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  • ECTS 2004: First Time Perspective

    6 September 2004, 00:00

    s a first time ECTS attendee, unlike the majority of my journalist and technology industry peers that I met at the event, I had somewhat of a unique persepective on ...

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  • HEXUS at the ABIT Hardware Festival

    6 September 2004, 00:00

    HEXUS.net was out in force at the ABIT Hardware Festival and Fatal1ty Shootout. Today we have coverage from the event.

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  • ABIT Hardware Festival: VIA: PC Speed Building Competition

    6 September 2004, 00:00

    Drama ensues as this point, as Spode desperately tries to make up ground. He attempts to install the drive cage, but unsuccessful and enraged, rams the cd drive half way ...

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  • Review: Armari's InertX PF5080

    6 September 2004, 00:00

    Ultimately, save for seriously chilling a coolant to sub-zero temperatures using another refrigerant system or a cascade, there seems little point in buying InertX unless you\'re desperate for peace of ...

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  • Review: GALAXY Glacier GeForce 6800 128MB

    4 September 2004, 00:00

    If you can scrape together the extra £75 necessary to purchase a GT model, I'd recommend it, especially with newer gaming titles using huge textures that necessitate larger frame buffers. ...

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  • ECTS 2004: HEXUS.net in shock Fatal1ty shoot out!

    2 September 2004, 00:00

    HEXUS.net proved its worth today when Dan Pass aka Shorty faced up to Fatal1ty and took one for the team.

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  • ECTS 2004: Interview with Fatal1ty, the world's number one gamer

    2 September 2004, 00:00

    Johnathan Wendel, aka Fatal1ty, is the number one FPS gamer in the world right now. HEXUS.net caught up with with him during a break from taking on all-comers at ECTS.

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  • ECTS 2004: S3's OmniChrome and GammaChrome

    2 September 2004, 00:00

    I had some time to chat with one of the S3 product managers for their graphics business this morning, and he passed on some snippets of info on upcoming GammaChrome ...

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  • ECTS 2004: ATI's New Catalyst Control Panel

    2 September 2004, 00:00

    Weighing in currently at a lardy 60MB, the new control panel is built in .NET using DirectX Graphics to allow realtime preview of applied card settings, so you can see ...

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  • ECTS 2004: VIA Stand - Beat the best?

    2 September 2004, 00:00

    Over on the VIA stand, Astroblitz, one of the top UT gamers in the world is challenging all comers to try and take even ONE frag off him.

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  • ECTS 2004: VIA Stand

    2 September 2004, 00:00

    At ECTS, over on the VIA stand there's a large crowd gathered, watching some of gaming's greats take on all challengers and thoroughly humiliate them.

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  • ECTS 2004: ATI On Track With Shader Model 3.0

    2 September 2004, 00:00

    ATI, while not wishing to say anything completely on the record, strongly hinted to me yesterday that they're on track to release a set of Shader Model 3.0 parts in ...

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  • ECTS 2004: The Filtering War Will Be No More?

    2 September 2004, 00:00

    One of the biggest topics of discussion in consumer graphics in the last two of three years has concerned texture and geometry filtering quality. From Quake/Quack, right the way through ...

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  • ECTS 2004: No More DirectX Graphics?

    2 September 2004, 00:00

    Speaking with ATI and NVIDIA at ECTS allowed us to confirm that after DX9.0, DirectX Graphics is no more. In name only. Microsoft's next set of core presentation and 3D ...

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  • Review: Zalman TNN500A / Poweroid Silent PC

    20 August 2004, 00:00

    What it all boils down to, really, is if its very select attributes appeal to you. If they do, you'll wonder why nothing like this ever came along before. Cost ...

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  • Review: Chaintech Summit SK8T800 Motherboard

    20 August 2004, 00:00

    Let\'s be clear. The SK8T800 doesn\'t pretend to be an enthusiasts\' board in the least, but a little voltage wouldn\'t have gone astray. Every product should be evaluated with due ...

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  • Review: ECS KV2 Extreme

    19 August 2004, 00:00

    Two out of three ECS boards tested, two out of three really excellent products. The PF4 impressed and so does the KV2. Again, the price, feature set and basic performance ...

