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  • NVIDIA to buy core-logic designer ULi

    14 December 2005, 11:40

    In a move that has taken pretty much everyone in the IT industry by surprise, NVIDIA has annnounced that it is to buy ULi - designer of some of the ...

  • Review: Gigabyte GA-G1975X motherboard

    5 December 2005, 01:15

    The introduction of the Intel i975X chipset renders the current i955X as obsolete; the newer chipset supports all i955X features and adds some of its own, including, crucially, multi-GPU support, ...

  • Review: ECS ELITEGROUP PF22 Deluxe - First Look

    4 December 2005, 12:05

    Today's first look will go over the spec, board layout and some performance, before our full review next week covers everything else. Looking for an Intel mainboard that does Crossfire ...

  • Review: Gigabyte K8N51GMF-9 nForce 430/GeForce 6100 Mainboard

    4 November 2005, 07:01

    So what you get for £52 is a solid board with very few surprises that's good for a multitude of uses. Voltage manipulation in BIOS, better subsystem performance, and, perhaps, ...

  • ECS ELITEGROUP announces first 955X Crossfire motherboard

    2 November 2005, 07:28

    Thus far we've only seen Crossfire capable boards with ATI chipsets, but now ECS ELITEGROUP has announced the PF22, a 955X-based board which is capable of running ATI's new multi-GPU ...

  • Intel 975 from GIGABYTE gearing up for overclockers

    1 November 2005, 13:29

    Gigabyte has today announced the first in a series of motherboards aimed at computer enthusiasts and overclockers looking to get the most out of their system.

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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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  • 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 ...

  • Biostar announces nForce 410 based board

    20 September 2005, 00:00

    Piggybacking NVIDIA's MCP and IGP announcements today, Biostar has announced an nForce 410 based motherboard.

  • Review: NVIDIA GPU Motherboard Solutions - nForce4 410 and 430 with GeForce 6100 and 6150 Announcement

    20 September 2005, 00:00

    Tarinder will have the full review for you very soon. Today's announcement merely whets the appetite for an on-paper product with lots of promise.

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • IDF August 2005 :: A Better BIOS?

    24 August 2005, 00:00

    With all of the enhancements in systems today it is a suprise that we still have to use the DOS styled BIOS to configure and give our systems the performance ...

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  • IDF August 2005 :: Intel's New Architecture Plans

    23 August 2005, 00:00

    Opening IDF today Intel's CEO Paul Ottelini told Developers, Partners, Press and Analysts about their new Architecture.

    Currently Intel have Netburst and Mobile Microarchitecture- today they are talking about ...

  • Interview with John Bruno of ATI - Fish and chips? Oh yes.

    16 August 2005, 00:00

    Having joined ATI from General Electric in the summer of 1996, John's been part of the team that's launched products from the very first mobile ATI graphics part - Rage ...

  • ATi chipset division coming on strong (in North America at least)

    2 August 2005, 00:00

    HEXUS remember the days when ATi Technologies, was generally a rather conservative operation, but it seems that those days are fading fast...

  • Review: ECS PF5 Extreme

    25 July 2005, 00:00

    The ECS PF5 Extreme isn't a bad board by any means. We feel as if a few tweaks here and there will make it into a real contender in the ...

  • HEXUS.opinion: Never mind the hyperbole

    20 July 2005, 00:00

    Yes, this is the industry where everybody's a "leader" and you can always add another superlative or make up a new technology by (cleverly?) combining two words that are completely ...

  • Review: ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 SLI S939 Motherboard

    28 June 2005, 00:00

    Think carefully about what you want from a S939 board. If it's features above all else, look elsewhere, frankly. If it's the promise of sky-high overclocks and care and attention ...

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  • Review: EPoX EP-9NPA+ SLI Motherboard

    26 June 2005, 00:00

    Priced at around £105, the 9NPA+ SLI matches other manufacturers\' similarly priced efforts in both features and performance, making it worthy of consideration if you want a fast, stable board ...

  • ECS Production Tour 2005: How to build a mainboard, ECS style

    24 June 2005, 00:00

    I hope you've enjoyed the quick tour around Biloda and ECSM, to see how ECS make a mainboard from PCB upwards. Their staff work extremely hard, and to the highest ...

  • Computex 2005: MSI 64 and dual core

    5 June 2005, 00:00

    With the 955X Platinum mainboard, MSI are utilizing the 955X ICH7R chipset o give full support for the Intel LGA775 Pentium 4 EM64T processor along with Dual Core and Celeron ...

  • Computex 2005: Jetway puts Socket 754 and 939 on the same mainboard

    3 June 2005, 00:00

    Last of all, literally, since this is my last story from Computex 2005, they've got a pair of SLI mainboards for Athlon 64 and Pentium 4 that do away with ...

  • Computex 2005: ECS demos Socket 939 board with AGP and PCI-E, and the other SIMA cards for the PF88

    2 June 2005, 00:00

    ECS, in the middle of a big revival right now with their mainboard business as they create some fine mainboards and show off some serious engineering talent, are demonstrating more ...

  • Computex 2005: ABIT heatpipes the C19

    1 June 2005, 00:00

    ABIT have revealed their cooling solution for the NI8 SLI, with a funky heatpipe drawing off from the Northbridge to a set of fins mounted on the back panel of ...

  • Computex 2005: ABIT ring the changes with Guru Clock

    1 June 2005, 00:00

    With Guru came easy overclocking for everyone as the software would sort out all the settings for your ABIT mainboard without the risk of frying your CPU and saving you ...