The Asus Formula Striker II is the second nForce 780i chipset-based motherboard to pass through HWZ’s hollowed halls this month, following the well-executed P5N-T Deluxe from the AI lifestyle series. Asus made a very similar board (at first glance) with the same chipset for a reason, and I’m here to explore just what exactly it is that makes this board different from its Asus stable mate and other performance/overclocking oriented motherboards.

                                              Asus makes pretty boxes.

My reviewing a top-of-the-line Samsung SGH-G800 cameraphone should have made me as excited as a kid in a candy store, and for a while, I was – until I really started to delve into the features and specifications of the device.

                                             An unassuming front section hides phat goodness.
 

In another example of reverse – influence content coming from the game industry, a company called the Music Wizard Group has releases a piece of educational software and corresponding guitar and MIDI pickup devices which they claim will be able to teach the user how to play a real guitar as opposed to one with only 5 colorful, plastic buttons. It’s called the Guitar Wizard, and its rockin’ strings instead of buttons.

                                             Seems almost like a game-screen.
 

Is there such a thing as a “friendly” war? “Safe” violence? Complete balderdash perhaps, but if there is any one thing that makes such things possible, it would be the little device pictured below.

The status quo is exactly what it means – the middle road, the best compromise, the most fitting example. For years, NAS – Network Attached Storage – options have been limited to either the corporate markets with their multi-million budgets where a mid-level NAS setup would only put a small dent in their budgets, right down to the other end of the spectrum with cheap, no-brand hardisk containers that simply had an attached LAN port at one end.

                                              Although initially mistaken for an AVR, the DNS323 is actually a handsome device.

Happy New Year! We start of the year with our customary gentle poke at the ludicrous ways technology is implemented in our ever – increasing desire to techno-fy everything in our paths.