One of the most significant benefits of being a PlayStation Plus member is free video games available for download each month. PlayStation has announced the PlayStation Plus free game downloads for December, and there are three exciting titles to choose from. One of the games is the multiplayer Worms Rumble came as a real-time, 32-player …more
Yesterday Nintendo released a software update for the Switch game console. Several new features and changes come to the game console with the update. One of the biggest is the ability to transfer screenshots and videos from the Switch Album to a smartphone or tablet. Users are now able to wirelessly connect smart devices to …more
Last Friday was Black Friday, which means today is Cyber Monday. Cyber Monday is a good day to grab some discounts on all manner of items online. Anyone in the market for a new gaming PC will want to check out the HP Omen 30L GT13-0255st gaming desktop that’s available directly from HP with a …more
It’s bad enough that scalpers have gotten their hands on so many of the PlayStation 5 consoles that were built and available for gamers this holiday season. That means the scalpers returned to places like eBay to sell the highly desired consoles at significantly inflated prices. To make matters worse, a number of scammers have …more
Sales of the NZXT H1 Mini-ITX computer case has been halted globally over what appears to be fire concerns. It looks like it has been linked to 1 wrong screw being used and a repair kit has been developed to replace said screw. This alert was issued after one customer had sparks and flames shoot …more
Apple recently rolled out its new MacBook and Mac Mini featuring the Apple-designed M1 processor. Apple hardware is famously rarely discounted, and with Black Friday here, some might be surprised to learn that the brand-new Mac Mini is being offered with a solid black Friday discount by Adorama. You have to take discounts with a …more
A new report has surfaced that says Apple has requested that Foxconn move some of its Apple production out of China and into Vietnam. Apple and Foxconn are extremely connected as the latter builds most of the hardware for the former. Apple designs its products but doesn’t produce any of them. Foxconn is based in …more
It’s a fact of life that good books don’t always make good movies, and good movies don’t always make good video games. Case in point is the anticipated Marvel’s Avengers videogame published by Square Enix. In its recent financial report, the company confirmed that the game had missed expectations. Square Enix president Yosuke Matsuda said, …more
Today is Thanksgiving across the United States and for other people around the world. That means tomorrow, Friday, November 27, is Black Friday. While Black Friday will be different with the pandemic keeping many people at home around the country, lots of people will be turning to online shopping for deals. Anyone looking for a …more
Some of the latest films in the Star Wars franchise have left old-school fans a bit disappointed. However, the bright spot in recent years for the Star Wars franchise has been “The Mandalorian” on Disney+. New rumors going around that claim The Mandalorian and The Child, or Baby Yoda as he’s more affectionately known, are …more
Sony has rolled out another firmware update for the PlayStation 5 to bring the system to version 20.02-02.26-00. This firmware update comes after a previous version launched last week. Last week’s update promised to improve the system performance but didn’t specify any fixes. This week’s firmware update follows the same path giving no real information …more
With coronavirus getting worse in many parts of the world, more and more people are again stuck working and learning from home. That means that some people need additional computers, and Best Buy has one of the best deals we’ve seen on a Windows laptop in a long time. Best Buy is offering the Lenovo …more
If there’s one thing that gamers and fans of electronics hate, it’s scalpers. These people tend to use bots to go out and buy every console they can get their hands on so they can turn around and sell them at massively marked-up prices. This has certainly been the case with the PlayStation 5 and …more
One of the more anticipated games of 2020 is Cyberpunk 2077. Gamers are waiting in anticipation for the title to launch, and it appears that retail copies of the game are actually in the wild. Reports indicate that there have been several streamers playing Cyberpunk 2077 online over the weekend. However, the developer behind the …more
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Delivers The Goods for $399 We knew the launch of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition was inevitable as the internet has been flooded with photos and benchmarks from the card for the past month. NVIDIA doesn’t talk about unannounced products, but thankfully that all changes today as the …more
