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ATI Sturgeon CrossFire Xpress 3200 AM2 reference board

30 August 2006, 08:47

ATI have created the 'Sturgeon' reference board for Socket AM2. It combines the new socket with RD580, and, crucially, their long-time-coming I/O ASIC, SB600

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GeCube X1300 & X1600 HDMI/HDCP Slim Edition cards

29 August 2006, 08:39

In recent months there's been quite a kerfuffle over which graphics cards support HDCP. However, we are seeing cards that definitely do support it (and HDMI) trickling through slowly now. ...

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Alienware Area-51 7500 PC

28 August 2006, 08:35

There's nothing much intrinsically wrong with the SKU, and other publications reviewing it in isolation may well find it to be a winner. Here at HEXUS, however, we aim to ...

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The HTPC market has seen a big shift recently, with more of the mainstream manufacturers producing higher specification HTPC chassis’s with a much keener price point. Antec previously released NSK2400 ...

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2-power XCell 70 universal laptop battery

24 August 2006, 08:58

We reckon the 2-power XCell 70 has enough going for it to warrant serious consideration for laptop users where battery life is paramount.

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ATI Radeon X1950 XTX 512MiB

23 August 2006, 08:16

Today the shroud can be lifted and you can all get a good look at 'R580+'

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Compro VideoMate H900 TV Tuner

22 August 2006, 08:33

The H900 is a PCI card rather than a USB tuner. Secondly, it's an analogue tuner. "What?" I hear you shout. You read correctly, no DVB-T in this review, we're ...

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HIS X1600 XT IceQ Turbo DL-DVI DVI 256MiB GDDR3 CrossFire evaluation

21 August 2006, 08:29

Multi-GPU technology is good right across the board but it makes even more sense with the midrange market, and upgrading to two cards, when funds permit, is always a decent ...

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600-700W PSU Shootout

18 August 2006, 14:32

What we'll call workstation-class PCs are those on the market today that demand a PSU with outlandish output power, rail options and cabling runs to suit. You'll know instantly if ...

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Boston SAS RAID -X- Pack (LSI MegaRAID 8408E, Seagate ST3750640AS & Supermicro SATA M35)

17 August 2006, 08:50

Remember the Thecus N5200? We had it kitted out with 3.5TB worth of disks. The prospect of such a huge amount of storage was just too tempting for us, so ...

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Shuttle X100HA Small Form-Factor PC

16 August 2006, 20:59

Shuttle's innovative thinking extends to the X100HA. Our final thoughts? Good but not great.

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400-500Watt PSU shootout

15 August 2006, 08:32

We've recently been testing a handful of PSUs. Some quite powerful, some very powerful, but none that you might call 'silly'. In this review we have tested four PSUs, all ...

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ASUSTeK P5W DH i975X mainboard

14 August 2006, 08:46

Regardless of if you're a new user looking to build your first Intel-based system or you're an experienced overclocker, the ASUS P5W-DH Deluxe needs to be considered if you need ...

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Sima Hitch USB-101 transfer device

12 August 2006, 11:37

Most of us now have a USB device that we carry around with us, be it a thumb drive, camera, audio player, or missile launcher. With all of us carrying ...

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Slim Devices Squeezebox 3 Wi-Fi Network Music Player

11 August 2006, 08:49

The Slim Devices Squeezebox 3 (Wi-Fi model) can be purchased for around £210. It's not cheap, sure, but it exudes quality in every department, from ease of use to audio ...

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ENlight LP791 LCD PC chassis

10 August 2006, 09:00

It's about time somebody came up with a PC-in-a-monitor solution that was easy to upgrade, so when ENlight's LCD PC chassis landed in the labs, we were sceptical about the ...

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eVGA e-GeForce 7950 GX2 Black Pearl Quad SLI

9 August 2006, 14:00

A week or so ago the boss got on the blower, breathing heavily. Never a good sign. "Black pearls, Rys, black pearls are coming. Be prepared. 4 chips. SLI. Be ...

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Galaxy GeForce 7300 GT GDDR3

9 August 2006, 07:50

Join us to see if Galaxy's heavily breathed-upon GeForce 7300 GT is worth your hard-earned.

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Monster House - PS2

8 August 2006, 09:48

Monster House - PS2

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Foxconn P9657AA-8EKRS2H - First Look

8 August 2006, 09:03

Foxconn's P9657AA-8EKRS2H is shaping up to be a decent P965 board.

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Cooler Master Mystique 632 Black - EXCLUSIVE!

5 August 2006, 11:59

We take an exclusive look at the black version of the Cooler Master Mystique 632 chassis - are Cooler Master getting back to their best?

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ECS RS485M-M AM2 Radeon Xpress 1150 motherboard

4 August 2006, 08:33

Socket 939 isn't going anywhere for a while, and while we found ECS's RS482-M to have decent scope for upgrades, it stands to reason that based on AM2, the RS485M-M ...

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Super Monkey Ball Adventure - PS2

3 August 2006, 12:01

Review

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NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI Intel Edition

3 August 2006, 09:00

There's been no better time to jump on the Intel bandwagon than now. The world is going to embrace Core 2 Duo in a big, big way, so compliant chipsets ...

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ECS RS482-M Radeon Xpress 200 motherboard

2 August 2006, 19:30

In this case the board we're looking at is a budget offering, with integrated Xpress 200 graphics and Socket 939 processor support. Of course, it's a PCIe board and Socket ...

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D-Link Skype USB Phone Adapter DPH-50U

2 August 2006, 16:44

Millions of people make and take no-cost or low-cost Skype phone calls over the net using just a headset. D-Link's low-cost DPH-50U offers the convenience of using DECT phone - ...

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Vadim Fusion Cetus Overclocked Core 2 Duo System

31 July 2006, 14:23

Wrapping it all up, the Vadim Fusion Cetus is, on balance, the fastest pre-built PC we've ever seen. It's not a quite a dream machine and ï¿½3,000 is a lot ...

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Draytek Vigor2800VG

28 July 2006, 09:41

This is an expensive router, reassuringly expensive, weighing in at around £150; around five times more than some home routers. In fact, this product could be considered more of an ...

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GIGABYTE GC-RAMDISK i-RAM

27 July 2006, 07:53

The GIGABYTE GC-RAMDISK i-RAM uses fast RAM modules to emulate a hard disk drive, an interesting approach to speeding up storage. Does Gigabyte's i-RAM deliver the blistering performance it promises? ...

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