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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: 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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  • 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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  • 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: 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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  • 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: 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: 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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  • CEBIT 2005: ATI Celebrate 20 years in style

    16 March 2005, 00:00

    ATI have shown the ultimate in exhibitionism and hired themselves an ENTIRE hall. Yep, Halle 27 is ATI world. Decked out in corporate red, ATI show of their goods safe ...

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  • NVIDIA nForce 4 SLI for Pentium 4 - first benchmark results

    16 March 2005, 00:00

    Last October NVIDIA launched its exceptionally good nForce 4 system chipset to support AMD Athlon 64, Athlon 64 FX and Opteron processors.

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  • CEBIT 2005: FIRST LOOK - RAPTOR-GAMING K1- gaming keyboard

    16 March 2005, 00:00

    The K1 is easily adjustable to your needs using a simple tool to remove any key you like and replace it with one of the eight fluorescent topped keys supplied, ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: XFX go Extreme with Smart Car

    16 March 2005, 00:00

    Primary cooling is water based, with the biggest radiator you’ve ever seen fitted to the front to optimise airflow. Further cooling is provided by two internal 80mm fans hidden behind ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: NVIDIA chats about nForce4 SLI for Intel Pentium 4

    15 March 2005, 00:00

    I had a chat with NVIDIA yesterday in a meeting where they admitted slight frustration at certain pockets of press claiming that nForce4 SLI Edition for Intel Pentium 4 is ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: S3's OmniChrome can't be sold in the UK?

    15 March 2005, 00:00

    S3's graphics guru, Nadeem Mohammed, is the kind of infectious tech dude that you will to succeed, simply because he's such a smart guy in a struggling outfit that he ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: SLI running with odd BIOS ROMs at Prolink's stand

    15 March 2005, 00:00

    If you wander over to Prolink's stand at CeBit, you'll not only see NVIDIA's nForce4 for Pentium 4 on their stand, using EPoX's 5NVA+ SLI mainboard, but you'll also see ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: PixelView champions MXM

    15 March 2005, 00:00

    MXM has no uptake? Tell that to PixelView, the Taiwanese company showing off no less than five MXM designs using brand new NVIDIA graphics processors.

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  • CEBIT 2005: GeForce 6200 AGP using BR2

    15 March 2005, 00:00

    Just a quick one from me. There are a few 6200 AGP boards on show at NVIDIA's partners, here at CeBit in Halle 24. Inno3D have one up for example, ...

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