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AgentZero said:
Well, the order has been placed, and this is what I'm going with:
Processor AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4400
Motherboard Asus A8R-MVP Crossfire
Ram 2 GB PC3200 DDR
Hard Drive #1 Seagate 80GB Sata HD
Hard Drive #2 Seagate 400 SATA HD
Optical Drive LG 16X Dual Layer DVDRW
Video Card Sapphire Radeon X1900 XT 512MB Video
Sound Card Creative Labes SB X-FI Platinum
Speakers Logitech Z5300 Speakers
Keyboard Logitech G15 Illuminated Keyboard
Mouse Razor Diamondback Plasma Mouse
CPU Cooling Zalman CNPS9500-LED Aero Flower
Power Supply Enermax Liberty 620W ELT620AWT
Monitor 21" NEC CRT
Case Thermaltake Tsunami
Now, the important part, is all the new software to load onto the system since I won't be getting it hooked up to the internet for the first weeek. So far, I've got:
Tweak UI
AVG Anti-Virus
Ad-Aware
Azureus
Directory Opus
DivX Codecs
Firefox
Foobar2000
Irfanview
Java Runtime Environment
Limewire
Media Player Classic
Open Office Suite
Photoshop
Spybot
Thunderbird
Trillian
Any other recommendations/things I'll be kicking myself if I forget?
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Filezilla is a good dedicated FTP client. Sometimes the FTP features of a browser are not enough.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/
You are aware of the 'alternatives' for Real Player and Quicktime?
Both Real Alternative and Quicktime Alternative can be downloaded from
http://www.free-codecs.com/
Lots of other good stuff is available there, too. ffdshow, for example, which is a really nice replacement for about a dozen seperate codecs like DivX and XviD. (And faster than all of them, and with more user controls!)
Other than these, you will definitely want some sort of archiver software sooner or later. Win XP does 'zip' natively now, but as usual the corporations are years behind the times. You need something like WinRar or IzArc or 7Zip to handle all the new formats.
http://www.rarlab.com/
http://www.izarc.org/
http://www.7-zip.org/
I also notice the lack of a
firewall in your software list. The native Windows XP 'firewall' is not worthy of the name. I will not stain this forum with any of the words that people who know about security use when speaking about it.
You need an independent firewall product. The now famous Zone Alarm is not necessarily the best. Kerio Free/Personal is supposed to be fairly good. I recommend Agnitum's Outpost, myself.
http://www.agnitum.com/
The only thing is, the 'free' version is rather old and not updated for Win XP. I think you'd want the latest on an XP system. That means $40 instead of free.
But there is still Kerio, or you can buy the full version of AVG and get the built-in firewall. Even that is better than the native Win XP firewall.
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