Western Digital today introduced the WD Black SN750 NVMe SSD series that is targeted to gamers and hardware enthusiasts. This isn’t the first time I’ve seen a storage drive targeted at gamers, so I was excited to see what WD was releasing. Hopefully WD wasn’t just slapping a heatsink on the drive and calling it a …more
Do you need a sound card for your PC? EVGA has teamed up with the audiophiles over at Audio Note to create the EVGA NU Audio Card. The add-in sound card business is a new product segment for EVGA and one that isn’t flooded with a ton of options. For a number of years now …more
Real-time ray tracing on Battlefield V was pretty impressive when it came out in November 2018, but GeForce RTX series cards took a pretty big performance hit when turning on this new feature. The good news is that in December 2018 a patch for Battlefield V along with the latest GeForce drivers were able to improve …more
RTX 2060 – Turing For The Masses The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 has arrived and promises to bring Turing GPU performance and features to mainstream gamers. With a price of $349 for the RTX 2060 Founders Edition and partner cards, this card is poised to be one of the most popular models for 2019. NVIDIA …more
Huawei Mate 20 Pro – Packed With Cool Features When the Huawei Mate 20 Pro showed up to be reviewed back in October I went straight to using the smartphone to see how I liked it. Well, it’s been two months and I’m still using the Huawei Mate 20 Pro as it has the best …more
MAINGEAR is best known as a PC system builder that creates some of the best over-the-top gaming PCs on the market, but they have recently been expanding into new products lines. Seeing a company branch off their core business to launch PC gaming peripherals and accessories is nothing new. MAINGEAR expanding into gaming chairs seems …more
The EKWB velocity series of CPU water blocks is EKWB’s latest and greatest edition to their already heavily extensive line of watercooling gear. The Velocity lineup of waterblocks improves on the previous generation of water blocks in a few aspects. One of the main improvements is in aesthetics. EK has decided to stray away from the …more
We’ve reviewed a ton of portable SSDs this year, so when we got the opportunity to review the ADATA HD830 2.5″ External Hard Disk Drive (HDD) we jumped at the chance. The ADATA HD830 series of durable ultra-tough portable HDDs is available in 2TB, 4TB or 5TB capacities for $107.07 shipped, $149.99 shipped and $179.99, …more
HyperX Cloud Mix – Game and Go HyperX started selling gaming headsets in 2014 with the introduction of the HyperX Cloud and to say that it has been a successful venture for the company is an understatement. HyperX has sold over 5 million pairs of gaming headsets and that number is going to be higher …more
Intel hosted an Architecture Day this week in California for analysts and media that allowed Intel’s top executives, architects and fellows to reveal their next-generation technologies to a captive audience. Most of the Intel architecture coverage in 2018 revolved around where are the 10nm products were at and why they were delayed. Legit Reviews was happy …more
The APC Back-UPS 600VA BE600M1 was introduced in 2016 as the replacement to the APC Back-UPS 550VA BE550G that originally came out in 2008. I actually bought the old APC Back-UPS 550VA nearly a decade ago and it just recently started giving off an alert that the battery was on it’s last leg. The battery life …more
AMD Radeon RX 590 Roundup The Radeon RX 590 is the latest and greatest mainstream graphics card from AMD and is targeted at targeted to 1080P gamers that want to play every game on the market today at respectable frame rates for under $300. You also get three PC games for free when you purchase …more
Samsung launched a new consumer Solid State Drive (SSD) series today called the Samsung 860 QVO SSD. This SATA III 2.5-inch drive series is available in 1TB, 2TB and 4TB capacities and feature Samsung’s brand new high-density 4-bit multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash. The Samsung 860 QVO was brought to market to help eliminate the …more
MyDigitalSDSD is the first company to release firmware version 12.1 for drives powered by the Phison E12 controller. We’ve been waiting months for this firmware to be released as it promised to deliver massive performance gains. After testing the MyDigitalSSD BPX Pro 960GB drive with this new firmware build versus the original firmware version 11.0 …more
Bargain retail chain Dollar General is currently having a 4-day sale on an Emerson EM756BK-8 7-inch tablet running Android 5 ‘Lollipop’ for $35. We just happened to be in the market for some cheap tablets for the kids to watch movies on during holiday travels. Seeing your 2-year old and 4-year old grabbing your expensive …more