ATI's new Catalyst drivers have been out for over a week now and we've tested them in our usual fashion. Except from now on we aren't just catering for the high-end but for every market segment. Along with the Radeon X800 we're also including the Radeon X700 PRO and X300. This way all users will be able to get an idea about performance on each level of Radeon graphics cards. Read on and find out if it's worth upgrading to ATI's July Catalyst driver!

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These drivers are based on the Cat 5.7 and they include a customized version of ATI Tray Tools instead of Radlinker. Go to the ATI Radeon section and take a look at the readme while downloading so you know the latest changes and additions to this set.

You might have heard about tweaked driver such as StarStorm, Omega, XtremeG, nVIDIA Optimized Driver, etc. Do you know that tweaked driver is driver with special setttings to improve image quality and performance. But is it really neccessary to reinstall whole driver for extra settings? It's like you're trying to reinstall Windows to get the same Windows with some reg tweaks. Now it's for revolution. You don't need to waste your time and risk your PC for driver reinstallation. nTweaker will handle it in simple and safe way than people ever imagined!

This is a list I'm trying to create of all the hardware that is supported in Windows XP x64 either with built in drivers in the OS or with additional drivers that you need to download. The list is sorted alphabetically by vendor, below are listed the supported models and/or series followed by a link to drivers download page. If you know of some other hardware that has built in support or drivers already available for download, please share the information.

Here's a new set of Forceware Drivers in the shape of 77.76 Beta for Windows 2000/XP! Dated: July 20, 2005!

Tomorrow on nZone.com, NVIDIA will release a new set of Forceware drivers that bring with them a few new features, and the prerequisite list of bug fixes. And whether you're a budget conscious gamer or a hard-core graphics junkie, the new features unveiled in these drivers are sure to pique your interest.

Last week saw ATI release their latest driver set, containing improvements targeted at users of 128MB and 64MB boards. To put them to the test, we ran a Radeon X700 Pro through a number of benchmarks to see how this new driver set fared.

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Whistling Cricket just put up a performance comparison between many of the drivers available for ATI users. The article benchmarks modded drivers, official drivers, and even the newly released 5.7 drivers! Check it out to see which driver holds the speed crown.

Whistling Cricket Catalyst Comparison

The NGO ATI Optimized Driver is a tweaked version of the ATI Catalyst driver. The main purpose is to satisfy the users with a better performance and better image quality. The Driver has support for all Radeon cards.

Nvidia have just released a new set of nForce Drivers version 6.66 WHQL for Windows 2000/XP and Windows XP/Server 2003 (64-Bit).

Today ATI released Catalyst 5.7 for your download pleasure.

The Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility installs to the target system the Windows* INF files that outline to the operating system how the chipset components will be configured. This is needed for the proper functioning of the following features:

Realtek released version 3.74 driver for their ALC AC97 audio chipsets. The driver supports all ALC series audio chipsets from ALC100 up to ALC850 mainly used as onboard sound on various motherboards.

If you were using Logitech MouseWare with a Cordless Click! or a Cordless Click! Plus mouse, installing SetPoint on top of MouseWare will transfer control of your mouse from MouseWare to SetPoint. MouseWare will no longer recognize your mouse. If you were only using one mouse with MouseWare, you can now uninstall MouseWare and use SetPoint!

The Latest driver for the Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit and Audigy LS! Thanks to Station-Drivers.

The Volari Reactor 1.09.53 beta has been leaked and is now available for download.

We are proud to announce a new service for users of the kX drivers. The kX audio driver is an independent WDM (Windows Driver Model) driver for all EMU10K1 and EMU10K2-based soundcards. It's most interesting and powerful feature is it's fully customizable DSP.

Our bro's over at WinFuture.de have posted Drivers , Bios and Firmware Updates for the following makes.

Abit, Asrock, Asus, Enmic, J Mark, Lite On, Logitech, Netgear, nVidia, Plextor, Realtek, Samsung, Sony

Realtek released version 3.73a driver for their ALC AC97 audio chipsets. The driver supports all ALC series audio chipsets from ALC100 up to ALC850 mainly used as onboard sound on various motherboards.

nVidia has released a new official nForce4 Intel Edition Driver for the Windows x64 platform. This package contains the below components: