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  • Review: GALAXY Glacier GeForce 6800 128MB

    4 September 2004, 00:00

    If you can scrape together the extra £75 necessary to purchase a GT model, I'd recommend it, especially with newer gaming titles using huge textures that necessitate larger frame buffers. ...

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  • GameStars 2004: Gizmondo

    3 September 2004, 00:00

    Gizmondo, the all in one mobile gaming solution, has let slip that they've done a deal with nVidia to use their new SC10 chip to power the graphics display.

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  • GameStars 2004: Eidos

    3 September 2004, 00:00

    Sega, on the other hand, are remaining tight lipped on the whole SI/Collyers/EIDOS situation, having picked up SI's next football management effort which is to be published as under the ...

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  • GameStars 2004: Blizzard

    3 September 2004, 00:00

    At Gamestars Blizzard Entertainment was pulling in the crowds with World of Warcraft or WoW, as they like to call it. Keeping well away from puns about WoWing people, I ...

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  • ECTS 2004: HEXUS.net in shock Fatal1ty shoot out!

    2 September 2004, 00:00

    HEXUS.net proved its worth today when Dan Pass aka Shorty faced up to Fatal1ty and took one for the team.

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  • ECTS 2004: Interview with Fatal1ty, the world's number one gamer

    2 September 2004, 00:00

    Johnathan Wendel, aka Fatal1ty, is the number one FPS gamer in the world right now. HEXUS.net caught up with with him during a break from taking on all-comers at ECTS.

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  • ECTS 2004: S3's OmniChrome and GammaChrome

    2 September 2004, 00:00

    I had some time to chat with one of the S3 product managers for their graphics business this morning, and he passed on some snippets of info on upcoming GammaChrome ...

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  • ECTS 2004: ATI's New Catalyst Control Panel

    2 September 2004, 00:00

    Weighing in currently at a lardy 60MB, the new control panel is built in .NET using DirectX Graphics to allow realtime preview of applied card settings, so you can see ...

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  • ECTS 2004: Championship Manager

    2 September 2004, 00:00

    Here at ECTS, there a some murky rumours spreading about the forthcoming battle between the long standing Championship Manager series and new upstart rival, Football Manager.

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  • ECTS 2004: QGO

    2 September 2004, 00:00

    CEO of QGO, (Quality Games Online), Anthony Burgess told HEXUS of his hopes for the next MMOG, The Legend Of Mir 3.

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  • ECTS 2004: VIA Stand - Beat the best?

    2 September 2004, 00:00

    Over on the VIA stand, Astroblitz, one of the top UT gamers in the world is challenging all comers to try and take even ONE frag off him.

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  • ECTS 2004: VIA Stand

    2 September 2004, 00:00

    At ECTS, over on the VIA stand there's a large crowd gathered, watching some of gaming's greats take on all challengers and thoroughly humiliate them.

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  • ECTS 2004: ATI On Track With Shader Model 3.0

    2 September 2004, 00:00

    ATI, while not wishing to say anything completely on the record, strongly hinted to me yesterday that they're on track to release a set of Shader Model 3.0 parts in ...

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  • ECTS 2004: The Filtering War Will Be No More?

    2 September 2004, 00:00

    One of the biggest topics of discussion in consumer graphics in the last two of three years has concerned texture and geometry filtering quality. From Quake/Quack, right the way through ...

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  • ECTS 2004: No More DirectX Graphics?

    2 September 2004, 00:00

    Speaking with ATI and NVIDIA at ECTS allowed us to confirm that after DX9.0, DirectX Graphics is no more. In name only. Microsoft's next set of core presentation and 3D ...

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  • ECTS 2004: SphereincX

    2 September 2004, 00:00

    The move towards a lounge based multi-media system continued at ECTS with SPHEREX demonstrating their 5.1 Surround Sound System for the Xbox.

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  • UK Terrorist - Counter Strike LAN 2004 Report

    27 August 2004, 00:00

    Why does Counter Strike continue to do so well? Maybe it's the thrill of Terrorist Vs Counter-Terrorist battles. Perhaps its the enjoyment of sniping your best friend from the roof ...

