Rockstar has announced a new Windows desktop app that allows gamers to quickly access the Rockstar Games PC collection in a single place. To coax Windows users to download the launcher, Rockstar is giving away a free game. The free game is GTA: San Andreas. In addition to the free game, the Rockstar Games Launcher …more
Gamers who frequent the wild west world of Red Dead Online have been running across something spooky in the game. Players have been seeing NPCs standing around that look like zombies. The image here is a perfect case in point. The original Red Dead had a DLC that brought zombies to that game and speculation …more
Amazon Music users have a new higher quality audio tier to enjoy. Amazon has announced the launch of about 50 million songs in the Amazon Music library that stream in what it calls HD quality. The tracks stream in 16-bit, 44.1-kilohertz quality with a smaller subset of tracks offered in Ultra HD at 24-bit and …more
Motherboard manufacturers like ASUS and ASRock have posted up new UEFI/BIOS updates that adds support for Intel’s upcoming Core i9-9900KS processor. The Intel Core i9-9900KS 8-core, 16-thread processor has a base frequency of 4.00 GHz with an all core max turbo frequency of 5.00 GHz. Pricing has not been announced, but we expect it to …more
HP has announced the launch of a new convertible notebook PC that is aimed at business users. The machine is called the HP Elite Dragonfly, and it is hailed as the lightest business convertible on the market. The machine is a 13-inch notebook with up to 24.5 hours of battery life and Wi-Fi 6 connectivity. …more
NVIDIA and Activision today announced the GeForce RTX Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Bundle, where for a limited time, gamers will receive Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, which is scheduled to release on October 25, with the purchase of an eligible GeForce RTX graphics card. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will have ray-traced graphics and …more
Players of Borderlands 3 have discovered a glitch in the game that allows the farming of legendary items very quickly. Now that the glitch is public, you can bet that Gearbox will be fixing it soon. The location spawns guaranteed loot. The location is also easy to find and farm with each run said to …more
Nintendo has opened the sales gates for the slick SNES wireless controller. This is the controller you want if you want to play the new SNES games that have landed for the Switch. There is a catch. You can only buy the controller if you are a Nintendo Switch Online subscriber. The reason is presumably …more
Minecraft has consistently been one of the most popular games out there. It’s not often that Microsoft, the owners of the game, give up details on player numbers. The last time it did was in October of 2018. Since the last time it announced numbers Minecraft monthly players have grown by 20 million. Microsoft has …more
Apple only announced the new Apple Watch Series 5 recently, and already it’s being discounted by Amazon. The discount is for the Apple Watch Series 5 GPS + Cellular 44mm unit. The smaller 40mm unit isn’t on sale. The discount on the device is $50 off the normal $799 price. That makes the wearable $749.99 …more
Are you waiting for Intel’s next-generation Comet Lake-S desktop processors to be released before building your next desktop PC? Enthusiasts are really excited about the Comet Lake-S (14nm+++) processors they will have up to 10 cores and be using the new LGA 1200 socket. Moving to LGA 1200 means that all-new motherboards will need to …more
If you are in the market for a smartphone and don’t mind refurbished products, Amazon has a deal for you. It is offering “renewed” Pixel 3 128GB smartphones for $399.95 with free shipping. CR Land sells the devices, but Amazon fulfills them. Amazon guarantees that they will work like new and the smartphones are baked …more
Google has issued a new update on Google Maps that will make it much easier for those struggling with addiction to find help. The update has added drug addiction recovery resources on the map and will give navigation data to get people there who need help. The update doesn’t just provide addiction treatment centers and …more
Nintendo has filed suit against another ROM site that it alleged was committing trademark and copyright infringement. The website is ROMUniverse. Nintendo is seeking $150,000 for each copyright infringement and up to $2 million for each trademark infringement. Nintendo claims that the pirated games on the website are counterfeit copies of its trademarks. RomUniverse sells …more
Qualcomm has been pushing the Always-Connected PC (ACPC for short) for a number of years now and the ACPC segment continues to mature and getting better. All mobile users want an always connected, highly portable device that has extreme battery life. Current flagship smartphones have all day battery life and are always-on, so why can’t …more
