Tech ARP posted NVIDIA GeForce To Quadro Soft-Mod Guide.

"The NVIDIA Quadro family of professional graphics cards are very, very expensive. But everyone knows that Quadro and GeForce graphics cards are virtually identical in hardware.

Obviously, you cannot just use Quadro drivers with your GeForce graphics cards. However, there is an easy way to soft-mod (modify in software) an NVIDIA GeForce desktop graphics card into an NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics card. We will show you just how to do it in this guide."

>> NVIDIA GeForce To Quadro Soft-Mod Guide

TweakGuides.com updated their Tweaking Companion

"The TweakGuides Tweaking Companion for Windows XP has undergone a major revision, bringing it up to Version 4.0. The guide has not only been updated for all the changes resulting from XP SP3, it has also had a significant number of additions and improvements to ensure that along with the Vista version, it remains the most comprehensive, accurate and up-to-date system and OS optimization guide available."

>> TweakGuides Tweaking Companion Updated

Tech ARP updated their Desktop Graphics Card Comparison Guide

"Covering 345 desktop graphics cards, this comprehensive comparison allows you to easily compare 18 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. We will keep this guide updated regularly so do check back for the latest updates."

>> Desktop Graphics Card Comparison Guide

Bit-Tech published an editorial titled Making Gaming Better, which discusses ways to 'fix' PC gaming.

"Cliff Harris sees a bleak future for the games community. An insular group that purges n00bs, defends violent media and pirates games regularly - the end could be at hand! Thankfully, Cliff has a whole list full of ways to make gaming good again..."

>> Making Gaming Better

The Tech Report posted their April 2008 system guide

"The time has come again for new system guide. In the two months since we last outlined system specifications, AMD has rolled out B3-stepping Phenoms that banish the TLB erratum that plagued the processor's initial release. Intel's 45nm quad-core chips have become available en masse, bringing with them a wave of price cuts that makes a Penryn-based CPU more affordable than ever. And Asus has busted the sound card market wide open with the introduction of its Xonar DX. There has been action on the storage front, too, with Western Digital's latest Caviar SE16 offering what we think is the best all-around value in a Serial ATA hard drive.

Naturally, these new products feature heavily in our latest system guide, which packs more goodness than ever before. We've revamped everything from our Econobox, which now offers loads of gaming power for just over 500 bucks, to our Double-Stuff workstation, which packs more parallelism than should be allowed by law. Between them, our Grand Experiment and Sweet Spot configs offer tremendous power for their respective price points. We've even included a fifth system this time around: the Couch Potato Mk. 2. This latest take on the ultimate home theater PC combines HD tuning capabilities with Blu-ray playback support all wrapped up in a quiet, power-efficient package. Keep reading to see which components made the cut for our recommended system configurations, and more importantly, why we selected them."

>> TR's April 2008 system guide

TechwareLabs has published an editorial on Cable vs DSL.

"The two most prevalent technologies used today to access the internet are Cable and DSL. making the decision between one or the other can be difficult. We explain the technologies behind each, how they work, and the pro's and con's of each. "

>> Cable vs DSL

XSReviews has written an in depth article about Ways to silence your PC

"One of the holy grails of any PC enthusiast is to have a completely silent rig, or at least, quiet enough so that it doesn't disturb the game we're playing or the movie we're watching. This article is a collection of helpful information that should help those who don't want their conversation drowned out by rumbling hard disks or whirring fans."

>> Ways to silence your PC

PC Stats posted a new beginners guide about installing RAID on a Desktop PC

"With the right number of identical hard drives, motherboards that support RAID can choose from RAID 0, RAID 1, and sometimes even RAID 0+1 for improved performance, data redundancy and backups. In this PCSTATS Beginners Guide, we will explore how the different implementations of RAID technology function, and how you can make your own RAID setup using a hardware RAID controller."

>> Beginners Guides: Installing RAID on a Desktop PC

Tech ARP updated their Desktop Graphics Card Comparison Guide

"Covering 343 desktop graphics cards, this comprehensive comparison allows you to easily compare 18 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. We will keep this guide updated regularly so do check back for the latest updates."

>> Desktop Graphics Card Comparison Guide (Updated)

Hardware Secrets posted an article about what you should do if you computer doesn’t turn on in order to identify and solve the problem.

"In this step-by-step tutorial we will teach you what you should do if your computer doesn't turn on in order to identify and solve the problem."

>> What to Do If Your Computer Doesn’t Turn On

PC Stats posted part 1 of their Linux Beginners Guides

"Getting started with Linux can seem complex, but PCstats walks you through the first steps. Installation not required. Conquering Linux has been the right of passage for a generation of computer enthusiasts. Under the skin of this icon lies a mere operating system, but it's an operating system with a single staggering advantage. It's free."

