With so many wanting to go green, low power PCs are surely going to be the next big thing. Aleutia are certainly hoping so as they debut their E1 mini Linux PC. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Earlier this year, AMD was touting its Quad FX platform as the next big thing. Having insisted that dual socket technology was the way forward, AMD now look set to all but end its Quad FX platform in the wake of its Spider release. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Part of its new "Racing Green" range, Samsung launches the Spinpoint HD103UJ 1TB drive as an addition to its Spinpoint F1 series. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
He's no C3P0, but the first robot featuring Microsoft's Robotics Studio software has launched in Japan in the form of the e-nuvo WALK . Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Following Microsoft's $240 million investment last month, Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing invests a further $60 million dollars into the ever growing social networking website. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Inno3D launches a heavily-overclocked GeForce 8800 GT 512MiB card. Is the overall package enough to lure your credit card into a spending frenzy this holiday season? We tell you. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
A few days ago, I had an e-mail from Microsoft stating I'd been invited to be part of a "select group" getting an exclusive preview of the next Windows Live Messenger. Today, it turns out that select group is the entire worldwide web. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Amacrox to retail power-brick that serves as a multipurpose replacement laptop battery. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
We take a stroll down to ENERMAX'S HQ and discover what's being brought to market in Q1 2008 Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Reseach firm iSuppli reckons that AMD will fall out of the top 10 of chip-makers in 2007. Intel, meanwhile, consolidates its position as no. 1. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
UK data recovery firm Retrodata reveals that some Seagate hard drives used in Apple's MacBooks contain a manufacturing fault that could lead to severe data loss. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Intel paper-launches a processor that's not really needed. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Carrefour supermarkets in Italy are set to be the first in Europe to offer Dell desktops and notebooks via its retail outlets. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Tagan Technology have been announced as research and development partners for NVIDIA’s ESA (Enthusiast System Architecture) system control. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Available for purchase today, the Dell XPS M1530 claims to be "a sleek and powerful multimedia machine expertly balancing performance, design and unprecedented functionality". Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
The OLPC (One Laptop per Child) scheme, aiming to put thousands of $100 laptops in the hands of children worldwide has so far struggled to get off the ground. Are politicians to blame? Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Hand crafted from quality materials, using special machines costing ~£250,000 each, Lian-Li chassis are famous the world over. HEXUS.tv was invited inside by Product Manager, Hank Chen, to see product being made and hear about their plans for PSUs and expansion Watch the show and comment in the HEXUS.community.
With other component guys sticking read-outs on their kit it seems a natural progression for the graphics guys to embed some kind of display on their hardware to show you what’s going on and that’s exactly what Sparkle has done with the Calibre series P860+.
The latest release of AMD's Catalyst drivers is now available and it brings with it a handful of bug fixes.
The QNAP TS-401T is a bit of an overkill for the home user and the QNAP guys have recognised a need for a larger NAS box aimed at the home and SOHO market, so we got an early glimpse of the TS-409, a NAS box with extra stroage for the home and SOHO market.
QNAP take us behind the scenes to ahve a look at the massive and comprehensive testing labs that every QNAP product passes through... and believe me, you've not seen anything like this!
The BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Five have all signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding that could bring High Definition channels to Freeview as early as 2009. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Is the general public ruining the cinema experience? Do we need to bring back ushers? Or am I just getting old and pessimistic? Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Your feedback will be used to determine the name of an upcoming strategy title set amidst the Roman Empire. We've got 5 copies of the game to giveaway, plus some gaming peripherals!
If you're after an iPhone without a contract, Germany is the place to be.
Dropping in on Shuttle as part of our Dragon Tour 07, we were shown the soon-to-be-launched SX38P2 Pro - a tiny system based on the new Intel X38 chipset.
A-Data Technology reckons that it's once again developed the world's fastest DDR3 module - the DDR-2000X - after the announcement of the DDR3-1900X just one month ago.
Dan Reeves from Antec takes the HEXUS.tv audience inside the company's latest, smaller, addition to its hugely popular Fusion range of Media Center PC chassis... Watch the show and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Thermaltake's DuOrb GPU cooler uses a figure-of-eight design with two sets of heat-radiating fins - each with one of the new Scurve fans in the middle. The result, according to the company, is that heat is removed twice as fast as with a single set of fins.
Thermaltake has launched some pleasing system cases recently that even lovers of the more traditional designs could see themselves buying. And now there's two more to consider - the Armor+ and Xaser VI.
