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  • Review: Pentium 4 Northwood 2.4GHz

    2 April 2002, 00:00

    We can't help but feel that the introduction of the 2.4GHz P4 is merely a stop-gap between Northwood revisions, and simply launched to counteract the excellent performance of AMD's XP2100. ...

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  • Review: Visiontek Xtasy GeForce4 Ti4400

    1 April 2002, 00:00

    Performance from the Visiontek is stellar, there is no question about it. Infact, I hinder performance running with the XP1500 since the card sits and waits for data from it ...

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  • Review: PARS Scorpio

    29 March 2002, 00:00

    Overall this case is brilliant. It's perfect for your main rig or a decent server setup. There is plenty of room inside and it is well ventilated.

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  • Review: Project Black Ice - Part 2

    28 March 2002, 00:00

    In the previous article I looked at the goals, specifications of project black ice and showed details of the new evaporator housing. In this article I actually get down to ...

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  • Review: PC2700, Here and Now

    28 March 2002, 00:00

    Is PC2700 worth it ?, we\'d like to think so. It brings to the table something that is lacking from DDR in the Pentium 4 arena, namely extra bandwidth. Our ...

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  • Review: Koolance PC2-C

    26 March 2002, 00:00

    The Koolance PC2-C is the next generation of the Koolance brand. Koolance originally released a Koolance case around the middle of 2001.

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  • Review: MSI G4MX440-T

    25 March 2002, 00:00

    The card overclocked marginally worse than the Abit, mostly due to the inferior memory modules used. Out of the box performance however was slightly but measurably higher than the Abit ...

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  • Review: ABIT Siluro GF4 MX

    20 March 2002, 00:00

    These cards are definitely aimed at the budget concious user, much like the GeForce2 Titanium cards were not so long ago. The Abit is a decent performer considering what's under ...

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  • Review: AMD Athlon XP2100+

    13 March 2002, 00:00

    Another release from AMD sees them, in our eyes at least, back at the top of the desktop CPU market. The XP2100 simply enhances what is already an excellent processor. ...

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  • Review: MSI KT3 Ultra ARU

    13 March 2002, 00:00

    We at Hexus like to see just how far we can push our kit. MSI, historically, have not paid too much attention to the overclocking community. This seems to have ...

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  • Review: Shuttle AK-31

    13 March 2002, 00:00

    I noted recently how the tide of products we've looked at here at Hexus had become distinctly Intel dominated with boards and processor keeping us busy. Well it seems the ...

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  • Stealth blowholes

    10 March 2002, 00:00

    So you have your new gaming or high performance rig and its running way to hot. So whats the solution?

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  • Review: Pentium 4 1.6 Northwood overclocking

    9 March 2002, 00:00

    From scouring various overclocking forums, we have gleaned that the average overclock for a 1.6Ghz Northwood is around 2.3Ghz, one that is usually achieved with a minor increase in voltage. ...

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  • Review: Matrix Orbital GLK12232-25-WBL

    8 March 2002, 00:00

    I really, really like this LCD. Normally when I play games I have my mp3s playing, it\'s nice to be able to glance to the right and see what I\'m ...

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  • Crucial PC2700 / DDR333 Pics!

    7 March 2002, 00:00

    Crucial Memory - we all tend to use it due to the high performance Micron chips on it. Well what have we all been waiting for ? Well here we ...

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  • Review: ABIT NV7M

    5 March 2002, 00:00

    Performance using the GF3 in the AGP slot was excellent and the best we've seen from a Socket A AMD system using this processor however I can't see a GF3 ...

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  • Review: IWill XP333-R

    26 February 2002, 00:00

    While focus on VIA's chipset rightfully draws attention with VIA being the main chipset supplier for AMD based systems, we shouldn't forget that another chipset has supported DDR333 memory for ...

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  • Review: Project Ice Blue

    26 February 2002, 00:00

    When I first saw the PC60 USB case IRL I saw my own name written on it :, I just had to buy it. With intentions to do some serious ...

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  • Review: Gainward Ti/450 GS

    21 February 2002, 00:00

    Overclocked, the Gainward is simply the fastest GeForce2 based card we've seen at Hexus and the overclock was comfortable. Many cards go even higher and ramsinks are a worth edition ...

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  • Review: Soyo Dragon Plus First Look

    21 February 2002, 00:00

    The updated Dragon with the KT266A Northbridge is an excellent performer stuffed full of features and from this first look we have high hopes for the concluding part of the ...

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  • Review: Intel Pentium III Tualatin 1.067Ghz

    19 February 2002, 00:00

    Pick up these little pieces of computing history if you can since they are fine performers and overclock like champions.

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  • Review: Coolermaster ATCS 600

    14 February 2002, 00:00

    I have to say I love this case , it made me rethink whether I preferred towers or desktops. I am lucky enough to have a huge desk , if ...

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  • ABIT Siluro Geforce 4MX

    11 February 2002, 00:00

    Here we have some pictures, well the first of the ABIT Geforce 4MX card, unusual for ABIT to launch the card so quickly on the market, normally they hold out ...

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  • Review: PIV Northwood overclocking

    11 February 2002, 00:00

    The PIV Northwood is the latest revision of the Intel Pentium 4, based on a .13 micron process, and using 512kb level 2 cache. It has a lower core voltage ...

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  • Review: AMD Athlon XP 1900

    11 February 2002, 00:00

    The time period between the release of the Athlon XP1800 and this new chip, the 1600Mhz XP1900 can be measured in days. Indeed, the initial AthlonXP range which included the ...

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  • Review: Coolermaster ATCS 600 Preview

    8 February 2002, 00:00

    Its not very often you get a world exclusive review on a very sweet bit of PC kit but thats what I have had to do.

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  • Review: Coolermaster ATCS 600 Preview

    7 February 2002, 00:00

    Its not very often you get a world exclusive review on a very sweet bit of PC kit but thats what I have had to do.

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  • Review: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4600

    7 February 2002, 00:00

    At 1600x1200 and beyond the card pretty much demolishes the opposition cards. The higher clocks and core improvements (especially in the LMA II logic and the massive memory bandwidth savings) ...

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  • Review: Coolermaster ATCS 500

    5 February 2002, 00:00

    This case is definitly not for all people and all uses, if you are looking for a LAN case you cannot go wrong with this case.

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  • Review: Coolermaster ATCS 500 Review

    5 February 2002, 00:00

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  • Stealthing a CD/DVD Rom Drive

    3 February 2002, 00:00

    Okay with all these lovely aluminium cases that are so popular today the days of the beige computer are well and truly numbered. The problem is that the computer parts ...

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  • Review: Matrox G550

    3 February 2002, 00:00

    Therefore it seems that Matrox doesn't really have much to show with the G550. The 3D performance was poor, 2D performance is matched by current cards and DualHead is done ...

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  • Review: Shuttle SV24 XPC

    2 February 2002, 00:00

    The Ideal PC for Home Theatre or LAN parties. I\'d have to say, this is the best piece of hardware I\'ve bought for a long time.

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