Samsung SSD 860 PRO Arrives With New 64-Layer MLC NAND and MJX Controller Samsung released the 850 PRO way back in July 2014 (our review) and the series was quickly found to be an ideal drive for PC gamers, enthusiasts and storage snobs needing a SATA SSD. We’ve pretty much saturated the SATA III interface …more
Cougar Minos X5 Optical Gaming Mouse Cougar Gaming was founded in 2008 with the goal of manufacturing peripherals and components for PC enthusiasts who are passionate about gaming. My most recent experience with Cougar was with their Puri TKL keyboard, which I found to be a solid, well manufactured unit that presented excellent value. Today, …more
Legit Reviews finally managed to pick up an NVIDIA TITAN V graphics card and have been putting it through a number of tests in recent days. NVIDIA says that this $2,999 graphics card is capable of reaching 110 teraflops of compute performance from its 21.1 billion transistors, 5120 CUDA cores and 12GB of HBM2 memory. …more
Corsair Carbide Spec-04 Updated with Tempered Glass In the middle of 2017, Corsair released the Carbide Spec-04 case, it is a low cost mid-tower geared at the budget builders while still providing a solid foundation for the latest hardware. Initially it had a retail price of $49.99, it featured an angular design to the front …more
Ducky Pocket RGB Mechanical Calculator A Taiwanese manufacturer known for their lineup of well-built, high quality keyboards, such as the One and Shine 6, Ducky may not carry the name recognition of a Logitech or Corsair among PC users, but those who have had the opportunity to use Ducky products will tell you that they are built to …more
AMD Radeon RX Vega graphics cards do very well on the CryptoNight proof-of-work algorithm and miners are using them to mine Monero, Electroneum, Sumokoin, Bytecoin and Karbo. This is because the profitability is better on those coins than Ethereum that uses the Ethash proof-of-work algorithm. It’s tough to find an AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 or AMD …more
Dream Machines DM3 Mini – Who Is The New Guy? Dream Machines is a Polish company that has been around for a couple of years now, starting off producing gaming laptops and expanding into other territories like speakers and gaming mice. The team at Dream Machines has a real focus on PC gaming and I …more
TerraMaster D5-300C Diskless Direct Attached Storage Device The TerraMaster D5-300C 5-Bay Direct Attached Storage (DAS) device is a diskless model that is priced at $229.99 shipped and backed by a 2-year warranty. This device has five drive bays that are compatible with 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch SATA hard drives or SATA SSDs that are up to 10TB …more
We’ve talked about mining Ethereum extensively here on Legit Reviews, but there are over 1,300 different coins that you can have in your crypto portfolio. Bitcoin and Ethereum have become household names in recent weeks now that everyone is talking about the rise of cryptocurrency in general. When it comes to mining coins the options …more
SteelSeries Arctis 3 Gaming Headset – Stylish Surround SteelSeries is a popular Danish manufacturer of PC gaming peripherals and we’ve looked at several of their products here at LegitReviews over the years. In March 2017, I looked at the SteelSeries Arctis 7 Wireless Gaming Headset and came away thoroughly impressed with the design and comfort …more
Bitcoin’s recent amazing price increase has helped raise awareness of other ‘alt coins’ and that has helped push up the value of Ethereum, litecoin and cryptocurrencies. Ethereum, the world’s second-largest blockchain by market size, is something we’ve been covering on Legit Reviews since June 2017. Ethereum (known as Ether or ETH) crossed the $750 mark for the very first …more
SteelSeries M750 TKL Mechanical Gaming Keyboard The PC gaming peripheral market is chock-full of quality RGB mechanical keyboards from various manufacturers, but SteelSeries is looking to stand out with their latest keyboard, the M750 TKL. A tenkeyless beauty that features SteelSeries QX2 linear mechanical switches, the SteelSeries M750 TKL has a small, lightweight aluminum frame …more
Antlion ModMic 5 – A Microphone For Any Headphone The PC and console gaming headset industry often sees manufacturers prey on uninformed consumers and sell overpriced units that simply don’t sound good or feel comfortable when compared to a decent pair of headphones from manufacturers like Sennheiser or Grado. That isn’t to say that every …more
Titan Xp – For Those That Want Nothing But The Best If you are looking for the most powerful desktop consumer graphics card for 2017 and entering the 2018 calendar year the folks over at NVIDIA have you covered with the Titan Xp. This $1,200 graphics card features the Pascal GP102 GPU with 3840 NVIDIA …more
SteelSeries Sensei 310 – Ambidextrous Eight Button Wonder Starting business over a decade ago as a mousepad manufacturer, today SteelSeries competes with the likes of Razer and Logitech in the PC gaming peripheral industry, manufacturing keyboards, headsets, mice and more. SteelSeries is a sponsor of several esports teams and often touts that their products have …more