It's a lot easier than you think. A few simple tweaks can transform an AthlonXP with the right motherboard into a mobile version that throttles down to a clock speed of 300 MHz for a range of applications that do not need 1 GHz and more horsepower. We also detail why our power-consumption reducing hacks do not apply to the Pentium 4.

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 have no affect on performance and can cause future problems..

SpodesAbode have thrown up their Athlon 64-Bit Chip Guide for Sempron, Newcastle and ClawHammer! Here's a snip.

Choosing an AMD processor can be very confusing, with varying cores, pin counts and strange PR ratings. With the advent of the new Sempron processor, we felt it would be a good idea to take a look at this subject with a focus on their new budget option.

NGO have posted a few tips to keep the Case, CPU, GPU temperatures low and how to position case fans.

The purpose of this article is to explore the limits of the Hyper transport bus (HTT) on this retail board. The HTT is the speed at which the cpu communicates with the motherboard, while different than a traditional Front Side Bus (FSB) that many of use as a common term, a higher HTT speed will increase overall performance much the same way and is the reason that people have sought to overclock their P3/P4, Athlon, and Athlon XP CPUs by raising their FSB to highest max stable.

MBReview has finished off work on the latest revision of their article detailing the motherboard design process. This is a rather lengthy read, but for those motherboard lovers out there with a thirst for knowledge, this could be a good read for you. Beware, some of the information does require some basic electrical terminology knowledge, so have your dictionary at hand if you aren't too familiar with some of the wording.

Like we all know both messengers are highly recommended for users with more then one instant messengers installed on their system. Both messengers have their own positive and negative points at which you should look carefully before you start using one. Messenger 2 has great extra function like Video chat, Audio chat and peer 2 peer filesharing which are all very usefull and most wanted for most people. Trillian has no such options in the basic version, not even in the Professional version. But you never know what Cerulean Studios will introduce in their next upcoming Trillian 3 Proffesional version. Read the comparison by following the link.

Adrian's Rojak Pot have thrown up Rev 7.0 of their GPU Comparison Guide.

Covering over 190 desktop graphics cards, this comprehensive comparison allows you to easily compare 14 different specifications for each and every card! If you need to find out about the specification of any card, just come over and check out our Desktop Graphics Comparison Guide!

In our experience many users have little more than a vague awareness of the existence of 'safe-mode' in Windows, and no idea how to get into it or why they would want to. Good topic for a guide, we thought. In this article, PCstats will explain how Windows XP's various 'Safe Modes' work, how you access them and how they can help you troubleshoot various software and operating system issues. Now, isn't this a handy topic!?

Flexbeta has just posted up A Guide To Firefox Extensions. The article covers some of the popular Firefox extensions that many people simply can't browse without.

Short-Media have posted their latest guide for the removal of the Home Page Assistant hijackers! Here's a snip.

Those are some of the names it goes by but people whose computers have been hijacked by this home page can think of a lot of other names they would like to call it!

Does this home page look familiar?

TweakGuides have thrown up their latest guide that looks at tweaking your ATI Catalyst Drivers!

After the recent release of ATI's new Catalyst Control Center, I've revamped my ATI Catalyst Tweak Guide, adding two new pages and many and various updates throughout the guide to cater to the changes brought about by the Control Center. As well as descriptions of all the new features, included is some invaluable advice on how to prevent the Control Center from taking up a massive amount of system resources, so it's a must-read, even if you've read the guide before.

AnandTech have posted a quick look at how the two big GPU manufacturers compensate for HDTV overscanning.

PCStats have a new advanced guide out for flashing your video card BIOS! While this *not* something for the novice to undertake, flashing your video card BIOS may lead to performance and feature enhancements.

We recently ran an article on flashing (reprogramming) the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) of your motherboard to enable new features and fix errors. That got us thinking that we'd only covered half the story. Sure, hardware enthusiasts have been upgrading the BIOS on their motherboards for years, but what about the other components of a computer system?

BigBadBob over at FutureMark's Forum has thrown up his VSYNC, Frame Rates, Refresh Rates Info guide!

The past few weeks have spawned more threads concerning frame rates, refresh rates and vsync than I care to count. It seems very apparent therefore that the community needs some level of education concerning these matters and how they relate to each other, and to gaming performance. I will attempt here to define these terms individually and then experimentally provide frame rate results indicative of how and why they do what they do.

Opera is a free browser which is a great, better alternative to old bloody buggy IE. In this article learn how to make it even faster then it already is! Read more

Just got word that Adrian has updated his premier BIOS optimization guide to 8.0 Final!

This will bring the FREE BIOS Optimization Guide Rev. 8.0 up to the same number of BIOS features covered in the soon-to-be-released BIOS Optimization Guide book.

Team Radeon has just published an in-depth guide to Vertical Synchronization, Triple Buffering, and Temporal Anti-Alias.

Since the beginning of time, man has been asking many seemingly unanswerable questions. What is vertical synchronization (V-Sync) and how does it work? What exactly does temporal anti-alias (TAA) really mean? How does triple buffering (TB) operate? How are all of these mysteries connected?

Bandwidth? We all want it and we all need it, but can we get enough of it? Well, PCI Express is here to satisfy our appetites for the next several years. PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) was originally developed by Intel Corporation, but is now slowly coming to an end, but probably won?t be entirely discarded for a couple of years. Why do we need PCI Express you might ask?

Adrian's Rojak Pot have thrown up Rev. 5.0 of their flashing your Radeon 9800 Pro To Radeon 9800XT Mod Guide by adding the following pages: Added two new moddable 128MB Radeon 9800 Pro cards in the card identification page and Added a new unmoddable 256MB Radeon 9800 Pro card in the card identification page and Updated the Doing The ASUS Mod page! 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!