This guide to BitTorrent goes into the very basics of torrents, plus some useful information on port forwarding and firewall configurations. Also, there is a glossary of terms.
ATI X1900 Series Overclocking Guide
You may think you are experienced, or have overclocked before and therefore may think this guide is of little use to you, but I would have to say that you are incorrect. This guide is for both the experienced and inexperienced overclockers. Some parts may be boring for those experienced in the art and they may skip to the highlights and key points of performing this task.
Making Bootable Movies with eMoviX
Share the TV shows, personal videos, and other multimedia content with friends and family who don't use Linux by creating a bootable disc that includes the video, player, and a tiny version of the OS.
Freeware Browser Guide
There are many more completely free browsers other than IE, Firefox and Opera. This is a freeware graphical web browser guide for Windows. It compares the most popular features between each browser. It also includes a Kids Browser and Specialty Browser Section.
Mixed Vendor 7900 GTX SLI
We actually have received questions recently about mixed vendor support, so we hope this article will be helpful to some of you. Although NVIDIA has supported it for over five months, many users either aren't aware of mixed vendor support, or they just don't understand it.
Watercooling a Dell XPS Gen1 Laptop
Just in case some of you may be wondering what's the big copper piece, it's a custom heat sink that I created to cool the ATI MR9800.
Retail Computer Purchasing Experiences
We look at the customer experience while purchasing computers from Best Buy, Circuit City, CompUSA, and Fry?s Electronics. If you are shopping for a computer or someone relies on your advice, this article is for you.
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A Switcher's Guide to Windows / OS X
Thanks to Apple's Boot Camp beta, long-time Mac users are trying out Windows XP, and Windows users are starting to pick up Macs. Trying out the "other side" can be confusing at first. Our guide will help ease your transition.
Windows Defender
Ryan takes a look at the successor to Microsoft AntiSpyware, listing both its strengths and weaknesses as a defender against spyware.
Diagnosing Bad Memory
Does your Windows-based PC crash for no apparent reason? Well OK, mine does too, but does yours crash often? At random times? With Nasty blue Screens of Death? If the answer is "yes", you may very well have a memory problem. Faulty memory, or RAM, is often the cause of the dreaded 'flaky PC' syndrome, those hard-to-replicate errors that get you nasty looks from the store technician because "?nothing seems to be wrong with it. Sir."
DRM and Fair Use
This report will discuss the implications and ramifications of Digital Rights Management (DRM) and how it impedes on consumers right to fair use. Fair use is what gives consumers basic rights to content that they purchase.
Stream iTunes Library To PSP
Sony?s PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a very popular device and has sold a few million units, but when compared to Apple?s iPod, the PSP lacks storage space. Luckily, the PSP has a built in WiFi card to make up for this disadvantage.SkatterTech
Interactive AMD Athlon 64 Socket 754 Pinmod Guide
After the recently published AMD Socket 939 CPU Pinmod guide, there's today on ocinside.de the often requested interactive Pinmod guidance for AMD Socket 754 processors. The interactive guide offers in the version 1.0 the possibility to increase the Vcore (CPU voltage) and can be used both with AMD Athlon 64 and AMD Sempron CPUs.
Heading off to Boot Camp
Curious about Boot Camp? We were. Ars spent some time using Windows XP and trying a couple of other operating systems on Intel Macs (including Windows Media Center Edition), and we're here to tell you what we've learned in the process.
Setting Up Your Own Media Center PC
You would have heard a lot of talk lately about the new Media Center PC craze. You would have seen the operating system Windows Media Center edition: a revamped version of XP with a new theme and some nifty little add-ons and the software such as Front Row (for the Macintosh) or many programs for the PC Platform such as MythTV.
Forum Bulletin Board Security & Site Security
Own a forum bulleting board? This article is a nice read for webmasters who wish to keep their board secure. Follow some basic steps and minimize your chances of being hacked.
VIA IDE Driver choices
This year there will be a lot of developments to the line up of VIA IDE drivers. We already have an IDE Filter driver and the V-RAID package built into the HyperionPro package, a beta Accelerator driver, old Miniport driver and today a new one - the VIA MiniIDE driver! Which ones do you need? What are the features and benefits of each driver? A new guide has just been published to coincide with the release of the new MiniIDE driver, that we hope will help you understand the VIA IDE driver choices.
Modifying an nVentiv Mach I for extreme subzero performance
Jort @ Madshrimps writes:"In this article I will show you how I improved nVentiv“s first Subzero machine, the Mach I, so it can easily match the Mach II GT and asetek Vapochill LighSpeed performance wise!"
7900GT: Unlocking the Beast Within
The 7900GT launched just about a month ago seems to be eyed by a lot of enthusiasts holding a mid-range budget. For these group of gamers and 3D lovers, squeezing every bit of performance and image quality out of their hardware seems to be a growing trend. We unlocked the Beast within the card and let it ravage us with 800MHz of GPU power!
Pentium D 820 vs. Athlon64 X2 4400+ Overclocking
Although dual-core processors have not shown any real benefits over single-core in gaming applications, this should change in the near future. This is an article for those looking at using either an AMD or Intel dual-core processor in a gaming machine that will be overclocked.