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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

How many applications are really written to take advantage of all these new multi-core processors?

The Black Edition processors offer something that AMD has historically reserved only for the most elite (and expensive) processors: multiplier-unlocking.

The quad core chips that will first replace dual cores are going to merge two dual core dies into a two-die, four-core package OR one die with four cores. Confused? We'll explain it in plain English.

We're back to evaluate our predictions and reassess the the situation in the world of AMD

According to Intel marketing, the new Core 2 Duo architecture is the wave of the future, and we have no doubt that this capable CPU design is here to stay. We take a closer look at what it offers and what's to come.

Today, it is becoming evident that the hardware industry as a whole will be abandoning traditional DDR memory in the not too distant future. AMD's latest revision to the K8 architecture incorporates a new DDR2 memory controller, a new socket design and some other pleasant surprises. Short-Media will be turning another page in the K8's history, and will be taking an in depth look at AMD's new Socket AM2 platform.

Just want to get to the gaming? This guide can clarify hardware choices for any gamer, no matter what their level of hardware knowledge. Find out which processors, memory, and graphics cards are appropriate for you.

What we're going to discuss, the terms we'll use, and a few feature descriptions.

Starts with discussions of power, heat and cooling, OC in a nutshell, and the HTT bus. Continues with the math you'll need, CPU Multipliers, CMOS, bus locking, memory modules and timings. Ends with a discussion of CPU stepping codes, CPU selection, the Mobile Athlon 64, and other hardware.

The tools you'll need: Prime95, OCCT, Memtest86+, CPU-Z, A64 MemFreq 1.1, AMD64 MaxTCase, Monitoring Tools, Clockgen, A64 Tweaker, and several benchmarking products.