Just got word that Think Computers have thrown up a flashing guide for turning you're ATI Radeon 9800 Non-Pro or SE card into a Radeon 9800 Pro! Here's a snip.

Many people have been reading about the new mod popping up on forums that discuss the ability to convert a Non-Pro or SE ATI 9800 into a Pro card with all the benefits thereof. The problem is there are a lot of conflicting reports and half truths floating around about just what is useful and effective and what is not. The simple truth is that this is easy to do with the right card, effective, and better yet you can keep an extra $150 in your pocket.

Thanks to the other bat cave WinxpCentral for sending over this guide!

NSA has developed and distributed configuration guidance for Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 2000 in the form of configuration guides. These guides are currently being used throughout the government and by numerous entities as a security baseline for their Windows systems. To assist our Windows XP user community, NSA has developed security configuration guidance for Windows XP, with the cooperation of other government agencies and industry partners who provided their expertise and extensive technical review.

When asking around about the fastest memory timings for an AMD nForce2 setup nobody could give me a clear answer, so Madshrimps have started to test the most common used timings... Here are the results you always wanted to know!

This tutorial is a continuation of our first php tutorial which covered the basics of php. In this tutorial, data storage will be covered. Two ways to store data are in files, and in mysql databases - both will be covered in this article.

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OPN-462 is an intelligent program designed specifically to translate the three codes found on, or around the core of all Socket-A, AMD CPU's.

PC Stats have thrown up a new beginners guide to preventing Data Theft from a stolen Laptop! Here's a snip.

Portable computers are made for traveling and computing at the same time, and are thus incredibly valuable for their weight. We're talking 'carton of cigarettes' dollars-to-weight ratio here. Consequently, laptop's make a tempting target for thieves and have been known to go AWOL with distressing frequency when compared to less expensive things like your baggage full of Hawaiian shirts.

We have just published a short article covering applications that we at Dead-Fish just can't live without. These utilities are among the first installed after formatting hard drives. We pointedly ignore Microsoft Office, Paint Shop Pro, Winzip, virus checkers and so on, focussing on less common programmes that we always install. Ones that make the machine work just so or that we regard as essential.

I've had a few emails recently asking if I knew of any guides for creating an unattended XP CD! so here you go.

Have you ever wanted a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 CD that would install Windows XP or Server 2003 by automatically putting in your name, product key, timezone and regional settings? Followed by silently installing all your favourite applications along with DirectX 9.0b, .Net Framework 1.1 and then all the Pre-SP2 hotfixes, updated drivers, registry tweaks, and a readily patched UXTheme.dll without any user interaction whatsoever? Then this guide will show you how you can do just that!

Just got word that Adrian has updated his premier BIOS optimization guide to 8.0 Interim Release 6! Here's some of the updates.

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Just spotted this bit of Info over at Rojakpot.com

Whenever I click or open certain AVI movies in Windows XP, Windows Explorer would lock up and cause the entire system to come to a standstill. You also cannot edit or delete these AVI movies! Why? Why? Why???! Because this is yet another Windows XP bug. Don't take it the wrong way. I love Windows XP. It's the most stable Windows OS ever. But this bug sure has bugged me (pun intended!) long enough! It's time to fix it once and for all!

Thanks to MikeC over at Nvnews.net for the info:

Was checking out the forum and see that a new thread on anisotropic texture filtering has surfaced. The thread contains a link to a listing of visual demonstrations that compare anisotropic filtering on NVIDIA's NV3x (GeForce FX) to ATI's R3x0 (Radeon) under OpenGL.

§hädë§ over at EnvyNews has thrown up a great how to guide for adding a water block Mod to your PowerColor 9800XT graphics card and how about getting some free ramsinks as well.

PC Stats have thrown up part 2 of their beginners guide to Burning CDs and DVDs, in part 2 they look at CDROMs, audio CDs, and how to create ISOs for backup of your files! Here's a snip.

In this article, PCstats will continue its look at recordable optical media, or in other words, CD Writers. We will expand from our previous guide on "Optical Drives & Recording Formats" to discuss different recordable CD options work, and walk you through the steps to create an ISO file or disk image for burning. We'll also touch upon burning MP3 or audio data onto a CD-R/RW with an eye towards creating audio and MP3 CDs, and much, much more. So, let's get started!

Thanks to all the e-mails I got since the last update, it's time for yet another update in the Table of Graphics Chips. For the list of changes look at here. Now the table contains 106 desktop and 23 mobile solutions (129 in total). I would like to thank all the contributors - but our work isn't done yet. As always, I still need your help, especially for mobile solutions. And if you have any suggestions, don't hesitate to contact me. (Note: if you had any idea, addition or correction that hasn't been implemented yet, don't worry: no e-mails are lost, I may just need more time.)

Quite a lot of people buy hardware and software to play with during the upcoming holidays. Some buy consoles, some get new games, others acquire new graphics cards.

Xbitlabs review will help you to choose between 9 premier graphics cards based on VPUs and GPUs from ATI and NVIDIA in 16 benchmarks representing performance in past, present and upcoming 3D games! In addition to benchmarks, they have market analysis for you.

Anandtech have thown up their Image Quality Analysis Fall 2003: A Glance Through the Looking Glass Guide! which looks at image quality between nVidia's GeForce FX 5950 and ATI's Radeon 9800 XT! Here's a snip.

The question of image quality is much more complicated than determining which video card renders a scene the fastest. Years ago, we could say that the image that came out of two different computer systems should be exactly the same because developers controlled every aspect of how their program ran with software, rather than leaving some decisions to the hardware on which the program was running.

This is a blog guide by a user on longhornblogs.com for the PDC Longhorn build 4051 (the next Windows release). It touches on the following points:
Longhorn doesn't accurately set my resolution I go back and open up my computer and I really hate the ?big icon? view The Start Menu is too simplified My screen refresh rate is set too low I hate not having icons on the desktop Why do we need a screen saver turned on by default Warp2 read the solution at longhornblogs.com.

Wlkdos from Iceteks has written an aritcle on burning an ISO image. If you just got a new Linux distro, you will want to burn it on a CD. ISO is the standard format for CD images and this is usually what you download. This tutorial will show you how it's done.

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Just got word from our bro Julio Franco over at the TechSpot that their How to Volt-mod your ATI Radeon videocard Guide is out! Here's a snip.

I'll start off by saying this guide is not meant for everyone, however if you want to take overclocking to the extreme, this should be it.

Ace's Hardware have thrown up a new server guide, which looks at Dual Xeon, Dual Opteron and Quad Opteron servers! Here's a byte.

In our last article about x86 server CPUs, the Opteron 244 made a quite an impression when compared to the Xeon DP. In many of our real-world server benchmarks, the 1.8 GHz Opteron bested the 2.8 GHz Xeon DP. Of course, neither Intel nor AMD have been sitting still since that time, and to make the Xeon DP more competitive, Intel equipped its midrange server CPU with a 1 MB L3-cache. Correspondingly, 2.2 GHz Opteron 248 and 848 processors are available this month.