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  • XFX GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB DDR3 XXX Edition

    24 November 2005, 09:50

    There's a new King of Consumer Graphics in town, and he goes by the name of GeForce 7800 GTX 512. NVIDIA's latest high-end hardware creation pairs a tweaked G70 and ...

  • ATI All-In-Wonder X1800 XL - First Hands-On Look

    23 November 2005, 06:21

    Hardcore gamers and well-off speed merchants will want to get some of the action. But so, too, will a bunch of other folk. The list includes those wanting to enjoy ...

  • XFX GeForce 6600 DDR2 256MB PCIe

    17 November 2005, 09:49

    In summary, then, XFX's GeForce 6600 DDR2 256MB card provides more-than decent performance for the £80 asking price. Add to this the high-quality bundle and immediate availability and we have ...

  • Legal video-download wagon starts to roll ever faster with AOL on board

    16 November 2005, 04:47

    It's starting to look as though 2005 will go down as the year when the legal video-download wagon really started rolling. The latest company to give it a hefty push ...

  • NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

    14 November 2005, 14:01

    In article 3603 for HEXUS, I waxed lyrical about the ATI Radeon X1800 XT. Very late, and more than a bit hot and noisy, it's still a GPU that kicks ...

  • UFO: Aftershock - PC

    14 November 2005, 10:53

    UFO: Aftershock sees you working on several fronts to control and defeat the Reticulans, as the aliens are called, at the same time as uniting the various factions that the ...

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  • Leadtek PX7800 GTX TDH MyVIVO Extreme 256MB and SAPPHIRE RADEON HD X1800 XT 512MB

    11 November 2005, 14:20

    What we've learned today is that both ATI and NVIDIA's partners know how to put a decent package together. Both cards, although expensive, offer something the other doesn't, and neither ...

  • Black and White 2

    11 November 2005, 09:03

    So now the sequel, Black and White 2, is here. Lionhead have been working on it since they finished work on Creature Isles and you’ve got to wonder just what ...

  • ASUS V6-V Notebook and Pakuma Akara K1

    10 November 2005, 08:27

    I start writing this article sat on a bench in Aberdeen train station, freezing, as I make my way back home to Sheffield. I've been up here for a few ...

  • Digital You or Digital Poo? McAfee's Mangled Museum Metaphors

    10 November 2005, 00:20

    McAfee's Digital You exhibit at the Science Museum reminded me all too vividly (if drab can indeed inspire vivid) of the numerous inadequate and boring displays that took a wet ...

  • Call Of Duty 2 - PC

    9 November 2005, 09:28

    So after two great releases and its time for a full sequel and the big concern is whether Infinity Ward have made the effort to give us a decent game ...

  • Pinnacle releases second patch for new Studio video editor

    8 November 2005, 16:24

    Last weekend, Pinnacle made available the latest patch for its budget video editing program Studio 10 – the second updater since V10 was launched at the tail end of September

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  • Pursuit Force - PSP

    8 November 2005, 00:07

    Pursuit Force puts you in the role of a young cop assigned to a newly created Police unit called, unsurprisingly, the Pursuit Force.

  • Quake 4

    7 November 2005, 08:54

    It’s pretty damn hard to imagine a couple of CDs mating, but if you locked Doom 3 and Quake 2 up in a Brighton hotel room for two days, Quake ...

  • Dell 2405FPW Widescreen LCD Display

    7 November 2005, 08:15

    As one of the miscreants that does graphics for HEXUS, and the Group Technical Editor, I'm the one that has to make sure we do it properly. And it turns ...

  • F.E.A.R.

    4 November 2005, 08:09

    We can scare Nick Haywood with nothing more than a pair of rusty shears and a wicked smile, so getting him to review F.E.A.R. should see him in therapy for ...

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  • Gigabyte K8N51GMF-9 nForce 430/GeForce 6100 Mainboard

    4 November 2005, 07:01

    So what you get for £52 is a solid board with very few surprises that's good for a multitude of uses. Voltage manipulation in BIOS, better subsystem performance, and, perhaps, ...

