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post #21 of 29
4/9/07 at 3:31pm
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Originally Posted by Mech
Spybot Search & Destroy? BTW, thanks for the link to Advanced Windows Care. Found a bunch of problems on my laptop and now it runs soooo much smoother/faster. I was looking around for a good registry fixing tool, and I believe that was it! =)
Its a great prog, also the Defrag works really good too. I spent the money on the Pro version cause the Personel version did so well on all my computer i figured i would support a prog like this one for doing such a great job. And Must have hardware would be: SD Card - Vista Readyboost G7 Cordles mouse woooo. And a gaggle of external hard drives for massive on the go movie and music storage.
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post #22 of 29
6/18/07 at 5:43pm
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Originally Posted by SolApathy View Post
how about must have hardware?

Went lookin' for this thread again to get some links to a program I was lookin' for and read this.

Must have hardware would be updated every 4 - 6 months!!!
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post #23 of 29
6/18/07 at 11:33pm
I have to admit I don't really use anything. I have no antivirus at all (I make sure I don't give my email address to any porn sites LOL)

Other stuff I do run, though:

- Nvidia ntune, so I can OC my card in Vista
- Windows Defender, which does a good job of blocking most everything
- IE7 with built-in pop-up blocker

And that's about it... don't need anything else

Must have hardware (that never really grows old):

- Saitek Eclipse keyboard (takes a licking and keeps on ticking)
- Logitech MX518 (nice wired gaming mouse)
- Dell 2405WFP (which I sadly no longer have )
- A good USB sound card (for everday use or emergencies)
- A good pair of headphones (I recommend Koss Porta-Pro)
- A Firewire harddrive (never trust USB with your data)
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post #24 of 29
6/19/07 at 8:23am
I noticed that the site for i9kfangui is down, I can't find it anywhere and now my fans are running full blast. I live in Thailand and even though I have aircon i want my fans under my control cause 100+ degrees isn't fun
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post #25 of 29
2/28/08 at 5:52am
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Updated the list with a couple of new cool programs I found while trying to track down a problem on my laptop.

Active Ports and Process Explorer; PE is awesome.
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post #26 of 29
2/28/08 at 1:25pm
I would recommend adding Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic to the list, as it has served me for years now, and I never had any complaints. Tried AVG a couple of times, but always came back to AntiVir. It updates regularly, detects everything it should and is rather unobtrusive. Can be downloaded here.
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post #27 of 29
3/24/09 at 2:29am
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Updated the link for DC Pro 1.5.

Does anyone know a good program that'll benchmark hard disks and other storage media? What do most reviewers use?
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post #28 of 29
3/24/09 at 2:35am
I don't ever bench HD's but here's a few tools:
HDTune
HDTach
Atto disk benchmark
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post #29 of 29
3/24/09 at 2:41am
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I tried HDTune, it's pretty cool but something that will do the writing/reading for you would be much better. HDTune just monitors the hard drive and you pretty much have to do the reading/writing on your own. Which isn't that bad, but I'm lazy. I'll try the other two.
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