Manufacturer: AMD
AMD’s 690G was its first chipset of the joint AMD-ATI venture – between this and its SB600 south bridge it made for an excellent and inexpensive combination that has retained its very strong position in the market, even until recently – we recommended this chipset on two MSI motherboards in the last year.
While the [...]
Robotic lawn mowers have been keeping yards tidy for their masters for a good while now, but Husqvarna is looking to teach an old robot new tricks with its Automower. As expected, the grass muncher is ultra-quiet and outputs zero emissions, and you can even program it to take off and get to work whenever [...]
When Dell started blogging in earnest a year or so ago, we figured we’d be hearing some PR fluff, and perhaps some damage control now and then. What we didn’t expect was self-damning posts about sneaking into the competion’s conferences to try and swipe customers. According to Direct2Dell, Dell gave HP partners a “sneak peek” [...]
We just got a call from our friendly local Nokia flagship store, and lo, it seems the mythical N95 8GB with HSDPA 850 / 1900 is now in stock. The all-black monster of Nokia’s current Nseries lineup will run you a stiff $799 — so get your credit card out, get your 3G on, and [...]
Typically, when you think case mod, you wonder just how tweaked a six-walled chassis can get. For Ville ‘Willek’ Kyrö, he figured that approach was much too constrictive. Instead, he used an array of heavy-duty heatsinks to actually build the frame that held the innards of Project: Passive. Needless to say, more heat pipes than [...]
You’ve had ample time to mull over the specs and even take a glance at Logitech’s Squeezebox Duet on video, but if you’ve still been holding off until a legitimate review gave you the final thumbs-up, here goes. According to CNET, this network digital audio system has a remote worth swooning over, very satisfactory file [...]
Quick note to the graphics enthusiasts in the house, HardOCP took a long look at CrossFireX using dual Radeon HD 3870 X2s. As you might expect, some games benefit from the raw power, some games require driver tweaks and knob-fiddling to get going right, and some games were just about the same without (read: your [...]
Americans would find it harder to part with their mobile phones than the Internet, television or landline telephones, according to a survey released Wednesday. The report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project also found that Americans are using their cellphones and other wireless devices for more activities including text messaging, taking pictures or [...]
It took many years from IE6 to IE7, but this browser is still quite new and Microsoft is already releasing a first beta version of IE8. MS unveiled the beta version of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) for developers at the annual MIX08 conference in Las Vegas. The beta version of IE8 includes better predictability when [...]
Gakken’s no stranger to build-it-yourself retro audio gear, and it now looks to be trying to bring some of its old school ways to your iPod with its new Vacuum Tube Amplifier kit. As you can see above, however, while the company is apparently pitching it as an iPod dock of sorts (like we’ve seen [...]
