970 EVO Gets Some Phoenix Controller Action Samsung today introduced the Samsung 970 PRO and EVO, the third generation of their NVMe SSD lineup. The Samsung SSD 970 EVO series is available in 250GB, 500GB, 1TB and 2TB capacities ranging in price from $119.99 to $849.99. The 970 EVO series is equipped with Samsung’s latest 64-layer …more

Samsung SSD 970 PRO Arrives Ready For Battle Samsung has led the NVMe SSD market since the first consumer drive was released in 2015, but in recent months the NVMe market has been flooded with drives from other brands. The Samsung SSD 950 PRO NVMe series in 2015 and the Samsung SSD 960 PRO NVMe …more

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Processor – Zen+ Arrives AMD launched four new Ryzen desktop processors this week, codenamed ‘Pinnacle Ridge’, that are built using the latest 12nm Zen+ architecture. The new processors are the Ryzen 7 2700X, Ryzen 7 2700, Ryzen 5 2600X and Ryzen 5 2600. AMD tweaked a number of things on its …more

HP Goes For Enthusiast Performance Numbers With EX920 Series Last week, Legit Reviews took an in-depth look at the HP SSD EX900 M.2 drive series to see how HP’s first DRAM-less storage drive performed. Today, we’ll be taking a look at the HP SSD EX920 drive series that includes DRAM on the M.2 2280 gumstick …more

Corsair Carbide Spec-Omega Mid-Tower Case Review At CES 2018 Corsair once again presented a range of updated and new products geared at expanding their product line with new and innovative ideas. While we are still in the half of 2018, Corsair has already launched several new computer cases, Obsidian 500D, Carbide 275R and the Spec-Omega. …more

AMD is allowing retailers to begin taking pre-orders for the 2nd Generation AMD Ryzen processors known as ‘Pinnacle Ridge’ starting at 9 a.m. EDT today, which is six days before their official launch on April 19th. This new generation of Ryzen processors builds off the framework of the first generation Ryzen processors known as ‘Summit Ridge’ and …more

HP Tries To Gain Market Share in SSDs Today, Legit Reviews is taking a look at the HP SSD EX900 series of M.2 PCIe x4 NVMe 1.3 certified SSDs that just happen to be aimed at entry-level market with capacities of 120GB, 250GB, and 500GB. Actual street pricing for these three drives are $59.99, $94.52 …more

Solid-State Drive (SSD) prices are continuing to drop and capacities are increasing, so more and more gamers are looking to install games on an SSD over a traditional spinning hard drive. One of the first things that a gamer will notice when moving from a hard drive to an SSD are reduced loading time in games …more

EVGA Z10 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard EVGA has gained a lot of familiarity and brand recognition as a manufacturer of graphics cards featuring NVIDIA GPU’s, but the California-based company produces other products designed for PC enthusiasts and gamers. Having been teased for years now, the EVGA Z10 Mechanical Gaming Keyboards is the very first entry into …more

WD Swings For The Fences With New Controller Design Western Digital is hoping to make a statement today to the SSD market by releasing the WD Black NVMe and SanDisk Extreme PRO SSD. These two M.2 NVMe drives are identical, but the SanDisk brand is aimed at the creative market and the WD brand is aimed …more

Kingston Brings First Value PCIe NVMe Drive To Market The A1000 Solid-State Drive (SSD) is Kingston’s first entry-level PCIe NVMe solution and it is available today in capacities of 240GB, 480GB and 960GB. As Kington’s starting point for PCIe NVMe drives, the A1000 series will sit underneath the KC1000 series that was introduced last year. …more

Hades Canyon Brings Radeon RX Vega M Graphics To Intel NUCs I hate to break it to the current Intel Skull Canyon (NUC6i7KYK) owners, but your system has been replaced by the newer Intel Hades Canyon models. Intel will be offering Hades Canyon NUCs in two flavors. You have the 100 Watt NUC8i7HVK (with Vega M …more

64-Layer 3D TLC NAND Goes To the Data Center The successor to the Intel SSD DC P4500 series, the Intel SSD DC P4510 series, was first released to Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) in August 2017 and is now widely available. Intel updated this enterprise drive series by using the latest 64-layer 3D TLC NAND Flash memory …more

GAMDIAS Hermes P2 RGB Optical Mechanical Keyboard Founded in 2012, GAMDIAS is a Taiwanese-based company that produces peripherals for the PC gaming market. The DIAS in the GAMDIAS brand name is derived from Greek mythology and is another name for Zeus, the king of Gods on Mount Olympus, while the GAM is short for ‘gaming …more

Samsung 860 EVO Aims For SATA III Performance Perfection Very few would have thought when the Samsung 850 EVO Solid-State Drive series came out in 2014 that it would be come the number #1 best-selling SSD in the world at the end of 2017. Every storage editor and enthusiast would have laughed at you back in 2014 if …more