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Pursuit Force - PSP

8 November 2005, 00:07

Pursuit Force puts you in the role of a young cop assigned to a newly created Police unit called, unsurprisingly, the Pursuit Force.

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Quake 4

7 November 2005, 08:54

It’s pretty damn hard to imagine a couple of CDs mating, but if you locked Doom 3 and Quake 2 up in a Brighton hotel room for two days, Quake ...

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Dell 2405FPW Widescreen LCD Display

7 November 2005, 08:15

As one of the miscreants that does graphics for HEXUS, and the Group Technical Editor, I'm the one that has to make sure we do it properly. And it turns ...

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F.E.A.R.

4 November 2005, 08:09

We can scare Nick Haywood with nothing more than a pair of rusty shears and a wicked smile, so getting him to review F.E.A.R. should see him in therapy for ...

Gigabyte K8N51GMF-9 nForce 430/GeForce 6100 Mainboard

4 November 2005, 07:01

So what you get for £52 is a solid board with very few surprises that's good for a multitude of uses. Voltage manipulation in BIOS, better subsystem performance, and, perhaps, ...

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Free RAW-image viewer and thumbnail applet for XP

1 November 2005, 23:04

Windows XP has no native support for viewing digital stills in RAW format but there is a free Microsoft Powertoy applet that lets anyone get at RAW files captured from ...

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SAPPHIRE RADEON X1800 XL 256MB & XFX GeForce 7800 GT 256MB

29 October 2005, 16:42

Both card packages offer compelling reasons for purchase but given a direct choice between the two, our money would slide over into XFX's corner for a number of reasons. Its ...

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Shuttle XPC SD11G5 SFF

28 October 2005, 00:35

One stumbling block Shuttle faces in marketing the SD11G5 is price. A search of online retailers shows it to retail at around the £340 mark. That's a lot of wedge ...

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Serious Sam 2

25 October 2005, 15:39

The original Serious Sam made efforts in the same direction and while they weren’t unwelcome Sam’s one-liners did feel like more of a Duke Nukem ‘homage’ than an effort to ...

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ECS PA1 MVP Extreme

25 October 2005, 09:00

From PF4 Extreme to the bonkers PF88 with others in between, the renaissance of the one-time whipping boy of PC mainboards is in full swing. I was lucky enough to ...

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Scan 3XS AMD Chameleon

24 October 2005, 10:17

Mad as a badger, the SCAN 3XS Chameleon SKU has now been finished. Spec lists have been finalised, warranty options cemented and parts options completed on the project and Scan ...

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Silverstone Tek Temjin TJ06S

21 October 2005, 11:04

What this shows more than anything is that the Sliverstone Tek Temjin TJ06s, with its minimal amount of cooling fans, does not fall behind those cases with a greater number ...

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EQS A72K9-CF

20 October 2005, 08:41

EQS enabled HEXUS with its EQS A72K9-CF CrossFire Edition mainboard literally weeks before we got our grubby paws on the ATi Master graphics board required to complete the platform for ...

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Shuttle XPC SD31P

17 October 2005, 17:47

Shuttle's been refining the XPC line for a number of years now. In fact, it's an old hand at it now, and that's shown by the number of decent SFF ...

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Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro

14 October 2005, 19:05

Creative has been going strong since the days of ISA sound cards because its family of audio products moves with the times. This is reflected well in the new four-strong ...

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PowerColor X800 GT Xtreme 256MB and X800 GT EVO Tide Water 256MB

14 October 2005, 09:44

So, in summary, we've looked at a couple of PowerColor X800 GT cards and have come away with the feeling that whilst both offer something new in the marketplace, the ...

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ASUS Extreme N7800GT Dual

11 October 2005, 17:51

A recent headline article on HEXUS introduced the ASUS Extreme N7800GT Dual in a hands-on preview of the first single-board SLI product to use NVIDIA G70. ASUS had previously tried ...

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Foxconn 6150K8MA-8EKRS Mainboard

7 October 2005, 16:34

In summary, then, NVIDIA's plugged the gap that existed in its current chipset lineup by introducing a few new SKUs that feature integrated graphics. The launch is just an evolution ...

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ATI Radeon X1800 XT Preview

5 October 2005, 13:54

This initial gloss over the tech, board evaluation and performance snapshot should have you salivating at the thought of buying a 3D accelerator in the near future. Radeon 1800 XT, ...

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Connect3D Radeon X800 GTO 256MB PCIe and GECUBE Radeon X800 GTO Ultimate 256MB PCIe

4 October 2005, 18:33

Both Connect3D and GECUBE have launched competitive Radeon X800 GTO 256MB cards that offer something different to the consumer. If you're inclined to meddle with VIVO and want a midrange ...

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Adobe targets non-techies with V4 Photoshop Elements image editor

2 October 2005, 19:24

A wide spread of time-saving features is promised in Photoshop Elements 4.0 - the latest lite version of Adobe's image editing program Photoshop due October

TerraTec Cinergy Hybrid USB XS DVB-T/analogue TV tuner

2 October 2005, 19:24

You won't find a smaller USB2.0 TV tuner that can receive DVB-T and analogue signals. If you need a compact, easy- to-use TV tuner with support for DVB-T, we'd say ...

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SAPPHIRE Radeon X800 GTO² 256MB PCIe

30 September 2005, 08:44

Evaluated as a purely default card, the SAPPHIRE X800 GTO² 256MB doesn't make a whole lot of sense. It's priced at around £20 above a number of X800 GTOs that ...

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Bet On Soldier

29 September 2005, 17:50

But in a macabre twist, the war has become a source of entertainment too, with elite soldiers battling it out in one on one contests, for cash prizes and for ...

PowerColor Radeon X850 Pro 256MiB

29 September 2005, 11:17

You could almost reduce the 6800GT/X850 Pro battle to the flip of a coin, but the simple fact is both with play any currently available game well, so PowerColor's X850 ...

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HEXUS.snapshot :: Armari Gravistar XRS

28 September 2005, 21:13

We've had a look at Armari's Gravistar XR before. Remember when dual-core Opteron launched and I brought our article up using an XR of theirs featuring Opteron 275? I do. ...

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HEXUS.snapshots :: Scan 3XS Cool Chameleon

28 September 2005, 18:56

The Scan 3XS Cool Chameleon married watercooled, overclocked FX-57 power, a pair of 512MiB GeForce 6800 Ultra graphics cards in SLI and a cool fixed disk configuration, all wrapped up ...

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Adobe plays catch up with easier-to-use basic video editor Premiere Elements 2.0

28 September 2005, 12:18

V2 of Adobe's basic video editor Premiere Elements is claimed to boost creativity and save time but, in many instance, Adobe has been playing catch-up with the new features added ...

Worms 4: Mayhem - PS2

28 September 2005, 01:47

I’m happy to report that Worms 4: Mayhem addresses a lot of the problems that we saw in Forts and marks a return to form for the series.

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SAPPHIRE X800 GTO Ultimate 256MB PCIe

28 September 2005, 01:44

Priced at £129.99, the financial cost of having a passively-cooled card is a £10 or so premium over a regular ATI Radeon X800 GT0 256MB card. Is it worth it? ...

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