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  • Review: Free and Open Source Software - Part 3

    19 August 2004, 00:00

    In this part, I will cover some tweaks and more advanced tasks - using the ALSA sound driver, installing 3D accelerated graphics drivers, updating the system, playing media, and playing ...

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  • Review: OCZ 2GB PC3200 Performance Series Dual-Channel Kit

    19 August 2004, 00:00

    If you can honestly find a meaningful use for 2GB of unbuffered memory, OCZ's £400 dual-channel pack is as good as any. We'd pair it with AMD's new S939 Athlon ...

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  • Review: HIS Excalibur Platinum Radeon 9600

    14 August 2004, 00:00

    It seems perfect folly for a Shuttle XPC or similar SFF chassis, should two DVI ports be your dream combination for your teeny tiny PC. Imagine a pair of decent ...

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  • Review: Gigabyte K8 Triton GA-K8NS Pro

    13 August 2004, 00:00

    For me, choosing the K8NS Pro lies on how much ATA devices you want to attach to the board. It offers more ATA-based flexibility than the ASUS K8N-E, keeping almost ...

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  • Review: NVIDIA's GeForce 6600 Product Launch

    12 August 2004, 00:00

    Whereas NV40 starts life as a full 16 pixel pipeline (4 quad pipes) part with a 256-bit memory interface, before being used in 6800 Ultra or 6800 GT product, or ...

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  • Review: ECS PF4 Extreme

    11 August 2004, 00:00

    Providing you've got no trouble investing in DDR-II memory, the ECS PF4 Extreme looks to be the best LGA775 mainboard we've yet tested at HEXUS, by quite a distance.

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  • Review: AOpen Aeolus GeForce 6800 GT 256MB

    10 August 2004, 00:00

    You have two choices when evaluating which next-generation card to purchase. Firstly, given a budget of around £300, you must choose between ATI\'s Radeon X800 PRO and NVIDIA\'s GeForce 6800 ...

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  • Shuttle Interview

    5 August 2004, 00:00

    Most of the people just follow the rules defined by big companies like Intel, but that's not Shuttle. It's very risky to create a new product. Maybe just 1% will ...

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  • Review: LG Flatron L1810B LCD Monitor

    3 August 2004, 00:00

    Overall I'm impressed by the LG, both in terms of specification and initial out of the box impressions. The resolution is a fine fit for the overall screen size, 19" ...

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  • Review: ASUS P5GD2 i915P & P5AD2 i925X Premium

    2 August 2004, 00:00

    Intel\'s 900-series of chipsets attempt to modernise motherboard design from almost every angle. The cost of such modernisation is mediocre speed and, perhaps, limited overclockability. ASUS has done a good ...

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  • Review: Asetek WaterChill Antarctica KT03A-L30

    2 August 2004, 00:00

    All my issues with the KT12 were blown away with the KT03A. Better relative performance, no more tubing hassles and better packaging all combine to sort out the WaterChill experience. ...

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  • Review: ABIT AG8

    28 July 2004, 00:00

    Given the AA8 as a base, the question to be asked of the AG8 is does its use of DDR memory make the platform any more attractive. Again, personally, I ...

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  • Review: ABIT AA8 DuraMAX

    28 July 2004, 00:00

    The new platform's inherent downsides all manifest themselves with the AA8, given that it implements absolutely everything new. DDR-II is underwhelming, scarce and more expensive than DDR, PCI Express graphics ...

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  • Review: Icy Box IB-350U-BL

    26 July 2004, 00:00

    In the giant sea of new, affordable external hard disk enclosures, the Icy Box stands out due to its appearance and ease of use. Recommended if you\'re in the market ...

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  • Review: AOpen Aeolus 6800 Ultra DVD256(E)

    26 July 2004, 00:00

    If the best of the best is what you're looking for, the Aeolus's no-nonsense approach translated into a keen price, makes the performance, features, image quality and noise seem very ...

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  • Review: Shuttle's XPC SB81P

    20 July 2004, 00:00

    It\'s unappealing with the GMA900 on-board video, so wait for PCI Express graphics cards to appear, pick your CPU and GPU poison, then definitely consider the SB81P as the host ...

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