20 October 2008, 00:00
Home networking let’s you do great things that aren’t possible with standalone PCs. Printers can be shared between PC, so there’s no need to buy one for each machine.
20 October 2008, 00:00
What makes a PC tick? Is it the processor, graphics card, RAM, or a plethora of other peripherals. It’s all those and more, but none would be much use without ...
20 October 2008, 00:00
The recent release of AMD’s new unifying processor socket, Socket AM2, gave NVIDIA the chance to release new core logic to go with it, allowing its board vendor partners to ...
20 October 2008, 00:00
This HEXUS.help guide explains what Intel’s Robson technology is, why it matters and what currently supports it.
20 October 2008, 00:00
With hard disk capacities reaching some tough physical limits with longitudinal recording, as manufacturers struggle to improve aereal density of HDDs as they approach 1TB in capacity, the disk vendors ...
20 October 2008, 00:00
This HEXUS.help guide explains what a solid-state drive is, how it works, where you’ll find it, and what the future holds for the increasingly popular storage medium.
20 October 2008, 00:00
Disk checking, defragmenting, windows update, virus scanning... there’s a lot to do to keep a system running smoothly. So, how often should you perform the tasks that look after both ...
20 October 2008, 00:00
Port forwarding is a technique you’ll need to use to enable certain services if you’re using a router. If you don’t really care how it works, you can skip this ...
20 October 2008, 00:00
You’d be right to think that it’s possible to carry out basic video editing on any modern PC running Windows XP - straight out of the box. XP includes the ...
20 October 2008, 00:00
NVIDIA’s GeForce 8-series graphics products, powered by G8x GPUs, sees it usher in the first truly radical architecture change since the Riva TNT, and that includes the jump to fully ...
20 October 2008, 00:00
A motherboard’s main job is to act as a conduit between the various hardware elements that make up a PC. It needs to be able to link the desired CPU(s), ...
20 October 2008, 00:00
This HEXUS.help guide explains why you’d want to overclock your graphics board, the risks in doing so and how you can go about doing it.
20 October 2008, 00:00
If you’re the least bit interested in graphics cards, we’re sure that you’ve heard the terms SLI and CrossFire bandied about recently. Touted as a means of achieving maximum 3D ...
20 October 2008, 00:00
This HEXUS.help guide will assume you know the affects of applying a level of anti-aliasing (AA) on your 3D accelerator, be it via the driver control panel or via a ...
20 October 2008, 00:00
Over the course of the last year or so we’ve seen GHz become less of a focus when it comes to processors. Instead, we’re seeing a shift towards processors that ...
20 October 2008, 00:00
In the same way that Centrino technology defines Intel’s vision for mobile computing hardware requirements, Intel’s vPro technology platform amalgamates a collection of hardware requirements for better management of a ...
20 October 2008, 00:00
The purpose of this HEXUS.help guide is to delineate the publicly known features of Intel’s next generation desktop microarchitecture. Codenamed Conroe and officially titled Intel Core 2 Duo, it’s loosely ...
20 October 2008, 00:00
Intel’s been on a mission of late. That mission revolves around grouping and standardising key technologies under various banners that are designed to ensure hardware compatibility and consumer ease of ...
20 October 2008, 00:00
It’s been a long time since MHz were the only part of a CPU’s specification that concerned people. Manufacturers take different approaches to CPU design, even when using the same ...
20 October 2008, 00:00
This HEXUS.help guide quickly and easily explains AMD’s new processor socket and related technology to the reader, comparing it to AMDs previous socket types.
20 October 2008, 00:00
This HEXUS.help guide explains what AMD’s AMD64 CPU instruction set architecture (ISA) is, shows what CPUs implement it from both AMD and Intel, and explains what software is available to ...
20 October 2008, 00:00
The modern PC is potentially a mass of heat output and heat production hot spots. With CPUs rated at more than 100W of heat output, single graphics boards carrying similar ...
14 July 2008, 00:00
This HEXUS.help guide explains what Wireless USB and USB 3.0 are, how they work, where you will find them, and what the future holds for the Universal Serial Bus specification.
10 July 2008, 00:00
Universal Plug ‘n’ Play, or UPnP, is a technology that you may well have benefited from at some point, but what is it? We’re going to explore what it is, ...
2 July 2008, 00:00
When looking to upgrade your PC, RAM is one of the first places to look. More RAM reduces the amount the page file is used, speeding up programs and allowing ...
2 July 2008, 00:00
Serial ATA, or SATA, is a relatively new storage technology that is now being adopted in computers. It is the successor to Parallel ATA. SATA allows for faster transfers between ...
25 June 2008, 00:00
Updating drivers can sometimes be a bit of a gamble. Will the drivers come with an installer? Will you need to uninstall the old drivers first?
25 June 2008, 00:00
This HEXUS.help guide explains DirectX 10, which graphics cards support it, how they work and what the consumer’s choices are.
24 June 2008, 00:00
This HEXUS.help guide discusses Intel’s 45nm process technology. What it is, what it provides, and how it benefits the consumer.
24 June 2008, 00:00
This HEXUS.help guide discusses AMD’s triple-core and quad-core processors, what they are, what the technology offers and the targeted market.
19 June 2008, 00:00
This guide seeks to make you aware of various security terms and ideas associated with wireless networking and what you should consider when setting up a wireless network.
19 June 2008, 00:00
OK, so you’re savvy to hard disks. You know what interfaces they have, you know whether one will work in your computer or not, you even know the difference between ...
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