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  • New Mobility Radeons from ATI

    5 January 2006, 15:48

    Mobile graphics solutions seem to be getting ever closer to the performance of their desktop brethren. Of course, there will always be some difference, and power consumption is even more ...

  • HEXUS.eXclusives :: OCZ's new phase-change cooler

    5 January 2006, 00:00

    OCZ, best known for its high performance RAM products, is entering the performance cooling market with its new phase-change cooler, the Cryo-Z.

  • HEXUS.eXclusives :: New, easy watercooling from Corsair

    4 January 2006, 09:33

    Corsair, already familiar in in the watercooling market for their COOL watercooling system, is bringing a new product the market geared up for easy installation and use.

  • Tune Into Bill Gate's Keynote Speech Live From CES

    4 January 2006, 08:56

    Tune into Bill Gates Keynote Speech At CES

  • Pioneer USA promises Blu-ray Disc writer in Q1

    3 January 2006, 13:35

    Pioneer USA is promising a Q1 2006 launch for its first PC Blu-ray Disc writer, the BDR-101A, a model that also reads and writes to conventional DVDs

  • Concept: The All-In-One Card

    3 January 2006, 11:51

    Just the other day, I sat watching the futuristic film Minority Report. I was taken aback by the digital newspapers and animated cereal boxes in the film, not because of ...

  • Temporary WMF exploit hotfix available

    2 January 2006, 16:05

    A temporary, unofficial patch for the WMF exploit is available for Windows 2000/XP/x64 users to install to rid themselves of the risk of being rooted by one of what seems ...

  • CES Show 2006 Podcasts Now Available

    2 January 2006, 15:39

    Podcasts are available

  • Thecus N2050 - 1TB of storage plus eSATA DAS

    2 January 2006, 11:14

    Thecus continue to expand their N series of storage devices with a new model surfacing this month, the N2050. So what's this one got?

  • X1800XT Crossfire boards making their way to the UK

    30 December 2005, 13:57

    The newest Crossfire master cards - X1800XT models - are landing in the UK, and are being supplied by add-in-board partner of ATI, Powercolor.

  • Intel's next generation Centrino

    30 December 2005, 13:33

    This year we've heard a lot of hype about dual cores, but as of yet they've only made an appearance on server, workstation and to some degree desktop systems, with ...

  • Review: Rockdirect Xtreme 64 4800+ DTR

    30 December 2005, 09:34

    Rockdirect's latest effort finally brings dual-core CPUs to its laptop line, albeit one that's not hot on the mobility stakes. The Xtreme 64 4800+ is based on the large Clevo ...

  • OCZ announces 2GiB of gaming DDR2

    29 December 2005, 20:06

    RAM manufacturer OCZ has put together its latest gaming RAM modules for DDR2.

  • Novogo: The new GPS in town

    28 December 2005, 14:58

    Novogo is launching a new line-up of GPS navigators, the V series. What makes these GPS units nifty is the built in voice-recognition software

  • The best and worst of 2005

    28 December 2005, 09:34

    The year has almost come to a close, so we want to find out what the best and worst technologies and creactions of 2005 have been. Normally in a 'summing ...

  • Review: Intel Extreme Edition 955 Processor

    27 December 2005, 16:10

    The days of performance single-core CPUs are numbered, even for gamers, with the likes of ATI and NVIDIA investing in multi-CPU driver support that makes better use of the parallel ...

  • The future of OS/2 - Open source or not?

    24 December 2005, 11:17

    Yesterday saw IBM cease the sale of the OS/2 Operating system. Come the 31st of December, standard support for the OS will end also. However, a significant number of companies ...

  • XFX launches AGP 6800 GS

    23 December 2005, 15:29

    XFX's AGP variant of the GeForce 6800 GS is now available, breathing yet more life into the ageing graphics port.

  • Microsoft faces daily EU fines

    23 December 2005, 14:11

    Microsoft had until the 15th December to meet EU demands to provide information on its Windows Operating System that would allow its competitor's group servers to better interoperate with it. ...

  • Review: Ultra Portable Disk Enclosures

    23 December 2005, 14:01

    The 3.5" Portable Disk Enclosure proved itself a product that works as advertised, but there are alternatives out there that perform as well and have a better build quality. However, ...

  • ATI Avivo still promising more than it delivers?

    22 December 2005, 13:43

    HEXUS.lifestyle's standing-on-a-high-horse specialist Bob Crabtree vents his spleen on the latest developments with Avivo - ATI's much-touted, next-generation video decoding, encoding and deinterlacing technology

  • Have a happy happy gaming holiday

    21 December 2005, 12:47

    This year, like every year before it, is going to be the best year ever for fantastic game performance, exciting games, super powerful platforms, affordable prices, and community playing in ...

  • Seagate acquires Maxtor

    21 December 2005, 11:47

    Following on from reports earlier this morning, Seagate and Maxtor have issued a joint press release confirming that Seagate will be acquiring Maxtor.

  • Review: Intel Digital Home Capabilities Assessment Tool

    21 December 2005, 09:57

    Check out our preview of the Intel Digital Home Capabilities Assessment Tool (IDHCAT) - a benchmarking program intended to allow system builders and professional reviewers to carry out whole-body testing ...

  • LG launches massive LCD monitor

    21 December 2005, 09:55

    If it's not resolution that's being pushed to new limits, it's monitor size. LG has announced a new LCD monitor that's absolutely massive.

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  • GeCube announces AGP based X1000s

    20 December 2005, 13:47

    The Accelerated Graphics Port really isn't dead yet. Its 8x variant can still provide enough bandwidth to make an upgrade to a latest-generation card worthwhile. As a result, a few ...

  • ITX form factor mainboard with integrated ATI graphics

    20 December 2005, 11:28

    Eagle-Eyed HEXUS readers may have noticed that the web site of PC Partner, one of the few official ATI beta mainboard R&D and testing centres, x3

  • Review: Gigabyte GV-RX18L256V-B Radeon X1800 XL 256MB

    20 December 2005, 09:56

    Gigabyte, then, has simply taken a reference ATI Radeon X1800 XL 256MB board and packaged it up with its own bundle. The net result is a proposition, when considered against ...

  • IE7 to adopt Firefox's RSS logo

    19 December 2005, 14:15

    It may only be a small victory, in that only those who know its origins will realise, but the RSS logo first seen in Mozilla's Firefox web browser will be ...

  • HP to support HD DVD too

    19 December 2005, 10:47

    Hewlett Packard have announced in a PRESS RELEASE that they will now support HD DVD.

  • Best of both big VGA worlds - Rys' HEXUS.blogz

    19 December 2005, 09:14

    A quick article for HEXUS.blogz that outlines the trials and tribulations of getting a graphics board each from ATI and NVIDIA to work and cooperate in the same workstation system, ...

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  • Review: ATI Avivo Winter 2005 Update

    16 December 2005, 19:17

    Splash the cash on a Radeon X1000-series and you'll get deinterlacing performance that's equal to the last gen (and pretty much sucks on old Radeon, so some discerning tests will ...

  • Supermicro ships clever SAS chassis

    15 December 2005, 20:02

    Uber-server component manufacturer Supermicro has made available its latest SAS chassis, featuring SES2.