Nowadays it seems like everybody is tweaking their system. Something that is of importance in your system's performance is memory bandwidth, which is directly related to the bus speed. This is a rather confusing thing, sometimes a lower bus speed with faster memory timings is considerably better than just increasing your bus speed.

PCStats have a new beginners guide out! that looks at converting your BETA and VHS tapes into video files you can email around the world, and publish on the web in all their digital splendor!

As you may have noticed, the VCR is a dying technology. DVD players are now equivalent in price, and their disks have practically crowded VHS tapes right off the shelves of your neighborhood video store. Give it another three years and you may be hard pressed to find a new release on tape. So what happens when your VCR finally breaks?

Overclocking HQ have thrown up their latest article which looks at removing malware (spyware, ad-ware, Trojans and hijackers) from your PC!

It used to be that you could just update and run Ad-aware or Spybot and all your spy ware problems would disappear, but lately spy ware, ad-ware, Trojans and hijackers have been getting very sneaky. This new breed will drop files all over your computer and as you are working diligently to remove them, they will be reinstalling in the background. It?s absolutely frustrating, but it is fixable in most cases if you carefully follow the steps on the next few pages.

NewGenerationOrder.org have posted their article about: USB vs PS/2, overclocking PS/2 port! and some nice facts there.. recommended for gamers!

Several members of the kX Forum (mentioned below) here on Driverheaven have mapped the AD_EXT header that appears on most Audigy 2 series cards. Creative caused uproar in the modding and sound enthusiast communities by not publishing this pinout as they did for the AUD_EXT that exists on the old Live! and Audigy 1 series cards.

Thanks to forum members, Samir, Travelrec & Quennotte

When you hit a snag overclocking your ATI Radeon 9600 Pro/XT?s GPU and memory chips, what do you do? Better cooling will help but have you also considered volt modding the Radeon 9600 Pro/XT? Join Max_87 today as he goes through the different voltage modding methods for the graphics cards based on the ATI Radeon 9600 Pro/XT reference design! Read More at Adrian's Rojak Pot

MHW shows you how to build/modify your own power supply so it can be used to power large hi draw specialty items like a Pelt.

"To start on the power supply, I sat down with a pencil and paper and thought out the process. Modifying the existing power supply would be relatively easy, and would involve more physical work than design. However, the peltier power supply section would have to be designed from the ground up. However, our task is simplified in that a pelt is a solid state device, and does not need a sophisticated and perfectly clean voltage waveform in order to operate. Therefore, I decided upon a classic DC power supply that was based on an AC transformer with a rectifier bridge and capacitor for smoothing. Here’s the simple schematic..."

Adrian's Rojak Pot have thrown up their latest guide for voltage modding your ATI Radeon 9800 Pro! Here's a snip.

When you hit a snag overclocking the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro's GPU and memory chips, what do you do? Better cooling will help but have you also considered volt modding the Radeon 9800 Pro? Join Max_87 today as he goes through the many voltage modding methods for the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card, including a new method he discovered and personally tested!

MR Tech have thrown up 3 new Guides for your viewing pleasure!

MR Tech Approved Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird Extensions MR Tech Collection of Mozilla/Firebird Hacks MR Tech Guide - Free Virus/Spyware Tools

This advanced tip makes it possible to run Firefox from removable media, such as a USB memory stick. This will allow you to run Firefox with your personal settings from any computer, even those that don't have Firefox installed. It has only been tested on Windows XP/2000. The basic instructions are as follows:

Our bro's over at TweakPC have a new service out called Interactive Benchmarks for ATi's range of graphics cards at the moment, they'll add nvidia cards at a later date! All you do is choose the benchmark you want, set your filtering level upto 4xAA/8xAF, and resolution upto 1600x1200 ! Then hit Go.

GamerGod over at Futuremark's forum has thrown together the complete list of the most popular Softmods and Tweak's for ATi's range of graphics cards!

Just spotted this bit of Info over at Nvnews.net!

Chris Ray a reviewer here at nV News, had undertaken a small project to investigate anisotropic filtering capabilties of NVIDIA's new NV40 GPU. Chris has a reference GeForce 6800 regular and used this to test the NV40's anisotropic filtering image quality. He has provided screen captures from Unreal Tournament 2003 with various degrees of anisotropic filtering as well as various optimizations on or off. To round up, he includes a summary of benches with the different anisotropic filtering settings.

Adrian's Rojak Pot have thrown up Rev 6.0 of their GPU Comparison Guide with the addition of ATI's Radeon 9800 XL and 9550 XT and Updated specifications for the Radeon 9800 Pro 128-bit, 9800 Pro 128MB, 9800 Pro 256MB and AIW Radeon 9800 Pro cards and added a 3dfx 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!

Optimize Windows XP to improve both work and gaming performance safely. Windows XP's default configuration is far from optimized. This guide will help you improve your overall system performance. I avoid using or recommending "all-in-one" Windows XP Tweak programs since many blindly adjust settings that can cause future problems. This guide is designed to be performed top to bottom.

Just spotted this update posted over at Adrian's Rojak Pot!

Thanks to Jan Kivar, I found a major mistake in the CPU Thermal-Throttling and Clock Throttle BIOS features. So much for relying on motherboard documentation! I have completely rewritten the two BIOS features so please check them out! Thanks

Some of you guy's have been asking for the bios and flash tool to successfully softmod your X800 Pro Vivo based cards into XT's, enabling the extra 4 pipelines and which cards have been successfully modded! then head the way to 3DCenter's Forum!

Adrian's Rojak Pot have thrown up Rev. 4.0 of their flashing your Radeon 9800 Pro To Radeon 9800XT Mod Guide by adding the following pages: identification of moddable Radeon 9800 Pro cards and specific details on the moddable 256MB Radeon 9800 Pro cards and identification of the R360 core in 128MB Radeon 9800 Pro cards! 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!

I TOO find myself turning into an old man when it comes to my tolerance of noise. Just the other day, I opened up my window and told those "young whippersnappers" out on the street to "turn down that racket."

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!