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  • Tul announces Thermaltake cooled X800 GT

    19 September 2005, 00:00

    Following ATI's September 15th launch of the Radeon X800 GTO, Tul has announced two GTO based products under the PowerColor brand, one of which features a new GPU cooling system ...

  • Sex, Lies and Hard-Drives

    16 September 2005, 00:00

    Disklabs' Simon Steggles shares with HEXUS an interesting tale of old hard drives giving up a lot of, potentially costly, secrets.

  • Review: 3-way i955x motherboard shootout

    16 September 2005, 00:00

    If i955X still appeals to you, we can recommend both the ABIT AW8-MAX and Gigabyte 8I955X Royal as decent examples of what retail, high-end i955X implementations are all about. Given ...

  • EPoX pushes cheap NVIDIA SLi

    15 September 2005, 00:00

    NVIDIA SLi is most commonly associated with high powered systems with more graphics power than we really know what to do with. However, SLI is also trying to break through ...

  • Intel keeps die costs low

    14 September 2005, 00:00

    The average manufacturing cost of an Intel CPU die is around $40, and will stay pretty much constant for the time being.

  • Is it time for Dell to file for Divorce?

    14 September 2005, 00:00

    Dell is dull, and when companies like Apple, Alienware, and VoodooPC employ strategies that influence early adopters, a company like Dell must realize that there could be consequences down the ...

  • Wireless Security

    14 September 2005, 00:00

    WiFi is a wonderful thing. You can take your laptop anywhere in your house and access the Internet, or access your network from the garden. However, it does introduce the ...

  • Samsung develops 16Gibibit (2Gigabyte) flash memory

    13 September 2005, 00:00

    Samsung, the company responsible for more than half of the world's NAND flash market, is planning to launch a new flash chip next year with storage capacity of 16Gibibit/2Gigabyte.

  • IBC 2005 :: Matrox Axio editing platforms receive significant realtime performance boost using AMD64 Dual-Core Technology

    13 September 2005, 00:00

    Amsterdam, September 9 -IBC 2005 stand number 7.635 - Matrox Video Products is announcing improved realtime performance with the Matrox Axio family of HD and SD editing platforms using AMD64 ...

  • MESH.care@HEXUS

    12 September 2005, 00:00

    In a very frank and, er, colourful discussion with HEXUS, Riccardi expressed his frustration on several matters...

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  • Review: Rockdirect Pegasus 650 laptop

    12 September 2005, 00:00

    Rockdirect, then, has most of the bases covered with its Pegasus 650 model. It's fast, quiet, reasonably portable, and, subjectively-speaking, looks good, as well. The review model, priced at £1199+VAT, ...

  • Shuttle SLI XPC ships this month

    9 September 2005, 00:00

    Just when we thought you couldn't fit any more into a Shuttle, we heard about an XPC with SLI capabilities. Sure enough, one surfaced, and it will be shipping this ...

  • HEXUS.beans :: ATI X1800, X1600, X1300, GTO, GTO2? Confused? Not us!

    8 September 2005, 00:00

    Whilst I have been awaiting Fanny getting back from the USA, I thought I would share this bean with you. HEXUS has heard lots about R520 (Real Codename - Raptor), ...

  • S3 Graphics Announces Chrome20 Series

    7 September 2005, 00:00

    The discrete 3D graphics market consists primary of two main players, NVIDIA and ATI, as you well know. However, just a few years ago it was a different story. 3DFX ...

  • Interview with S3 Graphics - Ken Weng, General Manager

    7 September 2005, 00:00

    While at IDF August 2005, HEXUS got the chance to interview the General Manager of S3 Graphics, Ken Weng. A lot has happened to the S3 name over the years. ...

  • Braben scoops Development Legend Award

    6 September 2005, 00:00

    Braben scoops Development Legend Award

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  • IDF August 2005 :: Photos - Storage solutions

    5 September 2005, 00:00

    Servers need storage, so we move on with the photo tour and look at the storage solutions on show at IDF.

  • Vista on the cheap

    5 September 2005, 00:00

    The skeptics among you looking toward the launch of Windows Vista will no doubt have something to say about the price of it when it hits the shelves. It turns ...

  • IDF August 2005 :: Yonah and Sossaman

    5 September 2005, 00:00

    While Intel's desktop cores have been looked upon by some as less appealing than AMD's offerings, and a little on the warm side, the same cannot be said for their ...

  • IDF August 2005 :: Intel's Multi-Core Platforms

    5 September 2005, 00:00

    Continuing our IDF coverage with some retrospective content, we've obtained the slides from Intel's Multi-Core briefing. So let's take a closer look at what their plans are.

  • IDF August 2005 :: Kingston Buggy

    5 September 2005, 00:00

    It's always good to see something a little different and it was the turn of Kingston to show off something novel at IDF.

  • IDF August 2005 :: Photos - Server technology

    5 September 2005, 00:00

    Breaking down our IDF photo tour into three sections, we have the first one here: server related items. I'll let the photos do most of the talking.

  • Review: NVIDIA ForceWare 70 and 75 MIP Boundary Shimmering with GeForce 7800 GT and GTX

    2 September 2005, 00:00

    At one point in recent months, a driver for the GeForce 6-series of products has introduced worse texture filtering. The hard launch of GeForce 7800 GTX and the Release 75 ...

  • HEXUS.jumpingbeans :: nV ManBoy jumps the riva to the red side...

    2 September 2005, 00:00

    ...and we always thought the grass was greener on the other bank...

  • New SATA cables - Latch on!

    1 September 2005, 00:00

    One of the complaints users had about SATA when it first launched, was the connectors. Yes, the new cable design was great for airflow and plugging the connectors in was ...

  • Review: Synology Disk Station DS-101g+

    31 August 2005, 00:00

    At the time of writing, the Disk Station DS-101g+ is available at around the £200 mark. You'll have to supply your own SATA hard drive, but prices are forever dropping ...

  • ATI updates Q4 revenue expectations, down over US$70mil

    30 August 2005, 00:00

    ATI has issued a Q4 financial update, revising its predicted revenue figures. The bad news is, their initial predictions were off the mark by a considerable amount.

  • WinFS Beta 1 Released

    30 August 2005, 00:00

    The first beta of Microsoft's new filesystem, WinFS, has been released to developers.

  • Review: SAPPHIRE PURE Innovation A9RX480 S939 Mainboard

    29 August 2005, 00:00

    SAPPHIRE Technology is launching a mainboard for AMD Socket 939 processors with all the enthusiast-orientated bells and whistles, and performance, it says, is, well, class-leading. The SAPPHIRE PURE Innovation PI-A9RX480 ...

  • Review: ATI ALL-IN-WONDER X800 GT PCI Express

    27 August 2005, 00:00

    If you want a single board that does 3D and media tuning that comes with good software, and your budget means you\'re happy with the mid-range 3D performance and price ...

  • Zotob duo arrested

    27 August 2005, 00:00

    The two men believed to be responsible for the Zotob worm that caused havoc in the US recently have been arrested in Turkey and Morocco.

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  • Cell to spread

    26 August 2005, 00:00

    We know that Cell is the much hyped chip at the heart of the up-coming PlayStation three, but the three companies behind the chip are now looking to push it ...

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  • IDF August 2005 :: XBOX 360 - Media Extender, and VISTA

    25 August 2005, 00:00

    We spent some time talking to Microsoft about Media Centre and XBox 360. Whilst there is some good news, there is some even better news if you are planning to ...