  • Free RAW-image viewer and thumbnail applet for XP

    1 November 2005, 23:04

    Windows XP has no native support for viewing digital stills in RAW format but there is a free Microsoft Powertoy applet that lets anyone get at RAW files captured from ...

  • SAPPHIRE RADEON X1800 XL 256MB & XFX GeForce 7800 GT 256MB

    29 October 2005, 16:42

    Both card packages offer compelling reasons for purchase but given a direct choice between the two, our money would slide over into XFX's corner for a number of reasons. Its ...

  • Shuttle XPC SD11G5 SFF

    28 October 2005, 00:35

    One stumbling block Shuttle faces in marketing the SD11G5 is price. A search of online retailers shows it to retail at around the £340 mark. That's a lot of wedge ...

  • Serious Sam 2

    25 October 2005, 15:39

    The original Serious Sam made efforts in the same direction and while they weren’t unwelcome Sam’s one-liners did feel like more of a Duke Nukem ‘homage’ than an effort to ...

  • ECS PA1 MVP Extreme

    25 October 2005, 09:00

    From PF4 Extreme to the bonkers PF88 with others in between, the renaissance of the one-time whipping boy of PC mainboards is in full swing. I was lucky enough to ...

  • Scan 3XS AMD Chameleon

    24 October 2005, 10:17

    Mad as a badger, the SCAN 3XS Chameleon SKU has now been finished. Spec lists have been finalised, warranty options cemented and parts options completed on the project and Scan ...

  • Silverstone Tek Temjin TJ06S

    21 October 2005, 11:04

    What this shows more than anything is that the Sliverstone Tek Temjin TJ06s, with its minimal amount of cooling fans, does not fall behind those cases with a greater number ...

  • EQS A72K9-CF

    20 October 2005, 08:41

    EQS enabled HEXUS with its EQS A72K9-CF CrossFire Edition mainboard literally weeks before we got our grubby paws on the ATi Master graphics board required to complete the platform for ...

  • Shuttle XPC SD31P

    17 October 2005, 17:47

    Shuttle's been refining the XPC line for a number of years now. In fact, it's an old hand at it now, and that's shown by the number of decent SFF ...

  • Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro

    14 October 2005, 19:05

    Creative has been going strong since the days of ISA sound cards because its family of audio products moves with the times. This is reflected well in the new four-strong ...

  • PowerColor X800 GT Xtreme 256MB and X800 GT EVO Tide Water 256MB

    14 October 2005, 09:44

    So, in summary, we've looked at a couple of PowerColor X800 GT cards and have come away with the feeling that whilst both offer something new in the marketplace, the ...

  • ASUS Extreme N7800GT Dual

    11 October 2005, 17:51

    A recent headline article on HEXUS introduced the ASUS Extreme N7800GT Dual in a hands-on preview of the first single-board SLI product to use NVIDIA G70. ASUS had previously tried ...

  • Foxconn 6150K8MA-8EKRS Mainboard

    7 October 2005, 16:34

    In summary, then, NVIDIA's plugged the gap that existed in its current chipset lineup by introducing a few new SKUs that feature integrated graphics. The launch is just an evolution ...

  • ATI Radeon X1800 XT Preview

    5 October 2005, 13:54

    This initial gloss over the tech, board evaluation and performance snapshot should have you salivating at the thought of buying a 3D accelerator in the near future. Radeon 1800 XT, ...

  • Connect3D Radeon X800 GTO 256MB PCIe and GECUBE Radeon X800 GTO Ultimate 256MB PCIe

    4 October 2005, 18:33

    Both Connect3D and GECUBE have launched competitive Radeon X800 GTO 256MB cards that offer something different to the consumer. If you're inclined to meddle with VIVO and want a midrange ...

  • Adobe targets non-techies with V4 Photoshop Elements image editor

    2 October 2005, 19:24

    A wide spread of time-saving features is promised in Photoshop Elements 4.0 - the latest lite version of Adobe's image editing program Photoshop due October

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