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  • HEXUS hosts ATi Technologies’ European Multimedia Customer Care Forum

    31 October 2005, 20:48

    HEXUS is proud to announce that yet another World Class company has joined the ever growing list of honourable manufacturers, and retailers, which choose to maintain a care@HEXUS discussion forum ...

  • It’s not all fun and games y’know – is too!

    30 October 2005, 22:07

    Just got back from the Austin Game Conference. A smallish show by comparison to GDC in San Francisco in March, and about the same size of the last ECTS in ...

  • Review: SAPPHIRE RADEON X1800 XL 256MB & XFX GeForce 7800 GT 256MB

    29 October 2005, 16:42

    Both card packages offer compelling reasons for purchase but given a direct choice between the two, our money would slide over into XFX's corner for a number of reasons. Its ...

  • MS Windows could be pulled from South Korea

    28 October 2005, 18:51

    South Korea's Fair Trade Commission has been investigating Microsoft for the bundling of a media player and instant messenger in the Windows Operating System. If Microsoft are found to be ...

  • Review: Shuttle XPC SD11G5 SFF

    28 October 2005, 00:35

    One stumbling block Shuttle faces in marketing the SD11G5 is price. A search of online retailers shows it to retail at around the £340 mark. That's a lot of wedge ...

  • Microsoft: Safe and secure

    26 October 2005, 16:30

    A year and a half ago, if we'd said to you that Windows and Internet Explorer were secure, you'd probably have laughed us off the Internet. However, things have come ...

  • ATi’s great thinkers slip R580 codename - More than we bargained for in ‘Byrne’s place’

    25 October 2005, 23:40

    One of my occasional haunts in Santa Clara sure serves up some fine fayre, but this time I got one bean more in my groceries than the 520 i’ve come ...

  • ATI's Xpress 200 used in latest Intel mainboard

    25 October 2005, 21:17

    It was claimed not so long ago in the press that Intel were about to release a motherboard with an ATI chipset, and here it is.

  • Review: ECS PA1 MVP Extreme

    25 October 2005, 09:00

    From PF4 Extreme to the bonkers PF88 with others in between, the renaissance of the one-time whipping boy of PC mainboards is in full swing. I was lucky enough to ...

  • DDR2 demand hindered by chipset shortage

    25 October 2005, 08:29

    What's going on in the world of RAM right now? We're in a kind of limbo phase between DDR and DDR2, where one platform (AMD) doesn't yet support it, and ...

  • Review: Scan 3XS AMD Chameleon

    24 October 2005, 10:17

    Mad as a badger, the SCAN 3XS Chameleon SKU has now been finished. Spec lists have been finalised, warranty options cemented and parts options completed on the project and Scan ...

  • ViewSonic takes TFT response times to 2ms

    21 October 2005, 17:17

    Monitor maker ViewSonic has today announced two additions to its VX high performance range of monitors, one a widescreen TFT and the other a TFT with a staggering 2ms response ...

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  • FSP Epsilon FSP700-80GL Spy Shots

    21 October 2005, 13:05

    If you cast your mind back to late September you'll remember our epic power supply group test. We took 30 or so PSUs out to Taiwan just before Computex for ...

  • Review: Silverstone Tek Temjin TJ06S

    21 October 2005, 11:04

    What this shows more than anything is that the Sliverstone Tek Temjin TJ06s, with its minimal amount of cooling fans, does not fall behind those cases with a greater number ...

  • Review: EQS A72K9-CF

    20 October 2005, 08:41

    EQS enabled HEXUS with its EQS A72K9-CF CrossFire Edition mainboard literally weeks before we got our grubby paws on the ATi Master graphics board required to complete the platform for ...

  • Godfrey Cheng of ATI - Avivo and video after R1K's launch

    19 October 2005, 16:03

    As part of our continuing coverage of the new ATI Radeon X1000-series of graphics products on HEXUS.core and HEXUS.lifestyle, I had the chance to exchange email recently with Godfrey Cheng, ...

