Shortly after Legit Reviews published our Radeon HD 4830 articles we were notified by AMD that every reference card they sent out to reviews came with an incorrect BIOS. The BIOS that shipped on the Radeon HD 4830 had one too many of the SIMDS disabled and that the Radeon HD 4830 had just 560 stream processors enabled instead of the 640 stream processors that it should have been running. Read on to see what the right BIOS does for performance!
The MSI N9800GT 512M OC is a factory overclocked GeForce 9800 GT graphics card that has an improved cooling solution. This sub $120 graphics card has a core clock frequency of 660MHz and the 512MB GDDR3 frame buffer runs at 1900MHz. This is a nice bump up from the factory clocked cards that are 600MHz core and 1800MHz memory. Read on to see how it does and if it can overclock further!
Ubuntu 8.10 will be available to download on October 30. Both the desktop and server editions will be free. London, October 27, 2008: Canonical Ltd. announced the upcoming availability of Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition for Continue reading “Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop and Server Coming October 30”.…more
Dell today introduced the Inspiron Mini 12, a small, easy-to-carry Internet companion that you can fine tune to fit your specific needs and deeds. Like its counterpart the Inspiron Mini 9, the Mini 12 is Continue reading “Dell Introduces the Inspiron Mini 12”.…more
Every weekend in numerous cities across the United States groups of gamers get together to share their love of video games at LAN parties. Legit Reviews is located in St. Louis, Missouri and we heard that a local group of gamers was having a LAN party this weekend and headed down to take a look at how things were looking. Read on to check it out!
In an effort to prevent its citizens from spreading news about a worsening food crisis, North Korea begins to restrict cell phone use. The Times story cites a report to the United Nations General Assembly Continue reading “North Korea restricting cell phone use”.…more
On Friday, Microsoft announced that a beta version of Windows Vista Service pack 2 will be available some time next week. In addition to Blu-ray, Vista SP2 will add support for Bluetooth 2.1 as well Continue reading “Vista SP2 beta out next week”.…more
Western Digital, one of the worlds largest hard drive manufacturers, saw their profits triple over the last fiscal quarter as the company’s sales beat expectations. The company said it earned $211 million, or 93 cents Continue reading “Western Digital earnings triple”.…more
Another Microsoft patch and another exploit. Microsoft responded quickly with an additional patch. Just hours after Microsoft posted details of a critical Windows bug, new attack code that exploits the flaw has surfaced. It took Continue reading “Another Critical Microsoft Bug”.…more
Now that HD DVD is a thing of the past all focus has turned to Blu-Ray playback, which is what LR will be taking a closer look at today. We take the Intel DG45ID motherboad with Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X4500HD and compare it to a Radeon HD 4830 graphics card to see how it would impact CPU performance and use on a 1080p plasma display.
NVIDIA just dropped us a quick note to let inform LR that Badaboom is available for purchase from today for $29.99 USD from the Elemental Technologies website. A trial version will also be available for Continue reading “Badaboom Media Converter, It’s done!”.…more
Online DVD rental company Netflix Inc said on Wednesday that some of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd’s Blu-ray DVD devices can now play video streamed over the Web from Netflix. The Samsung/Netflix alliance is the fourth Continue reading “Netflix, Samsung in streaming partnership”.…more
