In this Beginners Guide, PCSTATS will explore the process of overclocking processors, motherboards and memory to achieve a faster yet still stable computer. The article will guide readers step-by-step through understanding overclocking concepts, how to discover their hardware's overclocking options and the actual process of overclocking. If you consider yourself an expert already, read on - there are a few tips and tricks packed into this guide that you may not know... or have a look at our recent experiment with underclocking.

The 4200+ is currently the lowest priced Athlon64 Dual Core. So how far can you push this entry level X2 on air cooling?

I have some extremely good news for you: Anyone who knows how to hook up an Xbox over System Link can set up that same kind of simulator at home. By linking up multiple Xboxes and television screens, you can create a wrap-around, panoramic view. It?s a feature called the Network Cockpit. Take a look:

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Do you monitor your CPU temperature? North Bridge? Most serious PC users do monitor those components - but what about the power circuitry and the the motherboard resistors and MOSFETs? We all know that CPUs and video cards are just getting hotter and more power hungry (aside from the VIA C3 and C7 of course!) but what should not be overlooked is how attempts to cool the CPU can in fact have an adverse effect on the areas of the motherboard around the CPU socket if there isn't adequate airflow. Is your motherboard slowly cooking? Read on to learn what to look out for.

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Here's the brand-new overclocking guide for AMD socketA processors to simplify OC (OverClocking) and to give tips with respect to current hardware. Several things had changed in the last years so that the first ocinside.de AMD socket A processor oc guide from december 2000 is outdated.

OCAU have a guide to timedemo benchmarking in the Battlefield 2 Demo. With the help of BadSplat, I've come up with a way to produce demo files with decent camera tracks and a process for using them in a timedemo benchmark with statistics output (including detailed frame-per-frame statistics).

In Part 1 of Resource Hacking, as an example, I described the process in detail of making a very simple edit of the ?open with? dialog. In this article, we will go into more detail and describe the somewhat cryptic code, as well as show you how to add controls and resources to a file. Adding resources will enable you to add images or animations to Windows and other program dialogs.

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The Whistling Cricket Windows XP tweaking guide has been updated again. Just like last time, the major change has been to the services portion of the guide with signifcant changes to the recommendations, recommendations for normal and hardcore usage, and a new layout.

The sequel to the hit Battlefield 1942, Battlefield 2 is poised to be one of the most exciting releases this summer. Last week EA released a playable demo of BF2, providing an enticing sneak peek of the game. In today's article we examine the performance of ATI and NVIDIA's most popular 16-pipeline cards, the GeForce 6800 GT and 6800 Ultra, as well as the RADEON X850 XT PE and RADEON X800 XL. The cards are tested in resolutions ranging from 1024x768 up to 2048x1536, with various AA/AF settings. See who comes out on top in performance and image quality in this article!

Behardware.com has updated their last 19? survey with two very much awaited monitors, or to be more accurate ? because it is the most interesting aspect ? two new very much awaited panels: the PVA 8 ms and one TN 6 ms.

Here is the list of all panels and monitors tested in this survey:

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

I've updated pages 9 and 10 of my ATI Catalyst Tweak Guide to provide details of how to use the newly-released Rage3D Tweak CCC utility. Check it out as Rage3D Tweak CCC looks very promising and already has some neat features.

In an effort to tame the heat and noise of an SLI system, I set out with 3DCool.com to make a dual GPU system more livable. Read the article to find out if we were able to Quiet SLI.

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XtremeResources is pleased to publish an incredibly informative guide by our member Kakaroto regarding the setup of TCCD memory on the DFI NF4 boards. These mainboards have become wildly popular in the enthusiast community and this in depth guide in setting up the bios properly, with it's myriad of ram timing settings, is invaluable to any DFI enduser but more importantly any enduser running this type of memory module on an NF4 board. This particular guide is also aimed at optomizing memory while utilizing the latest AMD A64 Venice and San Diego CPU's which utilize substantially improved memory controllers and the SSE3 instruction sets.

The plain Jane Abit AA8XE is a very good overclocking board, and only loses out to the Fatality version due to its limited voltage options. However, some easy voltage mods will get your board to keep up with any of the Fatality boards out there. VR-Zone shows you how, with the humble pencil!

With the release of the Venice and San Diego cores we have been on quite the overclocking spree here at AMDZone. So far we have gone through the Venice core 3500+, 3200+, and 3000+, and approached 2.8GHz with air cooling. We had already reviewed the Toledo core Athlon 64 X2 4800+ dual core, and found it would reach 2.7GHz on mid range air. Well that just wouldn't do as we decided 3GHz, a number we told AMD we would love to see released earlier this year at CES, would be a better target. That would amount to a 25% overall overclock, and 50% than our first attempt. Would it be possible on air? We thought so, but it meant an upgrade to our test bed.

We stumbled across a few pictures of Apple's Aluminum G5 enclosure with the Intel board visible inside. Apple is making development boxes available to select ADC Premiere members for US$999 at this week's WWDC conference in San Francisco.

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Since Windows XP Pro 64-Bit was released, there has been a lot of speculation of whether it would help current gaming or anything else in general. I put both versions of the OS through a round of benchmarks to see if the 64-Bit does indeed offer any advantage

After demonstrating in How To Crack WEP ? Part 1 and Part 2 that WEP cracking is easier than you may have thought, I will now switch gears. In this last part of the WEP Crack How To, I will show you how to take a common sense approach to protecting your wireless network.

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Modern CPUs are increasingly more and more complex and it seems there is no end in sight. Let's take a look at a generic modern day CPU and see how it works.

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First, there were hacks to add TCP/IP networking into Series 1 TiVos, which allowed you to extract recorded program files. You could save the files or play them on your Windows or Linux PC. Then came the TiVo Home Media Option service, which allows you to remotely program your TiVo from anywhere you can surf the Web.

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