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  • ACON5: The Scan ACON5 machine

    4 April 2005, 00:00

    The Scan PCs are based on the “Isotope” chassis available exclusively from Scan and featured in HEXUS’ CeBIT coverage only a few weeks ago. I’ve been told that they’ll be ...

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  • ACON5: Interview with Sujoy Roy

    4 April 2005, 00:00

    At the Harrow Arena yesterday I was lucky enough to buttonhole Sujoy Roy, famously the UK’s first professional gamer. He’s a very down to earth chap who now spends his ...

  • Review: Intel's Pentium Extreme Edition 840 and 955X Express chipset

    4 April 2005, 00:00

    Whether or not it\'s worth ditching your present system for the obvious benefits of dual-core computing is entirely dependant on your application usage. The Pentium XE 840, whilst hugely impressive ...

  • Review: Will Of Steel

    4 April 2005, 00:00

    Now, I’ve really have given the headset and voice control a fair crack as a game that can be near completely voice controlled is a superb idea and allows for ...

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  • Review: FIRST LOOK : AMD GPU!!

    1 April 2005, 00:00

    It’s going to have roughly the transistor count of a pair of current 130nm Athlon FX processors. It also looks like it can share vertex load with a dual core ...

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  • Review: GeCube's Radeon X850 XT Uniwise

    31 March 2005, 00:00

    So while I wait for the hardware I described on the first page of this article, GeCube\'s X850 XT will do nicely. For the performance, it\'s hard to argue with ...

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  • Review: Intel's Pentium-M 735 Processor and DFI 855GME Motherboard

    31 March 2005, 00:00

    Performance wise, there\'s one thing that stands out from the analysis and observation of P-M\'s scaling with nothing more than its base frequency: it\'s crying out for core logic to ...

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  • Comic Relief: Chris Moyles on an Intel surfboard?

    29 March 2005, 00:00

    In our lives of luxury, with laptops, the Internet and home entertainment, it's easy to forget that there are many others in the world far less fortunate. We can all ...

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  • Mar 05 - Incompatible Sony HDV tape scandal

    24 March 2005, 00:00

    If such new tape really is necessary, it\'s totally unacceptable that Sony should have forgotten the big problems it created in the past with incompatible DV tape formulations and now ...

  • Review: Gigabyte 8IPE775-G 'Springdale' Motherboard

    24 March 2005, 00:00

    But if you've got your heart set on Socket-T in the near future and have decent RAM and at least a midrange AGP graphics card already in your system, the ...

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  • Review: DFI LANPARTY 925X-T2

    24 March 2005, 00:00

    There\'s plenty of decent 900-series boards doing the rounds right now, and DFI\'s 925X-T2 is decent. The problem is, as far as I can see, that other manufacturers now offer ...

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  • CEBIT 2005 : A Pictorial view.

    23 March 2005, 00:00

    So, where to start? Well, in case you weren’t aware, CeBIT is not just about computers… it covers pretty much anything technology related, so anyone who produces anything you plug ...

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  • CEBIT 2005 : Modding heaven!

    22 March 2005, 00:00

    Of course, innovation always catches the eye, but imagination is a big attention grabber too. Which is why I found myself drawn to an area behind the WCG arena in ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: Fastest PC at CeBIT?

    22 March 2005, 00:00

    So what was the fastest PC at CeBIT? Extreme Cooling Technologies 5.4Ghz PC is the answer.

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  • Leading video editing company Pinnacle to be taken over by Avid

    22 March 2005, 00:00

    Pinnacle, the leading maker of video editing software and hardware for consumers, is set to be rescued from its financial troubles after it agreed a buy-out by Avid

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  • Review: ECS ELITEGROUP 915-A Mainboard

    22 March 2005, 00:00

    Not a horribly bad board, but unless you desperately want the GMA900 in order to do dual display with another discrete card, there's no reason to consider it, given other ...

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  • CEBIT 2005 : Moblie Phone Round-Up

    19 March 2005, 00:00

    Mobile phones are big business and the market has been waiting for a new reason to push consumers into going out and spending £150 odd quid on a new handset.