  • DVD Jon works for Michael Robertson

    19 October 2005, 16:00

    21 year old Jon Lech Johansen is embarking on a new project, called 'Oboe', with Michael Robertson.

  • ASUS delivers dual 16x SLI

    18 October 2005, 18:26

    NVIDIA's now well established SLI technology has, without a doubt, delivered exceptional levels of graphics performance, evident by the now CPU-bound nature of many games. However, there's always room for ...

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  • Epox's Socket-754 SLI motherboard lands in the UK

    18 October 2005, 13:42

    Some of our readers may recall our initial HEXUS.headline on Epox's EP-8NPA-SLI, which at the time looked to be an interesting and maybe even feasible cheap SLI upgrade solution. ...

  • Elitegroup Computer Systems - an overview

    17 October 2005, 20:03

    Our quick profile of ECS and trip up to the U.K HQ was intended to show you that sales volume and brand exposure don't necessarily go hand-in-hand in the PC ...

  • Review: Shuttle XPC SD31P

    17 October 2005, 17:47

    Shuttle's been refining the XPC line for a number of years now. In fact, it's an old hand at it now, and that's shown by the number of decent SFF ...

  • DVD burners all round

    17 October 2005, 07:56

    In the Taiwanese Market, sales of DVD burners has surpassed those of DVD-ROM/CDRW combo drives.

  • Review: PowerColor X800 GT Xtreme 256MB and X800 GT EVO Tide Water 256MB

    14 October 2005, 09:44

    So, in summary, we've looked at a couple of PowerColor X800 GT cards and have come away with the feeling that whilst both offer something new in the marketplace, the ...

  • Broadcom offers full hand with serial-attached SCSI RAID on PCI Express

    13 October 2005, 19:06

    At this week's Storage Expo show at London Olympia, Broadcom has been demonstrating a RAID solution it reckons lots of rivals are talking about but none can yet show, never ...

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  • ATI produce tool to increase Doom3 scores 'up to 35%' with AA enabled

    13 October 2005, 16:05

    ATI Technologies have this morning made a tool available to HEXUS which supposedly improves scores in most OpenGL games when antialiasing is enabled at high resolution. Improvements 'of up to ...

  • Apple launch new iMacs, New iPods et al

    12 October 2005, 18:41

    Chargeable video downloads drive development of latest Apple products - iTunes 6, video-capable iPods and fourth-generation iMacs

  • eVGA's waterblock for 7800 GTX

    11 October 2005, 19:23

    EVGA are giving their new GeForce 7800 GTX the wet treatment, with a new waterblock design.

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  • Review: ASUS Extreme N7800GT Dual

    11 October 2005, 17:51

    A recent headline article on HEXUS introduced the ASUS Extreme N7800GT Dual in a hands-on preview of the first single-board SLI product to use NVIDIA G70. ASUS had previously tried ...

  • Foxconn - the biggest name you've not heard of

    11 October 2005, 13:32

    As someone who sees nothing much past the finished retail product, it was nice to take a look at the other side of the fence, where products are launched, strategies ...

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  • Seagate takes it to half a terabyte

    10 October 2005, 19:12

    Seagate's new range of Barracuda desktop hard drives delivers up to 500GB of storage capacity

  • ASUS Extreme N7800GT Dual

    10 October 2005, 13:34

    ASUS didn't can the idea of two GPUs on a single board in SLI mode, though. The recent release of NVIDIA G70 which powers the GeForce 7800 GTX and 7800 ...

  • Stanford Racing Team first to cross the Grand Challenge finish line

    9 October 2005, 12:38

    The Intel supported Stanford Racing Team were the first to cross the line in this year's DARPA Grand Challenge, beating the also Intel supported Red Team by a mere 4 ...

  • Review: Foxconn 6150K8MA-8EKRS Mainboard

    7 October 2005, 16:34

    In summary, then, NVIDIA's plugged the gap that existed in its current chipset lineup by introducing a few new SKUs that feature integrated graphics. The launch is just an evolution ...