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  • TerraTec Cinergy Hybrid USB XS DVB-T/analogue TV tuner

    2 October 2005, 19:24

    You won't find a smaller USB2.0 TV tuner that can receive DVB-T and analogue signals. If you need a compact, easy- to-use TV tuner with support for DVB-T, we'd say ...

  • SAPPHIRE Radeon X800 GTO² 256MB PCIe

    30 September 2005, 08:44

    Evaluated as a purely default card, the SAPPHIRE X800 GTO² 256MB doesn't make a whole lot of sense. It's priced at around £20 above a number of X800 GTOs that ...

  • Bet On Soldier

    29 September 2005, 17:50

    But in a macabre twist, the war has become a source of entertainment too, with elite soldiers battling it out in one on one contests, for cash prizes and for ...

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  • PowerColor Radeon X850 Pro 256MiB

    29 September 2005, 11:17

    You could almost reduce the 6800GT/X850 Pro battle to the flip of a coin, but the simple fact is both with play any currently available game well, so PowerColor's X850 ...

  • HEXUS.snapshot :: Armari Gravistar XRS

    28 September 2005, 21:13

    We've had a look at Armari's Gravistar XR before. Remember when dual-core Opteron launched and I brought our article up using an XR of theirs featuring Opteron 275? I do. ...

  • HEXUS.snapshots :: Scan 3XS Cool Chameleon

    28 September 2005, 18:56

    The Scan 3XS Cool Chameleon married watercooled, overclocked FX-57 power, a pair of 512MiB GeForce 6800 Ultra graphics cards in SLI and a cool fixed disk configuration, all wrapped up ...

  • Adobe plays catch up with easier-to-use basic video editor Premiere Elements 2.0

    28 September 2005, 12:18

    V2 of Adobe's basic video editor Premiere Elements is claimed to boost creativity and save time but, in many instance, Adobe has been playing catch-up with the new features added ...

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  • Worms 4: Mayhem - PS2

    28 September 2005, 01:47

    I’m happy to report that Worms 4: Mayhem addresses a lot of the problems that we saw in Forts and marks a return to form for the series.

  • SAPPHIRE X800 GTO Ultimate 256MB PCIe

    28 September 2005, 01:44

    Priced at £129.99, the financial cost of having a passively-cooled card is a £10 or so premium over a regular ATI Radeon X800 GT0 256MB card. Is it worth it? ...

  • Trust ST-1200 Internet Phone Station

    27 September 2005, 20:26

    Trust's £40 ST-1200 Internet Phone Station lets you make free or low-cost Skype internet calls with a cordless or wired conventional phone

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  • MPIO's PD100 - Teaser Preview

    27 September 2005, 13:45

    Bob Crabtree sets the scene for the upcoming HEXUS.lifestyle review of MPIO's PD100, a digital music player that can pick up DAB and FM radio, recrd from both (and from ...

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  • Stolen - PS2

    27 September 2005, 13:39

    I don’t mind games ripping off other games, after all, the Bitmap Brothers did it with great aplomb back in the days of the Amiga and made some cracking games ...

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  • ATI Crossfire - X850 Crossfire Edition and Platform Basics

    26 September 2005, 00:00

    Crossfire was always set to launch before the next generation of ATI graphics processors and with those launching in a week or so it was time for Crossfire systems to ...

  • HEXUS.snapshot :: Xingtone ringtone creator

    23 September 2005, 00:00

    Xingtone is, without a doubt, an innovation in ringtone personalisation. If you like your tones, but you're bored of all the unindividual, gimmicky drivel that's out there, Xingtone is the ...

  • Amacrox Notebook Kit

    23 September 2005, 00:00

    Individually, each component is useful, but nothing worth shouting about. However, combined into a neat, compact package, they become a useful set of accessories that you'll be pleased to include ...

  • Brian Lara International Cricket 2005 - PS2

    23 September 2005, 00:00

    Awaiting right2reply DO NOT PUBLISH until Monday.