>> Beginners Guides: Linux Part 1: Getting Familiar

Tech ARP updated their Mobile GPU Comparison Guide

"These days, there are so many mobile GPU models that it has become quite impossible to keep up with the different configurations. Therefore, we decided to compile this guide to provide an easy reference for those who are interested in comparing the specifications of the various mobile GPUs in the market as well as those already obsolescent or obsolete.

Currently covering 133 mobile GPUs, this comprehensive comparison will allow you to easily compare 17 different specifications for each and every GPU. We hope it will prove to be a useful reference. We will keep this guide updated regularly so do check back for the latest updates."

>> Mobile GPU Comparison Guide (Updated)

Benchmark Reviews posted Best Thermal Paste Application Methods

"Over the past several months, I have read an unreasonable number of discussion forum posts which offer inaccurate and often times incorrect information. It's not really all that surprising to read poorly conceived information on the Internet, which seems to be a anonymous means of passing off opinion for fact. As a general rule we don't let too many things go untested, and the advice of wanna-be experts is not doing the hardware enthusiast and overclocker community any good. In this article, Benchmark Reviews dispels myth and establishes fact on the topic of proper application of Thermal Interface Material."

>> Best Thermal Paste Application Methods

techPowerUp posted NVIDIA 9600 GT Voltmodding Article

"NVIDIA's Geforce 9600 GT is quite an exceptional midrange card that offers excellent overclocking potential. Since the cards run at a relatively low voltage there is some extra overclocking waiting to be unleashed by raising the card's voltages. The GPU voltage mod we present in this article uses a new method which will not be affected by the card's overvoltage protection. Also we describe an easy to do modification to increase the memory voltage."

>> NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Voltmodding Article

Hardware Secrets posted a list of all Sound Blaster X-Fi models released to date and how to add SPDIF connectors to them.

"Creative Labs has always been one of the most popular manufacturers of sound cards and Sound Blaster X-Fi is their current series of add-on sound cards. Due to the massive amount of readers asking us how to use the digital audio (SPDIF) output from their Sound Blaster X-Fi sound cards in order to connect them to their home theater receivers or digital speakers, we decided to compile this short tutorial listing all Sound Blaster X-Fi models released to date and the available options for SPDIF connection."

>> How to Use the SPDIF Output from Sound Blaster X-Fi Sound Cards

TweakGuides.com posted their Assassin's Creed Tweak Guide

"The Assassin's Creed Tweak Guide is now available and contains not only full descriptions of exactly what all the in-game settings do, but also compares DX9 to DX10 mode, details all the advanced .ini tweaking possible with the game, and provides a range of troubleshooting tips spread throughout the guide."

>> Assassin's Creed Tweak Guide

TechwareLabs has published a Wireless Security Guide.

"Almost anyone can purchase and use a wireless gateway or router in their home or office. The setup of these devices often come with a wizard to step you through and get the device working. The problem is that most of these wizards disregard common security holes and leave you open to hackers and even your neighbors accessing your data. How do you plug these holes and how does wireless work? We answer these questions in our simple guide to wireless security."

>> Wireless Security Guide

Icrontic posted a guide about setting up DOSBox for LAN games

"DOSBox emulates a native DOS environment in today's operating systems. Nearly anything you could run on Windows 95 or DOS you can run on DOSBox. When you use DOSBox, you will be operating in a virtual DOS machine. Although DOSBox does have a *few* unique commands, the commands are largely identical to the ones we used in the glory days of 16bit PC gaming. "

>> How to set up DOSBox for LAN games

Hardware Secrets posted everything you need to know about TV technologies

"For decades, the remote control was the only major technological advance concerning television. Nowadays it seems every other week we get a glimpse of what the future of television will be like. From flat screen panels to new projection technology, there are so many options in the market that buying a new TV set could get complicated – and that's where we come in; after all our motto is "uncomplicating the complicated". Follow our tutorial as we open a trail into this jungle of acronyms."

>> Everything You Need to Know About TV Technologies

Tech ARP posted an Intel Core 2 Performance Comparison Guide.

"Specifications are all well and great, but can you really tell how much faster is one processor from another? Both Intel and AMD are trying to do just that with their model numbering scheme. But with over 30 SKUs, the Intel Core 2 family of processors has become a confusing bunch of numbers.

We begin a performance comparison project for the Intel Core 2 family of processors where we test and compare the Intel Core 2 processors' performance in five different benchmarks. It will show you exactly where a higher clock speed would be more advantageous and where the number of processing cores is far more important, as well as situations where the processor itself won't really matter much."

>> Intel Core 2 Performance Comparison Guide