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  • Radeon X1300 XT GDDR3 duel - Sapphire vs. GeCube

    21 September 2006, 09:10

    GeCube and Sapphire step into the ring with overclocked X1300 XTs, battling with the weapons of clock speed, construction and bundle.

  • Cooler Master Stacker 830 - Back in Black

    19 September 2006, 08:33

    Cooler Master have been advertising the Stacker 830 Black for some time now and whilst you could be forgiven for assuming it was nothing more than vapourware we finally get ...

  • CrossFire and SLI dongle-less / bridgeless performance analysis

    18 September 2006, 09:11

    Bridgeless and dongle-less multi-GPU rendering isn't exactly new. We've seen it on lower end SLI and CrossFire solutions, but now it's starting to rear its head higher up the product ...

  • NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT

    14 September 2006, 13:59

    Ready to check out the full-G71-sporting, 550/700-clocked, 512MiB-carrying, HDCP-protected, supposedly quiet new NVIDIA assault on the top end of the mid-range? Hold on to your tighty whiteys then, pixel fans, ...

  • HIS X1900GT IceQ3 Dual DL-DVI VIVO 256MB

    14 September 2006, 09:05

    Join us as we take not one, but two of these cards for a spin, evaluating single- and dual-card performance along the way, pitting the HIS X1900 GT IceQ3 against ...

  • MSI P965 Platinum

    13 September 2006, 08:14

    Supporting the aforementioned PCI Express, DDR2 and Intel Core 2 Duo processors, the P965 Platinum is the premium model in MSI's Intel P965 mainboard range. Can it pull a "P5W64", ...

  • VIA EPIA CN13000

    8 September 2006, 08:23

    It's been a while since we took a peek at an EPIA, VIA Technology's mini-ITX mainboard model line that integrates everything but memories in terms of building a fully working ...

  • ASUS P5W64 WS Professional

    7 September 2006, 10:41

    Hello, dear reader. I have a few questions to ask you, if you've got a couple of minutes. You do? Brilliant, thanks for stopping by. Are you a high-end computer ...

  • eVGA e-GeForce 7900 GS Superclocked

    6 September 2006, 13:59

    So two new GeForce 79-series SKUs designed to do damage at two specific price points, using G71 to get the job done. Let's chat about the GeForce 7900 GS further ...

  • Corsair Dominator TWIN2X2048 - 8888C4DF RAM

    6 September 2006, 10:05

    Recently a plane flew over HEXUS.towers, dropping a package for us. We were being dominated, or were we the ones that would be doing the Dominating? Join us as we ...

  • ASUS enthusiast AM2 motherboard duel

    3 September 2006, 10:10

    Enter two new enthusiast boards from ASUS, the CROSSHAIR and M2N32-SLI Deluxe, that just might be a pair of such killer boards. They certainly dish our their share of features ...

  • MSI NX7300GS-TD256E GeForce 7300 GS 256MiB

    1 September 2006, 08:39

    It's key for system integrators be able to put together budget systems that can still provide the fully-fledged interfaces of the likes of Vista, without having to fork out for ...

  • ASUS M2R32-MVP Radeon Xpress 3200 CrossFire motherboard

    31 August 2006, 08:36

    On test today is an Xpress 3200 based board from ASUS. It's called the M2R32-MVP and it's got a reputation to maintain; we reviewed its Socket 939 counterpart some months ...

  • ATI Sturgeon CrossFire Xpress 3200 AM2 reference board

    30 August 2006, 08:47

    ATI have created the 'Sturgeon' reference board for Socket AM2. It combines the new socket with RD580, and, crucially, their long-time-coming I/O ASIC, SB600

  • GeCube X1300 & X1600 HDMI/HDCP Slim Edition cards

    29 August 2006, 08:39

    In recent months there's been quite a kerfuffle over which graphics cards support HDCP. However, we are seeing cards that definitely do support it (and HDMI) trickling through slowly now. ...

  • Alienware Area-51 7500 PC

    28 August 2006, 08:35

    There's nothing much intrinsically wrong with the SKU, and other publications reviewing it in isolation may well find it to be a winner. Here at HEXUS, however, we aim to ...

