Our Final Intel Z97 Build with Broadwell – Z97’s Last Hurrah Back in 2012 we built a custom mini-ITX gaming PC that featured an Intel Ivy Bridge processor, Intel Z77 motherboard, NVIDIA Kepler GPU, SuperSpeed USB 3.0 and water cooling. The original build cost on our system in 2012 was $2600, so it was a …more
When we reviewed the Intel Core i7-5775C ‘Broadwell’ processor with Intel Iris Pro 6200 graphics we completed the review with the 128MB of eDRAM locked at 1800MHz. The eDRAM cache in the 4th and 5th generation Intel Core Processors is a 16 way cache which can cache data from both the CPU and GPU. After the …more
Intel Core i7-5775C – Broadwell Gives 9 Series Boards Last Shot At Glory Earlier this month Intel launched their 5th Generation Core ‘Broadwell’ processors for both desktop and laptop solutions. This processor series is the first to be built on the 14nm manufacturing process and is a ‘tick’ in Intel’s tick-tock cadence that they have …more
AMD Launches their 6th Generation Mobile APU On Tuesday, June 2nd AMD launched their 6th generation A-Series processor designed to enhance the tasks that users of mid-range laptops most commonly use; such as email, music, video streaming, content management and online gaming. In addition, with Windows 10 coming very soon, AMD has worked closely with …more
Intel has finally launched their 5th Generation Core ‘Broadwell’ processors that for socketed desktop and laptop platforms! Intel already has Core M and Broadwell-U processors on the market built using basically the same 14nm manufacturing process and architecture, but they had to stagger the complete processor release due to rumored yield issues that caused production …more
Intel NUC Gets It’s Very First Core i7 Processor! The Intel Next Unit of Computing (NUC) was released in 2012 to little fanfare, but Legit Reviews quickly fell in love with the tiny little PC and thought that there was potential in the potent little systems after the first time we used one. Over the past …more
Intel Compute Stick Will Make Your Dumb TV Smarter Than Ever! How we access the internet on a daily basis has drastically changed over the past five years and there has been a clear shift away from the desktop PC. Intel knows that the market is changing and doesn’t want to miss out on the shifting …more
NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang just got done speaking at the Made To Game event tonight in San Francisco and he had some major announcements that will change gaming forever. It is clear that gaming has gone to the living room in recent years and one of the more recent gaming trends is that people are …more
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