Nvidia's GeForce FX 5900XT based graphics cards have truly become "the new Ti4200". They are really beloved by most overclockers for the ability to reach the performance of top NV35/38 products at a considerably lower cost. But this is far not the maximum of their potential. In certain lucky conditions a humble FX 5900XT may put up a fight with a well-overclocked RADEON 9800XT ? our tests prove that! We managed to achieve 27882 points score in 3DMark 2001 SE!

Adrian's Rojak Pot have thrown up their new guide for turning you're ATI Radeon into a FireGL!

Want a FireGL workstation card but can't afford to pay ATI's exhorbitant prices? Well, why don't you grab a Radeon desktop card and mod it into a FireGL card? Yes, you can easily mod a Radeon into the FireGL with just a simple BIOS flash! Our guide will go through all the possible FireGL mods for the Radeon 9500, 9700 and 9800 series of cards and teach you just how to mod your Radeon into a FireGL!

With spyware on the rise we wanted to see which spyware/adware removal tool worked best under an infected machine. We placed 5 spyware/adware scanning and removing applications head-to-head to see which one gave the best results as far as finding the most infected objects. Read the full article @ Flexbeta.net

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

This guide has seen MANY revisions since it's original posting more than 3 years ago. Even after all this time I continue to add to this guide and revise it as needed. Please read this title very carefully because this guide is ONLY intended for Performance related tweaks. There's millions of other "tweaks" that other guides use but have nothing to do with performance.

The guy's over at Lost Circuits have posted their Asus AX-800 Pro to a X800XT mod guide!

ASUS is one of ATI's prime partner in the graphics sector. A rich and innovative bundle has made their recent offerings stand out from the crowd of third party manufacturers of ATI or nVidia based cards. But that is not what we are talking about in this article.

Anandtech have thrown up their 64bit Windows XP Driver Comparison!

Recently, ATI released a beta version of their 64bit Catalyst drivers, and we have spent the last week playing around with various hardware and games on this new platform. There is some good, and there is some bad (as is always the case), but it is definitely a good thing that ATI has joined NVIDIA in the 64bit public beta department. The more testing that can get done on these drivers before their release, the smoother the transition should be when final versions of everything become available.

The BleedinEdge has just posted an Article entitled "Abit & Asus CPU Temps: Fact or Fiction?"! It's well worth checking out.

As every overclocker knows, and as is very well documented on the Net, the two favorite manufacturers for the typical enthusiast have a huge discrepancy when reporting CPU temps. Depending on a tweaker?s preference you might hear ?Abit read high, Asus is correct?, or exactly the opposite. Here at the BE labs we decided to get to the bottom of this controversy and investigate who?s right, if anyone.

ExtremeTech have thrown up a image quality comparison between Nvidia's GeForce 6800 and ATi's Radeon X800! Here's a byte.

The recent introduction of the GeForce 6800 and Radeon X800 has sparked a lot of debate about the relative merits of different graphics cards. NVidia chose to offers full support for Pixel and Vertex Shader model 3.0 and other features in DirectX 9.0c, while ATI avoided such new technologies for now, instead focusing on raw performance.

Adrian's Rojak Pot have thrown up Rev 5.0 of their GPU Comparison Guide with the addition of ATI's Radeon 9800 Pro 128-bit , 9550, 9550SE and 9500 "I" cards and NVIDIA's GeForce FX PCX 4300, 5300, 5750 and 5950 cards! 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!

We try to work as well as we can with any company behind the scenes on Driverheaven because it benefits the end user -- you guys, you pose your concerns on our forum and we attempt to get the answers when we can. I have been noticing alot of discussion on our forums lately from members concerned about seeing 70-80c temperature readings from the ATI overdrive panel on their shiny new X800 boards. I posed the temperature question to one of ATIs top engineers, this is what he had to say.

The P4P800D-E has the ability to also upclock ram to either DDR500 or DDR533 with an 800FSB CPU installed. Knowing this and knowing that using an old version of AFUDOS you are able to force BIOS flashes from one board to another, cogs started turning in my head a little. We decided we would try flashing the P4P800E BIOS onto the P4C800E in the hope that it would indead give the chipset strap we needed and if possible gain the upclock ratio's the P4P800E offered...

It seems everyone I know that has built one of the Shuttle SFF (small form factor) boxes just loves it. This is my 2nd Shuttle build. Although I do own a laptop, I felt it would be better to have a reliable, portable PC for work. I needed a computer to travel. The only complaints I have had with these great units is the amount of noise they generate and their tendency to run hot.

PC Stats have thrown up a new beginners guide for sharing a printer on a home network! Here's a snip.

Printers are essential modern conveniences, connecting with your computer to offer you the power of a small copy shop in your living room. However, printers can rapidly become inconvenient if the other members of your household have to transport the files they want to print to a certain computer in order to print them. Wouldn't it be much better if every computer in the house or office could print directly?

I Am Not A Geek have a new audio and video codec tweaking guide out!

If you've ever had issues with a codec and needed to remove it so that you could reinstall it to make it work again you'll want to know where you can find your codec list. In this same place you can usually change settings for the codec and it even has some limited troubleshooting capabilities.

PCunleash have thrown up a detailed guide for turning you're Radeon X800pro into a Radeon XT! Here's a snip.

This article has been provided by Kye Jin Young. Thank you so much. (The Korean version of original source can be found at http://www.titiworld.com/Blueremy/X800.htm )

The NVIDIA GPU Programming Guide provides useful advice on how to identify bottlenecks in your applications, as well as how to eliminate them by taking advantage of the GeForce 6 Seires and GeForce FX family's features.

Spode?s Abode has a new aritcle out which looks at low latency memory from Corsair , OCZ and A-Data! Here's a snip.

Too many times have we seen the effects of cheap memory. Although inviting at first, it often results in stability issues, if not now but in the future. Some memory is a made of a mish-mash of different brands of chip. They often skimp on costs by having an ultra thin layer of gold for the connections, meaning that after as little as 2 installations the connections can wear away causing the memory to fail. Most cheap memory is high latency, with very little flexibility for overclocking.

Adrian's Rojak Pot have thrown up Rev 4.2 of their GPU Comparison Guide with the addition of ATI's Radeon X300, X300SE, X600 Pro and X600 XT cards and NVIDIA's GeForce FX 5700 Ultra (GDDR3) card! 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!

I Am Not A Geek have updated their 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. I know there's a million tweaks that I'm missing here but I am trying to keep this guide dedicated to tweaks that directly affect your performance. I'll put together a second guide about the annoyances and other things but keep in mind this is ONLY performance stuff. If you know of something that affects the performance quite a bit and it's not listed here please post a thread in our Windows forum.

In recent weeks a lot of space, discussion and bandwidth have been dedicated to ATi's texture filtering methodology, particularly on their new Radeon X800 boards.