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  • HEXUS PSU (Power Supply Unit) Roundup - Taoyuan 2005

    23 September 2005, 00:00

    The vast majority of the ATX 2.0 supplies tested, and ATX 2.0 is what you should be buying these days, will comfortably power a current high-end system without any issues ...

  • PixelView GeForce 7800 GTX 256MiB

    22 September 2005, 00:00

    The PixelView 7800 GTX has everything going for it that any other 7800 GTX has. You\'ll have one of the fastest graphics cards money can buy, and at the time ...

  • NVIDIA GPU Motherboard Solutions - nForce4 410 and 430 with GeForce 6100 and 6150 Announcement

    20 September 2005, 00:00

    Tarinder will have the full review for you very soon. Today's announcement merely whets the appetite for an on-paper product with lots of promise.

  • ATI Avivo Video and Display Engine - Technology Discussion

    20 September 2005, 00:00

    I've mentioned in public recently that R520 isn't all about the performance. This is why.

  • 3-way i955x motherboard shootout

    16 September 2005, 00:00

    If i955X still appeals to you, we can recommend both the ABIT AW8-MAX and Gigabyte 8I955X Royal as decent examples of what retail, high-end i955X implementations are all about. Given ...

  • Rockdirect Pegasus 650 laptop

    12 September 2005, 00:00

    Rockdirect, then, has most of the bases covered with its Pegasus 650 model. It's fast, quiet, reasonably portable, and, subjectively-speaking, looks good, as well. The review model, priced at £1199+VAT, ...

  • The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction – X-Box

    9 September 2005, 00:00

    So to cut to the chase, the Hulk is a monster who appears whenever Banner gets his knickers in a twist and this is a game all about him.

  • NVIDIA ForceWare 70 and 75 MIP Boundary Shimmering with GeForce 7800 GT and GTX

    2 September 2005, 00:00

    At one point in recent months, a driver for the GeForce 6-series of products has introduced worse texture filtering. The hard launch of GeForce 7800 GTX and the Release 75 ...

  • Synology Disk Station DS-101g+

    31 August 2005, 00:00

    At the time of writing, the Disk Station DS-101g+ is available at around the £200 mark. You'll have to supply your own SATA hard drive, but prices are forever dropping ...

  • Jabra – BlueTooth headset shootout

    31 August 2005, 00:00

    Some might say this was to be expected, but the BT800, the most expensive device in this review, wins this shootout, and in some style too. It’s simply a very ...

  • Nokia 7280

    31 August 2005, 00:00

    There are some very clever features that would be great to see on future designs, but there is no realistic market for this handset anymore, its features and its looks ...

  • SAPPHIRE PURE Innovation A9RX480 S939 Mainboard

    29 August 2005, 00:00

    SAPPHIRE Technology is launching a mainboard for AMD Socket 939 processors with all the enthusiast-orientated bells and whistles, and performance, it says, is, well, class-leading. The SAPPHIRE PURE Innovation PI-A9RX480 ...

  • ATI ALL-IN-WONDER X800 GT PCI Express

    27 August 2005, 00:00

    If you want a single board that does 3D and media tuning that comes with good software, and your budget means you\'re happy with the mid-range 3D performance and price ...

  • Asetek WaterChill Xtreme 12V Pump/Reservoir

    24 August 2005, 00:00

    The design is revolutionary. I'm sure we'll see copycat designs surfacing to flatter the Asetek engineers. Performance is excellent, this pump should be able to handle the most taxing of ...

  • PowerColor GameFX Radeon X800 GT 256MB PCIe

    18 August 2005, 00:00

    CrossFire compatibility, or the lack of it, may be a concern for a few, and we doubt that we'll be seeing an AGP incarnation in the near future, so not ...

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  • Shuttle XPC SB95P v2.0

    16 August 2005, 00:00

    For ultimate gaming in a Shuttle XPC, you need to look elsewhere, and in that respect the SB95P v2.0 trips over its own shoelaces in the race to the gaming ...

  • Orange SPV C550

    15 August 2005, 00:00

    If you hardly every switch your phone off and have regular access to a charge point then you could do far worse than the SPV C550 as a Smart Phone, ...