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  • TrackMania Sunrise

    19 March 2005, 00:00

    The basic premise of the game remains the same… fling your vehicle around race tracks featuring completely OTT jumps, ramps and pipes and cross the finish line first. That’s in ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: FSP power supplies

    17 March 2005, 00:00

    FSP Group is a power supply manufacturer, and as any genuinely competent and experienced PC professional will attest, FSP Group is a PSU manufacturer which has stood the test of ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: ABIT RM-11 Remote control

    17 March 2005, 00:00

    The impact of this is to make your media PC a hands free bit of kit, letting you clock it up and down as per your needs. Fancy watching a ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: ATI Celebrate 20 years in style

    16 March 2005, 00:00

    ATI have shown the ultimate in exhibitionism and hired themselves an ENTIRE hall. Yep, Halle 27 is ATI world. Decked out in corporate red, ATI show of their goods safe ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: Gizmondo out this week

    16 March 2005, 00:00

    There’s plenty else to talk about with the Gizmondo, which seems to me to be smaller and lighter than the units I saw running at Gamestars in 2004. With Gizmondo ...

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  • NVIDIA nForce 4 SLI for Pentium 4 - first benchmark results

    16 March 2005, 00:00

    Last October NVIDIA launched its exceptionally good nForce 4 system chipset to support AMD Athlon 64, Athlon 64 FX and Opteron processors.

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  • CEBIT 2005: FIRST LOOK - RAPTOR-GAMING K1- gaming keyboard

    16 March 2005, 00:00

    The K1 is easily adjustable to your needs using a simple tool to remove any key you like and replace it with one of the eight fluorescent topped keys supplied, ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: XFX go Extreme with Smart Car

    16 March 2005, 00:00

    Primary cooling is water based, with the biggest radiator you’ve ever seen fitted to the front to optimise airflow. Further cooling is provided by two internal 80mm fans hidden behind ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: FIRST LOOK - RAPTOR-GAMING M2 Mouse

    15 March 2005, 00:00

    But the M2 goes much farther than simple ergonomics, it has two innovations that make it stand out from the crowd.

  • CEBIT 2005: NVIDIA chats about nForce4 SLI for Intel Pentium 4

    15 March 2005, 00:00

    I had a chat with NVIDIA yesterday in a meeting where they admitted slight frustration at certain pockets of press claiming that nForce4 SLI Edition for Intel Pentium 4 is ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: S3's OmniChrome can't be sold in the UK?

    15 March 2005, 00:00

    S3's graphics guru, Nadeem Mohammed, is the kind of infectious tech dude that you will to succeed, simply because he's such a smart guy in a struggling outfit that he ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: TV tuners take over CEBIT

    15 March 2005, 00:00

    I thought, for my own reference as much as anything, I should see what the alternatives currently are for TV tuning on the PC, especially in terms of MCE-certified tuners. ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: SLI running with odd BIOS ROMs at Prolink's stand

    15 March 2005, 00:00

    If you wander over to Prolink's stand at CeBit, you'll not only see NVIDIA's nForce4 for Pentium 4 on their stand, using EPoX's 5NVA+ SLI mainboard, but you'll also see ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: PixelView champions MXM

    15 March 2005, 00:00

    MXM has no uptake? Tell that to PixelView, the Taiwanese company showing off no less than five MXM designs using brand new NVIDIA graphics processors.

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  • CEBIT 2005: GeForce 6200 AGP using BR2

    15 March 2005, 00:00

    Just a quick one from me. There are a few 6200 AGP boards on show at NVIDIA's partners, here at CeBit in Halle 24. Inno3D have one up for example, ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: World Exclusive - Koolance's New ATI X8-series GPU Waterblock

    14 March 2005, 00:00

    I popped by Koolance's shared stand in Halle 24 yesterday, where they're exhibiting with Lian Li, and I managed to snag the world's first sample of their brand new ATI ...

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