Amazing WALL•E case mod
Eighteen days, a pile of raw materials, a mountain of ingenuity, and one spectacular lesson in custom computer cases. Add comment
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ESA, Roscosmos discuss orbital shipyard
It’s no Utopia Planitia, but seeing “orbital shipyard” in a headline pleases my harbls. Add comment
ATI releases Catalyst 9.5
UPDATE @ 3:39 PM, 5/19/2009: The official AMD blog now offers a rundown of the updates offered in Catalyst 9.5. No longer locked in a pissing match with NVIDIA over the GTX 275, ATI has returned to its regular driver schedule and kicked Catalyst 9.5 into the public. The release notes for this driver release […] Add comment
OCZ’s PCI-E SSD priced: $1500 to $3400
OCZ’s Z Drive gives blistering fast read and write times on their PCI Express SSD. Want to join the party? There’s a cover charge of $1,561 for the 250GB model. Add comment
Cooler Master Hyper TX3 i5 CPU cooler
The Cooler Master Hyper TX3 i5 is ready for Core i5, when it arrives. Add comment
Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P motherboard
Futurelooks reviews the Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P. It’s Icrontic’s favorite AM3 test bench board. Add comment
Corsair introduces new SSD
Corsair’s P256 solid state drive uses all Samsung-parts for the company’s latest foray into the SSD game. Add comment
Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 ATOMIC
Hexus puts the Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 ATOMIC and it’s 1,000mhz core clock to the test. Add comment
ASRock M3A790GXH/128M
ASRock continues to step up its game, this time with the M3A790GXH/128M AM3 motherboard. Now if only they’d do something about the name. Add comment
Thermaltake ISGC 120mm fan
If you’re in the market for case fans, the Thermaltake ISGC Fan 12 looks good. Add comment
Intel back at AMD over x86 license
Remember when Intel complained that the establishment of GlobalFoundries was in violation of the x86 cross-licensing agreement with AMD? Intel is doing it again. Add comment
Danger Mouse’s next album
Danger Mouse’s next album will be a blank CD-R. He says you’ll know what to do with it. Add comment
2-week warning: Expo Icrontic tickets
There are five tickets or two weeks left, whichever comes first. If you’re thinking about coming, it’s time to decide. Add comment
Quickly retool a video for a portable
Reencoding files to work on a portable device is the fine art of suffering through a gigantic pain in the ass. As every player supports different codecs, framerates, dimensions and bitrates, you either take a crash course in media encoding or get a tool to do it all for you. Dan Cunningham’s EncodeHD will take […] Add comment
How hacking destroyed another community
Last week, hackers destroyed Avsim, a community of flight simulator enthusiasts since 1996. Thirteen years of mods, skins, and terrains were deleted when both the website server and their backup server were compromised. They’ve since set up a temporary site and started salvaging what they can from the Wayback Machine and elsewhere, but much work […] Add comment
GELID comes to Newegg
Those cool GELID fans you’ve been wanting are now available at Newegg, just in time for Expo Icrontic! Add comment
Nintendo’s per-head profits
Nintendo is set to make more profit per employee this year than Google or Goldman Sachs. Add comment
Futuremark to host “Lords of Overclocking” competition
Futuremark, the company behind the ubiquitous 3DMark and PCMark benchmark suites, is hosting a worldwide CPU and GPU overclocking competition called “Lords of Overclocking” starting May 18th and running through June 4th. I spoke with Futuremark’s Kent Wu, and he explained that overclocking awards would be granted by region so that certain overclocking superstars wouldn’t […] Add comment
Device Remover > Device Manager
If you’re a power user, you need to drop what you’re doing and grab a copy of Device Remover right this very instant. Check its features: See all device drivers, even for hidden devices. Operating driver backup. Install/uninstall devices. Control device startup or enabled/disabled status. Remove drivers for unplugged or missing devices. Identify and troubleshoot […] Add comment
Watching movies backwards
“If you watch Rambo backwards, it’s Sylvester Stallone healing people with his magical bullet vacuum.” A long (and yes, a bit old) list of backward scenarios. Add comment
Windows 7 build 7127 leaks
There’s no telling precisely how much newer this is than the RC, but build 7127 is newer, so that has to count for something. Don’t expect to see any changes, however, as the bugs being corrected in advance of the RTM are so minor or esoteric that few users are likely to ever encounter them. […] Add comment
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