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Thermaltake Toughpower XT 750W PSU

The Thermaltake Toughpower XT 750W power supply is modular, robust, and 80+ Bronze certified. Add comment

ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution motherboard

The ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution X58 motherboard supports SIX video cards. Ridiculous! Add comment

Challenging paradigms with the Antec Skeleton chassis

Paradigm. Merriam-Webster defines it as a typical example or archetype. Put simply, a paradigm is our predefined idea of what something is, and what it should be. Paradigms tend to be the enemy of any new idea. Imagine for a moment that someone asks you to build the better mousetrap: How would you begin? Even […] Add comment

Intel fined €1.1bn by the EC for anti-competitive practices

Intel, the world’s largest microprocessor firm, has been fined €1.1 billion by the European Commission for engaging in anti-competitive behavior. Neelie Kroes, the EC’s Competition Commissioner, went on record to say that Intel has abused its leadership in the microprocessor market to strong-arm its customers into remaining loyal to Intel in the hope of pushing […] Add comment

ZOTAC intros ION-based mainboards

Packaged in the swank mini-ITX form-factor, these boards rock WiFi, DDR2, an Atom and NVIDIA’s sweet ION platform. Add comment

Stream torrents with Tribler

Look, I know what you’re thinking when you read that headline. Play nice. Add comment

Test drive Office 2010

If, for some reason, you are a person that’s excited by the very thought of a new version of Office, now is your chance to give Microsoft’s next version a whirl… Maybe. Beginning in early July, Microsoft has opened signups to be considered for the technical preview program in advance of the 2010 release. The […] Add comment

YouTube on Acid

Jizz in my pants on acid. (You can do it to any video) [/innuendo] Add comment

8-bit fatalities

Video game deaths rendered realistically. [via] Add comment

US Trustee’s office wants to liquidate SCO

Late last year, federal district judge Dale A. Kimball upheld a prior court decision that dismissed SCO’s claims and granted Novell $2.54 million in declaratory relief. While this legal brouhaha had been happening for many, many years, the November decision was the final nail in SCO’s coffin. Though SCO could have opted for an appeal, […] Add comment

MS VP says Windows 7 in 2009 is possible

Update @ 5:45 PM EST, 5/11/2009: An update to the Windows Vista Team Blog has shed more light on the subject by revealing that Windows 7 will RTM in three months if the RC meets internal standards for quality. If the telemetry we receive from the Windows 7 RC meets our expectations in terms of […] Add comment

NVIDIA and ATI add WHQL certification

Now that Microsoft has opened the doors on WHQL certification for Windows 7, both ATI and NVIDIA have made the grade and received the cert for their most recent driver packages; NVIDIA has respun their latest 185.81 to bear v185.85, and ATI has posted an update to the GPU driver portion of Catalyst 9.4. Links […] Add comment

MadShrimps MEGA heatsink roundup

MadShrimps tests 23 heatsinks, and then gives you a dynamic chart so you can see how they stack up! Add comment

MSI N285GTX SuperPipe OC video card

The MSI N285GTX SuperPipe OC adds fat heatpipes to aide cooling and overclocking. Add comment

NZXT Panzerbox

NZXT keeps the new cases coming and they’re back today with their newest offering: The Panzerbox. The name alone conjures images of Germany’s elite Tiger tanks from the Second World War. Their imposing size and armor were a sight to behold on the battlefield as they dwarfed other tanks and effortlessly deflected seemingly lethal blows. […] Add comment

Konami code sites

Konami code sites (type the code to see it). [via] Add comment

Disposing of hard drives

In an all-too-frequent security breach, researchers purchased a hard drive on Ebay that contained US military secrets. Included in the data were policies, blueprints, and test-launch procedures. The disk also included personal information about Lockheed employees, including social security numbers. None of us here on Icrontic are harboring military secrets on our hard drives (well, […] Add comment

ViewSonic VX2433wm 23.6″ LCD

Think Computers likes the ViewSonic VX2433wm LCD monitor. Add comment

Inno3D GTX 275 OC

The Inno3D GTX 275 OC boosts its clock speed to take on the HD 4890. Add comment

HD 4770 overclocking

How to overclock the now sub-$100 Radeon HD 4770. Add comment

AMD’s platform evolution

Benchmarking the evolution of AMD’s Spider and Dragon platforms. Add comment