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  • ECS RS482-M Radeon Xpress 200 motherboard

    2 August 2006, 19:30

    In this case the board we're looking at is a budget offering, with integrated Xpress 200 graphics and Socket 939 processor support. Of course, it's a PCIe board and Socket ...

  • Vadim Fusion Cetus Overclocked Core 2 Duo System

    31 July 2006, 14:23

    Wrapping it all up, the Vadim Fusion Cetus is, on balance, the fastest pre-built PC we've ever seen. It's not a quite a dream machine and �3,000 is a lot ...

  • Draytek Vigor2800VG

    28 July 2006, 09:41

    This is an expensive router, reassuringly expensive, weighing in at around £150; around five times more than some home routers. In fact, this product could be considered more of an ...

  • GIGABYTE GC-RAMDISK i-RAM

    27 July 2006, 07:53

    The GIGABYTE GC-RAMDISK i-RAM uses fast RAM modules to emulate a hard disk drive, an interesting approach to speeding up storage. Does Gigabyte's i-RAM deliver the blistering performance it promises? ...

  • NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP shootout

    26 July 2006, 08:21

    New and legacy NVIDIA AGP boards shoot-it-out, plus comparisons with GECUBE's ATi AGP entrant... who said AGP is dead?

  • Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 Intel P965 mainboard

    24 July 2006, 08:23

    The GIGABYTE GA-965P-DQ6 looks impressive on paper... but have we unearthed limitations that make it difficult to justify its premium asking asking price? Find out in this comprehensive HEXUS.review...

  • FSP Group Booster X3

    21 July 2006, 11:10

    Claimed to provide sufficient dedicated power to CrossFire and SLi rigs, can the FSP Booster X3 also improve overclocking?

  • Antec P180 - Still a great chassis?

    20 July 2006, 08:52

    Whilst this chassis is by no means new to the market, we decided to finally take a look at it to see how it fairs against another high-end chassis, the ...

  • ATI Radeon X1900 XTX 4-vendor Roundup

    19 July 2006, 09:08

    Do you want the fastest single-card consumer 3D graphics product on the market at the time of writing (it's 11th April 2006 as I tap this out) ? Do you, ...

  • Sapphire Technology Radeon X1600 Pro HDMI 256MiB

    18 July 2006, 08:53

    You need to consider the entire package that's on offer here and not just the price. With that in mind, it makes decent sense for those looking to make the ...

  • Intel Conroe Core 2 Duo/Extreme Processors

    14 July 2006, 05:00

    Intel, then, has moved the goalposts as far as consumer-level CPUs are concerned. Its low-end Core 2 Duo parts are more than a match for anything that has come before ...

  • MESH Elite Extreme SLI System - Core 2 Extreme X6800

    14 July 2006, 04:59

    It's quite appropriate then, for us to take a Core 2 based system for a spin on the day of the CPUs launch. MESH is the system builder that's kindly ...

  • Thecus N5200 NAS Appliance - 3.5 terabytes tested

    13 July 2006, 16:54

    The latest (and topmost) in Thecus' line of NAS products is the N5200. It frees itself from the shackles of the XScale processor and adopts the x86 architecture via an ...

  • abit KN9 SLI - nForce 570 SLI

    11 July 2006, 15:47

    Today it's time for us to take another nForce 570 SLI-based board for a spin. Rather than a K9N, it's a KN9 (now that's going to get confusing)... abit's KN9 ...

  • BFG Tech GeForce 7900 GT, 7900 GTX and 7600 GT OC™

    8 July 2006, 07:38

    BFG Tech were gracious enough to provide their OC™ examples of all three products, two-up for some SLI testing. BFG are staid factory overclockers with the majority of its gamer-led ...

  • HIS X1300 512MiB HyperMemory with 128MiB DDR2 x1 PCIe

    6 July 2006, 14:24

    £50 or so will buy you a faster graphics accelerator from ATI or NVIDIA, but they can't match the versatility of HIS' X1300 x1 PCIe card. A product for a ...