Testing thousands of memory chips a day is probably as enjoyable as having root canal work using a garden hoe. So, of course, companies such as GeIL will look for some sort of automated system……
GeIL let us take shots of its innovative new EvoOne memory modules. They're cooled by a novel heatpipe-and-heatfin assembly and hitting the market real soon.
Engineer Ray Wang shows us how he develops a new mainboard in the SiS R&D department...
Silence is golden, apparently. ECS is to indulge in some non-reference action and ship a GeForce 8800 GT SKU with a fan-less heatsink. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
There are plenty of gadgets we'd all like to see beneath the Christmas tree this year, but how about a wooden TV set? Thanks to Dixons, it's a possibility. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Mozilla's ever popular browser has reached Beta 1 of version 3 and has been made available for testing purposes. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
GeIL has launched a new product in their EVO Series. The BD EVO ONE high performance gaming memory module of the DDR2 Gaming Series features superior cooling and aims to maximise your gaming experience.
Zawards laptop cooler is smaller than the average cooler and may have some unexpected 'extra' benefits. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
Intel has yet to announce its new performance chipset, X48, but abit already had its IX48-MAX on show. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Or so says a page from abit's 2008 catalogue. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
A digital photo-frame with built-in printer? That'd be from abit, and coming to a shop near you. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
How to pass an afternoon at abit's headquarters. Just keep your gloves on. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Set to increase USB speeds tenfold, from 480Mbps to roughly 4.8Gbps, USB 3.0 will take the most common interface in computing to a new generation. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Pinnacle today launched its ShowCenter 250HD, the successor to the HEXUS recommended ShowCenter 200, claiming it "changes how and where you enjoy your PC-based digital media files by linking your PC and UPnP AV storage devices to your home entertainment centre". Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
AMD has released a new Catalyst hotfix driver for Radeon HD3800 series of video cards intended for the first person shooter Crysis. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
We just wanted to flag up a new, particularly nasty, email scam that is currently doing the rounds from someone who may have blackmail on their minds. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
HEXUS takes a world-exclusive first-look at a pre-production Lian Li PCP-P80 chassis that's due in January 2008. Roomy, cool, and presented in a cool black aesthetic, could it be your high-end chassis of choice for a new gaming system? Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Zaward give us a brief visual example of how a cooler is evolved...
Zaward show us the Vivo featuring the Golf Fan and an innovative direct contact heatpipe system.
HEXUS takes a tour around Coolermaster's offices... including a look in R&D and a glimpse of a new Cosmos chassis!
AMD's Phenom 9600 launched today with an average £180 SRP in the UK. HEXUS re-evaluates the value proposition against its direct competitor, the Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600. Find out if it sinks or swims. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
AMD rolls out its quad-core Phenom processor and new 7-series chipset to do battle with Intel's year-old Core 2 Quad. Who wins? Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Kindle, Amazon's wireless reading device is now available at Amazon.com. Is this the future of book reading? Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Revealed on its Taiwanese website, Gigabyte give details on its forthcoming UMPC. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Development Co has purchased 8.1% of Advanced Micro Devices for an undisclosed fee. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Robert Zemeckis' latest motion capture event creates a movie going experience not to be missed. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
November is a make-or-break month for AMD. The Radeon HD 3800 family is the first three products that it hopes will revive its flagging fortune. Well, though priced at only £140, the Radeon HD 3870 certainly has the beating of the Radeon HD 2900 but does that make it the new mid-market king? and how does Radeon HD 3800 CrossFire perform? Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Journalists are bound by law not to talk about it. AMD promotes it on amd.com. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Users of Microsoft's Windows Vista Ultimate have been asking the same question repeatedly since the operating system launched early this year; whatever happened to those Ultimate Extras? Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Despite having sold only 1.2 million Zunes since its launch in late 2006, Microsoft holds true to its promise of being in the portable music player business for the long run and launches its revised range in the form of Zune 2. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
What do you do when the GPU manufacturer on which you base your cards upon procrastinates in filling a huge gap in the line-up? We're talking about GeCube's plight with respect to the hole that currently exists in AMD/ATI's midrange DX10 GPU catalogue. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
The hardcore AMD enthusiasts among us get an early look at what'll be arriving at their doorsteps in the near future. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Boston Limited is releasing a 1U-sized Intel Xeon-based server with watercooling built right in. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
If you're wanting to squeeze every last bit of juice from your Penryn processor, the Foxconn MARS has you covered. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Tyan launch its Tempest S5375 motherboard and GT20 B5375 barebones, supporting latest Intel Xeon Processor. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Amazon overlook Windows Vista completely, clearly they don't believe Vista to be fit for gaming purposes. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Multiplay's i32 is going strong down at Newbury - with over 1,000 fee-paying, competitive gamers blasting the hell out of each other for 4 days. HEXUS.tv managed to grab an exclusive interview with the show's boss, Craig Fletcher... Watch the show and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Gigabyte's 3DAurora 570 case has about 10 per cent more space inside than the first 3DAurora chassis and the front's been tweaked a bit, too. But what else does it offer the enthusiast? Check out our in-depth review to find out. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
HIS claiming world's first HDMI AGP graphics cards based on 2600 series chipset in the form of a 2600PRO and 2600XT.
