http://www.legionhardware.com Legion Hardware en-us Mon, 20 May 2013 09:36:06 -0600 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:39:48 -0600 Esselbach Contentteller CMS http://www.legionhardware.com/articles_summary/asustor_as_606t.html Today we are checking out the 6-bay AS-606T NAS (Network Attached Storage) device from new comer Asustor. The name Asustor is very similar to Asus and that is no accident, as it is a subsidiary of Asu... Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:39:48 -0600 http://www.legionhardware.com/articles_summary/amd_radeon_hd_7990.html Today AMD is finally making their Southern Islands dual-GPU graphics card official as they strap a pair of Tahiti XT GPU’s to the same PCB. The end result is the Radeon HD 7990 and with one of the big... Sun, 21 Apr 2013 22:57:58 -0600 http://www.legionhardware.com/articles_summary/gainward_geforce_gtx_650_ti_boost_gs_dual_gtx_660_gs_dual.html Today we are checking out the new Golden Sample Dual Fan graphics cards from Gainward which are based on the Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 Ti and GTX 660 GPUs. The GTX 650 Ti is the newer of the two so we ar... Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:39:08 -0600 http://www.legionhardware.com/articles_summary/infortrend_eonnas_pro_510.html Professional data storage solutions provider, Infortrend, announced five new advanced EonNAS models at CES 2013 in January. This included new additions to the EonNAS Pro and EonNAS 1000 series. Design... Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:14:34 -0600 http://www.legionhardware.com/articles_summary/his_radeon_hd_7790_icooler_turbo_1gb.html Today we have a pair of the new HIS Radeon HD 7790 iCooler Turbo 1GB graphics cards on hand for some Crossfire testing. With ten of the latest video games we plan to find out if gamers are best off wi... Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:37:33 -0600 http://www.legionhardware.com/articles_summary/qnap_ts_469l.html Today we are checking out a powerful 4-bay NAS from QNAP called the TS-469L, which is designed for home and small office use. Powered by an Intel Atom processor, it comes with 1GB of memory and suppor... Tue, 19 Mar 2013 03:51:24 -0600 http://www.legionhardware.com/articles_summary/gigabyte_geforce_gtx_titan.html Today we have Nvidia’s new $1000 graphics card on the test bed thanks to Gigabyte who have provided us with a sample of their card. Known as the GeForce GTX Titan this monster graphics card is set to ... Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:22:47 -0700 http://www.legionhardware.com/articles_summary/his_radeon_hd_7850_ipower_iceq_turbo_4gb.html Today we are checking out a pair of graphics cards based on a GPU we really didn’t think we would look at again, the Pitcairn Pro, commonly known as the Radeon HD 7850. Launched almost 12 months ago t... Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:42:28 -0700 http://www.legionhardware.com/articles_summary/thecus_n5550.html Today we are checking out an affordable 5-bay NAS from Thecus that can handle up to 20TB’s of storage and is powered by an Intel Atom processor with a large 2GB memory capacity. Called the N5550 it is... Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:14:54 -0700 http://www.legionhardware.com/articles_summary/synology_diskstation_ds713_and_dx513.html Today we are checking out the Synology DiskStation DS713+ as well as the optional DX513 expansion unit. The DS713+ is powered by an Intel Atom D2700 dual-core processor and features a 1GB memory buffe... Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:25:31 -0700 http://www.legionhardware.com/articles_summary/ocz_vector_512gb.html Today we are checking out OCZ’s Vector 512GB SSD which was released late last year. 2012 was a big year for OCZ as it marked the introduction of their first in-house SSD, the Vector. Though even befor... Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:40:06 -0700 http://www.legionhardware.com/articles_summary/gigabyte_z77x_up7_vs_asrock_z77_extreme11.html Today we are checking out two of the very best Intel Z77 based motherboards money can buy. From Gigabyte we have the newly released Z77X-UP7 while from Asrock it’s the Z77 Extreme11 that attempts to i... Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:54:30 -0700 http://www.legionhardware.com/articles_summary/western_digital_black_4tb.html Today we are checking out the latest addition to the elite Western Digital Black hard drive series which supports a massive 4TB storage capacity. Designed to deliver a balance between speed, capacity ... Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:49:10 -0700 http://www.legionhardware.com/articles_summary/synology_ds213_and_ds213air.html Today we have the new Synology DS213+ and DS213air on the test bed, which were the first 2-bay models to be released in the x13 series. The DS213+ features similar hardware to the recently reviewed DS... Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:18:57 -0700 http://www.legionhardware.com/articles_summary/gigabyte_geforce_gtx_680_4gb.html Today we have the 4GB version of the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 680 on hand for some triple-monitor benchmarking. Designed to handle extreme resolutions, we will be comparing the GTX 680 4GB against a 2GB m... Mon, 12 Nov 2012 02:49:05 -0700 http://www.legionhardware.com/articles_summary/his_7970_iceq_xsup2_ghz_edition_7950_iceq_xsup2_boost_clock.html Today we are checking out the HIS 7970 IceQ X² GHz Edition and 7950 IceQ X² Boost Clock graphics cards, which have been designed to get the most out of AMD’s 7900 series. Both cards boast a seriously ... Mon, 05 Nov 2012 22:10:33 -0700 http://www.legionhardware.com/articles_summary/synology_ds413_and_ds413j.html Today we have the new Synology DS413 and DS413j on the test bed, which are the first 4-bay models to be released in the x13 series. These new models do away with the Intel Atom processors used by the ... Tue, 30 Oct 2012 22:04:38 -0600 http://www.legionhardware.com/articles_summary/amd_fx_8350_and_fx_6300.html Today AMD is launching its second generation FX processors based on the Piledriver microarchitecture. This next step in the evolution of the FX-series aims to refine the original recipe by improving p... Mon, 22 Oct 2012 04:18:17 -0600 http://www.legionhardware.com/articles_summary/qnap_ts_869l_and_ts_869l_turbo_nas.html Last month QNAP announced its latest high performance TS-x69L Turbo NAS series for Small Office/Home Office and Small Business use. This new series is powered by a dual-core Intel Atom processor that ... Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:05:20 -0600 http://www.legionhardware.com/articles_summary/gigabyte_geforce_gtx_650_ti.html Today we are checking out Nvidia’s new GeForce GTX 650 Ti graphics card based on the GK106 architecture. Just last month we saw the arrival of the first GK106 based graphics card, known as the GTX 660... Mon, 08 Oct 2012 17:54:41 -0600