Adrian's Rojak Pot have thrown up Rev 3.0 of their GPU Comparison Guide with the addition of Nvidia's GeForce 6800 Ultra and GeForce 6800 GPUs, PowerVR and Intel sections and Matrox sections to the guide as well as correction of several mistakes in the ATI section! it's well worth checking out.

These days, there are so many graphics card models that it has become quite impossible to keep up with the different configurations. Therefore, Max_87 decided to compile a guide of the various GPU configurations in the market, including many classics. We hope it will prove to be a useful reference. We will keep this guide updated regularly so do check back for the latest updates!

A common problem is how to clone your installed WindowsXP and move it to a new hard drive on the same computer. Upgrading your OS hard drive can be a real pain, but we'll walk you through an easy process to simplify your life, so you can get back to work.

The compatibility database at NT Compatible has been updated for Windows XP 64 Bit and Windows Server 2003 64 Bit.

HTPCnews writes If any of you are like us, I know you would rather put your money down on a product that is well supported and you know what it is. In today's market there is a large number of hardware MPEG2 capture cards (think TiVO capture quality with near zero CPU usage) and choosing the correct one can seem daunting at first. We have taken the guessing game out of this for all our readers through this PVR Identification and Compatibility guide. Everyone who has been thinking of purchasing a PVR off eBay should most definitely give this one a read over before clicking bid... Better to know what your buying than wasting 100 bones.

Adrian's Rojak Pot have thrown up their flashing your Radeon 9800 Pro To Radeon 9800XT Mod Guide! Here's a snip.

The 256MB ATI Radeon 9800 Pro is probably the least popular ATI graphics card. It is a lot more expensive than the 128MB variant and the extra 128MB of memory proved rather useless. But while you may think that it is a sheer waste of money, it may actually turn out to be a real steal! Why? Because Now, what is interesting is the new batches of 256MB Radeon 9800 Pro graphics cards are actually Radeon 9800XT cards!

Adrian's Rojak Pot have thrown up their video BIOS flashing Guide! Here's a snip.

Many people know how to flash the motherboard BIOS as well as the benefits of doing so. But not many people know about flashing the video BIOS.

BetaResource writes by the end of this guide, you will have ripped audio files of Windows Media Audio 9 Professional, Bitrate VBR, 192 Kbps 44 kHz 2 channel 24-bit.

These days you very rarely see some PROPER casemodding... prefab shop-bought cases are rapidly becoming the norm, with LANs becoming filled with clone cases with the obligatory LED Fan and Cold Cathode... When "Father-Time" signed up to our forums it was like a spring breeze blowing thru! Bringing with him the worklogs of Project "Smoke on the Water", this is a fine example of old-skool modding at it's best... incorporating 2x MIDI Cases, some hinges, a pile of quailty watercooling gear, and a sidemounted TFT... So, you call yourself a casemodder?

Just got word that Adrian has updated his premier BIOS optimization guide to 8.0 Interim Release 7! Here's some of the updates.

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I Am Not A Geek have thrown up their updated Windows XP Performance Tweaking Guide! Here's a snip.

I have broken this guide into 6 parts. Networking, file system, memory performance, freeing up memory, startup/shutdown and then the other stuff. I've tried to pack as much performance related tweaking here as I can but there's always more to be uncovered. I will update this article as frequently as possible.

Thank's to HellBender from Neowin forums for pointing this out to us!

Are you reading this on a CRT? Are you tired of your CRT? It's time to throw out your CRT and bring in an LCD! Thanks to our member Jelly2003, we now have a great guide on how to buy one.

ExtremeTech have thrown up their Audio Codec Quality Shootout! Here's a byte.

Certainly a top consideration should be compatibility. We all have different audio devices, and it doesn't matter how good your music sounds if it won't play on your hardware. We'll leave that decision up to you; you know what software and devices you have and what they're capable of playing. Encoding time is another possible consideration, but honestly, modern computers encode audio so quickly that the difference in speed between one format and another is practically a non-issue.

The German site 3DChip.de have posted up their VGA Bios mod report for turning your GeForce FX 5900 into a FX 5950 Ultra with benchmarks thrown in for good measure! Here's a snip from babelfish.

The topic was and is still hot discussed: The Umflashen of a FX5900 (Ultra) to a GeForce with high order FX 5950 Ultra. So that you still look through, how this procedure functions, we wrote you times a small Flashguide, which contains both a bio kit with all important programs and various Biosen, as well as a small view of those before/afterwards achievement on the basis of a few bench marks offer.

Adrian's Rojak Pot have thrown up Rev 2.0 of their GPU Comparison Guide with the addition of S3, SiS and Matrox sections to the guide as well as correction of several mistakes in the ATI section! it's well worth checking out.

These days, there are so many graphics card models that it has become quite impossible to keep up with the different configurations. Therefore, Max_87 decided to compile a guide of the various GPU configurations in the market, including many classics. We hope it will prove to be a useful reference. We will keep this guide updated regularly so do check back for the latest updates!

PCStats have a new beginners guide out for diagnosing bad RAM or DDR! Here's a snip.

Does your Windows-based PC crash for no apparent reason? Well OK, mine does too, but does yours crash often? At random times? With Nasty blue Screens of Death? If the answer is "yes", you may very well have a memory problem. Faulty memory, or RAM, is often the cause of the dreaded 'flaky PC' syndrome, those hard-to-replicate errors that get you nasty looks from the store technician because "?nothing seems to be wrong with it. Sir."

Martin over at I Am Not A Geek has posted a follow up article to his Windows XP SP2 Bootable Install CD ! called Windows XP - Driver + Install basics! Here's a snip.

After slipstreaming my SP2 CD I decided to take things a bit further and be able to automate my installation. Microsoft has everything setup so that you can automate the install process for Windows. You can even have it install a bunch of third party applications straight from the windows install CD.

Adrian's Rojak Pot have thrown up their GPU Comparison Guide! it's well worth checking out.

These days, there are so many graphics card models that it has become quite impossible to keep up with the different configurations. Therefore, Max_87 decided to compile a guide of the various GPU configurations in the market, including many classics. We hope it will prove to be a useful reference. We will keep this guide updated regularly so do check back for the latest updates!

Don't want to waste System resources by running a real-time Anti-virus scanner? We have just the thing for you! Contributed by MSFN member eNuffSaid, we have put up a guide to show you how to add a free fully functional McAfee virus scanner to your context menu.

The issue of diminishing Pentium 4 CPU performance at overheating has been widely discussed (see, for example Intel Pentium 4 1.6A GHz Overclocking, Thermal Monitor). Still, there are all sorts of myths about the Thermal Monitor and Thermal Throttling technology. That is why we decided to refresh our practical knowledge in this field (dropping the theoretical aspect which is abundant in the above-mentioned articles). For this purpose, we conducted a very simple experiment on two top Pentium 4 3.2 GHz CPUs, one with a Northwood core and the other with a Prescott. With the CPU loaded at 100 percent, we powered off the cooler fan and watched the temperature rise and the performance decrease as time went by. This article gives an account of the experiment and its results.

I needed a small Windows XP machine and a Mini-ITX board was the obvious choice. So I decided to build my "Windows XP Box" in a Windows XP box. The external dimensions of the box are a tiny 243mm x 200mm x 48mm.