NVIDIA Optimus Aims To Improve Battery Life on Notebooks

With NVIDIA’s just announced Optimus technology, notebook users can now experience the full performance benefits of a discrete GPU with the battery life of an integrated graphics solution. NVIDIA Optimus automatically, instantaneously, and seamlessly optimizes the notebook to offer the best performance or best battery life depending on the application.

By Dan Stoltz

Antec Nine Hundred Two Ultimate Gaming Case Review

The best-selling Antec Nine Hundred offers gamers an unbeatable enclosure, one that delivers a combination of cooling, performance and convenience that is better than most competing cases in the same price range. The newer Antech Nine Hundred Two builds on this design with improved airflow and dominating style.

By Ken Brown

Travel Stix – Pet Care and Travel for Dogs USB Flash Drive

Whether a professional caregiver, friend or relative cares for your pet, make sure they are prepared with important information identifying your pet’s veterinarian’s contact information, allergies and medical care issues to enable them to address the unforeseen emergency. How do you do this? The Travel Stix USB Flash drive claims to contain all the forms you need for when you travel with or without your pet.

By Legit Staff

ATI Radeon HD 5450 512MB DDR3 Video Card Review

AMD today announced the introduction of the ATI Radeon HD 5450 graphics card, which brings full DirectX 11 performance down to the $49 price point. This card also supports ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology and HDMI 1.3a with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio bitstreaming support! Read on to see how it performs!

By Nathan Kirsch

Diamond Radeon HD 5750 OC Video Card Review

The Diamond Radeon HD 5750, with the configuration of 720 stream processors and 1GB of GDDR5 memory offers users access to the same new generation technology, and full DirectX 11 support found on the more expensive models at a lower price point. The Diamond Radeon HD 5750 is special as comes overclocked from the factory and features an Arctic Cooling GPU cooler in order to reduce noise and temperatures.

By Dan Stoltz

Noctua NH-U12P SE2 CPU Cooler Review

Noctua has made their ever popular NH-U12P cooler compatible with the new Intel LGA1156 socket. Join us as we look over the NH-U12P SE2. The NH-U12P SE2 ships with Noctua’s SecuFirm2 multi-socket mounting system that combines outstanding compatibility, optimal contact pressure and easy, straightforward installation on Intel LGA1366, 1156 and 775 platforms as well as AMD socket AM2, AM2+ and AM3 platforms.

By Shane Higgins

SanDisk 8GB Gaming Memory Stick Micro (M2) for Sony PSP Go

Double the fun on your portable gaming console with a 8GB SanDisk Memory Stick Micro M2 Gaming Memory Card – made for Sony PSP go system. Now you can take all your games, movies, tunes and TV shows wherever you go. Check out how the card performs as we benchmark it and give it a test drive in our PSP Go.

By Ken Brown

NVIDIA GF100 Fermi Architecture and Performance Preview

Without a doubt one of the most highly anticipated releases for 2010 will be the NVIDIA GF100 Fermi graphics card. For nearly a year NVIDIA has told the media and their fans that GF100 is coming and that it will be the best performing graphics card that the world has ever seen. Read on to see what we think after we spend some time with GF100!

By Nathan Kirsch

Design Your Own HIS 5870 Video Card Contest

Legit Reviews has teamed up with AMD and HIS for something that will blow you away. We are asking our readers to come up with your own unique and original heat sink artwork for an upcoming HIS Radeon HD 5870 graphics card. The winning submission will win a board with their own design on it! Read on to find out how to enter!

By Nathan Kirsch

Energizer EnergiStick AP250MN Mini-USB Blackberry Battery Booster

The Energizer EnergiStick is a simple portable charger and backup battery for common Mini-USB devices like your BlackBerry, Motorola and HTC smart phones! The compact size and slim shape make it convenient to carry on your key ring and take it anywhere, and use it anytime! Read on to see what it is all about!

By Nathan Kirsch

GlobalFoundries 2010 Overview – Doubling Capacity and 28nm Ramping

GlobalFoundries announced this morning that they have completed the integration of Chartered Semiconductor and the two companies now operate as a single entity. Does this mean that GlobalFoundries is ready to deliver a knock out blow to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s (TSMC’s) dominance of the contract wafer manufacturing market? Read on to see what GlobalFoundries is up to!

By Nathan Kirsch

Tritton AX 180 Universal Gaming Headset Review

The TRITTON Technologies AX 180 was designed specifically for the XBOX and PS3 gaming consoles and has balanced speakers to provide rich, full stereo audio while the removable microphone ensures superior voice communication. The convenient inline audio controller features independent voice and game volume controls so you can clearly hear your teammates during those crucial gaming moments.

By Legit Staff

AZZA Helios 910R ATX Mid Tower Case Review

The Helios 910R gaming case from AZZA is engineered to satisfy the needs of PC Enthusiasts and Gamers. With today’s gaming components producing so much heat, AZZA gave the case a 140mm fan on the top, a 230mm fan on the side panel, a 140mm on the front panel, and a 120mm fan on the back panel. Read on to see how this case does!

By Legit Staff

CES 2010: Crucial RealSSD C300 6Gbps SATA SSD Demo

Last month Micron raised the performance bar for SSDs by announcing its RealSSD C300 SSD. Today, the company announced that the drive would be coming to the retail market next month under the Crucial product name. Legit Reviews got to personally see what the retail drive will look like today and even got a demo that we recorded to show you!

By Nathan Kirsch

HIS Radeon HD 5750 iCooler IV Video Card Benchmarking

The HIS Radeon HD 5750 graphics card features a dual slot GPU cooler called the iCooler IV. This cooling system moves a massive amount of cool air from the central cooler to cool down the internal fins directly. Heat from the 5750 GPU can rapidly transfer to internal fins that extend under the cooler. Read on to see if the fan performs better than others found in this series!

By Dan Stoltz