MSI Immerse GH30 Gaming Headset Review The MSI Immerse GH30 gaming headset provides exceptional sound quality for games, movies, and music. As an entry level gaming headset, it does lack RGB illumination and surround sound. However, it includes 40mm drivers for good audio performance across high, medium, and low frequencies. The GH30 comes with a …more
Legit Reviews has been using Blender in our benchmarks for years and hopefully you’ve found the results worthwhile and interesting. Blender, for those that might not know, is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing …more
AMD recently released AGESA 1003 ABBA to motherboard partners and they in turn have started to release BIOSes based on AGESA 1003 ABBA. The big news with this AMD Generic Encapsulated Software Architecture (AGESA) build has changes in it that will help AMD Ryzen 3000 series CPUs reach their advertised boost speeds. Specifically, this build …more
Ballistix, Micron’s global brand of gaming memory, today announced the addition of 4000MHz memory to their Elite series. This is the fastest Ballistix offering to date and best of all the new Ballistix Elite 4000MHz memory modules are AMD Ryzen and Intel platforms ready with an Intel XMP 2.0 profile for easy setup and configuration. …more
The desktop CPU war between Intel and AMD is the most exciting it’s been in years. AMD has been rapidly catching up thanks to their new Zen core microarchitecture that was first introduced in 2017 in Ryzen 1000 series processors. AMD has since rolled out the Ryzen 2000 and Ryzen 3000 series and everything was …more
Geekbench 5 was officially released by Primate Labs today and Legit Reviews has been taking a look at this benchmark in the lab. The release of Geekbench 5 brings new machine learning, augmented reality, and computational photography workloads to the CPU test. Primate Labs also updated their existing workloads to use larger data sets to …more
The WD_Black P10 Game Drive is a pretty straight forward storage device that is aimed at gamers looking for a cool-looking portable drive to hold their game library. It solves the decades old problem of not having enough internal storage space by using your PC or game consoles USB port to quickly and easily expand …more
In our quest to find new CPU benchmarks we were told about Novabench by members of the #SiliconGang on Twitter. Novabench has been around since 2007 and is a free benchmark application that has been used by millions of people. We’ve never ran this benchmark here on Legit Reviews, so we figured that we’d give …more
We’ve been looking to try out some new benchmarks for Legit Reviews and have been taking a look at a number of them. One of the more interesting real-world benchmarks is NeatBench 5, which is the benchmark application for Neat Video. Neat Video came out in 2005 and is a video editing plug-in tool for …more
AMD’s new 3rd Gen Ryzen processors that are built on the 7nm manufacturing process helped close the performance gap with Intel when they launched last month. Our testing showed that AMD led many of the heavily threaded tests since they had more cores, but Intel was still the single-threaded performance leader. AMD claimed its new 3rd …more
A 9th Gen Coffee Lake-R Processor For Under $90 Today we’ll be taking a closer look at the Intel Core i3-9100 quad-core desktop processor that was released in May 2019. Intel offers the Core i3-9100 with and without integrated graphics. The base model is the Intel Core i3-9100F without graphics that runs $89.99 shipped and …more
Logitech G513 Carbon RGB Gaming Keyboard Beginning business in October of 1981, Switzerland’s Logitech is one of the largest, most well-known manufacturers of computer peripherals on Earth, with over 9,000 employees worldwide. The Logitech Gaming Division, or Logitech G as it is branded, is responsible for producing peripherals for the PC gaming market. We’ve had …more
SSD prices are quickly falling, but we’ve noticed that portable SSD prices aren’t dropping nearly as quickly. That means you can build your own wicked fast portable SSD enclosure for less than buying an actual portable SSD. The review that we have for you today is on a pair of ORICO NVMe M.2 SSD enclosures. …more
Huawei Rethinks the Smartphone with its Ground-Breaking HUAWEI Mate 30 Series Iconic Handset Features the Flagship Kirin 990 5G SoC, Amazing Quad Camera System with Breakthrough SuperSensing Cine Camera & Futuristic Halo Ring Design MUNICH – September 19, 2019 – Huawei today unveiled its ground-breaking HUAWEI Mate 30 Series at an exclusive launch event …more
Toshiba Memory to Rebrand as “Kioxia” in October Unique brand name combines Japanese word for “memory” and Greek word for “value” SAN JOSE, Calif., July 18, 2019 – Toshiba Memory America, Inc. announced today that it will officially change its name to Kioxia America, Inc. on October 1, 2019. The name Kioxia (kee-ox-ee-uh) will be …more
