Tuning Cool'n'Quiet: Maximize Power And Performance, Part 2
Posted by Donster on: 2009-11-20 17:05:26 in category: How To Guides [ Print ]
By Arnawa Widagda @ Tom's Hardware
In Part 1, we showed you how to optimize the settings of your Cool'n'Quiet-equipped processor and what sort of power benefits you could expect as a result. Now it's time to run the benchmarks and see how our optimized settings actually perform.
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Tuning Cool'n'Quiet: Maximize Power And Performance, Part 1
Posted by Donster on: 2009-11-16 16:48:58 in category: How To Guides [ Print ]
By Arnawa Widagda @ Tom's Hardware
Think your Athlon or Phenom processor is already tuned to deliver the best balance between performance and power consumption? Think again. We show you how to tweak Cool'n'Quiet for even more aggressive speed at maximum efficiency using several AMD CPUs.
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How To Guide: Overclocking the Radeon HD 4770
Posted by Donster on: 2009-05-01 15:57:28 in category: How To Guides [ Print ]
By: Hilbert Hagedoorn @ GURU3D
Being a budget card with a lot of punch, overall performance is to be found in the mid-range segment. We here at Guru3D.com would like to teach you how to get more out of your 99 USD investment. In fact we'll show you how to get another 10 to 20 percent additional performance out of the card, totally free.
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How to Guide: Zero Moving Parts PC – Totally Silent Computing
Posted by Donster on: 2009-04-20 14:56:23 in category: How To Guides [ Print ]
Author: Andrew Jones @ TweakTown
A powerful system with smooth HD playback capabilities and not a single moving component! – We show you how it’s done.
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How To Install/Remove Intel Socket 1366 CPU and Heatsink
Posted by Donster on: 2009-03-25 15:33:23 in category: How To Guides [ Print ]
By M. Page @ PCSTATS
We thought we'd run off a quick DIY Guide illustrating the procedure for installing a socket 1366 CPU for the benefit of our readers. If you are planning on building a Intel based computer anytime soon, bookmark this PCSTATS DIY Guide now...!
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Liquid Nitrogen and Dry Ice CPU Cooling Insulation Guide
Posted by Donster on: 2009-03-16 16:46:27 in category: How To Guides [ Print ]
Written By: Chris Morrell @ Legit Reviews
Today we will take you through the steps of a method for insulating motherboards against the harsh elements they are exposed to during extreme overclocking. We'll be insulating the board for liquid nitrogen benching and we'll show you how effective this insulation method is in preventing harmful condensation from forming on the board.
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Build Your Own SATA Hard Drive Switch
Posted by Donster on: 2009-02-26 15:47:03 in category: How To Guides [ Print ]
By Charles Morse @ ExtremeTech
If you've ever wanted to boot multiple operating systems without dealing with tedious BIOS setup changes, then this SATA switch may be just the ticket.
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Pacify Your PC - Got Water Cooling? Pt. 6
Posted by Donster on: 2008-12-09 14:59:51 in category: How To Guides [ Print ]
HEXUS has released its next show in the "Pacify Your PC" video series. Quiet PC's Paul Lee talks to us about water cooling and the way forward if you want silence and better cooling performance than just air...
Pacify Your PC - Video 6
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Pacify Your PC - How to Make Your Machine Nearly Silent - Pt. 5
Posted by Donster on: 2008-12-02 15:34:24 in category: How To Guides [ Print ]
HEXUS has released its next show for the "Pacify Your PC" video series. In this show, Quiet PC's Paul Lee shows an impatient Nick how to assemble his pacified gaming PC... It's the final assembly!
Pacify Your PC - Video 5
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Pacify Your PC - How to Make Your Machine Nearly Silent
Posted by Donster on: 2008-11-19 16:37:04 in category: How To Guides [ Print ]
HEXUS has put together a new video series featuring Paul Lee, from QuietPC, in which he talks you through the products you can use to make a noisy machine nearly silent. This is How To Pacify Your PC! Parts 1-4 are now available with at least one more available soon.
Pacify Your PC - Videos 1-4
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Beginners Guides: 101 Tech Tips and Tweaks for Windows XP
Posted by Donster on: 2008-10-23 15:35:27 in category: How To Guides [ Print ]
Source: HardOCP
PCStats has another one of their handy beginner’s guides posted today. Today’s 101 tech tips and tweaks for Windows XP guide has a little bit for everyone in it from novice to advanced users. Give it a look, see what you think.
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Take Control of Your 4800 Video Card's Fan
Posted by Donster on: 2008-09-11 16:02:56 in category: How To Guides [ Print ]
Author: Kyle Bennett @ [H] Enthusiast
Many of our new Radeon HD 4800 series card owners are not happy with their GPU temperatures. Seeing it from a computer hardware enthusiast view, it is hard not to think the same. Whether or not idle GPU temperatures of 80°C are dangerous, us enthusiasts want that heat out of our cases. We show you how to easily do that.
