During Intel’s Architecture Day 2020 they talked about their 3D NAND technology and gave us an update on the roadmap. In September 2019 at the Intel memory day in Seoul, Korea, Intel announced that they were skipping the 128-layer NAND Flash node that most of the industry was developing and was going to be jumping …more
Western Digital (WD) is likely one of the first brand names that came to mind when thinking about platter-based hard disk drives (HDDs), but don’t think for a second that they are not a major force to be reckoned with in solid-state drive (SSD) market. WD has really been making headway in the NAND Flash based internal …more
In July 2020, HyperX expanded its Predator DDR4 and FURY DDR4 memory families to include higher speed kits and larger capacities. If you haven’t looked at DDR4 memory kits in recent months or years the advancements have been impressive! HyperX Predator DDR4 memory kits are now available in massive 256GB (8 x 32GB modules) at clock frequencies of up to 3200MHz. If …more
addlink Gaming Series – X70 RGB NVMe SSD If you are looking for an NVMe SSD with RGB lighting the addlink X70 RGB SSD series might be just what you are looking for. It features an impressive looking diamond-cut RGB top plate that ensures your build will stand out from the crowd. Performance also shouldn’t be …more
My family has grown in size in recent years and now that my kids have gotten older they have their own tablets and smartphones. Every person in my home as more than one battery powered device be it a tablet, smartphone, smartwatch, Bluetooth earbuds or that latest IoT device. At the end of the day …more
Last year Lian Li introduced customizable RGB lighting for internal PC cabling with the introduction of the RGB Strimer series of 24-pin ATX and dual 8-pin PCIe PSU extension cables. Lian Li quickly saw some areas where they could improve and introduced the RGB Strimer Plus in 2020. The Strimer Plus has improved build quality, …more
How a 2TB NVMe SSD For $219 Performs Back in 2017 Toshiba (now KIOXIA) introduced the XG5-P series of single-sided M.2 2280 form factor NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 SSDs in 1TB and 2TB capacities. The drives featured performance of up to 3000 MB/s sequential read, 2200 MB/s sequential write, 320,000 random read IOPS and 265,000 random write …more
Alxum Uses ASMedia 2362 Chip For Type C Portable Drive Many of our readers love the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) approach when it comes to portable hard drives as it allows you to use drives that you already might own and will usually save you some money. Right now there are a ton of USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C …more
A Massive 10050 mAh Portable Charger That Makes Everyone Happy During CES 2020 we stopped by and talked with the folks over at myCharge to see what was new for them in the portable charger market. myCharge has made a name for themselves by bringing some really impressive all-in-one portable chargers to market. What makes …more
iCUE Nexus – A Companion Touch Screen For Gaming PCs When it comes to the consumer-level PC industry, we have to assume it’s getting harder for companies to come up with new ideas for products. Corsair has taken it to another level again as they’re known to do when it comes to finding your next …more
Kingston KC2500 – The Fastest Drive Rex Has to Offer Kingston recently released the KC2500 M.2 NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD series for desktop, workstations and high-performance computing (HPC) systems. With speeds up to 3,500MB/s read and up to 2,900MB/s write, the KC2500 certainly has the high-end specifications that one would expect from a flagship …more
The last time Legit Reviews took a closer look of Redshift’s fully GPU-accelerated biased renderer for NVIDIA GeForce graphics was back in the fall of 2018. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2000 series graphics cards had just launched and we wanted to look at GPU performance in Redshift 2.6.+ Since that article was published, Redshift Rendering Technologies …more
ADATA Falcon SSDs Arrive – Watch Out Swordfish! Last week, Legit Reviews took an in-depth look at the ADATA Swordfish 1TB NVMe SSD and found it to be a pretty good entry-level drive for the PCIe Gen 3.0 x4 M.2 2280 NVMe SSD market! Today we are going to be taking a look at the …more
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
HyperX Alloy Elite 2 Gets Pudding Keycaps & Homegrown Switches HyperX, the high-performance product division of Kingston Technology, released their Alloy Elite RGB gaming keyboard some two years ago at the time of this review. It came with genuine Cherry MX switches and the ability to customize settings via the HyperX NGenuity software. Improving on …more