent but it lacked some of the performance of the similarly equipped Intel 510 Series drive. Crucial has released a new firmware update that claims to make significant performance enhancements. Exactly how much improvement will it elicit? Have a look at our test to see the performance now versus then.
Since not everyone is able to make it to IDF 2011, we are bringing it to you. While we’re at the Intel Developer Forum we had the chance to sit down with GIGABYTE. The had a couple of their Intel X79 on display for all to see. The motherboards that GIGABYTE had on display ranged from mild to wild! What were they showing off at IDF 2011? Read on to find out!
