Content and news by Rob Williams

The NGO ATI Optimized Driver is a tweaked version of the ATI Catalyst driver. The main purpose is to satisfy the users with a better performance and better image quality. The Driver has support for all Radeon cards.

If you are dying for an inch of more performance, try out NGOHQ’s latest offerings.

In which many of the search giants secret ranking criteria is revealed and it makes very interesting reading. You have got to read this if you’re serious about ranking well in Google. The days of Spaming Google are drawing to a close. With this patent they reveal just how hard they’re coming down on Spam sites. You Do Not want to get caught out.

Below you will find the hard facts, I recommend you bookmark this page now. You will need to reference it each time you optimize a new site.

I personally don’t pay much attention to site ranking, or appearing better in Google, but this article was still very interesting. They do it much differently than I figured, that’s for sure. Check it out at Buzzle.

The last time we had some Prime Cooler products displayed at Phoronix was when we were looking at their Hypercool III+ & Hypercool 4+ CPU heatsinks and memory heatspreaders. Today we’re back with some more Prime Cooler action as we try out the CoolPad (PC-NTB).

For the full review, head over to Phoronix.

Videocard overclocking can hold many benefits for the gamer or benchmarking enthusiast. As with processors and system memory, the faster the videocard’s graphics processor and video memory can process information, the better. Smoother frame rates and higher benchmarks might be just around the corner.

This is a great guide for beginners and a nice refresher for advanced overclockers. Check it out at PC Stats.

If you are looking to upgrade your video card, there are so many options available. We are going to take a look at one of BFG Tech’s top PCI-E cards, the 6800 GT OC. How did it make out in our tests? Is the card worth it, with the next gen on the way?

Mushkin Enhanced Memory has been a player in the DRAM market for years and just recently has taken another jab into the heart of the enthusiast market. This time around Mushkin has secured a number of Winbond based UTT IC’s that have been packaged and put on some Brain Power 815 PCB’s. The end result was not only a new part number, but a whole new memory series called Mushkin Redline XP (Extreme Performance). Mushkin states that their Redline memory series eliminates the memory as a potential hardware bottleneck when overclocking their DDR1 systems. Today, we take a look at their XP4000 2-2-2 Redline memory and see if it is all that Mushkin says it to be.

2-2-2-6 @ 3.3v – 3.5v? You will need some nice cooling there. Head over to Legit Reviews for the full look.

I’ve been noticing a trend lately with the modding community. I started seeing all of these analog gauges on cases, fan controllers, etc. At first, I was just asking “why”… until I took a closer look. Not everything in the modding world has a real function. Why do we need lights on our fans? What’s the point of a window? And who really cares if you can see your CD-Rom drive? The answers to these questions are simple, because it looks cool!

This is a very unique case, but looks cool. The three Gauges on the front panel are a nice addition. Check out the full review at OCIA.

Shuttle is renowned throughout both the gaming the enthusiast communities for their trendsetting small form factor designs and high performance systems. Even though the small form factor market has become rather crowded, Shuttle continues to stay ahead of its competitors through their constant innovation. Their latest Athlon64-based system continues this trend.

Check out the full review at Hard|OCP.

The average EGM reader scoffs at the thought of asking game-store counter jockeys for advice; you know-it-alls don’t need their help. But what about your non-gaming friends, your grandma, your significant other—anyone who relies on over-the-counter know-how? We sent our spy, posing as a clueless girlfriend shopping for her gamer beau, on a quest for flimflam advice at four major game retailers. An unscientific survey? Surely. But some of these clerks’ comments are good for a laugh, too.

If you regularly shop at game stores, I know we’ve all had these idiots behind the counter. This is a great read. Source: Shack News.

Microsoft released 10 new patches found through Windows Update, as is there monthly routine.

In announcing the month’s security updates, Microsoft recommends that all customers using Windows Update upgrade to Microsoft Update (MU). The corporate software update tool was launched last week, and puts out automatic updates for Office and other Microsoft functionality.