XFX Speedster MERC319 Radeon RX 6800 XT The custom AMD Radeon XT 6800 XT graphics cards launched this week and the very first card to be delivered is the XFX Speedster MERC319 Radeon RX 6800XT. We found that the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT was no joke in our launch article, but we’ve been told …more
The holidays are here again and if you are needing a gift idea for someone that has it all we’d like to introduce you to the WORX Pegasus WX051 folding work table and sawhorse. Most homeowners don’t own a good work table or sawhorse, but over the years they will encounter many tasks that would …more
Molekule Air Mini+ Air Cleaner with Particle Sensor and PECO Technology When the PR firm representing Molekule reached out to Legit Reviews and asked if we wanted to look at the Molekule Air Mini+ small room air purifier we were intrigued. The Air Mini+ is a high-end, and pretty looking, air purifier that is ideal for small …more
AMD Radeon RX 6800 Series Cards Hit The Market AMD has officially launched their Radeon RX 6000 Series based on ‘Big Navi’ GPUs built using the RDNA2 architecture. These cards were designed to challenge the high-end enthusiast cards from NVIDIA. NVIDIA has held the performance crown for discrete graphics cards for a number of years …more
The holidays are quickly approaching and one of the many cool tech related products that managed to catch our eye this year was the ORICO Portable Power Station. This is essentially a large 14,500 mAh battery (156.6Wh) in a portable outdoor power generator! It promises to charge a 12-inch MacBook three times over or charge …more
First Look at Big Navi with Radeon RX 6800 Series We are just days away from the AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series graphics card coming to market on November 18th and we finally can share a little bit more about the upcoming cards! For starters, we have them in our possession and we are allowed to …more
HyperX has been doing a number of collaborations lately and one of their most successful was back in May 2020 when they teamed up with the mechanical keyboard maker Ducky. Ducky is a powerhouse amongst keyboard enthusiasts, so when this limited edition 60 percent-sized Ducky One 2 Mini keyboard hit the market all 3,700 units …more
iLive ISB380B Bluetooth Tailgate Speaker Portable Bluetooth speakers have been pretty popular this year and will likely be a hot holiday gift item now that the holiday shopping season is in full swing. Legit Reviews was approached by the PR firm handling iLive products and wanted to know if we’d be interested in reviewing the iLive …more
WD_BLACK SN850 Take Performance To The Next Level The WD_BLACK SN750 NVMe SSD entered the market in January 2019 as one of the fastest PCIe Gen3 drives on the market and was targeted to gamers and enthusiasts. After being on the the market for nearly two years it is finally time to move forward, meet …more
PassMark PerformanceTest 10 Examined and Tested We’ve noticed PassMark PerformanceTest 10 results in the news quite a bit over the past month or so. Just before AMD’s Zen 3 processors came to market someone ran PassMark on the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X desktop processor and uploaded the results to their online database. That made news …more
First Look at Phison E18 – Successor of E16 Phison Electronics Corporation announced this week that their PS5018-E18 (E18) PCIe 4.0 x4 SSD controller was about ready to enter the market. The Phison E18 is their first fully native PCIe Gen 4.0 x4 controller that is capable of delivering sequential read performance up to 7.4GB/s and sequential write …more
Basemark GPU Benchmark Examined and Tested BasemarkGPU was introduced back in 2018 as a free multi-platform, multi-API 3D graphics benchmark. The benchmark was written in C++ and developed using their own in-house game engine called Rocksolid. The desktop version runs an AAA quality game-like workload as each scene has tens of thousands of individual draw calls …more
Watch Dogs Legion came out at the end of October as the third installment in the open-world action-adventure game series by Ubisoft. The game has a built-in benchmark that we wanted to try out, but we wanted to wait for the first wave of patches to hit before we tested a big stack of desktop …more
Silicon Motion Launches Complete 16-Channel PCIe 4.0 NVMe Turnkey Enterprise SSD Controller Solution The SM8266 accelerates customers’ time-to-market with a development platform that includes turnkey firmware stack and reference design kit TAIPEI, Taiwan and MILPITAS, Calif., Nov. 17, 2020 — Silicon Motion Technology Corporation (NasdaqGS: SIMO) (“Silicon Motion”), a global leader in designing and marketing …more
