Today Madshrimps take the ATI Radeon 9800pro graphic?s card under their wings and give it a few tweaks and modifications to push it far beyond any graphic?s card currently on the market to take your PC gaming over the edge..

Just got word that the Software Mod For Turning Your Radeon 9500 Non-Pro Into A 9700 , 9800SE and 9800 PRO guide has been updated for combination with the Catalyst 3.8 drivers! If the softmod succeeds your card will behave exactly like a 9700 and 9800 PRO (8 pipelines, 256bit bus) card.

In due time CPU kits will be offered from both nVentiv and Asetek for the the AMD A64/FX51 motherboards. But for those of us that don't want to wait, we must improvise! The following is NOT a step-by-step guide and is only offered as a suggested means of mounting for the AMD A64/FX51.

The guide includes, creating a profile configuration file, enabling pipelining, adding Mozilla Firebird to the registry and enabling fast rendering. This is my first guide and comments are welcome.

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Just got word from Anton Shilov at Xbitlabs.com that he's thrown up their new guide that will show you How To Enable Additional 256KB of L2 Cache on you're AMD Athlon XP Processors Model 10! Here's a snip.

AMD Athlon XP processors Model 10 with 256KB of L2 cache appeared on the horizon sometimes after the launch of Barton in the first quarter of the year. The chips were based on the Barton design with disabled 256KB of L2 and a bit lowered speeds compared to the high-end AMD CPUs.

This has to be the Mod of the year? very cool. Konstantin Khanyants has thrown up his Turn Your GBA Into a Game Console guide! Here's a rip.

This is a mod of all mods for the GameBoy Advance. Essentially converting it into a game console with an ability to attach a joystick, output video to a TV or an RGB monitor, and provide power management to get around wasting those batteries. The result is amazing and breathes new life into your GBA, even if you only decide to do the joystick mod.

OC Addiction have thrown up their Memory Bandwidth And Timings guide.

Hey Addicts and Junkies... Have you ever been setting around and wondered about your Memory's Bandwidth and Timing?... Well have no fear, OCA is here. Click the above link and find out all you need to know.

Madshrimps have published a descriptive guide on how to get the maximum out of your Hercules 9800 NonePro!

If you have Samsung (2.8, 3.0 or 3.3ns) memory on your Hercules 9800 (none pro) videocard, then follow this guide to boost the performance and flash yourself a Hercules 9800 Pro!

Just got word that Adrian has updated his premier BIOS optimization guide to 8.0 Interim Release 4! Here's some of the updates.

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Shamino over at VR-Zone's Forum has thrown up a Voltage modding Guide for the Athlon 64 boards ! Here's a rip.

Well, modding the Vcore of the Athlon 64 boards should be quite simple as most boards are using the ISL6559CB or ISL66569CB regulators.

Thanks to Cdfreaks for the news that their CD and DVD Media Database is open!

The CD Freaks Media Forum is probably the best source for information on which burner works with what media.

IMO, more people should learn about BSD. I found an excellent guide, detailing how to install and secure a BSD system. It covers many topics, including: Base OS Installation, Updating your server, Basic System Security Part 2, Unix File Permissions, Installing and configuring Mail services, and Firewall configurations. If you've never dabbled in BSD before, this article will be more than enough to get you started.

Following on from our workstation comparo, we saw that the AMD Opteron was a promising workstation chip in need of a few more MHz. It's time now to turn up the clock speed. The Opteron 146 processor launched just last week, aimed at single-processor workstations. This new chip, based on AMD's "Hammer" or K8 core, runs at 2GHz, and has all the architectural enhancements of its Opteron brethren. Unlike the 24x and 84x Opteron models, though, the 146 is not intended for use in multiprocessor configurations. That means, interestingly enough, that the Opteron 146's most direct competition is Intel's single-processor workstation setup, the Pentium 4 3.2GHz with the 875P chipset. Yes, that's right, one week before the Athlon 64 processor is due for its introduction to the public, we have a 2GHz K8 chip ready to take on a Pentium 4 3.2GHz. One might think this could be an enlightening preview of things to come. And one might be right?

Just got word from Julio Franco at the TechSpot that he's thrown up their new Networking 101: Served Right Guide! Here's a snip.

In the last few years networking has turned into a more attractive market for the average end-user, sharing files or broadband over a network is nothing new, however accessibility to these has improved considerably, indeed, an even more drastic change has been seen with the wide adoption of wireless technologies.

Thanks to Mackey D for pointing me in the direction of this How To Overclock An Opteron article over at Overclockers.com

Someone over at the TBreak forums found out something very interesting.

The person was running an Athlon 64 3200+. While keeping the memory at a 1:1 ratio, he was only able to raise the FSB from 200 to 215MHz.

A couple of days ago OCPrices broke the news that AMD were releasing new "unlock-proof" packaging techniques for their XP processors to stop enthusiasts from being able to remap the multiplier, unlock the chips or allow regular XPs to be used as MP dual enabled CPUs.

Just got word that Adrian has updated his premier BIOS optimization guide to 8.0 Interim Release 3!

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AMDMB has done up a quick performance comparison of the newly released 51.75 Detonator FX drivers that were sent to the Press: They tested Detonator FX Drivers 44.67 against the 51.75 using the following benchmarks UT 2003 , X2 ? The Threat and 3DMark03 320.

3dchip.de has done up a performance comparison of the newly released 45.33 Detonator FX drivers: They tested Detonator FX Drivers 44.03, 44.65, 44.90, 45.20 and 45.23 against the 45.33 running on a MSI FX 5900 Ultra VTD256 using 3 DirectX benchmarks CodeCreatures , UT 2003 Demo, Aquanox 2 and 1 OpenGL benchmarks Jedi Knight 2.

I know a few of you have been searching the net looking for a Notebook - Laptop Tweak Guide! Well today Tweak3D have done just that and posted their guide! Here's a snip:

I'm so glad I've started writing this guide that all I can start with is: "It's about damn time we posted a notebook tweak guide!"