5th Generation Intel Core ‘Broadwell’ Processors Come To The NUC Series The Intel Next Unit of Computing (NUC) is something we’ve been talking about since the models first came to market in 2012. We loved the design concept that Intel came up with in 2012 and saw that there was a growing market for such a …more
ECS LIVA X – The Second Generation of the LIVA Family Over half a year ago ECS ELITEGROUP introduced the LIVA Mini PC Kit, which was marketed at the time as being the world’s smallest Windows based mini PC kit. The ECS LIVA Mini PC Kit came with all the hardware you needed to build a mini …more
Intel has officially revealed the Core M processors, the first fifth-generation Core processors that use the ‘Broadwell-Y’ microarchitecture. We’ve told you about Broadwell-Y before, but we’ve never been allowed to see detailed performance numbers, let alone run benchmarks ourselves on the reference platform. That all changed today when we were able to run benchmarks on …more
This morning I woke up bright and early to benchmark some DDR4 memory kits and found myself waking up not to Folgers in your cup, but the smell of burnt electrical after loading the XMP profiles on a memory kit and restarting the system. Let me tell you what happened, the best I can. On Friday …more
Intel Core i7-5960X – Haswell-E CPU’s Finally Cometh Intel today launched three new high-end Haswell-E processors for the brand new Intel X99 chipset based platform that was also launched today along with the new LGA 2011-v3 socket. This means that you’ll have to get a new motherboard with an LGA 2011 v3 socket, but your …more
Digital Storm Bolt II Introduction With the desktop PC market showing signs of faded interest over the past several years, Digital Storm is here to help spark interest to those who are gamers at heart. While at CES 2014, Digital Storm showed us their latest custom PC creation, the Bolt II. This hand crafted beauty …more
ECS LIVA Mini PC Kit – World’s Smallest Windows Based Mini PC ECS ELITEGROUP has been around for nearly three decades and over that period of time the company has become one of the leading OEM corporations, but they also have a consumer side of the product line where they make mostly motherboards along with …more
Intel Core M – Broadwell-Y 14nm Processor Overview If you payed close attention to the announcements coming out of Computex 2014 you’ll recall that Intel announced the Core M processor series. The Intel Core M processors are based on the 14nm Broadwell micro-architecture and will be the most power-efficient processors offered by Intel in this …more
AMD Introduces The A10-7800 and A8-7600 Kaveri APUs AMD today introduced the new AMD A10-7800 and A8-7600 Accelerated Processing Units (APU) to the component channel. These processors are part of AMD’s 4th Generation of APU’s that are code named Kaveri. Kaveri is AMD’s first processor that utilizes the Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) and is aimed …more
Intel Pentium G3258 Anniversary Edition Dual Core Processor Earlier this week Nate & I were able to get our hands on the Intel Pentium G3258 20th Anniversary Edition Processor to take for a ride. While he was doing this, he focused most of his time on the X86 performance of the 3.2GHz Dual Core processor. …more
Intel Pentium G3258 CPU – Budget Overclocker of the Year? The Intel Pentium G3258 20th Anniversary Edition processor was released to the public this week and Legit Reviews have been waiting for weeks to pick this processor up. Why have we been highly anticipating a low-end Intel Pentium processor? Well, we remember the old days when …more
Intel Devil’s Canyon Processors Arrive – Core i7-4790K The Intel Core i7-4790K and Core i5-4690K are without a doubt the most anticipated processors to come to market for the LGA1150 platform since the first Haswell processors were released back in June 2013. Intel announced that they were going to be doing a Haswell Refresh in …more
AMD Takes Kaveri Mobile and FX Returns – FX-7600P Earlier this year AMD launched their Kaveri APUs for desktops and now they are ready to release Kaveri APUs for mobile platforms. AMD’s Kaveri series of APUs feature enhanced Streamroller x86 cores and the latest in graphics cores thanks to the inclusion of Graphics Core Next …more
Intel has been talking about Devil’s Canyon for many months now and it appears that Devil’s Canyon will be available to purchase sometime later this month. We were hoping to have a review of Devil’s Canyon for you today, but Intel has yet to ship any samples to North American hardware review sites. We have …more