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  • Project Tritium - Foxconn's C51XEM2AA

    28 May 2006, 16:23

    It stands out not only as one of the first nForce5 590 SLI mainboards to hit retail, but also because it's the NVIDIA nForce5 590 SLI reference board that NVIDIA ...

  • Intel's Conroe spanks AMD FX-62's botty - for real!!

    23 May 2006, 05:01

    There's no real need for a summary. The benchmarks tell all. Intel's Conroe outmuscles every current consumer CPU. Would you buy an AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 now? K8-L can't come ...

  • Evesham Technology AXIS Asteroid FX62

    23 May 2006, 05:01

    This time, however, the thrills and spills come in the form of a pre-built system from Evesham Technology that's based around AMD's fastest-ever CPU and a new core-logic from NVIDIA, ...

  • SCAN 3XS Athlon 64 FX-62 AM2 system

    23 May 2006, 05:01

    SCAN's judicious use of top-quality components leads to an Athlon 64 FX-62 AM2-based system that's tasty from all but the monetary angle. It needs to add a few components and ...

  • AMD Socket AM2: Athlon 64 FX-62 and nForce5 590 SLI

    23 May 2006, 05:00

    It's a heady tale of core performance, bandwidth, competition, performance and much more. It's played out on a stage of dual-core 90nm SOI silicon and our hero is Athlon 64 ...

  • MESH Matrix² CrossFire™ 1900/1600/1300 systems

    23 May 2006, 03:45

    MESH has released a base unit that will appeal to the gamer with a healthy budget. Packing in an AMD Athlon 64 FX-60, an ASUS RD580 motherboard and Radeon X1900 ...

  • ATI RADEON Xpress 3200 Shootout: ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe -v- Sapphire PURE Crossfire PC-A9RD580

    21 May 2006, 21:15

    A big nod to the enthusiast, one who's mostly in raptures with nForce4 boards when using AMD processors, RD580 is a bid to steal some of NVIDIA's well-earned limelight in ...

  • S3 Graphics Chrome S27 including MultiChrome

    20 May 2006, 10:15

    Definitely last-gen in terms of D3D9 Shader Model support, S27 makes up for it by using Fujitsu's 90nm low-k manufacturing to clock the chip as high as 700MHz. Paired with ...

  • Galaxy GeForce 7600 GS 256 GDDR3

    14 May 2006, 07:54

    Galaxy rock up with a GeForce 7600 GS designed to shake up the establishment. Laughing at 7600 GS's reference clocks, its also dumped the obnoxious little reference cooler and attached ...

  • Sapphire TOXIC Radeon X1900 XTX

    8 May 2006, 17:48

    The reference cooler ATI equipped their Radeon X1800 XT and Radeon X1900 XT/XTX with is effective, there's no doubting that. Cools the chip well, actively cools the memory; job is ...

  • Ageia PhysX PPU

    4 May 2006, 11:59

    The acceleration of game physics, and I use the terms acceleration and physics broadly, is a hot topic for gamers and developers alike. Hardware acceleration of various physics APIs has ...

  • ASUS P5WD2-E Premium

    27 April 2006, 13:48

    With Intel's next generation of desktop CPUs - codenamed Conroe - supported by i975X core logic, i975X-sporting mainboards have come back in to focus. While it's not as clear cut ...

  • Sapphire Radeon X1800 GTO

    24 April 2006, 15:43

    With NVIDIA's AIB partners offering versions of GeFroce 7600 GT at even higher clocks for sensible money, NVIDIA seem to have the ˜£150 mid-range market to themselves. ATI's counter offensive ...

  • OCZ Technology DDR2 PC2-8000 Platinum XTC Extreme Edition

    19 April 2006, 18:47

    If your system can effectively utilise 1GHz-rated DDR2, and it's a big if, OCZ's 2GByte pack should be at the top of your shortlist. Summing it up in a word ...

  • Apple Boot Camp Public Beta

    13 April 2006, 11:57

    HEXUS.community stalwart Gordon Handley (Gordy) gets down and dirty with Apple Boot Camp Public Beta - the utility that let's Intel-based Macs dual-boot between Windows XP and Mac OS X

  • ECS C19-A SLI

    13 April 2006, 09:00

    I usually start an ECS mainboard review with a little bit of chatter about their renaissance in the world of enthusiast mainboards. It's about time to drop that, though, and ...

