"DIY" and "Mac" are words rarely used in the same sentence. Yet ever since Apple announced its upcoming transition to the Intel platform, building an Intel Mac is just crazy enough to work. We show you how.

ExtremeTech

The NVIDIA 512MB 7800 GTX is an awesome performer, with great overclocking potential. As it is, the cards produce quite an amount of heat so if you do plan on doing some voltage modding to enhance overclocking, make sure you have aided cooling. Then, you can head this way... VR-Zone

Hotspots are popping up at bookstores, airplane terminals, hotels, and just about anywhere you might think to try to get some mail or do some work on your laptop. Here's a look at how small business owners can go about setting up a Wi-Fi hot spot, making it a paying proposition (or not), and do so safely and securely for all the parties concerned.

PCStats thought it would be interesting to see how overclocking is affected on the WindowsXP x64 Edition platform by illustrating both 32-bit and 64-bit benchmarks for an AMD Athlon64 4000+ based system. Would the test platform be stable enough to overclock successfully? Would WindowsXP x64 Edition require a more stable processor than its 32-bit counterpart does?

There are thousands of games available for Windows XP. All the well known titles cost money to own. This guide covers the better Freeware games from Independent Developers and Commercial Publishers. The following games are 100% free full games, not Demos or Shareware. None have any Adware or Spyware.

We received a lot of email in regards to our Sapphire X1800XL article all asking the same question ? ?why is it that you and every other site doesn?t overclock any of the X1800 cards?? The answer to that question is simple, there is no tool out there that allows us to overclock the cards.

The brilliance of technology is the rapid pace of innovation and price drops, which is great for a budget buyer who?s willing to wait a little while before enjoying the latest in digital advancement. Thanks to constant evolution in technology, what is high-end today will more often than not be categorized into budget category in a matter of six months. Take LCD panels, for instance. The days when you had to mortgage your car to buy one are pretty much gone; in fact, you can now purchase a decent panel for about $300 or so (15-inch).

Covering over 240 desktop graphics cards, this comprehensive comparison allows you to easily compare 15 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! We hope it will prove to be a useful reference.

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Myth (Definition) - A fiction or half-truth, especially one that forms part of an ideology. There are numerous Myths floating around the Internet regarding Windows XP, especially relating to Optimizations and Security. Hopefully this site will debunk some of these.

This Quake 4 Tweak Guide covers all the in-game settings in detail, including screenshot comparisons of image quality differences, and contains a wealth of links to important Quake 4 resources.

Athlon 64 FX-57 is AMD's flagship on the processor market for single core processors. A good description for this processor would be uncompromised as it comes with extreme performance, but also at a very high price. Ironically it is usually those who already have a high end CPU that will invest in a processor such as Athlon 64 FX-57. In the hunt for better performance and higher scores there is no room for compromises

Sony recently showed the extent to which they will go to attempt to copy protect their Music CDs. The latest use of Rootkits in their DRM has gone way too far. I am personally boycotting Sony Products. Stopping these sorts of infections and getting around DRM is much easier then you think. Simply disabling the Windows Autorun feature blocks them from installing cold.

My last PC upgrade was just over two years ago, though, and I recently decided that it was time for me to upgrade again. Of course, it didn't hurt that PCs have gained a broad range of nifty new features over the past couple of years. The combination of dual-core processors and Native Command Queuing for SATA hard drives promises new heights of multitasking bliss in desktop PCs, and I can't very well prattle on about the creamy smoothness of SMP without partaking of its delights myself.

Need help installing Windows XP, 2000, 98 or ME? Our beginners guide to installing Windows will help you out!

TweakTown

Using Media in Windows XP requires having the right software. This Free guide will show you the best Freeware Applications that will let you create, edit, playback, display and send Documents, Reports, Spreadsheets, Multimedia Presentations, Graphics, Photos, Pictures, Audio, Music, MP3s, Video, Movies, DVDs, CDs, Instant Messages, RSS Feeds, FTP transfers and more.

Lower latencies are a good thing, of course, but how much can they really improve system performance? Are exotic, low-latency DIMMs worth the price premium? Read on as we explore the effects of memory latency on Athlon 64 performance in synthetic memory benchmarks, games, and real-world applications.

TechReport

The interactive product ID guide for the easy identification of all AMD Athlon 64 processors was completely revised and is now online in the new version 2.0 Beside some processor updates it's now also possible on the basis of each Stepping to see the respective code name within the lower range of the virtual CPU.

Just got word that Adrian has updated his premier BIOS optimization guide! Here's some of the updates.

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

Hardware Secrets

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.