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Seagate XT 2TB SATA 6GB/s Hard Drive Testing @ Legit Reviews

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:57:00 GMT

Seagate XT 2TB SATA 6GB/s Hard Drive Testing The Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB hard drive is the industrys first drive to support the new SATA 3.0 specification, which supports speeds up to 6GB/s. We also have the SATA 6GB/s ready, ASUS P7P55D-E Premium motherboard for benchmarking. Read on to see LR's first look at SATA 6GB/s to see what it is all about! Quote: "We had high hopes for SATA 6GB/s before we starting benchmarking one of these new platforms, but other than having some nice burst benchmark screen shots we don't have really anything else to show you. Seagate was kind enough to send over the Seagate XT 2TB hard drive for benchmarking and while the drive is great the performance benefits of SATA 6GB/s don't seem like it will create a mad dash for new motherboards or drives anytime soon. The Seagate marketing slide that talked about SATA 6GB/s maturing over the next 2-3 years really starts to make sense now that we have seen the performance numbers." Article Title: Seagate XT 2TB SATA 6GB/s Hard Drive Testing @ Legit Reviews Article URL: <a href="http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1127/1/">http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1127/1/</a>

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ASRock M3A785GXH/128M Motherboard Review @ Legit Reviews

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:33:00 GMT

ASRock M3A785GXH/128M Motherboard Review Earlier this year ASRock surprised us with their M3A780GXH/128M motherboard. Today, we look at that boards successor, the ASRock M3A785GXH/128M motherboard. The new board features an integrated Radeon HD 4200 with 128mb of DDR3 onboard. Is it enough to run FarCry 2? Hit the link to find out. Quote: "The ASRock M3A785GXH128M uses a 4+1 Phase power design. While this might be a red flag for some, we were able to overclock a 140W Phenom II X4 965 to a vCore of 1.55v with just a simple 80mm fan blowing across the MOSFETs. With a BIOS made for overclocking and AMD's awesome OverDrive at our disposal we were able to squeeze an extra 500mhz out of our Phenom II X4 965 Black edition Processor. Even with bare MOSFETS we had no trouble cranking up the voltage to 1.52v. and were able to reach 3.9GHz!" Article Title: ASRock M3A785GXH/128M Motherboard Review @ Legit Reviews Article URL: <a href="http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1068/1/">http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1068/1/</a>

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Shattered Horizon PC Game Review and Interview With Maingear @ Legit Reviews

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:32:00 GMT

We posted two articles today and rather than sending out two e-mails I'm going to combine them into one to reduce e-mail waste and to help save your time! Article 1: Futuremark Games Studio will later today release their first ever PC game called Shattered Horizon. Shattered Horizon is a multiplayer first-person shooter that immerses you in the cold reality of zero-gravity combat in near-Earth space. The game uses FutureMark's very own DirectX 10 graphics engine with NVIDIA PhysX technology for a more realistic look and feel. Quote: "Shattered Horizon is the highly anticipated first game from Futuremark Games Studio that immerses you in the cold reality of combat in space like no other game before. This multiplayer first-person shooter is played entirely in zero gravity. A catastrophic explosion on the Moon has filled near-Earth space with billions of tons of rocky debris. You and your friends will join intense 32 player battles to control hollowed-out asteroids, huge fragments of Moon rock and the ruined remains of the International Space Station..." Article Title: Shattered Horizon PC Game Review @ Legit Reviews Article URL: <a href="http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1122/1/">http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1122/1/</a> Article 2: MAINGEAR recently launched the Shift computer series with the goal of bucking the trend of plastic, bloated, commodity PCs. Shifts aluminum skin provides clean, elegant lines while housing a tank-like steel skeleton. Will Shift be enough to change things in the industry? Read on as we talk with the CTO of Maingear to see what they are up to! Quote: "Lifetime service is a huge commitment and a bold service offering, yet refreshing for this industry. Tell us how this idea evolved. Well, we just figure we'll be happy to talk to our customers as long as they want to talk to us! We're willing to stand by the systems we build. We know that people will eventually replace their system. So the lifetime of the system will probably be five years, max. Are we willing to give free tech support over the phone and stand by our labor for that long? Absolutely. The hardware warranties available are at one and three years. And since we use high quality components from well-known vendors, sometimes some of these components may carry their own lifetime warranty independent of ours!" Article Title: Interview: Chris Morley on Maingear's Shift PC @ Legit Reviews Article URL: <a href="http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1124/1/">http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1124/1/</a>

