Hot on the heels of the release of its very successful 4000 series graphics cards, AMD has released three new Phenom processors into their lineup—the X4 9950, 9350e and 9150e.

As the IRS winds up on a barrage of $600 stimulus checks, Icrontic weighs in with the Stimulus Check PC: the perfect way to drop $600 for something sweet.

A step-by-step guide for making a triple boot MacBook Pro with Vista 64, Ubuntu, and OS X Leopard.

Mike puts two new "Heatpipe Direct Touch" heatsinks through their paces in the Icrontic labs. Two different approaches to the technology will be compared and then ranked against the other eleven heatsinks we've tested to date.

With the cost of DDR2 kits falling sharply, 4GB kits are becoming very accessible to the masses. Today we take a look at one of Corsair's higher end Dominator kits, the TWIN2X4096-8500C5DF.

Want some geek street cred? Try installing Ubuntu Netbook Remix on a sub-notebook such as the OLPC XO or the Asus EEE PC, using Icrontic's handy-dandy guide.

Noctua is back with a down-draft 120mm heatsink dubbed the NH-C12P. Mike puts it through its paces in the Icrontic lab.

Coolink's new low-profile GFXChilla VGA cooler boasts some impressive features and is priced very attractively. Compatible with just about every nVidia and ATI card on the market, we cook it up in the IC labs to see if its performance is as impressive as its price.

Duct tape is probably one of the most geeky materials known to man. We have a history of working with duct tape that includes some fairly impressive constructs, as well as several contest victories for creating purpose-built structures in a short timeframe. In February of 2007, we decided to put our skills working with DuctTape into a long-term, practical project. We wanted to build something that could really be useful. We decided on a computer case.

Icrontic receives a hands-on look at one of the first retail samples of an OCZ Cryo-Z phase-change CPU cooler.

What do you do to stir up the competition in a market saturated in dual-cores? How about offer three cores for the price of two. This is exactly what AMD hopes to accomplish with their aggressively priced, tri-core Phenom X3.

Mike takes a close look at the very popular TJ09 tower case from SilverStone. Although it was released in 2006, it is still a favorite amongst PC enthusiasts, overclockers and high-end workstation users.

Only three months after the release of the award winning NH-U12P, Noctua is back with a more compact 92mm version, the NH-U9B. Mike puts the NH-U9B through its paces in the Icrontic lab.

Mike takes an in-depth look at five 1066MHz kits from Corsair, Kingston, OCZ and Crucial. PC2-8500 kits were once out of reach of the every day consumer. Today, with all of the DDR2 price cuts, they are an affordable alternative for those looking to get the most out of their systems.

With the dozens of electronic devices commonplace in just about every modern household, a small amount of electricity is constantly being leeched from the grid—day in, day out, twenty four hours per day, seven days per week. As more and more high-tech devices are purchased, this “Phantom Load” continues to increase.