Graphics Card Buyers Guide @ BoogleTech
Boogle‘s Graphics Card Buyers Guide @ BoogleTech explains how a graphics card works to help you decide what card to buy and what to look for when purchasing: “To the untrained eye choosing a graphics...
View ArticleVGA Charts, Part I: High-End Systems
Tom’s Hardware takes a look at 29 graphics cards, including ATI R9700 PROs, SIS Xabre 600s and GeForce2 MX400 to GeForce4 Ti4600 cards. This might be of added interest to some – one of the test systems...
View ArticleProcessor and Heatsink Installation Videos @ AMD.com
This one’s for the guides section: links to AMD‘s video installation guides covering Processor Installation, Heatsink Selection, Heatsink Installation, Heatsink Removal & Re-Use and Thermal Pad or...
View ArticleOverclocking nForce2
Howard Weitzel and Pijo demonstrate how to overclock nForce2 motherboards using an EPoX 8RDA+ over at Systemcooling.com: For the purposes of this article, overclocking has been divided into four...
View ArticleHow To Change A PSU Fan
Well worth a read if your noisy PSU is bugging you and the neighbours or you just want to trick it out with an LED fan replacement, but read the disclaimer… or you could be in for some...
View ArticleBayfiller Guide
When you look at the front of most PC that have been modified you will commonly see stealthed drives, case badges mods, case windows or baybus. Most cd rom 5 ½ inch bay covers don’t have much...
View ArticleUnlocking & Overclocking The Athlon XP
Unlocking and Overclocking the Athlon XP: With the Athlon64 right around the corner, we show you how to extend your Athlon XP’s lifespan until the next price cut. We cover the Palomino, the...
View ArticleMemory Bandwidth and Timing Article
If you’ve ever wondered what memory timings, latency, bandwidth and dividers all mean take a look at OCAddiction’s Memory Bandwidth and Timings Article: "How is memory addressed?" is another common...
View ArticleEnabling Extra 256KB L2 Cache On AMD Athlon XP Model 10
AMD Athlon XP processors Model 10 with 256KB of L2 cache appeared on the horizon sometimes after the launch of Barton in the first quarter of the year. The chips were based on the Barton design with...
View ArticleBeginners Guide To Burning CDs and DVDs
In this article, PCstats will continue its look at recordable optical media, or in other words, CD Writers. We will expand from our previous guide on "Optical Drives & Recording Formats" to discuss...
View ArticleNorth Bridge Wet-Sanding Guide
Not for the faint-hearted: The early revisions of the nForce2 chipsets shared one common flaw – the north bridge chip’s surface wasn’t flat. Because of that flaw, the north bridge’s heat sink cannot...
View ArticleATI Radeon Cooler Mod Guide
Stock coolers suck and that’s true for most graphics cards. Overclockers looking to push the limits will have to replace the puny stock coolers. But what if you cannot afford expensive GPU coolers? Is...
View ArticleLAN Party Power Primer
LANAddict has posted a LAN party power guide:So now you’re hosting a LAN party? Well one of the issues you will likely have to deal with is power, or the management of it. With a few basic rules and...
View ArticleThe Simple Antialiasing and Anisotropic Guide @ TweakTown
Koroush "PersianImmortal" Ghazi is back on the job with his latest guide simply called "The Simple Antialiasing and Anisotropic Guide". What is Antialiasing and Anisotropic Filtering? What does it do...
View ArticleExternal CD-ROM Make-over Guide
First things first! This is a mod for experienced modders, or just someone who wants to try their hand at modding and don’t care if they mess up! Today we are going to mod an external CDRW drive. This...
View ArticleHard Drive Cleanup Guide
This might be worth bookmarking if your hard drive is like a virtual Bermuda Triangle – Short Media has posted a guide on how to safely remove all those useless junk files clogging up your system: Even...
View ArticleMadShrimps Soldering Guide
If you want to push your hardware to the maximum you are bound to warm up the old soldering iron. To allow higher voltages to RAM/CPU/Videocard and other components you´ll have to use resistors. In...
View ArticleDust Bunnies from Hell
This may be a light hearted approach but seriously…dust gets in. The PC draws air in and then expels it via the power supply exhaust fan and optional exhaust fans. Dust will find its way into a PC case...
View ArticleIntel Centrino Overclocking Guide
Due to their proprietary nature, notebooks have so far eluded attempts at overclocking. Except for isolated cases of hardcore overclockers cracking open notebooks and physically modding the...
View ArticleASUS A8N-SLI Configuration FAQ
The Asus A8N-SLI is one of the first SLI motherboards that made it to the market, with initial availability just before the end of 2004. All the A8N-SLI motherboards that have shipped and are currently...
View ArticleAMD Cool’n'Quiet How-To
EN staff member Troy Fontaine has put together a quick and easy guide on how to put AMD’s Cool’n'Quiet technology to use. If you’re finding yourself confused trying to get it working, this guide should...
View ArticleUpgrading a Motherboard without Reinstalling
This article will show you how to avoid the blue screen of death after you install a new motherboard with a different chipset… How does it work? It’s actually not really difficult. Windows 2000/XP...
View ArticleFive Ways To Block Spam
Spam is one of those things that nobody wants, but probably has plenty of. If there happens to be anyone out there unfamiliar with spam, we are not talking about the luncheon meat, but the unsolicited,...
View ArticleWhat Is VoIP and How Does It Work?
Can Voice over IP (VoIP for short) help your business? What is it and how does it work? Read on to find out how VoIP can save you money and enhance your business. Introduction The way we make phone...
View ArticleHow To Desolder Components
Sometimes PC technicians need to replace electronic components, such as electrolytic capacitors and connectors. The most common case is when you have a motherboard were the electrolytic capacitors...
View ArticleA Beginners Guide To Overclocking
The two most important variables to consider when attempting to overclock your personal computer are 1. keeping your components (especially your CPU) temperature as low as possible and 2. having good...
View ArticleBIOS Optimization Guide Rev. 8.3
Adrian’s Rojak Pot has just posted the BIOS Optimization Guide Rev. 8.3 which now details more than 280 BIOS features.This release features these 12 new BIOS features :- - Adjacent Cache Line Prefetch...
View ArticleAnatomy of Switching Power Supplies
Power supplies used on the PC are based on a technology called “switching mode” and thus are also known as SMPS, Switching Mode Power Supplies (DC-DC converter is another nickname for switching mode...
View ArticleATI Graphics Chips Comparison Table
Basic technical specs of the current line of ATI graphics chips all listed in one handy comparison table, from the Radeon 9200 to Radeon X1950 XTX – update includes the Radeon X1650 XT: With more and...
View ArticleConverting Videotape Into Video Files
Break out the BETA and VHS tapes, it’s time to convert those old home movies into video files you can email around the world, and publish on the web in all their digital splendor! In this PCstats...
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