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  • SAPPHIRE X800 GT Hybrid 256MB PCIe

    12 August 2005, 00:00

    Users looking to upgrade to a £100-£110 PCI-Express GPU would do well to seriously consider SAPPHIRE's X800 GT Hybrid 256MB card. AGP users will need to wait, though, and the ...

  • XFX NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT Preview

    11 August 2005, 00:00

    It's the same price as ATI's current best, performs as well in games and does significantly better in almost every other facet that you'd consider. More forward-looking features, less heat, ...

  • Nokia 8800

    9 August 2005, 00:00

    There is no doubt that Nokia have designed and built a phone of outstanding quality, its just such a shame it is lacking any substance. We can only hope Nokia ...

  • Rockdirect XTI 3.8 Performance Review

    8 August 2005, 00:00

    Users looking for ultimate notebook performance should seriously consider Rockdirect's XTI series. Taking into account overall performance, the XTI 3.8 is the fastest notebook we've tested thus far.

  • Quiet PC/Zalman TNN 300 System

    8 August 2005, 00:00

    Summarising the Quiet PC/TNN 300 system is quite simple, really. It's a niche product that will appeal, in no uncertain terms, to a select bunch of users that value silence ...

  • Siemens SL65, A Forgotten gem?

    7 August 2005, 00:00

    Recently, Siemens announced that they had closed off a deal with the Taiwanese electronic manufacturer BenQ, which has resulted in a deal worth 350 million Euros. Now, normally this is ...

  • ABIT Fatal1ty X800 XL 512MB

    6 August 2005, 00:00

    Is the ABIT Fatal1ty X800 XL 512MB graphics card the best X800 XL 512MB-class card we've come across thus far? how does it square up a bang for buck basis ...

  • Fantastic 4 – Gamecube

    4 August 2005, 00:00

    In essence, the Fantastic 4 is a beat-em-up with a few puzzles and platformy bits thrown in for good measure.

  • GeForce 7800 GTX shootout

    3 August 2005, 00:00

    What's abundantly clear in our look at three retail GeForce 7800 GTX graphics cards is that there is no such thing as a bad one. All three cards from BFG, ...

  • ATI Radeon X300 SE HyperMemory 128MiB

    1 August 2005, 00:00

    My evaluation of such low-end hardware using the latest graphically challenging games might seem pointless at first glance. Look twice and you'll see that while both HyperMemory and TurboCache boards ...

  • Madagascar - PS2

    28 July 2005, 00:00

    In a nutshell, Madagascar is a 3D platform game with a few action sub-games thrown in.

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  • Crucial RADEON X850 XT 256MB Video Card

    28 July 2005, 00:00

    There's nothing intrinsically wrong with Crucial's ATI RADEON X850 XT 256MB PCI-Express card; it's reference all the way. The killer is the price, and we urge Crucial to re-evaluate its ...

  • ECS PF5 Extreme

    25 July 2005, 00:00

    The ECS PF5 Extreme isn't a bad board by any means. We feel as if a few tweaks here and there will make it into a real contender in the ...

  • Orange M500

    20 July 2005, 00:00

    The M500 from Orange is here to replace your office, your phone, your PC, your camera and your dog*.

  • The joys of redundancy: XFX's Revo 64

    20 July 2005, 00:00

    If you need high data rates and really don't need the hassle of downtime thanks to a dead hard drive, RAID is your answer. If you want efficient usage of ...

  • EA Cricket 2005 – X-Box

    19 July 2005, 00:00

    So, EA have tried to capture all that is the game of Cricket, which to many people is long periods of not very much happening interspersed with brief bouts of ...

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  • Aurora Watching - PC

    18 July 2005, 00:00

    Aurora Watching is set in the Artic with you playing the part of ‘White Fox’, the only man with the abilities to take on a mission of the utmost importance ...

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  • Thecus N4100 IP Storage Appliance

    18 July 2005, 00:00

    If you're looking for a new means of storing and protecting the vast amount of data you have somehow managed to acquire, then ask yourself whether an IP storage solution ...

  • XFX GeForce 6800 Ultra 512MB Video Card

    14 July 2005, 00:00

    You need to evaluate what you require in a graphics card. On the one hand, XFX's GeForce 6800 Ultra 512MB makes a compelling case as a cheap, relatively-speaking, workstation-class card, ...

  • ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon X800 XL for PCI Express Feature Preview

    12 July 2005, 00:00

    Our recent trip to Canada wasn't all fun and Grand Prix watching. David and I had business to do, and products to be briefed on. Following ATI's release of the ...

  • Destroy All Humans - X-Box

    12 July 2005, 00:00

    But stop giggling for a minute and actually play the game and you soon, sadly, find that Destroy All Humans isn’t the game it could have and indeed should have ...

  • PowerColor RADEON X800 XL 512MB

    12 July 2005, 00:00

    What do you want from a £290 video card today? Is it performance, performance, and yet more performance in present games, or is it a deal of futureproofing at the ...

  • Wrestlemania 21 – X-Box

    9 July 2005, 00:00

    THQ have taken on Studio Gigante to have their first foray into the arena to see if they can’t wrangle some action out of the ring.

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  • XFX Gear GamePad – PC

    8 July 2005, 00:00

    XFX, those guys and girls more noted for getting extreme with PCs and producing some top notch graphics cards are making a move into the peripherals market and one of ...

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  • OCZ Technology EL DDR PC-3200 Gold Edition Dual Channel

    8 July 2005, 00:00

    There\'s never been a better time to buy system RAM than right now. £130 buys you a 1GB DDR1 dual-channel pack that gives superlative performance when paired up with a ...

  • ATI Crossfire Sneak Peek with DFI @ Computex

    5 July 2005, 00:00

    Using pre-release device drivers with Supertiling enabled, which seems to be the default mode for ATI Crossfire under Direct3D, indicates that presently NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra SLi is faster. However ...

  • Battlefield 2

    5 July 2005, 00:00

    Overall, Battlefield 2 is a worthy purchase for anyone looking for a team orientated shooter to give them some relief from the frantic nature of Counter Strike or the out ...

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  • Nissan Technology DV-100B DVD Player

    5 July 2005, 00:00

    With the tumbling prices in this market segment, the one thing that made it stand out - the card reader - was ultimately not executed well enough to make the ...

  • EXCLUSIVE: XFX Gear Gaming Headset

    4 July 2005, 00:00

    Given the range and variety of what’s on offer in the headset market right now, the XFX Gear Gaming Headset sits squarely in the middle of the field. The superior ...

  • Juiced - PC

    4 July 2005, 00:00

    What we have here is a game so unbalanced that the very core of the game, the racing, has been obscured by the extras and turned into such a money ...

  • Scan Cool Chameleon - A First Look

    28 June 2005, 00:00

    The Chameleon is a product unique not only in Scan's approach to its conception, development and prototyping (they're a new company to creating boutique PCs like this after all), but ...

  • ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 SLI S939 Motherboard

    28 June 2005, 00:00

    Think carefully about what you want from a S939 board. If it's features above all else, look elsewhere, frankly. If it's the promise of sky-high overclocks and care and attention ...

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  • AMD Athlon 64 FX-57

    27 June 2005, 00:00

    Put simply: if you want the fastest x86 processor on the planet, measured using games and single-threaded benchmarks, the FX-57 should be the only thing on your shopping list.