  • PowerColor Radeon X1300 HyperMemory 2

    7 April 2006, 09:29

    It's been over two years since we first reviewed a PowerColor graphics card. In that time Tul's graphics card brand has cemented its position as a shortlist choice for anyone ...

  • Corsair TWIN2X1024-8500 Memory

    5 April 2006, 16:55

    In summary, Corsair's TWIN2X1024-8500 memory is overkill for the majority of users unless absolute performance is vital. Want the fastest memory around? Look no further than this pack.

  • Thecus N2050 DAS appliance

    27 March 2006, 10:06

    With the N2050 on eSATA DAS, it's as though your using an internal RAID array. Performance is impressive, and the reliability that RAID 1 brings is always welcomed.

  • NVIDIA Quad-SLI Intro Analysis

    23 March 2006, 10:29

    NVIDIA recently announced Quad SLI at CES, partnering with Dell to show the four GPU extension of their SLI technology to a waiting world. SLI, or Scaleable Link Interface, is ...

  • Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 965 Processor

    22 March 2006, 16:02

    Got £700 and absolutely want to spend it all on a CPU? Define what your workload priorities are and choose whether the Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 965 or AMD Athlon ...

  • ATI FireGL V7350 Early Preview

    20 March 2006, 16:22

    With the genlock hardware not available until the second half of this year, uptake for the V7350 is initially going to lie in the 3D modelling and CAD/CAM markets. And ...

  • devolo MicroLink dLAN Highspeed Starter Kit

    12 March 2006, 01:17

    The ideal digital home would have a network port next to every mains socket - and with develo's MicroLink dLAN Highspeed networking kit, that's what you get

  • NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX, 7900 GT and 7600 GT Preview

    9 March 2006, 14:05

    What follows is a fairly in-depth technical discussion of the base architecture common to G71 and G73. Then you'll find talk on G71 and G73 themselves before a look at ...

  • rockdirect Xtreme SLI Laptop

    9 March 2006, 13:47

    The Xtreme SL is simply a statement of the amount of graphical power available at the very top-end of the desktop-replacement market. Loud? A little. Huge? Yes. Fast? Oh, yes. ...

  • Futuremark 3DMark06 Analysis

    4 March 2006, 10:14

    The launch of Futuremark's 3DMark06, its latest 'Gamer's Benchmark', has thrown up all manner of questions and concerns about the benchmark itself, Futuremark as a company, the changes facing consumer ...

  • Corsair Nautilus500 liquid cooling system

    22 February 2006, 16:18

    Corsair £99 Nautilus500 watercooling package, then, is a mixture of mainly good and a little not so good. It's easy to install, albeit not in the 15 minutes that Corsair ...

  • ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon X1900

    21 February 2006, 00:37

    The concept of multi-function, multimedia devices such as ATI All-In-Wonder have an inherent appeal to this writer and, for the most part, I’ve been largely impressed with ATI’s most recent ...

  • ATI Radeon X1900 XT Shootout - SAPPHIRE versus PowerColor

    17 February 2006, 13:49

    ATI's Radeon X1900 family is what the X1800 range should have been on launch day. We can recommend both the PowerColor and SAPPHIRE X1900 XT 512MB cards, based on comparative ...

  • NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP Launch Preview

    2 February 2006, 14:11

    Who remembers AGP? Hands up! Ah, just the two of you, thought as much.

    You'd be forgiven for thinking that'd be the way such a conversation with ...

  • ASUSTeK W1 Carbon Fibre notebook

    2 February 2006, 05:20

    The ASUSTeK W1 Carbon Fibre notebook may win a number of design awards, but - and it's a big but - does the underlying technology and specification merit an outlay ...

  • Dell UltraSharp 3007WFP Widescreen LCD Display

    1 February 2006, 01:50

    In summary, then, our Dell 3007WFP isn't the stellar product that the 2405FPW was on its inception. Too many minor niggles take away from the oh-my-goodness factor of staring at ...

  • ATI Radeon X1900 XT and XTX

    24 January 2006, 00:54

    There are significant differences in how R580 goes about the business of data processing, compared to R520. Be under no illusions; R580 ain't no simple R520 speed bump.... It's those ...