NEW SPECIAL EDITION WD_BLACK DRIVES FROM WESTERN DIGITAL ENABLE GAMERS TO HEED THE CALL OF DUTY Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Gets Next-Level Performance with WD_BLACK Collector’s Edition Storage Products SAN JOSE, Calif., November 16, 2020 – Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) is working with Call of Duty to reimagine three high-performance products from the …more
Apple unleashes M1 With industry-leading performance, powerful features, and incredible efficiency, M1 is Apple’s first chip designed specifically for the Mac Cupertino, California — Apple today announced M1, the most powerful chip it has ever created and the first chip designed specifically for the Mac. M1 is optimized for Mac systems in which small size …more
Micron Ships World’s First 176-Layer NAND, Delivering A Breakthrough in Flash Memory Performance and Density New 3D NAND boosts storage capability across mobile, automotive, client and data center applications BOISE, Idaho, Nov. 9, 2020 — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced that it has begun volume shipments of the world’s first 176-layer 3D NAND …more
KIOXIA Introduces Industry’s First PCIe 4.0 OCP NVMe Cloud Specification-Enabled SSD New XD6 Series E1.S Data Center NVMe SSD Optimized for Hyperscale, Open Compute Platform Applications SAN JOSE, Calif., November 3, 2020 – KIOXIA America, Inc. (formerly Toshiba Memory America, Inc.) announced another significant technological contribution to cloud data center infrastructures. Today, the company expanded …more
AMD to Acquire Xilinx, Creating the Industry’s High Performance Computing Leader — Strategic transaction strengthens AMD’s industry–leading technology portfolio — Expands AMD’s rapidly growing data center business Xilinx, the No. 1 provider of adaptive computing solutions, increases AMD TAM to $110 billion Immediately accretive to AMD margins, cash flow and EPS All stock transaction with combined enterprise value of approximately $135 …more
SK hynix to Acquire Intel NAND Memory Business NEWS HIGHLIGHTS SK hynix will pay US $9 billion for the Intel NAND memory and storage business, which includes the NAND SSD business, the NAND component and wafer business, and the Dalian NAND memory manufacturing facility in China. SK hynix aims to enhance the competitiveness of …more
Silicon Motion Launches PCIe 4.0 NVMe 1.4 Controller Solutions for Client SSDs New controller solutions offer best-in-class Power and Performance up to 7,400/6,800 MB/s Sequential Read/Write Speeds TAIPEI, Taiwan and MILPITAS, Calif., Oct. 20, 2020 — Silicon Motion Technology Corporation (NasdaqGS: SIMO) (“Silicon Motion”), a global leader in designing and marketing NAND flash controllers for solid-state storage …more
HyperX Releases QuadCast S USB Microphone with Dynamic RGB Lighting Effects that can be Personalized with Custom Settings Ideal for Streamers and those Working from Home, RGB Microphone Features Four Polar Patterns and Built-in Anti-Vibration Shock Mount FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif – Sept. 28, 2020 – Underscoring an unwavering commitment to streamers, casters and work from …more
World’s Fastest Discrete Graphics Memory From Micron Powers NVIDIA’s Breakthrough Gaming Speeds Micron GDDR6X accelerates photorealistic 3D experiences at 1 terabyte per second, rates once thought impossible BOISE, Idaho, Sept. 01, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced the world’s fastest discrete graphics memory solution, GDDR6X, the first to power system …more
Toshiba releases New Canvio Portable Storage Lineup with New Applications and Designs Adding new Canvio Flex and Canvio Gaming models along with new colors and textures. Irvine, Calif. — August 31, 2020 — Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. announces the newest models of the Canvio Portable Storage lineup. Canvio Flex models with USB-C are portable storage …more
Intel Launches World’s Best Processor for Thin-&-Light Laptops: 11th Gen Intel Core More than 150 Designs in Development, Including 20 Verified Under New Intel Evo Platform Brand NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Intel launches 11th Gen Intel Core processors with Intel Iris Xe graphics, the world’s best processors for thin-and-light laptops, delivering up to 2.7x faster content creation, …more
QNAP Launches USB 3.2 Gen 2 Dual-port PCIe Expansion Card for NAS and PC – SuperSpeed+ up to 10Gbps Taipei, Taiwan, August 20, 2020 – QNAP Systems, Inc., a leading computing, networking and storage solution innovator, today launched the QXP-10G2U3A – a USB 3.2 Gen 2 Dual-port PCIe Expansion Card which provides speeds of up …more
Western Digital’s New Sleek WD Brand My Passport SSD Is Built for Speed to Accelerate Productivity With Massive File Sizes and Loads of Digital Content, Consumers Continue to Trust WD Brand Products for Fast Reliable Storage SAN JOSE, Calif. – Aug 20, 2020 For consumers who need to accelerate their productivity and protect their valuable content …more
