SuperSpeed USB 3.0 on the ASUS P7P55D-E Premium

USB (Universal Serial Bus) is just now beginning to transition from Hi-Speed USB 2.0 to SuperSpeed USB 3.0, which has been a long time coming. SuperSpeed USB 3.0, as it is officially called, is touted as being the next generation in bus interfaces and full backwards compatibility with USB 2.0 and 1.1. Read on to see how it performs!

By Nathan Kirsch

Thermaltake Element G Gaming Case Review

In the computer chassis industry, Thermaltake is well-renowned for their professional engineering and high-performance products. When designing the Element G case, Thermaltake engineers opted for a classic, yet dramatic look with the option to switch on a variety of case lighting effects. Read on to see if the Thermaltake Element G is the right case for gamers and enthusiasts!

By Dan Stoltz

Patriot Box Office HD Media Player Firmware Update

The Patriot Box Office is a media player that frees your digital media library from the constraints of a PC and bridges digital media to your home entertainment system. The Box Office also supports the most popular media formats (H.264, ISO, VOB, DivX, xVid, MKV, MOV, MPEG and more) and recently came out with a firmware update to play Blu-Ray ISO files. Check it out!

By Ken Brown

NZXT Beta Evo Mid Tower Black Steel Computer Case

The NZXT Beta EVO is a mid tower black steel chassis that comes at a budget price of $29.99. Beta EVO features advanced cooling performance with support for up to 6 120mm fans with an option of a 140mm fan at the top. Beta EVO also provides external dual radiator support along with a meshed front panel allowing for enhanced cooling potential.

By bgiacoletti

Thermaltake BlacX Duet HDD Docking Station

The Thermaltake BlacX Duet is a budget friendly dual drive SATA HDD docking station that provides fast, convenient access to 2.5” or 3.5″ SATA or SATA II (SATA /300) hard drive contents through either USB or eSATA connections. The best part about this product is that you never need to open a computer case or mount hard drives in an enclosure.

By Joe Evans

QNAP TS-419P Turbo NAS 4-Bay Network Storage Review

The QNAP TS-419P Turbo NAS features space for 4 hot-swappable SATA hard drives with up to 8TB of total capacity and supports 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch hard drives. The QNAP TS-419P is also fairly powerful as it uses a Marvell 1.2GHz CPU and 512MB DDRII memory. Read on to see how it does!

By Legit Staff

Thermaltake SD100 mini ITX Home Theater Chassis

Thermaltake introduced the SD100 to target the Mini-ITX home theater HTPC market. With a sleek, glossy black exterior and well ventilated interior, the SD100 is designed to be functional while blending into the rest of a high tech home theater setup. Read on to see what we think of this budget friendly $85 case!

By mcollins

ATI Radeon HD 5970 Dual-GPU Video Card Review

The Radeon HD 5970 is the latest dual-GPU flagship video card by AMD. This card has 3200 stream processors clocked at 725MHz and 2GB of GDDR5 memory at 1GHz! Will this be enough to destroy the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295? Read on to find out how this card does and to see if AMD has what it takes to be the fastest video card on the planet again!

By Nathan Kirsch

Two Kingston 40GB V Series Boot Drive SSDs in RAID 0

Today, we will be taking a look at the performance of two Kingston 40GB V Series Boot Drive SSDs. Two of these drives can be bought today for $115 each, which at $230. You can put them into RAID 0 and have a nice little 80GB data array. This is also slightly less expensive than a Kingston SSDNow M Series SNM225-S2/80GB drive as they cost $245.

By Nathan Kirsch

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 Video Card Preview

The GeForce GT 240 is NVIDIA’s latest performance-class GPU that can be picked up for under $99. With 96 processor cores and with a frame buffer of either 512MB or 1024MB these little budget cards should perform pretty well, but obviously still lack support for DirectX 11. Read on to see what one of these cards will get you in our preview.

By bgiacoletti

ASUS P7H57D-V EVO Motherboard Preview – H57 Chipset

Some very interesting pictures just landed in the Legit Reviews mailbox of the upcoming ASUS P7H57D-V EVO Motherboard! These are the first good quality pictures that we have seen of the Intel H57 Express chipset, so we had to share them with our readers. Read on to take a sneak peak at the ASUS P7H57D-V EVO motherboard!

By Nathan Kirsch

Thecus N0204 miniNAS Pocket RAID Storage Review

Don’t let its small size fool you – the Thecus N0204 miniNAS comes with RAID 0, 1, and JBOD support, which means that you can optimize your storage for speed or security. Never before has there been a NAS storage device this small that can be purchased for under $150. Read on to see how it does with a pair of Kingston SSDNow 40GB V Series 2.5″ drives in RAID 0!

By Nathan Kirsch

Leadtek PxVC1100 MPEG-2/H.264 Transcoding Card

The WinFast PxVC1100 is an MPEG-2/H.264 transcoding card developed by Leadtek and features the Toshiba high-performance stream processor SpursEngine. The WinFast PxVC1100 has four Synergistic Processing Element (SPE) cores based on the “Cell Broadband Engine”. Read on to see how this single slot PCI-Express based low profile card does on our Intel Core i7 system!

By brian

Cooler Master Storm Sniper Black Edition Case

Today we will be looking at the Black Edition Sniper from Cooler Master. The new and improved Sniper Black Edition includes all the features and functionality of the original Sniper, and raises the bar by including an all-black interior coating, full 2.5” SSD support and three huge Storm Force 200mm 142CFM fans!

By Shane Higgins

New Need For Speed: Shift Patch Boosts AMD GPU Performance

Legit Reviews got their hands on the upcoming Need For Speed: Shift game update as well as some upcoming ATI CATALYST drivers. The game patch is said to offer improved ATI graphics card support and multi-GPU performance for those that are lucky enough to be running SLI or CrossFire. Read on to see what you can expect when the patch and drivers become public.

By Nathan Kirsch