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DDR3 memory
17 November 2008, 00:00
This HEXUS.help guide explains what DDR3 is, how it works, where you’ll find it, and what it means to the consumer.
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Intel Nehalem Family
17 November 2008, 00:00
This HEXUS.help guide gives a brief overview of Intel's new "'Nehalem" generation of Central Processing Units (CPUs).
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NVIDIA CUDA Technology
22 October 2008, 00:00
CUDA technology is the world’s only C language environment that enables programmers and developers to write software to solve complex computational problems in a fraction of the time by tapping ...
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How to upgrade your BIOS
21 October 2008, 00:00
This HEXUS.help guide explains what BIOS is and how it can be upgraded to the latest revision.
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LCD Monitors
21 October 2008, 00:00
The purpose of this HEXUS.help guide is to provide a basic understanding of how LCDs work, delineate their desirable features, and to offer basic buying advice.
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Installing laptop RAM
21 October 2008, 00:00
For many people reading this HEXUS.help guide, opening up a desktop PC and upgrading it, or even building one from scratch, isn’t that big a deal. If you know what ...
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Laptops
21 October 2008, 00:00
Laptop sales are booming, with industry analysts predicting that up to 70-million units will be shipped in 2006. The figure’s seto to rise by over 15% in the next 3 ...
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UMPCs and MIDs
21 October 2008, 00:00
This HEXUS.help guide explains what UMPCs and MIDs are, how they work, where you’ll find them, and what the future holds for the small, portable-computer devices.
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System Buses & Bandwidth
21 October 2008, 00:00
In computing terms, system buses are used to connect various components to the motherboard’s core logic and, often, to each other. Modern PCs run with a multitude of high-speed buses ...
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Human Input Devices (HIDs)
21 October 2008, 00:00
What’s the most important part of your PC system? Its processor? The mainboard? Maybe the power supply?
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The GPU (graphics processing unit)
21 October 2008, 00:00
Explaining how a modern GPU works in completeness would take a book. Or two. Per class of chip. Per vendor. They’re extraordinarily complex pieces of engineering and production, and the ...
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Firewire
21 October 2008, 00:00
You''ve probably read the USB HEXUS.help, and perhaps your intrigue, or product interest, has lead you to look up Firewire as well. The two are similar in some respects, particularly ...
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Wi-Fi
20 October 2008, 00:00
Home networking let’s you do great things that aren’t possible with standalone PCs. Printers can be shared between PC, so there’s no need to buy one for each machine.
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Chipsets
20 October 2008, 00:00
What makes a PC tick? Is it the processor, graphics card, RAM, or a plethora of other peripherals. It’s all those and more, but none would be much use without ...
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NVIDIA nForce 5
20 October 2008, 00:00
The recent release of AMD’s new unifying processor socket, Socket AM2, gave NVIDIA the chance to release new core logic to go with it, allowing its board vendor partners to ...
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Broadband ADSL vs Cable
20 October 2008, 00:00
On the surface we’re asking a relatively simple question here: "What do I need to get my broadband Internet working?" Of course, it’s not quite as simple as that. Worry ...
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Intel Robson Technology
20 October 2008, 00:00
This HEXUS.help guide explains what Intel’s Robson technology is, why it matters and what currently supports it.
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Perpendicular Recording
20 October 2008, 00:00
With hard disk capacities reaching some tough physical limits with longitudinal recording, as manufacturers struggle to improve aereal density of HDDs as they approach 1TB in capacity, the disk vendors ...
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Solid State Drives
20 October 2008, 00:00
This HEXUS.help guide explains what a solid-state drive is, how it works, where you’ll find it, and what the future holds for the increasingly popular storage medium.
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Housekeeping
20 October 2008, 00:00
Disk checking, defragmenting, windows update, virus scanning... there’s a lot to do to keep a system running smoothly. So, how often should you perform the tasks that look after both ...
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Port Forwarding
20 October 2008, 00:00
Port forwarding is a technique you’ll need to use to enable certain services if you’re using a router. If you don’t really care how it works, you can skip this ...
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Video Editing
20 October 2008, 00:00
You’d be right to think that it’s possible to carry out basic video editing on any modern PC running Windows XP - straight out of the box. XP includes the ...
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NVIDIA GeForce 8-series
20 October 2008, 00:00
NVIDIA’s GeForce 8-series graphics products, powered by G8x GPUs, sees it usher in the first truly radical architecture change since the Riva TNT, and that includes the jump to fully ...
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PCI Express
20 October 2008, 00:00
A motherboard’s main job is to act as a conduit between the various hardware elements that make up a PC. It needs to be able to link the desired CPU(s), ...
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GPU Overclocking
20 October 2008, 00:00
This HEXUS.help guide explains why you’d want to overclock your graphics board, the risks in doing so and how you can go about doing it.
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Multi-GPUs
20 October 2008, 00:00
If you’re the least bit interested in graphics cards, we’re sure that you’ve heard the terms SLI and CrossFire bandied about recently. Touted as a means of achieving maximum 3D ...
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GPU Antialiasing
20 October 2008, 00:00
This HEXUS.help guide will assume you know the affects of applying a level of anti-aliasing (AA) on your 3D accelerator, be it via the driver control panel or via a ...
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Handhelds
20 October 2008, 00:00
So you’re looking for a handheld gaming console, something small and sleek with decent battery life and good games… but what do you go for? There’s more choice out there ...
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CPU Cores
20 October 2008, 00:00
Over the course of the last year or so we’ve seen GHz become less of a focus when it comes to processors. Instead, we’re seeing a shift towards processors that ...
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Intel Xeon
20 October 2008, 00:00
Intel introduced the industry’s first quad-core processor for mainstream servers on November 14th, 2006. Codenamed Clovertown, the quad-core 5300-series Xeons are based on Intel’s advanced Core microarchitecture and can be ...
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Intel vPro
20 October 2008, 00:00
In the same way that Centrino technology defines Intel’s vision for mobile computing hardware requirements, Intel’s vPro technology platform amalgamates a collection of hardware requirements for better management of a ...
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Intel Core 2 Duo (Conroe)
20 October 2008, 00:00
The purpose of this HEXUS.help guide is to delineate the publicly known features of Intel’s next generation desktop microarchitecture. Codenamed Conroe and officially titled Intel Core 2 Duo, it’s loosely ...
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