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Roman Totale wrote:ATI Radeon 5970 2048MB

Shitting crikey, I thought I'd misread that so I came back and checked. Insane card and insane price. Did you decide to buy a pre-built overclocked one?

eer, no, I'm building it myself......


...yes, I succumbed and was lazy. Your fault for being offline!


Anyway, I am about to commence installation of new rig, so will possibly see you all on the other side. Just had an idea though, what about a sticky of useful sites/"things" for when people are starting afresh with a new hard drive? You know - TeamSpeak, Xfire, etc etc - the sort of things you use but forget to install them.

Once you're sorted, you can get on with that

I can't remember them, that's why I want a topic for it.

Christ, I now have to reinstall everything.

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Can't remember actually starting afresh with a new hdd except an os that failed on me years ago a few days after install, but my other drive was fine so it was just a re-install of xp.

I have a folder on a pen drive that carries the exes of ff, xfire, ts, drivers and gets an irregular update of a few personal files.

I do wish more things followed the wow method of utilising registry but not being tied to it, it would be so much easier to work with. As it is a registry merge is generally an easier option but can create horrible problems.

In your case, I think you've just learned a valuable lesson, gather as much useful stuff/crap that you might need together to ease the pain of a new install.

Still got old machine so I'll just plug it back in and stick everything on a flash drive.

Have you not stuck your old hdd(s) in your new pc?

Get all the crap you want off then wipe it and use it as excess porn storage, stuff you can easily replace if it shits itself.

Just off the top of my head, when I installed Win 7 on a fresh drive I needed to install:

NOD32 (first, can't go downloading stuff with out protection now)
Firefox (and import my bookmarks etc)
Teamspack (and set it up as per sticky)
Xfire
Steam (copy files over to new drive and reinstall to avoid having to download everything again)
COD4 (Punkbuster shits itself if you don't, and don't forget to keep your profile somewhere)
Office
Potatoshop

Everything else I can think of I just copied the files over and fiddled the shortcut to run (usually just needs to be run in admin more)

EDIT: If your old drive's a SATA some motherboards have a port for them on the backplate. Dunno how you power it though.

Also:
Winrar
XFire Light Theme
CCleaner
ISO Recorder/MagicISO/WinISO
FileZilla
FF addons - DownThemAll and FireGestures
RivaTuner
LiveSync/DropBox/iFolder
GamesForWindows
Quicktime/Flash/Acrobat
WinAmp w. LastFM Audioscrobbler
µTorrent
Twirl
Skype
Curse Client
Flickr Uploader
Gameshadow
Notepad++
ntbackup
Spotify
WindowsLive (minus Messenger)
Media Player Classic
VLC

I have them all on shared/synced drives and keep them reasonably up-to-date.

Ta FJ - that's the sort of thing I was looking for but was unable to describe. I always foget about things like Winrar until I actually get round to needing them.

http://www.cccp-project.net/ too

Handy for fresh installs: http://ninite.com/

Well, I went and threw some money at ocuk.

So tuesday night I should return to the interwebs on my pc, with the following specs.

Case - Antec 900
CPU - Q9400
Mobo - replacement spanky new Gigabyte ep45 ud3lr
GPU - Sapphire 5870
PSU - Corsair 650hx
Rams - 2Gb of corsair, 4 Gb of other corsair.
Keyboard - Saitek eclipse 2
Mouse - logitech mx518
Speakers - logitech 5.1's

And hopefully I'll put it all together and finally get to finish DAO.

HereComesPete wrote:Well, I went and threw some money at ocuk.

So tuesday night I should return to the interwebs on my pc, with the following specs.

Case - Antec 900
CPU - Q9400
Mobo - replacement spanky new Gigabyte ep45 ud3lr
GPU - Sapphire 5870
PSU - Corsair 650hx
Rams - 2Gb of corsair, 4 Gb of other corsair.
Keyboard - Saitek eclipse 2
Mouse - logitech mx518
Speakers - logitech 5.1's

And hopefully I'll put it all together and finally get to finish DAO.

Galactica 2.0 is built!

CPU: Athlon II X4 630 2.8GHz quad-core (almost certain I will be overclocking this)
Motherboard: MSI 770-G45 AM3
RAM: Corsair XMS3 DHX 2x2GB DDR3-1333
GPU: Radeon HD 3870 512MB
HDDs: Seagate 7200.10 320GB, Seagate 7200.11 1.5TB, WD Caviar Blue 500GB 7200RPM
Sound: Auzentech X-Mystique 7.1
PSU: Enermax Liberty 500W

My New Laptop

Dell XPS 17 L701X
Genuine Windows® 7 HP, 64bit
Intel® Core™ i7 Processor 840QM 2.00GHz (3.2GHz with Turbo)
8Gb Corsair 1333MHz DDR3
3GB NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 445M DX11 3D
640GB Samsung HM640JJ & 750GB WD7500BPVT
Samsung S2 Portable 1TB USB 3.0
17.3" HD+ WLED True-Life 1600x900
2.0 Mega Pixel HD Integrated Camera
Intel® Centrino® Wireless-N 1000
2xUSB 2.0, 2xUSB 3.0, eSATA, HDMI 1.4, S/PDIF
Internal DVB-T TvTuner
JBL 2.1 Audio Output & Sennheiser HD202 Headphones
9-cell 90Whr Lithium Ion battery
Logitech G500

Coolermaster HAF 912 Case.
i7 950 3.06GHz @ 4.00GHz
Asus P6X58D-E
Corsair XMS3 6GB DDR3 PC3-12800C9 (1600MHz) Tri-Channel
MSI Geforce GTX 460 Hawk
OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB 2.5" SSD
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache
Coolermaster H70 Cooler
Asus Xonar DG 5.1
Samsung P2450H 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor
Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard
Logitech Mx518 Mouse
Logitech Z2200 2.1 Speakers.
Audio Technica ATH-M50S Headphones.

6-Core 3.33GHz Intel Xeon
6gb Kinston ECC Buffered w/ temp sensors
ATI 5870 1Gb
1Tb wd caviar black, 2Tb samsung spinpoint
Veiwsonic 23" something or other
Apogee Duet
KRK Rokit RP5
AKG 701 Cans
Logitech 6500 mouse
mac keyboard

Case: Antec 1200
CPU: Intel i7-2600
Motherboard: Asus P8P67 Pro
Ram: Corsair vengeance blue 2x4GB DDR3
GPU: BFG GF GTX 260 OC MAXCORE 55
HDD : 1tb spinpoint F1 + 1tb spinpoint F3