SPECTRUM MOBILE EXPANDS ‘BRING YOUR OWN DEVICE’ OPTIONS SAINT LOUIS – May 30, 2019 – Charter Communications, Inc., today announced an expansion of the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) program to all of its sales channels. Now, customers can activate select iPhones and Samsung devices on Spectrum Mobile by visiting Spectrum Mobile retail store locations …more
PCI-SIG Achieves 32GT/s with New PCI Express 5.0 Specification The organization doubles PCI Express 4.0 specification bandwidth in less than two years May 29, 2019 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time BEAVERTON, Ore.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–PCI-SIG today announced the release of PCI Express (PCIe) 5.0 specification, reaching 32GT/s transfer rates, while maintaining low power and backwards compatibility with …more
AIDA64 v6.00 Released – SHA3-512 Benchmarks and AMD Matisse Optimizations BUDAPEST, Hungary – May 21, 2019 – FinalWire Ltd. today announced the immediate availability of AIDA64 Extreme 6.00 software, a streamlined diagnostic and benchmarking tool for home users; the immediate availability of AIDA64 Engineer 6.00 software, a professional diagnostic and benchmarking solution for corporate IT technicians …more
TSMC Unveils 6-nanometer Process 7-nanometer Enhancement Combines Performance/Cost Advantage with Fast Time-to-Market Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C. – April 16, 2019 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its 6-nanometer (N6) process, which provides a significant enhancement of its industry-leading N7 technology and offers customers a highly competitive performance-to-cost advantage as well as fast time-to-market with direct …more
Jabra Launches Elite 85h Headphones With SmartSound: Exclusive AI Technology for Intelligent Adaptive Audio – Best-in-class headphones sets new standards with maximum battery life, custom engineered 40mm speakers and advanced six-microphone call technology for crystal-clear sound – SmartSound technology: AI for adaptive sound environments – Digital Hybrid Active Noise Cancellation for total calls and music immersion – 100 percent hands-free …more
RAZER BLADE 15 UPDATED WITH NEW NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX GRAPHICS World’s smallest 15.6” gaming laptop, available with up to GeForce RTX 2080 GPU with Max-Q design, delivers high framerates and quick renders IRVINE, Calif. – Razer™, the leading global lifestyle brand for gamers, announced today a new range of the Razer Blade 15 Advanced Model gaming …more
NETGEAR Advances the Smart Home Experience With New Technologies Introduced at CES 2019 LAS VEGAS, Jan. 07, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NETGEAR®, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTGR), the leading provider of networking devices that power today’s smart home and small businesses, has been named a CES® 2019 Innovation Awards Honoree for a range of new products across the company’s …more
LAS VEGAS, NEV., JANUARY 7, 2019 – Cooler Master, a global leader in designing and manufacturing innovative gaming peripherals and computer components, will be showcasing its new line up of wireless peripherals including the MH670 gaming headset, MM831 gaming mouse, SK621 65-key travel size keyboard, SK631 60% layout keyboard, SK651 full-layout keyboard, and the GS750 …more
Today, AMD announced a number of exciting additions to its mobility line-up, encompassing all notebook segments, including: 2nd Gen AMD Ryzen 3000 Series Mobile Processors powering ultrathin and gaming notebooks, AMD Athlon 300 Series Mobile Processors powering mainstream notebooks with the fast and efficient “Zen” core, and Optimized 7th Gen AMD A-Series processors elevating performance …more
Qualcomm Introduces The World’s First 7 Nanometer PC Platform —Designed from the Ground up for the Next Generation of Computing Experiences, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx is the Most Extreme Snapdragon Ever, Bringing Breakthrough Innovations to PC Design— HAWAII — December 6, 2018 — During the third day of the annual Snapdragon Technology Summit, Qualcomm Technologies, …more
Qualcomm Announces New Flagship Snapdragon 855 Mobile Platform – A New Decade of 5G, AI, and XR —World’s First Commercial 5G Mobile Platform is Sampling to Customers Now and Excepted to Support Premium Multi-Gigabit Smartphones in the first half of 2019— HAWAII — December 5, 2018 — During the second day of the annual Snapdragon Technology …more
Verizon and Samsung to release 5G smartphone in the U.S. in first half of 2019 NEW YORK – Verizon and Samsung announced their plan to bring one of the first commercial 5G smartphones to market in the first half of 2019. The companies will unveil a proof of concept, powered by the upcoming flagship Qualcomm Snapdragon …more