Check out the article here, and then go get your updates.

Once again, Stratics is pleased to announce a House of Commons with the developers of Star Wars Galaxies. Come join us tonight, June 15th at 5pm PDT / 8pm EDT / midnight UTC/GMT in the #StraticsHoC channel on Stratics IRC. The main topic will be “Rage of the Wookiees”. Participating will be Comment (0) -->

Dust and smudges are a camera lens’ worst enemies. Combating them used to require a lot of tedious and dangerous maintenance using cumbersome cleaning kits.

But thankfully, Nikon has a lens cleaning system that is both easy to use as well as completely safe to use over and over again! Introducing the Nikon Lens Pen!

Especially when you use an expensive camera, you will want an official way of cleaning it. Check it out at Rojak Pot.

Q: How does this compare to other MMORPGs? A: Auto Assault is the fastest, most destructive MMO ever! It takes everything you expect from a full-featured, deep MMORPG – long term character development, exploration, missions, crafting, and lots of players on-line playing together. Auto Assault then adds some of the most exciting Comment (0) -->

Flash devices and readers are becoming extremely popular as consumer electronics demand more storage space. What better brand to trust than a leading memory supplier?

Check out the full review at Insane Tek!

If I were to be brutally honest, I would tell you the first few days of using this keyboard, I thought to myself plug the z- board back in. But that was only because I kept pressing wrong keys and found it quite hard to even get a positive score in online gaming. I found I was always pressing the one button at the wrong time. But hey it’s not the keyboard fault its keys are really responsive and it wasn’t its fault I had got used to the Z-board. But that’s were it stopped, I thought right to get used to this keyboard I am going to write a few reviews on it as I find that always helps with getting used to a new key layout…

Check out the full review of the keyboard at Extreme Computing!

THE PC GRAPHICS market is about as competitive as it comes, with ATI and NVIDIA constantly striving to one-up each other and capture the performance crown at each price point. Given that incredibly competitive environment, it’s odd that ATI’s high-end All-in-Wonder cards haven’t really had much competition. It’s not for a lack of trying on NVIDIA’s part, either. The green team took a stab at the All-in-Wonder market with the Personal Cinema, but its software was way behind ATI’s, and Personal Cinema products were largely confined to low-end parts. The Personal Cinema never really made the jump to the GeForce 6 series, either.

If you are looking to buy an AIW card, check out this review first.

The Creative Inspire TD7700 gives users top-quality surround sound from any home entertainment source. Combining the acoustic impact of the Inspire T7700 speaker system with the advanced functionality of the DDTS-100 Decoder, it takes inputs from up to 8 devices, such as DVD and CD players, televisions, games consoles and MP3 players, and outputs incredible 7.1 surround via the powerful speakers.

Definitely a great looking set, with many, many features. Head over to Cache-Community to read the full review.

Corsair XMS ram in general should be on your very short list for any enthusiast application. After working with this XPERT RAM in particular it’s hard to want to use anything else. Corsair once again delivers some of the highest quality sticks of RAM in the industry.

Corsair memory is great. When they add LED’s and realtime readings to it, does it make it cooler? Check out the full review at Viper Lair.

I think it’s safe to say that ATi actually has a leg up on the competition when it comes to graphics integration. Intel and VIA have been producing decent performing budget chipsets but the two company’s integrated graphics options are still lousy on the 3D front. ATi traditionally has excellent 2D/3D image quality and as we’ve seen so far, it’s integrated Radeon IGP is a solid performer good enough for the casual gamer.

This looks to be a good introduction from MSI into the ATI Chipset motherboards. Check out the detailed review at PC Stats.

3DMark was run through on both cards at default settings and then at 1280×1024 with 4x Antialiasing and 16x Anisotropic Filtering with all quality settings in the device driver set to maximum. We also ran the EN6800GT through overclocked to ULTRA speeds.

You gotta see the benchmarks, they are unreal! Going to be some pricy cards here. Check it out at Hexus.