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Thermaltake SD100 mini ITX Home Theater Chassis -- Fri, Nov 20, 2009

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!

Patriot Box Office HD Media Player Review -- Thu, Nov 19, 2009

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) so you can play what you want, where you want to! Read on to see how this recently released media player does!

ATI Radeon HD 5970 Dual-GPU Video Card Review -- Wed, Nov 18, 2009

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!

Two Kingston 40GB V Series Boot Drive SSDs in RAID 0 -- Tue, Nov 17, 2009

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.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 Video Card Preview -- Tue, Nov 17, 2009

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.

ASUS P7H57D-V EVO Motherboard Preview - H57 Chipset -- Mon, Nov 16, 2009

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!

Thecus N0204 miniNAS Pocket RAID Storage Review -- Mon, Nov 16, 2009

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!

EVGA GeForce GT 220 SSC DDR3 Video Card Review -- Fri, Nov 13, 2009

Last month NVIDIA silently launched the GeForce 210 and GT 220 graphics cards, which are aimed at the entry level discrete graphics card market. Today, we take a look at the EVGA GeForce GT 220 SSC DDR3 video card, which features a 7% overclock right out of the box. Read on to if this card has what it takes to upgrade your desktop PC with integrated graphics!

Leadtek PxVC1100 MPEG-2/H.264 Transcoding Card -- Thu, Nov 12, 2009

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!

Cooler Master Storm Sniper Black Edition Case -- Wed, Nov 11, 2009

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!

New Need For Speed: Shift Patch Boosts AMD GPU Performance -- Tue, Nov 10, 2009

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.

Tritton AX 720 Dolby Digital Surround Gaming Headset -- Mon, Nov 09, 2009

Specifically designed for the XBox and PS3 systems, the AX 720 delivers precision audio and superior voice communication. Utilizing Dolby Digital and Dolby Headphone technology, the AX720 sets a new benchmark for 2-Channel surround sound headsets. The included Dolby Digital decoder will take games to new levels creating an impressive 3D audio environment.

Seagate XT 2TB SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive Testing -- Fri, Nov 06, 2009

The Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB hard drive is the industry’s 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!

ASRock M3A785GXH/128M Motherboard Review -- Thu, Nov 05, 2009

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.

Interview: Chris Morley on Maingear's Shift PC -- Wed, Nov 04, 2009

MAINGEAR recently launched the Shift computer series with the goal of bucking the trend of plastic, bloated, commodity PCs. Shift’s 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!