Want a bit more power from your Radeon 9700 pro? yes I hear you cry, then head this way to Digit Life's new volt modding guide!

It's not easy to answer the question whether volt-modification is needed to survive when gaming requirements for hardware, in particular video adapters, are getting tougher, or it is a way to squeeze more potential from a video card to get more FPS in games.

OCworkbench sent over this guide last month and as I was busy I forget all about until recently! so here goes: This guide applies to all socket A processors that have L3 multiplier locked, which include Applebreds, Thortons, Bartons and Throughbreds.

As you should be aware AMD started locking all of its cpu, except Athlon 64 FX. That means our happy socket A days are a bit doomed, or were, the solution to this problem isn't as easy as it should be, but at least now it's possible to change multiplier in locked cpu.

Madshrimps tests some home made waterblocks (CPU, Chipset, VGA) against an Asetek Waterchill kit. Does DIY stand a chance against CNC machined material? Find out in this review!

The goal is again to present 4 systems that can serve as reference to build your own new system. Everything can and may be changed to fulfil your own needs and according to the possibility of laying your hands on the components we propose.

One of the most important parts in the computer is the power supply. Without a PSU you obviuosly can't power up the computer and a PSU of bad quality can turn the computer very unstable. Unfortunately many people buy the cheapest one available and choose to put their money on a faster processor or such. This is not always a good choice and hopefully you will understand why after you have read this article. The purpose of this article is to answer any potential questions that could arise in coherence with power supplies. The article brings up several different sections which has to do with the PSU, among other things, how they work and why they are needed at all.

Just got word from Bryan McDaniel over at Overclockers Club that their new AMD Athlon 64-Bit CPU's Explained Guide is out!

Ever since Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) launched the Athlon 64 processors late last year, there has been a bit of confusion about them all. With the two different chips being so similarly named, Athlon 64 and Athlon 64 FX, it?s easy to understand the confusion.

OSNews have thrown up a new guide called Are 64-bit Binaries Really Slower than 32-bit Binaries? Read on and find out!

When running tests, installing operating systems, and compiling software for my Ultra 5, I came to the stunning realization that hey, this system is 64-bit, and all of the operating systems I installed on this Ultra 5 (can) run in 64-bit mode.

3D Center has posted an article looking into Multisampling Anti-Aliasing, which evaluates the methods used by ATi and Nvidia! the article is nearly a year old ,as it was just recently translated to English from German!

Today, we'd like to pick apart a rather special topic: multisampling anti-aliasing. The basics were touched upon in an older article (that hasn't been translated yet). Today we'll get to the bottom of it.

In this article Xbitlabs are going to tell you about volt-modding techniques for today?s top graphics accelerators based on NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra and ATI RADEON 9800 XT. Among the benchmarks results you will find the performance numbers for the nominal frequencies, overdrive mode (for ATI RADEON 9800 XT), during regular overclocking and after extreme volt-modding of the voltage regulators according to their unique methodology.

Tom's Hardware guide have posted their latest article entitled Ups and Downs: Memory Timings Put to the Test! were they tested RAM with ideal, average and slow timings to see whether different memory settings would affect the performance of the latest AMD and Intel processors! Here's a snip.

It's a fact that modern systems need just scads of memory - 512 MB at least, although 1 GB isn't exactly rare anymore, either. Things get a bit more complicated once you stroll down to your local computer store, where they have a huge selection of DDR400 RAM modules from innumerable vendors in all imaginable variations. So what should you look out for? Should you really listen to what the friendly salesperson has to say?

Microsoft has released/updated two guides:

Exchange Server 2003 Message Security Guide (updated):
NtCompatible

Sybase/UNIX to SQL Server 2000 Guide:
NtCompatible

Just got word from Martin Sikora over at FrazPC, has thrown up his nForce2 timing guide! Here's a snip.

I'm going to test timings of TwinMos's PC3200 DDR RAM. After analyzing timings I would advise You to choose the best timings for nForce2 platform, Ultra 400. Bios of NF7-S (ID 2.1 and 2.2) offers several settings of memory.

3DMAXX has posted a new guide. This time we show you how to sucessfully flash your ATi Radeon 9600 based video card into a fully functional Radeon 9600XT 128MB graphics card. This can give upto a 25% boost in game performance.

Today TweakTown have began their investigation into the relatively new and future orientated Serial ATA interface for our personal computing storage needs and discuss the benefits, as well as disadvantages, compared to the aging Parallel ATA standard which we?ve been using for around 15 years now.

Holidays are long gone, back to business! The Table of Graphics Chips has been updated once again - unfortunately I lost my changelog, and I can't remember every tiny changes, so the following list is just the tip of the ice: added XGI Volari line (with official, pre-released specs as there are still no reviews of final, right off-the-shelf products), merged some tables (now you can scroll the contents which makes updates much easier for me, but I hope it's better for you too) and there are many small fixes and additions. The page now contains 115 desktop and 23 mobile solutions, 138 in total. And - as always - feel free to contact me if you have anything to add or correct!

Looking to upgrade a server? then head this way to Extreme Overclocking for their new guide called Server Power & Performance: A Buyers Guide To Upgrading Your System! Here's a byte.

Servers these days perform such a variety of tasks that it is impossible to give a "one size fits all" solution on how to make it run better. However, one thing that most servers have in common is the programs (or services, or daemons, whatever you prefer to call them) like to cache large amounts of data to maximize performance. For instance, a web page that gets requested often seems common sense to cache it in memory where it can be accessed quickly instead of reading the file from the hard drive each and every time it is requested. Obviously data stored in memory can be accessed many times faster than even the fastest hard drives today.

Microsoft Xbox console modding has been a part of a world for some time now. We suspect though that not everyone is aware of the quite legal benefits of modding your console can bring. Interested? Read on and find out what some soldering and circuitry boards can provide for your experience at TweakTown.

TweakTown's Koroush "PersianImmortal" Ghazi is back on the job with his latest guide simply called "The Simple Antialiasing and Anisotropic Guide". What is Antialiasing and Anisotropic Filtering? What does it do for me and my games? What type of hit does it generate on performance? All answers are within.

Just got word those mad guy's over at Madshrimps have dug up some Info on howto for flashing your nVidia FX 5900 none ultra to a fully fledged FX 5950 Ultra graphics card!

nVidia used to hardwire all graphic cards with the correct BIOS so flashing cards like ATi wasn't possible... However, newly released information suggests that the NV38 (5950u) is simply a software rebadged NV35 (5900).

2CPU have thrown up a new guide called Exploring Hyper-threading Performance , which is a technical overview of Hyper-threading for Intel's Pentium 4 Processor!

Alright kids, it's quiz time. By looking at the picture to the right, please tell me how many processors I recently purchased? In the past, this was a really simple question to answer, why two of course! Since Intel rolled out hyper-threading, a simple glimpse at Task Manager just isn't enough to tell you what someone has under the hood of their precious boxen.