It’s been almost 5 years since Zalman introduced their old ZM-F3 fan. Today I’ve had a chance to look at and extensively use their brand new Zalman ZM-SF3 & ZM-F3-FDB Fans. We will now find out if Zalman has produced a suitable successor to their original F series and if it upholds the legacy of their Original F Series fans and the performance and quiet characteristics that those products brought to the market.
Today we are looking at the second case offering form the BitFenix. This newest case is a midtower aimed at the mainstream market and at gamers who move their system around to LAN parties. BitFenix has named the this new case, Survivor. Join us as we look over the Survivor and see what it has to offer as we show you the case fresh out of the box to being fully built up with a system inside!
Network cards are like sound cards for most end users, in that a majority are happy as can be with the ports that their motherboard comes with, and Bigfoot Networks is the kingpin of the gaming network card market, providing gamers with “The” NICs (Network Interface Cards) to have. Well, today we are looking at the latest standalone NIC from Bigfoot Networks, the Killer 2100. More importantly we will be seeing if high performance gaming network cards live up to their hype.
Thermaltake comes to us today with an interesting gadget in the Mobile Fan 12. A unique product, the Mobile Fan 12 is a 120mm USB powered fan meant to sit next to your keyboard or mouse and cool your hands off during the long hours of typing or gaming. Today we’ll see just how useful this gadget can be.
The new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 1280MB graphics card looks very similar to the GeForce GTX 480, but comes with a much lower price tag and faster clock speeds. Read on to see how the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 does against nearly twenty other video cards when we put it to the test on 11 benchmark applications! This might just be a card to pick up for yourself this holiday!
The AMD Phenom II X6 product line is getting a new member of the family today. This isn’t just any member of the family, it was bred to be the head of the household. The new AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black edition processor is the new flagship CPU from AMD and runs at a native 3.3GHz and has a turbo that cooks along at 3.8GHz. If you are as curious as I was to see how the AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition processor will perform, read on!
The recently released O!Play HD2 is the flagship HD media player from ASUS. This player boasts new hardware features like USB 3.0, on-board 3.5-inch SATA Hard Drive storage, NAS support, iPhone interconnectivity and DLNA compatibility. The ASUS O!Play HD2 media player also can play a wide variety of media formats and the feature list goes on. Read on to see if this player has what it takes to be hooked up to your HDTV!
Going green is the thing to do these days. Not only does it save space, it saves the environment. Logitech is at the forefront of this push for a greener world with the release of their new Solar Keyboard the K750 Wireless Solar Keyboard. Yes, you heard right – solar. As in, no more batteries.
The Screwpop 4-in-1 keychain tool easily fits on any size keyring and is great for championing all types of random do-it-yourself projects. This sub $10 tool has two of the most common screwdriver sizes available, a 1/4″ nut driver and a bottle cap opener for when you are done with that last minute project that you helped someone out with. Read on to see if the Screwpop is a worthy holiday gift!
With the new lower price of the AMD Phenom II X6 1075T Hex-Core processor, it may just be the new leader in the battle for price versus performance. Follow us on our magic carpet ride as we put the AMD Phenom II X6 1075T Hex-Core processor through it’s paces and compare it to several of our other processors. Just how well did it do? Read on to find out!
Are you trying to build a great performing Intel X58 system? Are you trying to do it on a budget? GIGABYTE may just have the board that you are looking for! The GIGABYTE GA-X58-USB3 retails for only $179.99 and if it lives up to the GIGABYTE name, you know it is going to offer up some great performance! Read on to see how it performs in our battery of tests and see if we can get some extra performance by overclocking our Intel Core I7 950 with this “budget” board!
Looking for the performance of a notebook in the size of a netbook? At just 11.6-inches wide, 1 inch tall and weighing just 3.1lbs, the Acer Aspire 1551 could be the ultra portable computing device you’ve been dreaming about. The Acer Aspire 1551 notebook is powered the AMD Turion II Neo K625 Dual-Core processor that runs at 1.50GHz and a discrete ATI Radeon HD 4225 video card handles the graphics!
A couple weeks ago we got an e-mail from ASUS that caught us a bit off guard. ASUS wanted to know if we were interested in a second sample of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 graphics card for SLI based testing. Of course we jumped at the opportunity as we would love to see what a pair of NVIDIA flagship video cards has to offer in SLI and we are sure you would love to see the numbers as well. Read on to see how this setup does!
It seems like every week another company joins the SSD fray with a drive of their own. Granted, there’s still a lot of users that still haven’t made the leap from the trusty old platter hard drive. Does Zalman, a company best known for their cooling and cases, have what it takes to get a piece of the SSD pie? They’re making an effort with their launch of two different SSD lines. We’ll have a look at the N Series to see if it stacks up with the other SandForce drives already on the market.
Today Legit Reviews gets to look at the second revision to the GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R. Just as in the original design, it’s loaded with features along with a few new ones like a twelve phase power design (compared to the original’s eight) and an extra USB 2.0 port that keeps the port powered even when the computer is turned off. Read on to see if it earns a spot in your computer.
