Athlon 64 Cores

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A quick guide to all Athlon 64 cores released to date: ClawHammer, NewCastle, Winchester, Venice and San Diego.

Hardware Secrets

Memory Bandwidth & Capacities

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Interested in the performance gains you can receive from increasing your memory capacity? Today?s article looks at frame rate gains and the load time improvements you can receive when increasing your memory capacity.

PowerBook Disassembly

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How hard can it be to take an Apple PowerBook apart? We find out how to prise open one of Cupertino's finest and add in a new hard drive.

Bit-Tech

Video Quality Analysis Part 1 with NVIDIA GeForce

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Alan challenges one of the recently published "third party studies" comparing ATI and NVIDIA video technology and shows you just how deep the rabbit hole goes... unless you'd rather go on believing what you want to believe.

F.E.A.R - First Observations

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As I promised in a little rant I had earlier called "Send the Right Message to Game Companies" (see News Archives), I want to inform everyone about how the latest games are playing out of the box. F.E.A.R is one such "latest and greatest" game, and I'm in the process of playing it while writing my full FEAR Tweak Guide.

TweakGuides

The Best Way To Know If a LCD Is Right For You

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The LCD monitor isn't just for spread sheets anymore. With faster response time, smaller dot pitch and a host of other display technologies, the LCD monitor has become a viable choice for gaming. We should you what to look for.

TheTechZone

How to Secure a Wireless Home Network

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Wireless routers come stock standard with default settings that are known to hackers and also don't provide any network security. But so many people are just happy if they get their home wireless network up and running.

1GB DDR2 vs. 2GB DDR2

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Recently I received a large number of e-mails from readers asking what is more beneficial for their gaming needs ?1GB or 2GB? of memory. Therefore, I decided to address this question in the form of an article. Some memory manufacturers have been heavily pushing 2GB memory kits, recommending them for gamers. While this kind of memory capacity would be nice to have, at present it may not be worth your hard earned cash!

LegionHardware

Intel Pentium D 820 Overclocking

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Dual-core processors are all the rave at the moment so I decided to put one to the test, the overclocking test of course. The most affordable Intel dual-core processor is the Pentium D 820 which is clocked at a miserable 2.8GHz.