We got word late yesterday by a friend at NVIDIA that Best Buy had slipped up and released NVIDIA branded graphics cards on Sunday night. This is the first time that we have seen NVIDIA branded video cards being sold direct and we went to a few Best Buy stores in St. Louis and sure enough, we spotted the cards sitting on store shelves. We couldn’t leave the store empty handed, so we bought the card for $299.99 and headed back to see what it was all about.
The World Cyber Games 2010 Grand Final has ended and Legit Reviews wanted to give our readers a peek at what was going on when we were there over the weekend. Billed as the World’s Largest Computer and Video Game Festival we couldn’t pass this event up. Read on to see our coverage and we have some walk-through videos of the event itself, some product highlights and of course a ton of booth babe shots for you to take a closer look at!
Apple TV streams movies, TV shows, music, podcasts, and other media to your HDTV and retails for just $99. The second generation Apple TV is designed for streaming and can do so from the iTunes Store, the Internet, your other computers and popular online services YouTube and Netflix. The player runs iOS and has already been jailbroken, so read on to check out our unboxing video and first impression on this new HD media player
NZXT has been building cases for the past six years, but this summer the company said they would release their most elegant and intelligent chassis design to date with a new full tower called, the Phantom. The Phantom has 7 fan cooling options, 7 storage drives, room larger video card, support for E-ATX motherboards and even has a fan controller for up to five fans! Not a bad feature list for a case that runs around $145 shipped.
Did you know that NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 and ATI Radeon HD 5770 video cards are nearly identical in price? They are also rather inexpensive and you can get a nice NVIDIA SLI or ATI CrossFire setup with these cards for $260-$280 before rebates. The question we look at today is which setup performs better and which one scales better?
Today we get to look at the newest case from Antec, the LanBoy Air. The LanBoy Air is a fully-modular case that can be customized 34,800 ways. The LanBoy Air sports unprecedented top-to-bottom mesh construction for extensive air ventilation and includes five 120 mm fans and space for a total of 15 cooling fans! So join us as we look at this newest offering from Antec.
The ECS Black GeForce GTX 460 graphics card comes with 336 CUDA cores that are factory overclocked to 765MHz on the core clock, which is way up from the 675MHz used on the NVIDIA reference design. ECS didn’t stop there though as they added a dual fan Arctic Cooling GPU cooling solution to make sure they card operates quietly and to ensure a long service life. If you are looking at the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 series you might want to look at one of these!
AstoundSound Expander 3.0 is a software audio application that runs on your Macintosh or PC. Expander 3.0 runs in the background processing audio from all applications and takes any stereo audio as input and produces a significantly wider stereo image, while preserving center information, in real time. The result is said to be a wider, fuller and richer listening experience that can be easily heard. Read on to see if that is true.
The Thermaltake Armor A60 case is clad in black from the inside to the outside and has a tough look to it. The Armor A60 had the world’s first SideClick EasySwap design for 3.5” HDD when it came out. Read on to see how this $90 mid tower case that is directly aimed at the PC gamer and enthusiast crowd does when we build a system inside it!
Legit Reviews hit the floor NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference showcase last night and found some rather interesting autostereoscopic 3D LCD technology for mobile devices that was too good to pass up. Hitachi’s Wooo H001 mobile phone has an autostereoscopic 3.1″ screen that gives you glasses free 3D watching and we got a chance to try one out and look at the company behind the magical screen – MASTERIMAGE.
Kingston’s DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 (DTU30) features the latest technology for USB Flash drives, making it ideal for early adopters who want to take advantage of all the performance improvements offered by USB 3.0 right away. We push the try as hard as we could using synthetic benchmarks and then transferred some files to see how it performs in real world testing against several other USB devices that you might have heard of before.
The Corsair HS1 USB Gaming Headset is designed for gamers who are serious about audio. The HS1 uses massive 50mm drivers deliver serious gaming punch, without sacrificing the sparkling sound quality you need to enjoy music and movies. The headphones are topped of with a noise-canceling microphone that ensures that your teammates and opponents hear you loud and clear.
The AMD Phenom II X6 1055T is the entry level six-core processor in the Phenom II series with its overall clock frequency of 2.8GHz. With a street price of $198 and six cores is the AMD Phenom II X6 1055T CPU worth it? Read on to see how it performs in the benchmarks and to see how it handles being overclocked on our AMD 890FX test system.
The Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Media Player makes navigating and accessing your digital media files easy and lets you stream media directly from the Internet, your computer and your USB devices. This means you can easily watch, share and play your movies, music, and photos on your TV in seconds. The Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Media Player can also stream data from Netflix, Youtube, Paramount, and Flickr straight to your TV.
Building on the success they had with the Obsidian series cases Corsair has released the Graphite series. The first case in the new Graphite series is the Graphite 600T mid-tower. Corsair says the new Graphite 600T is a mid-tower with full tower features such as support for long graphics cards and 3-way SLI or CrossFireX. So, join us as we look over the new Graphite 600T from the Corsair Graphite series.
