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  • CTS 2005: Enermax Enlobal Fan

    14 April 2005, 00:00

    That Enermax produce reliable, quality power supplies is pretty much a given in my opinion but at CTS 2005, they were pushing their one of their 330W PSUs to the ...

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  • CTS 2005: Bestcare Flexible Keyboard

    14 April 2005, 00:00

    Each key is good for 1 million presses (how did they test THAT?) and is totally silent, making this ideal for libraries, internet cafes and the like where noise could ...

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  • eBay scam forces Adobe to pull plug on low-cost video-edit deals

    14 April 2005, 00:00

    Adobe's Premiere Pro video editing software will soon no longer be available bundled with low-cost hardware. The move looks intended to stop copies of Premiere, Encore DVD and Audition – ...

  • CTS 2005: Touchmate Vibrator Headset

    14 April 2005, 00:00

    At CTS 2005, Touchmate, manufacturers of a wide range of PC peripherals, from cases and digital cameras through to mice and keyboards were showing of their range of headsets with ...

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  • Review: Sony Playstation Portable

    14 April 2005, 00:00

    It’s not often that anything remotely techie raises more than a resigned sigh from the missus, but even she was impressed by the look of the PSP.

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  • CTS 2005: An outsider's take, Pt1

    13 April 2005, 00:00

    Covering a big show the size of the recent CeBIT extravaganza is a logistical nightmare. But, in one regard, it’s easy – there’s always a shed-load of new products to ...

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  • Gizmondo price drop

    12 April 2005, 00:00

    At £229 a pop, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that Gizmondo would need to shift roughly 3,500 units in a fairly short space of time to break ...

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  • Review: SavRow's Katana 3D-9 Portable Workstation

    12 April 2005, 00:00

    Clearly, the SavRow Katana 3D-9 Portable Workstation isn\'t perfect. But computers, especially portables, are a compromise. If you need or want what this desktop replacement offers, you\'ll buy it, warts ...

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  • Review: EPoX EP-5LWA + i925XE Mainboard

    11 April 2005, 00:00

    The most important decision a potential i925XE purchaser needs to make is whether they really need third-party SATA/PATA RAID and wireless networking integrated into a motherboard. If you do, look ...

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  • ACON5: Birmingham Qualifier

    10 April 2005, 00:00

    With this being an open tournament, winning a regional was all that a team needs to get to the UK finals, so you’d expect the gaming centres hosting the events ...

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  • Jon Peddie April '05: All about getting parallel

    9 April 2005, 00:00

    According to common wisdom Moore’s Law allows us to scale up in the number of transistors used in a given space and increase operating frequencies, resulting in more functionality and ...

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  • Eidos takeover saga

    7 April 2005, 00:00

    The advantages for the stockholders and us gamers is that an SCi takeover would see Eidos become a large publisher on the global stage instead of an embattled UK publisher ...

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  • Review: TrackMania: Sunrise

    7 April 2005, 00:00

    So, what did I think of TM:Sunrise as a game? Is it worth your dosh? Well, that is actually far trickier to answer than you’d expect, as I’ve now got ...

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  • Review: NVIDIA nForce4 SLI Intel Edition

    5 April 2005, 00:00

    NVIDIA has made a successful transition of its SLI tech. over to an Intel-based platform. SLI works exactly in the same way it does on a current AMD machine, and ...

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  • ACON5: The Scan ACON5 machine

    4 April 2005, 00:00

    The Scan PCs are based on the “Isotope” chassis available exclusively from Scan and featured in HEXUS’ CeBIT coverage only a few weeks ago. I’ve been told that they’ll be ...

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  • ACON5: Interview with Sujoy Roy

    4 April 2005, 00:00

    At the Harrow Arena yesterday I was lucky enough to buttonhole Sujoy Roy, famously the UK’s first professional gamer. He’s a very down to earth chap who now spends his ...