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Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X Video Card @ Legit Reviews

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:07:00 GMT

Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X Video Card Sapphire has added their Vapor-X vapor chamber cooling technology to the Radeon HD 5870 series and has launched a doozy of a card today. Read on to see how this factory overclocked Radeon HD 5870 does with a superior cooling solution in place to keep the RV870 core nice and cool. You might just be surprised to see how well this card does! Quote: "From the second we saw the Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X graphics card we fell in love with it. The card stands out from the crowd and has a bad boy appearance to it that the reference card just doesn't have. The best part about the Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X is that the cooler actually works. We witnessed an 8dBA decrease in fan noise and an insane 18C drop in temperatures while gaming. The small 2-4% factory overclock gave a slight boost in performance and in every single benchmark we ran the Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X was faster than a stock Radeon HD 5870 video card, albeit by only 1-6FPS depending on the benchmark in question..." Article Title: Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X Video Card @ Legit Reviews Article URL: <a href="http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1120/1/">http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1120/1/</a>

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Western Digital WD TV Live HD Media Player @ Legit Reviews

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:35:00 GMT

Western Digital WD TV Live HD Media Player The WD TV HD Media Player turns your NAS or external storage drive into an HD media player. Connect your USB hard drive to this device and you can instantly play crisp HD movies, listen to high-quality digital music, and watch slideshows of your family photos on your TV. No need to figure out complicated home networking or reconnect AV and power cables. What could be simpler? Quote: "Almost everything I have in my video library played with the WD TV Live HD. Ripped and downloaded music and playlists (with album art), pictures from my digital camera stored on USB adaptors and my home network, High Def and Low Def movie rips. The media server even allowed you to toggle between audio tracks that were present in your media file. This thing is amazing! Not every 1080p file played as smooth as the trailers we talked about above, but those were rare occurrences. For instance, when I pointed the WD TV Live to a Blu-ray rip of..." Article Title: Western Digital WD TV Live HD Media Player @ Legit Reviews Article URL: <a href="http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1118/1/">http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1118/1/</a>

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VidaBox Wireless HTPC Media Keyboard with Laser Trackball @ Legit Reviews

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:19:00 GMT

The 4th generation Premium Wireless HTPC Media Center Keyboard with Laser Trackball from VidaBox comes with all the features of its previous models, and more! The most significant new addition is the 2000 dpi laser trackball that has been included for more precise, accurate control. Read on to see how this wireless HTPC media keyboard performs! Quote: "The Vidabox wireless HTPC media keyboard comes with everything we needed to get up and running in seconds, which was nice. Having a driverless setup is nice for a mainstream product like this. The build quality was also not bad, while this keyboard is certainly no Logitech DiNovo it by no means feels cheap. The wireless connection was very consistent and worked flawlessly up to the 26 to 28 foot range from our testing. The 2000 dpi laser trackball worked great and we couldn't imagine using anything other than this. This is clearly a better product than the original VidaBox keyboards that came with mechanical trackballs! We also tried the keyboard out on our NVIDIA Ion powered mini-ITX HTPC that is running Windows 7 (shown above) and it worked flawlessly. Not too much more you can ask from a keyboard that costs just $67.77 plus shipping..." Article Title: VidaBox Wireless HTPC Media Keyboard with Laser Trackball @ Legit Reviews Article URL: <a href="http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1115/1/">http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1115/1/</a>

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Unigine 'Heaven' - The First DirectX 11 Benchmark @ Legit Reviews

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:05:00 GMT

Last week on October 22, Unigine Corp. announced the release of the World's first true DirectX 11 benchmark "Heaven" that is based on its proprietary Unigine engine. This is fairly big news as we can finally get to see how DirectX 11 will look and run on the latest DirectX 11 graphics cards from AMD. Read on to see how the Radeon HD 5870, 5850, 5770 and 5750 do on this tough DX11 benchmark! Quote: "The Unigine 'Heaven' DirectX 11 benchmark looks really impressive, so before we go straight to the benchmark numbers we wanted to show you some screen shots that we took from the benchmarThe scene above is rendered in DirectX 9 and you can see how the roof and stone work in the building corners is relatively flat. This scene reminds me a little bit of the cs_italy map from counter-strike, which is sad considering that map was released over seven years ago. With DirectX 11 enabled the same scene comes to life thanks partly to Tessellation, which is one of the more important DirectX 11 features. Without Tessellation there is no displacement so things are flatter in DirectX 9 or with Tessellation turned off..." Article Title: Unigine 'Heaven' - The First DirectX 11 Benchmark @ Legit Reviews Article URL: <a href="http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1117/1/">http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1117/1/</a>

