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RivaTuner Scales Your Graphics Card For 2D/3D Efficiency
12:00AM Kevin Purdy | Windows only: Free 3D graphics card tuner RivaTuner gives you all kinds of nuts-and-bolts access to your NVIDIA or ATI graphics card, including the ability to manually set fan speeds and overclock your processor for better performance. What makes it useful to the non-hardcore-gaming set, however, is the ability to set up hardware profiles and have them activate whenever certain applications are launched. So if you understand that your 256MB GeForce chip doesn’t need to be running full-steam for Word 2007, but you’d like it to really kick in for Fallout 3, RivaTuner is right up your alley. It’s not exactly friendly to newcomers, and you’ll definitely want to save a working profile for safety, but hit the via link below for gHacks’ step-by-step walkthrough on setting up two example profiles. RivaTuner is a free download for Windows systems only. RivaTuner [Guru3D via gHacks] More »
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ZDNet Clock Overclocks Your Mac Pro
7:30AM Adam Pash | Mac OS X only: Freeware application ZDNet Clock overclocks your Mac Pro’s processor for faster performance. As the name suggests, the application is made by the German branch of tech web site ZDNet, and according to the download page the latest generation Mac Pro (3.1) with a 2.8GHz processor can be overclocked to 3.24GHz without increasing voltage to the CPU and without losing stability (translation: faster computer, no major risk). Overclocking has never been as easy on Macs as PCs, but the ZDNet Clock tool aims to make it just that. ZDNet Clock only works on Intel Mac Pros and the Apple server Xserve, requires OS X 10.5. We don’t have a Mac Pro at Lifehacker HQ to test it on, so if you feel like being our canary in the coalmine, let’s hear how it worked for you in the comments. More »Overclocking for newbs
1:49PM Sarah Stokely | The hardcore PC enthusiasts over at Atomic have published a beginners guide to memory overclocking. <3 Atomic. More » 