  • Antec Fusion Chassis

    25 August 2006, 12:56

    The HTPC market has seen a big shift recently, with more of the mainstream manufacturers producing higher specification HTPC chassis’s with a much keener price point. Antec previously released NSK2400 ...

  • 2-power XCell 70 universal laptop battery

    24 August 2006, 08:58

    We reckon the 2-power XCell 70 has enough going for it to warrant serious consideration for laptop users where battery life is paramount.

  • ATI Radeon X1950 XTX 512MiB

    23 August 2006, 08:16

    Today the shroud can be lifted and you can all get a good look at 'R580+'

  • HIS X1600 XT IceQ Turbo DL-DVI DVI 256MiB GDDR3 CrossFire evaluation

    21 August 2006, 08:29

    Multi-GPU technology is good right across the board but it makes even more sense with the midrange market, and upgrading to two cards, when funds permit, is always a decent ...

  • 600-700W PSU Shootout

    18 August 2006, 14:32

    What we'll call workstation-class PCs are those on the market today that demand a PSU with outlandish output power, rail options and cabling runs to suit. You'll know instantly if ...

  • Boston SAS RAID -X- Pack (LSI MegaRAID 8408E, Seagate ST3750640AS & Supermicro SATA M35)

    17 August 2006, 08:50

    Remember the Thecus N5200? We had it kitted out with 3.5TB worth of disks. The prospect of such a huge amount of storage was just too tempting for us, so ...

  • Shuttle X100HA Small Form-Factor PC

    16 August 2006, 20:59

    Shuttle's innovative thinking extends to the X100HA. Our final thoughts? Good but not great.

  • 400-500Watt PSU shootout

    15 August 2006, 08:32

    We've recently been testing a handful of PSUs. Some quite powerful, some very powerful, but none that you might call 'silly'. In this review we have tested four PSUs, all ...

  • ASUSTeK P5W DH i975X mainboard

    14 August 2006, 08:46

    Regardless of if you're a new user looking to build your first Intel-based system or you're an experienced overclocker, the ASUS P5W-DH Deluxe needs to be considered if you need ...

  • Sima Hitch USB-101 transfer device

    12 August 2006, 11:37

    Most of us now have a USB device that we carry around with us, be it a thumb drive, camera, audio player, or missile launcher. With all of us carrying ...

  • ENlight LP791 LCD PC chassis

    10 August 2006, 09:00

    It's about time somebody came up with a PC-in-a-monitor solution that was easy to upgrade, so when ENlight's LCD PC chassis landed in the labs, we were sceptical about the ...

  • eVGA e-GeForce 7950 GX2 Black Pearl Quad SLI

    9 August 2006, 14:00

    A week or so ago the boss got on the blower, breathing heavily. Never a good sign. "Black pearls, Rys, black pearls are coming. Be prepared. 4 chips. SLI. Be ...

  • Galaxy GeForce 7300 GT GDDR3

    9 August 2006, 07:50

    Join us to see if Galaxy's heavily breathed-upon GeForce 7300 GT is worth your hard-earned.

  • Foxconn P9657AA-8EKRS2H - First Look

    8 August 2006, 09:03

    Foxconn's P9657AA-8EKRS2H is shaping up to be a decent P965 board.

  • Cooler Master Mystique 632 Black - EXCLUSIVE!

    5 August 2006, 11:59

    We take an exclusive look at the black version of the Cooler Master Mystique 632 chassis - are Cooler Master getting back to their best?

  • ECS RS485M-M AM2 Radeon Xpress 1150 motherboard

    4 August 2006, 08:33

    Socket 939 isn't going anywhere for a while, and while we found ECS's RS482-M to have decent scope for upgrades, it stands to reason that based on AM2, the RS485M-M ...

  • NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI Intel Edition

    3 August 2006, 09:00

    There's been no better time to jump on the Intel bandwagon than now. The world is going to embrace Core 2 Duo in a big, big way, so compliant chipsets ...