PC Mag and ExtremeTech has posted gift guides
Geek Gift GuideGot a serious geek on your shopping list? That is, you have a geek friend already, not that you're shopping to acquire one.
Either way, check out ExtremeTech's gift guide. It'll help you find a gift for that special hardware/software freak. Or get you the right lures to attract one.
Read moreHoliday Gift GuideIt's after Thanksgiving (in North America), which means... time to shop. If you don't want to spend endless hours in the mall or trawling online auction sites, PC Mag has a handy list sure to warm the hearts of the more, shall we say, technically minded on your list.
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TweakTown has posted a comprehensive System Optimization Guide for Gamers.
SubZeroTech has posted a new Article "Stealth your CD-ROM".
Viper's Lair has posted a new guide: How to setup Internet Connection Sharing
LMBAtech has a guide on how to speed up your old PC (i.e. PII, PIII, Celeron).
Tom's Hardware Guide has posted their Xmas 2002 Holiday Buyers Guide
BoPC has posted a mod article called the VaderPC.
DeviantPC has published an article entitled "ATi Radeon 9700 Water Cooling Project".
Having this new mill was going to prove invaluable for making the Radeon 9700 cooler, due to the more cluttered layout of the ATI card having components around the ram chips on the PCB, some of which protrude higher than the ram.....
I decided to tackle the hardest block first, this being the frontside ram block, needing to fit in an area most cluttered for surface mounted components, along with space allowance considerations for the VPU block, it wasn't going to be as easy as past block builds.
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Microsoft has released a new white paper about deploying Microsoft Office XP with SMS 2.0 to a Locked-Down Computer Running Windows NT 4.0 Workstation
TweakTown has posted a Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 Tweaking Guide
EliteGuild has put up a Start Button Rename / Custom Windows XP Themes guide
EliteGuild has posted a guide about installing MySQL and PHPMyAdmin
TechSpot has updated their OS Updates page
Port80 Software has published a Web Server security article: Mask Your Web Server for Enhanced Security
Viper's Lair has posted a new article "Protect Yourself From Viruses"
TechSpot has posted a guide about how to Volt-mod your GeForce4
RipNet-UK has posted part 3 of their Visual Basic programming guide
ComputerBase has posted an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro CPU-Scaling article in german
PC Mag has posted the Ultimate PC Buyer's Guide
OC Workbench has posted an ECS K7S5A Guide
