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The battery that charges other batteries

19 October 2006, 15:01

OK, before the electronics bods get on to us, we know that if you put two batteries in parallel then they'll try to equalise their potential difference, but what we're ...

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XFX releases fanless 7950 GTs

18 October 2006, 18:55

XFX has announced its latest 7900 GS and 7950 GT products, the latter containing SKUs with no fans... yessir, fanless.

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Keyboards and meece soon to be safe to use, at last

18 October 2006, 11:32

Finally, at long last, it'll soon be safe for you to use your keyboard and mouse, protected against invisible nasties put there by your own unsavoury habits

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Review: Thermaltake Armor LCS (Liquid Cooling System)

18 October 2006, 08:38

Does the combination of chassis and water-cooling kit provide the ultimate package?

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Sony to be sued by Toshiba over battery recall?

17 October 2006, 16:57

Things continue to get worse for Sony, with Toshiba, it's being said, threatening to sue over lost sales opportunities and a decline in its brand value because of dodgy Sony ...

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Review: Sapphire Radeon X1950 Pro 256MiB

17 October 2006, 11:04

The Radeon X1950 Pro, then, nudges the present midrange graphics-card balance in favour of ATI.

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Buy an iPod nano (PRODUCT) RED and raise $10 for AIDS relief

16 October 2006, 16:03

Latest portable media player from Apple is the quirkily-named but well-intentioned iPod nano (PRODUCT) RED Special Edition. Each one sold will generate US$10 for the fight against HIV and AIDS

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Is AMD really f&$@£d?

16 October 2006, 07:34

The performance crown may be Intel’s for now, but does that really mean AMD’s chips are cooked?

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Sapphire TOXIC Radeon X1950 XTX Snapshot

14 October 2006, 08:56

Today sees Sapphire launch their watercooled TOXIC Radeon X1950 XTX. With pre-plumbed cooling and guaranteed clock speeds over and above the standard reference ones, we managed to snag a quick ...

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Evesham smash Gates' embargo by 2 weeks with Vista Express Upgrade

13 October 2006, 22:46

Executives at HP and Dell must be hopping mad as Evesham big-wigs appear to have smashed the official embargo date by over 2 weeks.

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Review: abit AB9 Pro

13 October 2006, 19:22

Has the former darling of the enthusiast crowd created something akin to boards of old; something that can't be ignored? We've run it through the HEXUS mill to see, so ...

Review: Zalman FC-ZE1 Fatal1ty

12 October 2006, 08:35

Zalman's latest chassis, the fan-cooled FC-ZE1 Fatal1ty chassis - designed for the gamer expecting more - but does it?

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VIA Carbon Free Computing - back it or copy it but don't knock it!

12 October 2006, 04:03

HEXUS.lifestyle editor Bob Crabtree swaps his green-tinted eyeshades for a full coat of green to applaud VIA's attempts to promote the use of low-energy computers

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Gigabyte adds a splash of ingenuity to new watercooling system

11 October 2006, 17:16

Manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards - and dabbler in all sorts of other products too - Gigabyte, has announced its newest watercooling solution, with a selection of features that'll ...

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Rahul Sood on Intel Kentsfield: General Observations

11 October 2006, 16:45

Some weeks ago while in the middle of the HP-Voodoo acquisition we weren't able to dedicate resources to testing certain new products. Understandably many things were happening at once, so ...

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Review: abit AW9D Max

11 October 2006, 08:59

So, AW9D Max it is then, packing i975X, ICH7R and abit special sauce. Best get on with finding out if it really is smokin' before someone notices the horror of ...

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eVGA superclocks its 7950

10 October 2006, 10:33

Graphics card and mobo maker EVGA has today announced a new 7950 GT SKU that ships with higher than reference clock speeds on both core and memory.

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On-demand DVD burning to make niche movies available at last

9 October 2006, 16:32

A new initiative by Sonic Solutions and Macrovision could soon see consumers being offered a far wider range of movies on DVD, with retailers and e-tailers custom-burning discs on demand

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OLPC $100 laptop promising 'revolutionary' security

9 October 2006, 14:27

The $100 One Laptop Per Child project's PC for the third world might turn out to be as revolutionary for its security measures as for its low-cost economics

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'Final' beta version of Vista (RC2 build 5744) available

9 October 2006, 12:53

Windows Vista RC2 (build 5744) - possibly the last beta version before the final operating system is released - came available Friday to technical beta testers

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Review: Foxconn GeForce 7950 GT

9 October 2006, 10:11

We mooted the idea of special signature boards bearing the Foxconn logo to the VGA product manager earlier in the year, wondering if they were going to go down that ...

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Run Linux for free on your USB stick drive

6 October 2006, 21:23

Pendrivelinux.com has a tutorial showing you how you can easily set up Linux to boot from a USB stick drive. Links are provided to the only two downloads required - ...

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ATI RD580 set to star in AMD's '4x4'?

6 October 2006, 17:33

ATI's ageing AMD-oriented RD580 discrete chipset will soon be upgraded to support three graphics cards and two CPUs, it has been claimed. The part will join the upcoming RS690 to ...

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Nokia floats Wibree - a low-power, low-cost Bluetooth-alternative

6 October 2006, 11:53

Nokia is floating the idea of a new low-cost, close-range wireless standard, Wibree, that consumes far less power than Bluetooth and makes connectivity possible even with small devices powered only ...

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AMD helps Intel get back its market share

6 October 2006, 08:31

Is AMD trying too hard to fight against Intel, and is it fighting on the wrong fronts? It looks that way to us.

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devolo dLAN 200 AVdesk - ultra-fast mains-borne networking

5 October 2006, 16:10

Next week sees the introduction by devolo of a product - the dLAN 200 AVdesk - that promises ultra-fast around-the-home networking without the hassle and expense of Ethernet cables

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A visit to ECS in ShenZhen

5 October 2006, 09:52

When prestigious international trade events take place, Team-HEXUS attends in force to bring the latest news to you, our dear readers. If that means flying all the way to Taiwan ...

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AMD-based Dell PC examined

4 October 2006, 11:31

HEXUS.community member and PC modder extraordinaire Gordon Handley recently received one of Dell's new AMD-powered SKUs. He's given it a bit of a poke and run some benchmarks to give ...

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Review: ATI Radeon X1650 PRO 3-way shootout

4 October 2006, 08:59

Radeon X1650 PRO is an easy one to explain, thankfully. Think Radeon X1600 XT but with slightly higher clocks and you're bang on, ATI asking its AIB partners to pretty ...

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Serif offers up two low-cost software bundles

3 October 2006, 18:31

Close behind the revelation that Tesco is launching a range of inexpensive own-brand software this month, comes Serif's announcement of a pair of low-cost software bundles

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ATI offers up a Mini Cooper

3 October 2006, 17:14

In what might be considered a somewhat unusual offer for a company famous for GPUs, ATI is giving away a Mini Cooper. Yes, a car...

Money-back possibilities for UK Toshiba laptop buyers

3 October 2006, 13:54

Sony's recently announced global recall of batteries might result in a number of UK purchasers of Toshiba laptop PCs being given their money back and getting new battery packs on ...

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Fujitsu among first to join global Sony-battery recall scheme

3 October 2006, 12:34

Fujitsu is one of the first companies to announce that it is taking advantage of the global battery-recall offer from Sony to makers of notebook PCs

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