AMD Finds Extra MHz and Brings 3000XT Processors Out One year ago on this very date, the AMD Ryzen 3000 series became widely available for purchase. AMD used July 7th to launch their first 7nm desktop processors and is using the date again this year to release the Ryzen 3000XT processors. AMD revealed the three …more
UDOO BOLT GEAR w/ AMD Ryzen Gets Benchmarked Last year, UDOO BOLT, powered by AMD Ryzen, became the most powerful maker board on the market. Now you you can get the UDOO BOLT GEAR, which is basically a do-it-all Mini PC kit that you need to build. This unassembled system includes the mainboard with an AMD …more
Comet Lake-S – More Cores and Hyper-Threading For All We’ve been talking about Intel’s 10th Gen Core series of processors for a numbers of weeks. Our initial coverage gave you the basics of the new Comet Lake-S architecture used on the 10th Gen processors. It also covered how Intel has moved to Socket LGA1200, so …more
AMD Ryzen 3 3300X versus 3100 – Which One To buy? If you are a gamer on a budget and are looking at building a new gaming PC, the AMD Ryzen 3 3100 and Ryzen 3300X have likely managed to grab your attention. We already covered general CPU performance in our launch review, but we …more
AMD Ryzen 3 Beats Intel Core i5 For Less Money Entry-level processors often don’t get as much attention as they deserve, but today we will be spending some time with the brand new AMD Ryzen 3 3100 and Ryzen 3 3300X processors. These quad-core processors are the latest addition to the 3rd Gen Ryzen series …more
Intel NUC 10 Performance Review – NUC10i7FNH Intel’s NUC (Next Unit of Computing) was first shown off at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) back in 2012 powered by 3rd Gen Core ‘Ivy Bridge’ processors. It is hard to believe that the Intel NUC series has been around for nearly eight years, but the NUC series …more
10th Gen Intel Core S-Series Processor Launch Overview Intel is announcing the 10th Gen Intel Core S-Series processor today, which is what they are calling the world’s fastest gaming processor. Legit Reviews attended over a conference call that went over a press briefing for this series and wanted to share with you what we learned. …more
ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 Gaming Laptop We first noticed the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 during CES 2020 as it claimed to be the world’s most powerful 14-inch Windows 10 Pro gaming laptop. Our inner geek really wanted to try out the AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS 8-core, 16-thread processor that has been paired with the NVIDIA GeForce …more
Finding the Best Desktop CPU For Gaming – Sponsored by Intel As Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) spreads around the globe it has forced millions to stay home. Online gaming has seen a massive spike in popularity over the past month or so, with gaming platform Steam breaking its concurrent player records numerous times. Steam smashed its all-time record …more
Modular Computing Meets Intel NUC During CES 2020, Intel was showing off the NUC 9 Extreme Kit (code named Ghost Canyon) for the very first time. The NUC 9 Extreme Kit is the first Intel NUC to come to market that was designed from the ground up with gamers in mind. The NUC 9 Extreme Kit tips …more
Intel has finally lifted the embargo on their new 10th Gen Intel Core mobile H-series processors (codename Comet Lake H), that raise the bar for mobile gaming performance. Intel is super excited about this category, and now that the world is dealing with a global pandemic (COVID-19) it is a series of processors that allows people to get …more
Intel is showing off their upcoming NUC 9 Extreme Kit “Ghost Canyon” at CES 2020 and it is the largest NUC yet. Intel’s larger size allows you to swap out the CPU via a “compute element” as well as enough room for more power desktop discrete graphics card to be supported. The Intel NUC started …more
Intel held a quick Performance Workshop here in Las Vegas ahead of CES 2020 to talk about some of their performance strengths. Intel introduced the first mobile CPU to enable AI on the laptop by building intelligence into the 10th Gen Intel Core processors, codenamed “Ice Lake.” Intel showed off their client AI performance leadership by …more
Finding the Ultimate Surface Laptop 3 – Sponsored by Intel When Microsoft announced the Surface Laptop 3 back in October 2019 it impressed many. Partly because Microsoft announced that the new Surface Laptop 3 is twice as fast as previous generations and the fact that the main Surface Laptop 3 15-inch version was powered by …more