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nMediaPC HTPC 8000 Wooden HTPC Case @ Legit Reviews

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:51:00 GMT

nMediaPC recently introduced the first retail Wooden HTPC Case! The classic looking HTPC 8000 case not only will meet your HTPC needs, with its smart internal design, it can easily meet most any gamer's expectations. It supports full ATX motherboard; ATX PSU and all full length videos card to boot. Quote: "The HTPC 8000 from nMediaPC is different to say the least. With its almost all wood construction its unlike any case I have ever had. With its style being that of something out of the 1940s it might look a little out of place in most of todays sleek AV setups. I have had more than one my woodworking nut friends say they loved the looks of it, and I had several people ask me where I got the old radio. That got me thinking that it would be a nice case for a rec-room, man cave, behind a bar, or could even make for a nice garage juke box..." Article Title: nMediaPC HTPC 8000 Wooden HTPC Case @ Legit Reviews Article URL: <a href="http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1114/1/">http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1114/1/</a>

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Cogage TRUE Spirit LGA1366 CPU Cooler @ Legit Reviews

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:29:00 GMT

Cogage TRUE Spirit LGA1366 CPU Cooler Back in April of this year Thermalright announced a new brand called Cogage. Cogage will be the arm of Thermalright that will focus on the mainstream market. Join us as we look at one of their first offerings to the cooling world, the TRUE Spirit. Quote "Overall, Im happy with the TRUE Spirit. It performed well in our testing, and it even got within very close striking distance of its cousin, the Ultra-120 RT1366. This is nice to see for the fact that its lighter, thinner, and most importantly cheaper than its big cousin. I have nothing bad to say about the TRUE Spirit, and if this is any indication what we can expect from Cogage then its good for the end user. Affordable, quality build, good performance -- what is there to hate?" Article Title: Cogage TRUE Spirit LGA1366 CPU Cooler @ Legit Reviews Article URL: <a href="http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1108/1/">http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1108/1/</a>

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Gigabyte GTX 260 Core 216 Super Overclock Video Card @ Legit Reviews

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:11:00 GMT

The Gigabyte GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Super Overclock Video Card comes factory overclocked if you couldn't figure that out by the name. The standard core clock of 576MHz has been bumped up to 680MHz, which is an 18% frequency boost over the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 reference design. With clock speeds like this you can expect 3% better performance than standard GTX 275 graphics cards! Quote: "Today we get our first ever look at a video card from Gigabyte, the GTX 260 Core 216 Super Overclock. Thats a mouthful, but I suppose we have NVIDIA to thank for that! This video card from Gigabyte features the wildly popular GTX 260 core 216 GPU, but does fine screening of the cores to get the very best. These top bin chips are then mated to a PCB that features an extra 2 ounces of copper on the PCB, along with high quality voltage regulators, to bring you the highest clocked GTX 260 core 216 of any manufacturer. The standard core clock of 576MHz has been bumped up to 680MHz, which is an 18% frequency boost over the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 reference design. With clock speeds like this you can expect 3% better performance than standard GTX 275 graphics cards..." Article Title: Gigabyte GTX 260 Core 216 Super Overclock Video Card Review @ Legit Reviews Article URL: <a href="http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1113/1/">http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1113/1/</a>

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Plantronics Discovery 975 Bluetooth Headset Review @ Legit Reviews

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:37:00 GMT

Plantronics Discovery 975 Bluetooth Headset Review Beneath the sleek exterior of the Discover 975 Bluetooth headset are the advanced technologies that keep your calls clear and your voice sounding natural, even in a noisy environment. Providing the simplicity of one touch control, this headset offers Dual-mic AudioIQ and WindSmart technologies that keep your conversations crystal-clear. Quote: "People will ask, Is this headset really better than the Jawbone or BlueAnt? If you are strictly measuring the overall quality of the headset by the sound volume and ability to dampen or reduce environmental noise, then picking a winner out of this lot is a toss-up. On the other hand, if you are looking for the best sounding, best looking, most comfortable, and longest battery life in the bunch, the Plantronics Discovery 975 wins hands down. The fact that Plantronics improved their battery case and included a never-before-seen LCD screen to give you battery status on the headset and case is amazing..." Article Title: Plantronics Discovery 975 Bluetooth Headset Review @ Legit Reviews Article URL: <a href="http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1109/1/">http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1109/1/</a>

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