The folks at BigPockets have been cutting prices for the benefit of you guys - the wonderful and undoubtedly good-looking HEXUS readership. Fancy a WiFi media player for under fifty squids, or perhaps some cheap blank media? You need this thread!
At 6:02PM today, the Apple iPhone will be launched in the UK exclusively on the O2 network, will you be getting one? Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
The two next-gen optical disc formats - Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD - are running neck and neck, Sony CEO Howard Stringer has conceded. And he admitted yesterday that Paramount's move to favour HD DVD has hindered Blu-ray's pitch. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Following the early success of the portable Eee PC, ASUS plan to provide a desktop incarnation in 2008. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Dear Virgin Media,
The $2 million prize for this year's big unmanned-vehicle race, the DARPA Urban Challenge – held in Victorville, California last Saturday (November 3) – was won by Tartan Racing, one of two teams sponsored by CPU-giant Intel. Second place - and $1 million - was taken by the Stanford Racing Team, also backed by Intel.
HP and Lenovo announce first Penryn-based desktop workstations, Apple looking set to follow suit. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
HP actively looking for an OEM partner to design and distribute digital cameras under the HP brand as they shift their focus to Print 2.0 initiatives. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Far be it for me to tell you how to spend your money, dear reader, but the next time you see a senior citizen brandishing a poppy-laden box, just give a little.... because they gave a whole lot more. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Intel is once again exploring Rambus memory technology, this time the memory developer's XDR offering, currently used in Sony's PlayStation 3 games console. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Looking for something to keep the grandparents occupied? How about blogging?
Stuart Scott, Chief Information Officer at Microsoft shown the door for violating company policies. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Did you fail to get yourname @hotmail.co.uk or yourname @gmail.com? Better act fast as Microsoft have now opened up registration for live.co.uk e-mail addresses. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Google unveils open-source mobile platform and creates the Open Handset Alliance: a sign of imminent global handset domination? Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
ASUS were first to jump the gun with their Phenom motherboards yesterday and hot on their heels today, Biostar follow suit. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
With a mix of steel and plastic (and weighing in at 9.8kg), the Cooler Master CM 690 is certainly built to a budget and that's reflected in the £50 price-tag, though not necessarily the feature-set. Water-cooling prep? Yup. Up to eight fans? Indeed. Tool-free drive-fitting? Naturally. And there's more besides. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Seems like we've been using beta versions of Microsoft's Live Suite since as far back as we can remember. Until now that is.
Although the rumour-mill says that AMD's next-generation quad-core Phenom CPUs aren't due for release for a couple of weeks, ASUS has jumped the gun by showing on the web some of its upcoming range of Phenom-ready motherboards - units that will also run current AM2 processors.
Naruto is almost ready to hit the shelves for Xmas - and UBISOFT have pushed imperfect pixelation aside to send HEXUS.tv their final, high-quality, trailer for your delight and delictation. Final word from Nick will be along shortly!... Watch the show and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Stanford's Folding@Home distributed computing operation has been in the news this week for hitting over 1 petaflop and entering the record books. In the same week, the HEXUS.community's team of folders have breached the 500 mark in the F@H team rankings. Win win! Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Seagate is the first big hard-drive manufacturer to offer refunds for 'stealing' your GBs, apparently, but it's not as clear cut as that. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
One small division of Sunbeam Tech has seen its popularity rise through the proven Tuniq 120 CPU cooler. Now Tuniq wants to expand its UK range with the introduction of a PC chassis and is looking for distributors. But what does the Tuniq 3 offer that might tempt anyone to take it on in this already crowded market? Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
ASUS will be releasing its Eee PC, a derviation of Intel's Classmate PC. £199 buys you a sub-1kg notebook with integrated WiFi, a solid-state drive, and a 7in TFT. Sounds good, doesn't it? Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.Copyright © 1998 - 2009, HEXUS.net. All rights reserved. Terms, conditions and privacy information.
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