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Shuttle SS51 XPC

24 July 2002, 00:00

It looks good, is reasonably easy to dismantle and rebuild, can take the most powerful graphics card on the market, has a feature-rich motherboard, and weighs less than some new-born ...

Silentmaster Guide

23 July 2002, 00:00

This project took me a fair while to complete but the results were well worth it. I love the look of the case now and it is virtually silent. I ...

SOYO KT333 DRAGON Ultra Platinum Edition

21 July 2002, 00:00

Before we talk about the boards themselves, familiarise yourself with the older DRAGON boards if you need to by taking a look here at our review of the older KT266 ...

ABIT BD7-II RAID

11 July 2002, 00:00

The coming of Intel's Pentium4 Northwood B processors were generally greeted with enthusiasm from within the hardware community. The massive quad-pumped Front Side Bus (FSB) saw a leap from the ...

Visiontek Xtasy Ti4200 128MB

11 July 2002, 00:00

With GeForce4 and Visiontek in mind, lets have a quick look at todays offering. When we first looked at GeForce4 way back with the look at the Ti4600 reference board, ...

Lian-Li PC72 Server Case

10 July 2002, 00:00

All in all, this case is superb, but you may want to check that you have the space for it before spending all that money.

DFI NB76-EC

5 July 2002, 00:00

In the time since i845D\'s launch, we\'ve seen a few companies say hello with a DDR chipset for P4 including SiS and VIA and DDR is now the memory platform ...

ABIT Media XP

2 July 2002, 00:00

In recent times we've seen a proliferation of the number of integrated features on motherboards. So, what was considered a feature-laden motherboard just a year or two ago, is now ...

ABIT Siluro Geforce4 Ti 4200 64MB

2 July 2002, 00:00

Money defines what we can and cannot materially have. That's why almost every base product in the PC world usually arrives in differing flavours that are differentiated by the price ...

Gainward GF4 Ultra/650 XP Golden Sample

27 June 2002, 00:00

We have been seeing Gainward producing high quality nVIDIA GeForce cards for a while now. With nVIDIA releasing a new line of GeForce chipset's Gainward of course step forward to ...

VIA VPSD P4B-UR P4X333 Motherboard

25 June 2002, 00:00

VIA technologies, the Taiwanese chipset designer, have been working hard in recent years to firmly establish themselves n the motherboard ranks. This they have done with a good deal of ...

I'm going to quote the official line on Bluetooth, so here goes. The Bluetooth concept is a cable replacement technology that simplifies person-to-person and machine-to-machine interaction. It utilizes short-distance radio ...

MSI 845E MAX2-BLR Motherboard

18 June 2002, 00:00

It was only natural for most manufacturers to update their Intel 845 DDR motherboards once Intel themselves announced a move from a 400 to a 533 MHz FSB for their ...

MSI GeForce4 Ti4200

15 June 2002, 00:00

If you were to ask the average computer user their ideal graphics card, you would probably get responses that centre around maximum performance for minimal monetary outlay. Undoubtedly, most people ...

NVIDIA Cg

13 June 2002, 00:00

If you\'ve been following the graphics card industry over the past few years, you\'ll have seen a couple of big shifts in the way graphics hardware works and also in ...

Soundblaster Extigy

11 June 2002, 00:00

As the Extigy uses the USB port, you can hot-swap it between your notebook and your PC so you don’t have to buy another soundcard. You don’t even have to ...

AMD Athlon XP2200+ (.13 Micron)

10 June 2002, 00:00

Underneath the name it's quite a different beast from XP2100+ and represents a big change for AMD, namely their success in bringing a 0.13u process desktop processor to market. It's ...

Asus A7V333

7 June 2002, 00:00

Asus are well known for quality of build in its products. The A7V333 motherboard is no exception. This particular motherboard is based on the VIA KT333 chipset which has the ...

Asus V8460 Ultra Geforce 4 TI

6 June 2002, 00:00

As you may already know, the Geforce4 Ti 4600 is NVIDIA\'s most potent video card yet. Packing 63-million transistors and sporting a core clock speed of 300MHz, with an accompanying ...

VIA C3 Gold CPU - 1GHz

3 June 2002, 00:00

On first impressions the new layout of the C3 1GHz is not dissimilar to an AMD Athlon or Duron processor in appearance of cache chips now being on top of ...

SiS Xabre 400

3 June 2002, 00:00

A little while ago HEXUS met with representatives from SiS (Silicon Integrated Systems Corporation), one of the top semi-conductor manufacturers in the world. Being your typical Taiwanese semi-conductor giant, they ...

MSI SiS645DX 645E MAX-LRU

2 June 2002, 00:00

It seems as if just a few short months have passed since SiS (Silicon Integrated Systems) launched their competitive SiS645 Pentium4 DDR chipset to critical acclaim. SiS showed that there ...

Belkin USB Dual Media Reader/Writer

1 June 2002, 00:00

With potentially 1GB of storage on offer, the end-user needs an effective method of transfer between device and a PC (where data is usually kept and manipulated). Most card-ready devices ...

Belkin USB Infrared Smartbeam

28 May 2002, 00:00

There used to be a time not so long ago when a PC was considered very much a standalone affair. Times have moved on and we've seen an increasing number ...

Epox UK / OK 64MB USB Drive

22 May 2002, 00:00

The market is full of groovy gadgets now which computer geeks all over the place want to own. But how many of them should one actually get? How many are ...

Black Ice Part 4

22 May 2002, 00:00

In this penultimate article I will cover the construction of the Geforce 4 cooling system. All the water cooling system construction will be shown, so lets get to work and ...

ABIT NV7-133R

20 May 2002, 00:00

It wasn\'t long ago that I looked at Abit\'s other nForce based solution, the NV7m. The NV7m is a micro ATX offering with limited expansion but it features everything that\'s ...

MSI G4Ti4600-VTD

20 May 2002, 00:00

The upgraded clock speeds simply meant that you could turn up the detail to maximum and not have to worry about frame rates. 1600x1200x32 became a playable reality for those ...

Coolermaster ATCS 410 SX1

19 May 2002, 00:00

This means that the range of cases is very popular with overclockers, and people who are looking for style.

VIA P4PA-UL P4X266A Motherboard

10 May 2002, 00:00

If you've ever owned an AMD Athlon processor in any of its incarnations, you'll no doubt know all about VIA technologies. VIA, the large Taiwanese chipset manufacturer, have produced Slot ...

Nintendo Game Cube [PAL]

9 May 2002, 00:00

You're on Hexus, you own a PC. If you're considering a console, ask yourself a simple question: how much cash do I want to spend (£130 or "peanuts")

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Intel Pentium 4 Northwood 2.4B

6 May 2002, 00:00

Over the past few months we have seen Intel becoming more and more competitive in the desktop CPU market. Currently they have the stronghold over AMD with the Pentium 4. ...

ABIT AT7 Motherboard