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NVIDIA Optimus Aims To Improve Battery Life on Notebooks -- Tue, Feb 09, 2010

With NVIDIA's just announced Optimus technology, notebook users can now experience the full performance benefits of a discrete GPU with the battery life of an integrated graphics solution. NVIDIA Optimus automatically, instantaneously, and seamlessly optimizes the notebook to offer the best performance or best battery life depending on the application.

Sapphire Radeon HD 5570 1GB CrossFire Video Card Review -- Tue, Feb 09, 2010

It has only been five days since ATI released the ATI Radeon HD 5450 video card, but they are back at it today with the announcement of the Radeon HD 5570 video card. This card was designed to be an energy efficient, low-profile DirectX 11 card for small form factor PCs. It also happens to pack a pretty mean punch as it has a Compute Performance rating of 520 GFlops for a price tag of just $79.

Antec Nine Hundred Two Ultimate Gaming Case Review -- Mon, Feb 08, 2010

The best-selling Antec Nine Hundred offers gamers an unbeatable enclosure, one that delivers a combination of cooling, performance and convenience that is better than most competing cases in the same price range. The newer Antech Nine Hundred Two builds on this design with improved airflow and dominating style.

Travel Stix - Pet Care and Travel for Dogs USB Flash Drive -- Sat, Feb 06, 2010

Whether a professional caregiver, friend or relative cares for your pet, make sure they are prepared with important information identifying your pet's veterinarian's contact information, allergies and medical care issues to enable them to address the unforeseen emergency. How do you do this? The Travel Stix USB Flash drive claims to contain all the forms you need for when you travel with or without your pet.

Kingston MobileLite G2 8GB USB Card Reader Review -- Fri, Feb 05, 2010

The Kingston MobileLite G2 card reader is an ultra-portable and compact way to move data to and from a several media card types. Bundled with an 8GB SDHC media card, it makes a nice all-in-one package purchase. We take a look at performance and usability to see if it lives up to the Kingston brand name.

ATI Radeon HD 5450 512MB DDR3 Video Card Review -- Wed, Feb 03, 2010

AMD today announced the introduction of the ATI Radeon HD 5450 graphics card, which brings full DirectX 11 performance down to the $49 price point. This card also supports ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology and HDMI 1.3a with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio bitstreaming support! Read on to see how it performs!

AMD Athlon II X4 635 2.9GHz Quad Core Processor Review -- Wed, Feb 03, 2010

The AMD Athlon II X4 635 is the fastest quad-core processor in the Athlon II series with its overall clock frequency of 2.9GHz. With a street price of $127 and just a 100MHz boost over its predecessor is the Athlon II X4 635 worth it? Read on to see how it performs in the benchmarks and to see how it handles being overclocked on our AMD 785G test system.

ECS GeForce GT 240 512MB GDDR5 HDMI Video Card Review -- Tue, Feb 02, 2010

ECS has the solution for HTPC users and gamers on a budget with their take on the GeForce GT 240. By combining the affordable GeForce GT 240 with the an impressive heat sink from Arctic Cooling you have a low cost and high performing combo. Read on to see if this is the solution for your new machine.

Inside Intel and Micron's 25nm NAND Fab - IMFT -- Mon, Feb 01, 2010

Legit Reviews was recently invited to take a tour of IM Flash Technologies (IMFT) in Lehi, Utah to see how NAND Flash memory is manufactured. Read on as we get into a bunny suit to see how 25nm NAND Flash memory wafers are made and then find out what this shrink means to you as a consumer. That 1TB SSD might not be a dream after all.

SilverStone Sugo SG05 White Mini-ITX Case Review -- Mon, Feb 01, 2010

The SilverStone SG05 Mini-ITX/DTX is a computer case designed for minimal space and maximum flexibility. Unlike other small form factor cases, the SG05 attempts to provide users with options by supporting large video cards, larger heat sink fans, and an 80-plus 300 watt PSU. In this review, we'll take a look at all the SG05 has to offer.

Diamond Radeon HD 5750 OC Video Card Review -- Fri, Jan 29, 2010

The Diamond Radeon HD 5750, with the configuration of 720 stream processors and 1GB of GDDR5 memory offers users access to the same new generation technology, and full DirectX 11 support found on the more expensive models at a lower price point. The Diamond Radeon HD 5750 is special as comes overclocked from the factory and features an Arctic Cooling GPU cooler in order to reduce noise and temperatures.

Noctua NH-U12P SE2 CPU Cooler Review -- Thu, Jan 28, 2010

Noctua has made their ever popular NH-U12P cooler compatible with the new Intel LGA1156 socket. Join us as we look over the NH-U12P SE2. The NH-U12P SE2 ships with Noctua's SecuFirm2 multi-socket mounting system that combines outstanding compatibility, optimal contact pressure and easy, straightforward installation on Intel LGA1366, 1156 and 775 platforms as well as AMD socket AM2, AM2+ and AM3 platforms.

PNY VERTO GeForce GT 240 Video Card Review -- Wed, Jan 27, 2010

The PNY VERTO GeForce GT 240 supports Direct X 10.1, DirectCompute, native HDMI 1.3a and has a built-in HDMI audio processor. Not bad features for a single slot PCI Express graphics card that costs just $89 after rebate. We test the PNY VERTO GeForce GT 240 on several games and then dive deeper and look at power consumption, temperatures, overclocking and some F@H performance numbers!

Kingston 128GB V+ Series SNV325-S2 SSD Review -- Tue, Jan 26, 2010

Kingston announced their second generation of V+ series SSDs yesterday and we have spent the past several weeks playing around with one of these new drives. What has Kingston done differently with their second generation of V+ series drives? Well, for starters they have moved over to a Toshiba controller with Toshiba MLC NAND Flash!

AMD Phenom II X4 910e 2.6GHz 65W TDP Processor Review -- Sun, Jan 24, 2010

The AMD Phenom II X4 910e is an interesting 2.6GHz quad-core processor due to the fact that the chip features a 65W max TDP. This not only means that you have a full-featured Phenom II quad core CPU for compute needs, but it also fits the bill for PCs built with lower power consumption, heat and noise in mind. Read on to see how the 910e performs.