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Deciphering Windows Processes
Posted by Donster on: 2008-07-14 16:02:50 in category: How To Guides [ Print ]
Author: Jack Wells @ Techware Labs
Having trouble figuring out what process or application is causing your machine to slow down? Want to take a shotgun to the process eating up 90% of your CPU but you can't figure out how? Our resident windows guru Jack explains you how to use a simple program to find out what is causing your computer to slow down and get rid of it.
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How To: Replace Memory Heat Spreaders
Posted by Donster on: 2008-07-03 14:55:15 in category: How To Guides [ Print ]
Give your RAM a new summer outfit! 
Author: Andrew Jones @ TweakTown
Welcome to another session of void-your-warranty, as today we take a look at upgrading stock heat spreaders on RAM.
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3DMark Vantage - A User Guide
Posted by Donster on: 2008-04-28 15:50:54 in category: How To Guides [ Print ]
By Hilbert Hagedoorn @ GURU3D
It's that time of the year again, today FutureMark releases their latest installment in their "3DMark" series, the 100% DX10 version 3DMark Vantage. As requirement for DirectX 10 you need to have Windows Vista installed and have a DX10 ready graphics card (preferably a very fast one).
We received the new benchmark software merely 24 hours to day meaning, we will only have a quick peek at the all new software. What we have for you is generic information, the download links from our file-servers and the 1st 3DMark Vantage results we made for you guys.
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Beginners Guides: Stopping Vista From Thrashing Hard Disks to Death
Posted by Donster on: 2008-03-11 14:47:19 in category: How To Guides [ Print ]
Author: Mike D. @ PCSTATS
While your PC may be doing nothing, all of a sudden you notice the hard drives are trashing around like the entire drive is being copied. Never fear, PCSTATS is here to help you stop Windows Vista from excessive hard drive usage, and show you how to free up some disk space too!
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The Tech Report's February 2008 System Guide
Posted by Donster on: 2008-02-29 14:23:41 in category: How To Guides [ Print ]
Source: Hot Hardware
Four systems builds are proposed by The Tech Report in their newest system guide. Everyone is covered from the budget conscious gamer to the gamer who can afford it all, as well as a powerful workstation that has more filling than an Oreo double stuff.
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A Beginner's Guide to Overclocking
Posted by Donster on: 2007-12-20 15:35:15 in category: How To Guides [ Print ]
How to get your feet wet with Core 2 overclocking
By Geoff Gasior @ The Tech Report
PC enthusiasts have an almost compulsive desire to overclock, whether it's pushing chips to their limits or simply exploting the "free" headroom available with most budget CPUs. But where does one start? With our beginner's guide to overclocking, of course.
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Getting the Most Out Of Your Hardware: Motherboard/CPU Utility Roundup
Posted by Donster on: 2007-12-12 13:38:22 in category: How To Guides [ Print ]
Author: Ryan Smith @ Anandtech
Lost but not forgotten, we're back again with the second part to our guide to software utilities for enthusiast hardware, this time taking a look at the motherboard & CPU side of things.
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Maximum CPU Temperature
Posted by Donster on: 2007-10-11 15:02:18 in category: How To Guides [ Print ]
Author Gabriel Torres and Cassio Lima @ Hardware Secrets
Learn what is the maximum temperature your CPU can reach without burning and how to measure your CPU current temperature.
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Pedal to the Metal: Overclocking the Athlon
Posted by Donster on: 2007-09-28 14:36:41 in category: How To Guides [ Print ]
Author: Atif Butt @ PC Perspective
Looking for a starting point in your venture to overclock the AMD Athlon processors? Even if you do so already, you'll surely find some helpful information in this guest writer's detailed article on the subject of overclocking.
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How To: Overriding Image Quality Settings
Posted by Donster on: 2007-09-20 13:44:46 in category: How To Guides [ Print ]
By Joel Durham Jr. @ ExtremeTech
Driver control screens for both Nvidia and ATI hardware let you blow past in-game graphics settings to make the games look as splendid as your hardware will let you.
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The CPU & Heatsink Lapping Guide
Posted by Donster on: 2007-08-27 13:36:47 in category: How To Guides [ Print ]
Author: graysky @ Tech ARP
There is another way to significantly improve our cooling capabilities without resorting to new coolers, thermal pastes or fans. In fact, you can use this technique to improve whatever cooling system you choose to use. All you have to do is lap.
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Is Your PC Ready for a System Update?
Posted by Donster on: 2007-08-25 13:25:08 in category: How To Guides [ Print ]
Dispose Or Recycle? How To Spend Your Upgrade Money
By Patrick Schmid, Achim Roos @ THG
Everyone talks about Intel's Core 2 Duo, terabyte hard drives and graphics hardware that is three generations ahead of yours. Is your system still good enough? Does it make sense to buy a new PC today? Or could a simple component upgrade provide similar benefits? The answer probably depends on how much you can afford to spend.
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System Maintenance: Clean Desktop - Clean Performance
Posted by Donster on: 2007-08-01 14:40:51 in category: How To Guides [ Print ]
By Chris Adcock @ HardwareLogic
Henry David Thoreau once wrote, “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.” It’s advice that can not only make you feel better, but actually improve the performance of your system.
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