  • MSI K9N SLI Platinum - nForce 570 SLI

    4 July 2006, 09:21

    In this review, we'll take a little look at what differentiates the 570 and 590 SLI, and then see what MSI have managed to create with the 570 SLI at ...

  • rock Pegasus 650 Dungeons And Dragons Online Laptop

    30 June 2006, 13:17

    The rockdirect Pegasus 650 Dungeons and Dragons: Online model, then, is a distinctive model that's compromised by componentry that doesn't make the grade in mid-2006. Good but not great.

  • Complete ATI Radeon X1600 Roundup - Got £100 for a card? Read this!

    28 June 2006, 10:24

    Today we're venturing into the world of the level headed; the sensible enthusiast. Or perhaps the realist. It's a land where something around £100 will get you a new graphics ...

  • Antec P150 - Quiet PC

    23 June 2006, 18:52

    The P150 Performance One Chassis has been launched with a RRP price around £100, but for that you do get a high-end chassis with a quality PSU, so let’s take ...

  • FreeUndelete 2.0 - the best free utility on the net?

    23 June 2006, 01:24

    There's no end of good stuff available free on the web but Bob Crabtree reckons the best of the lot could be FreeUndelete 2.0, a sub-1MB app that just saved ...

  • Apple Mac mini - Core Duo

    22 June 2006, 02:35

    There's something almost sinfully attractive about Apple's ultra-small Mac mini. This in-depth review - covering Mac OS X and Win XP - makes clear how the mini can indulge your ...

  • A-DATA my Flash USB Fingerprint Disk 512MB

    15 June 2006, 11:38

    A cool piece of hardware with some truly practical benefits? We've seen integrated fingerprint readers in high-end laptops for a while now, and it was only a matter of time ...

  • PowerColor Radeon X1900 XT 512MB, SAPPHIRE Radeon X1900 XT & X1900 XTX 512MB

    13 June 2006, 11:42

    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 ...

  • Sapphire Radeon X1600 XT Ultimate Edition 256MB

    8 June 2006, 03:41

    Sapphire dubs this variant of ATi's RADEON X1600 XT as its Ultimate Edition. Replete with double-sided heatsink and near-silent operation; if you've got around £100 to spend on a midrange ...

  • GeForce 7900 GT and GTX mini-roundup: eVGA and XFX

    7 June 2006, 07:09

    We haven't managed to round up every last offering from all vendors (as much as I'd love to evaluate 30 GeForces!), but to kick off our quest for that particular ...

  • NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2

    5 June 2006, 14:18

    So does today's review focus -- NVIDIA's brand new GeForce 7950 GX2 -- change enough to do the job that GeForce 7900 GTX hasn't, dethroning Radeon X1900 XTX as the ...

  • SCAN 3XS Athlon 64 FX-62 AM2 system - Redux

    5 June 2006, 14:05

    SCAN listened to our recommendations and constructed the most impressive high-end SLI system we've seen to date. Just base it around a Conroe XE and we'd buy one now!

  • rock Pegasus 330 thin-and-light laptop

    4 June 2006, 08:14

    the rock Pegasus 330 appears to have all the performance trimmings coupled to a decent price, but should it be on your shortlist of thin-and-light Intel Centrino Duo based notebooks?

  • Intel's technology branding

    1 June 2006, 15:44

    Three Intel technologies.

  • Shuttle XPC P 2500 G System

    31 May 2006, 12:58

    Shuttle has seen the popularity of all-inclusive SFF units, pre-built, and taken note. The end result is in the company releasing its own line of pre-built, customisable SFF XPC SKUs. ...

  • HEXUS.snapshot :: Mobizines

    31 May 2006, 10:57

    Mobizines is an application for a range of mobiles that allow the delivery of magazine and news content to a mobile.

  • MSI 945GT Speedster-A4R Motherboard

    30 May 2006, 17:51

    MSI, then, has launched a motherboard that caters for CPUs which might not seem as attractive in a month or two. Its Speedster-A4R is a generally decent motherboard in most ...