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  • Review: Zalman TNN500A / Poweroid Silent PC

    20 August 2004, 00:00

    What it all boils down to, really, is if its very select attributes appeal to you. If they do, you'll wonder why nothing like this ever came along before. Cost ...

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  • Review: Chaintech Summit SK8T800 Motherboard

    20 August 2004, 00:00

    Let\'s be clear. The SK8T800 doesn\'t pretend to be an enthusiasts\' board in the least, but a little voltage wouldn\'t have gone astray. Every product should be evaluated with due ...

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  • Review: Prolink Pixelview PlayTV@P7000 Media Centre

    20 August 2004, 00:00

    Using it as a simple TV tuner is not enough to warrant a purchase, however competent it may be at that task. It's marketed as a full PVR system by ...

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  • Review: ECS KV2 Extreme

    19 August 2004, 00:00

    Two out of three ECS boards tested, two out of three really excellent products. The PF4 impressed and so does the KV2. Again, the price, feature set and basic performance ...

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  • Review: Free and Open Source Software - Part 3

    19 August 2004, 00:00

    In this part, I will cover some tweaks and more advanced tasks - using the ALSA sound driver, installing 3D accelerated graphics drivers, updating the system, playing media, and playing ...

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  • Review: OCZ 2GB PC3200 Performance Series Dual-Channel Kit

    19 August 2004, 00:00

    If you can honestly find a meaningful use for 2GB of unbuffered memory, OCZ's £400 dual-channel pack is as good as any. We'd pair it with AMD's new S939 Athlon ...

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  • Review: Intel Xeon 3.4GHz ['Nocona' core]

    18 August 2004, 00:00

    To sum up, this small-cache Intel Xeon just got usefully faster, but AMD Opteron still easily holds the lead...

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  • Review: HIS Excalibur Platinum Radeon 9600

    14 August 2004, 00:00

    It seems perfect folly for a Shuttle XPC or similar SFF chassis, should two DVI ports be your dream combination for your teeny tiny PC. Imagine a pair of decent ...

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  • Review: Gigabyte K8 Triton GA-K8NS Pro

    13 August 2004, 00:00

    For me, choosing the K8NS Pro lies on how much ATA devices you want to attach to the board. It offers more ATA-based flexibility than the ASUS K8N-E, keeping almost ...

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  • Review: NVIDIA's GeForce 6600 Product Launch

    12 August 2004, 00:00

    Whereas NV40 starts life as a full 16 pixel pipeline (4 quad pipes) part with a 256-bit memory interface, before being used in 6800 Ultra or 6800 GT product, or ...

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  • Review: ECS PF4 Extreme

    11 August 2004, 00:00

    Providing you've got no trouble investing in DDR-II memory, the ECS PF4 Extreme looks to be the best LGA775 mainboard we've yet tested at HEXUS, by quite a distance.

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  • Review: AOpen Aeolus GeForce 6800 GT 256MB

    10 August 2004, 00:00

    You have two choices when evaluating which next-generation card to purchase. Firstly, given a budget of around £300, you must choose between ATI\'s Radeon X800 PRO and NVIDIA\'s GeForce 6800 ...

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  • Shuttle Interview

    5 August 2004, 00:00

    Most of the people just follow the rules defined by big companies like Intel, but that's not Shuttle. It's very risky to create a new product. Maybe just 1% will ...

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  • Review: Corepad Mousing Surface

    3 August 2004, 00:00

    It's a simple design, gets all the mousing surface basics right, is easy to clean and does very little wrong. I like the aesthetic and I'm happy enough with it ...

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  • Review: LG Flatron L1810B LCD Monitor

    3 August 2004, 00:00

    Overall I'm impressed by the LG, both in terms of specification and initial out of the box impressions. The resolution is a fine fit for the overall screen size, 19" ...

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  • Review: ASUS P5GD2 i915P & P5AD2 i925X Premium

    2 August 2004, 00:00

    Intel\'s 900-series of chipsets attempt to modernise motherboard design from almost every angle. The cost of such modernisation is mediocre speed and, perhaps, limited overclockability. ASUS has done a good ...

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