  • Review: Intel's Pentium Extreme Edition 840 and 955X Express chipset

    4 April 2005, 00:00

    Whether or not it\'s worth ditching your present system for the obvious benefits of dual-core computing is entirely dependant on your application usage. The Pentium XE 840, whilst hugely impressive ...

  • Review: Will Of Steel

    4 April 2005, 00:00

    Now, I’ve really have given the headset and voice control a fair crack as a game that can be near completely voice controlled is a superb idea and allows for ...

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  • Review: FIRST LOOK : AMD GPU!!

    1 April 2005, 00:00

    It’s going to have roughly the transistor count of a pair of current 130nm Athlon FX processors. It also looks like it can share vertex load with a dual core ...

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  • Review: GeCube's Radeon X850 XT Uniwise

    31 March 2005, 00:00

    So while I wait for the hardware I described on the first page of this article, GeCube\'s X850 XT will do nicely. For the performance, it\'s hard to argue with ...

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  • Review: Intel's Pentium-M 735 Processor and DFI 855GME Motherboard

    31 March 2005, 00:00

    Performance wise, there\'s one thing that stands out from the analysis and observation of P-M\'s scaling with nothing more than its base frequency: it\'s crying out for core logic to ...

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  • Comic Relief: Chris Moyles on an Intel surfboard?

    29 March 2005, 00:00

    In our lives of luxury, with laptops, the Internet and home entertainment, it's easy to forget that there are many others in the world far less fortunate. We can all ...

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  • Mar 05 - Incompatible Sony HDV tape scandal

    24 March 2005, 00:00

    If such new tape really is necessary, it\'s totally unacceptable that Sony should have forgotten the big problems it created in the past with incompatible DV tape formulations and now ...

  • Review: Gigabyte 8IPE775-G 'Springdale' Motherboard

    24 March 2005, 00:00

    But if you've got your heart set on Socket-T in the near future and have decent RAM and at least a midrange AGP graphics card already in your system, the ...

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  • Review: DFI LANPARTY 925X-T2

    24 March 2005, 00:00

    There\'s plenty of decent 900-series boards doing the rounds right now, and DFI\'s 925X-T2 is decent. The problem is, as far as I can see, that other manufacturers now offer ...

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  • CEBIT 2005 : A Pictorial view.

    23 March 2005, 00:00

    So, where to start? Well, in case you weren’t aware, CeBIT is not just about computers… it covers pretty much anything technology related, so anyone who produces anything you plug ...

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  • CEBIT 2005 : Modding heaven!

    22 March 2005, 00:00

    Of course, innovation always catches the eye, but imagination is a big attention grabber too. Which is why I found myself drawn to an area behind the WCG arena in ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: Fastest PC at CeBIT?

    22 March 2005, 00:00

    So what was the fastest PC at CeBIT? Extreme Cooling Technologies 5.4Ghz PC is the answer.

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  • Leading video editing company Pinnacle to be taken over by Avid

    22 March 2005, 00:00

    Pinnacle, the leading maker of video editing software and hardware for consumers, is set to be rescued from its financial troubles after it agreed a buy-out by Avid

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  • Review: ECS ELITEGROUP 915-A Mainboard

    22 March 2005, 00:00

    Not a horribly bad board, but unless you desperately want the GMA900 in order to do dual display with another discrete card, there's no reason to consider it, given other ...

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  • CEBIT 2005 : Moblie Phone Round-Up

    19 March 2005, 00:00

    Mobile phones are big business and the market has been waiting for a new reason to push consumers into going out and spending £150 odd quid on a new handset.

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  • TrackMania Sunrise

    19 March 2005, 00:00

    The basic premise of the game remains the same… fling your vehicle around race tracks featuring completely OTT jumps, ramps and pipes and cross the finish line first. That’s in ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: FSP power supplies

    17 March 2005, 00:00

    FSP Group is a power supply manufacturer, and as any genuinely competent and experienced PC professional will attest, FSP Group is a PSU manufacturer which has stood the test of ...

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