No need to get your soldering irons boys, if you have a Asus A7N8X Deluxe or non-deluxe, you can now adjust the NB voltage using the bios!
Grab the bios here :)

Couple of days ago www.xbitlabs.com published a report here ,on converting ATI 9500 card to ATI 9700 using Software only Unwinder patch , it did reported that not all mods end in SUCCESS . Today it has published how to convert ATI 9700 (@ US $318 approx.) card to ATI Fire GLX1 (@ US $ 600 approx.) and also turning ATI 9500 Card (@ US $150 to US $183 approx. ) to ATI FireGL Z1 card (@ US $ 500approx. ) by hardware mod. I wonder what is ATI thinking of this. Recently it has risen to top as (performance leader) after its introduction of ATI 9700 .But if these tricks are successfully executed, ATI might loose a large chunk of revenue earned by selling top-of-the-line cards.

You can check your line's noise margin, change connection settings, view connection log & more in the hidden driver features. Think of it as an easter egg. :)

I was at Ray Adams NVIDIA BIOS page when I seen the newest update for his BIOS editor Build 425
"Added experimental mode for GeForce 4 with AGP 8x and Control block higher than 5.25. Post your comments please.
Fixed minor bug with bios version string"

warp2... X-Bios

We have just released a press release on the AMD overclocking and benchmarking achievements by Staff member OPPAINTER ...

This I believe we covered before with past 40.xx drivers but I thought I'll jog your memory and let you know how to enable some options in latest 41.80 drivers that are not enabled by default. Click on Read More for more info.

Just spotted this tweak for all you XP fanboys out there! from Nvnews.net!

WindowsXP is a great OS, but one problem I find that bugs the hell out of me is Mouse Acceleration. It's especially irritating when I play FPS games. Luckily there's a simple fix for this. Click the Start Button, go to Run and type Regedit.

Just spotted this @ Entcity.com:

Do you own a Asus, Abit, MSI, Gigabyte or some other branded motherboard with onboard RAID controller? Well the thing is that these controllers, typically from Promise are "Lite" versions and only give a minimum of 64kb in block sizes and only one array with max 2 disks. But, if you want the real thing and want to run a RAID system with 4 disks in ONE array and block sizes down to 1kb, you're in luck.

You can grab a modded BIOS that replaces the RAID controller BIOS with a fully functional Promise TX2000 BIOS.

Just spotted this @ Amdzone.com

Aaron Gordon let me know that he has released these Quake Arena optimized DLLs. There is a version for the Thunderbird or non SSE, and the Palomino/Thoroughbred SSE version of the Athlon. If anyone can run some benchmarks with these please let me know. There is also a version that works with Thunderbirds and Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force.

Ok this is for all the peeps that emailed me asking: how do I enable the overclocking utility in NVIDIA Detonators 40.52 and how do I enable the Direct3d settings?!

And before I forget the refresh rates tab's do work! If it's greyed out click on the override refresh rates, then choose the resolution you want. Double click that and it should open a tab with all the available refresh rates mine goes upto 120hz then press apply, then ok! But remember if you try and set it back to applications control refresh rates it will set them back to your default setting. Tested on Widows 98SE.

I noticed in your forum as well as VIAArena.com and AMD.com and a bunch more, people are having CPU usage problems after installing XP SP1. I had the same problem, my usage was about 56% at idle. I found a thread in a forum, tried it and it worked for me. If you wanna let people know im sure they'd really appreciate it. This is the website with the fix: Hardcoreware.net forum - WinXP + SP1 = 56% CPU Usage @ Idle? Thanks a lot, My name is Justin Roach :)

Big Thanks to Majorgeeks.com for this! The program allows you to tweak your YMF7x4 (YMF724, YMF740, YMF744 and YMF754) sound card driver. Using this program you can increase quality of WAV and MP3 files and audio CD playback. You can enable non-documented high quality 44.1 to 48 kHz samplerate converter to increase quality of WAV and MP3 playback and quality of audio CD and a lot More......

Just got an email from Nvmax.com that they have updated their NVDVD Tweaks to NVDVD Coolbits and added a lot of cool features. Here's what their saying.

Beltxo has sent us his latest reg file for NVDVD and it enables tons of new property windows in the software. Check 'downloads' to get it then start tweaking just about everything from Karaoke to Bass to DXA options. Loads of stuff to look at.

Just saw this @ Nvmax.com

You know that nVDVD lets you grab frames, and record WAVs from DVDs... But this version allows you to record full scenes!!!!!!!!!. I have found that you only have to add a key to Windows registry. You can use attached reg file to enable a new tab called "Scene capture" where you can record and play scenes!!

There are some other tabs available, but I am still searching the way to enable them

This program will allow for the modification of a doubleword at any arbitrary device #, bus #, function # and offset in the PCI configuration space. It could be used to setup hidden BIOS settings or change PCI latency timers on any device.

Being a 56k user I kind of got fed up of picking up web based email, because getting anything on my connection took ages. I wondered if I could pick up locally, so I set up my hotmail access details in MS Outlook Express. To my personal suprise it actually worked. Here is one of the messages I got. MSN Hotmail provides account access to Outlook Express customers as a beta service, which means support from MSN Hotmail for Outlook Express is extremely limited. To receive quick tips & more information on accessing MSN Hotmail via Outlook Express, please send a blank email to hmoex@hotmail.com. You will receive an automated reply within 5 minutes or less. I guess most people would already know about this or if possible don't bother with web based email, but I thought this tip was still worth mentioning.

IE Accelerator is a download accelerator for Microsoft Internet Explorer (shortly IE). It is designed based on the undocumented documents of Microsoft Windows. Instead of optimizing serveral keys in the registry, IE Accelerator increases the simultaneous connections of each IE windows. So the surfing and downloading speed is boosted enormously, especially when opening a website with many pictures. Visit and Download

Have you ever gotten fed up the title you get at the top you browser in Microsoft Internet ? the bit after the dash usually saying something like this ?Microsoft Internet Explorer power by ?.?? If the answer is yes, then maybe you would like to try out this little registry hack I have discovered. Press Read More to find out how.

Rage3D Tweak is a multi-language Radeon Tweaker designed to fit right in with the other ATI option tabs in the Advanced Display Properties accessed through the Control Panel. It allows access to Registry Tweak options, Custom Display Modes, Refresh Rates, and Overclocking all through an easy to use interface. For those requiring instant access to all the tweak options, a handy icon on the task bar can be enabled for quick access to all three tweaker tabs. Comprehensive html, outline based help is available through the standard "?" icon in the display tabs and the help button. Click on Read More... for a link to see what's new and download links

A new version of the Windows XP tweak and tuning utility Tweak XP has been released. Click on Read More... to see what's new and a download link