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.

Following Icrontic’s epic heatsink roundup last month, two more heatsinks have found their way into the lab. Today, we’ll be taking an in-depth look at Noctua’s brand new NH-U12P and SilverStone’s Nitrogon NT06-Lite.

Icrontic's Rob Hallock shows us how to make a bootable USB flash drive.

Sometimes your location doesn't cooperate with wireless signals. Walls and other obstacles conspire against you. You can fight back with Icrontic's guide to building a cantenna!

The nature of the Core 2's design may be baffling, particularly to users exiting the era of synchronized Athlon XP buses, and we intend to cut through the haze and serve it straight - Icrontic style.

Following the success of the very popular VX series, Corsair recognized that buyers were looking for cost-effective, higher power solutions that employed single +12V rails. Enter the TX series.

Apple tries to sell you expensive cables - but you don't need them. The fix is shockingly simple.