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I am building my brand new gaming rig this year for christmas, and I was wondering what I should do after installing windows. What are some good things to download besides the normal like Chrome and winrar?

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MSI afterburner

Rainmeter for cool looks

Origin, Steam, UPlay, Discord, Skype

Utorrent /s (maybe not)

7zip

More ram

CPU temp or HWmonitor or GPUZ/CPUZ

Teamspeak

 

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Just now, Kazy said:

I am building my brand new gaming rig this year for christmas, and I was wondering what I should do after installing windows. What are some good things to download besides the normal like Chrome and winrar?

check bios before booting up windows to make sure that everything is installed correctly

 

run a aida 64 test on your cpu to make sure its ok

 

run some gpu benchmarks to make sure the card is ok

 

 

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1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Install linux, forget windows. Thats what id do

 

I second this.

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5 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Install linux, forget windows. Thats what id do

He said gaming rig. 

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3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Install linux, forget windows. Thats what id do

Linux for gaming? You've gotta be kidding

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1 hour ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

and... You can play games on linux.

like 4 games compared to how many run on windows.

 

using wine is not fun either soo 

Everyone should own a vive.

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3 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

He said gaming rig. 

I had a linux gaming rig, I only moved back to windows as I got a cheap Radeon card and fuck the radeon Linux drivers are terrible. 

Yours faithfully

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first thing download your video card drivers lol 

Everyone should own a vive.

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5 hours ago, JaRy8 said:

Linux for gaming? You've gotta be kidding

Dude flash games are amazing

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Just now, JaRy8 said:

Linux for gaming? You've gotta be kidding

Actually,  Linux has some fantastic games now.  Plus running a windows VM with PCIe BUS passthru (so windows can see and use your GPU to its full extent within a VM) is also a thing.  so Why wouldnt you is the better question.

Linux Daily Driver:

CPU: R5 2400G

Motherboard: MSI B350M Mortar

RAM: 32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4

HDD: 1TB POS HDD from an old Dell

SSD: 256GB WD Black NVMe M.2

Case: Phanteks Mini XL DS

PSU: 1200W Corsair HX1200

 

Gaming Rig:

CPU: i7 6700K @ 4.4GHz

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z270-N Wi-Fi ITX

RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4

GPU: Asus Turbo GTX 1070 @ 2GHz

HDD: 3TB Toshiba something or other

SSD: 512GB WD Black NVMe M.2

Case: Shared with Daily - Phanteks Mini XL DS

PSU: Shared with Daily - 1200W Corsair HX1200

 

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CPU: Ryzen7 1700

Motherboard: MSI X370 SLI Plus

RAM: 8GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4

GPU: Nvidia GT 710

HDD: 1X 10TB Seagate ironwolf NAS Drive.  4X 3TB WD Red NAS Drive.

SSD: Adata 128GB

Case: NZXT Source 210 (white)

PSU: EVGA 650 G2 80Plus Gold

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5 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Install linux, forget windows. Thats what id do

 

3 minutes ago, MedievalMatt said:

 

I second this.

Linux isn't a great solution for gaming. Even with wine, performance is not really there.

I'd suggest a dual boot or VM if anything.

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1 minute ago, JaRy8 said:

Linux for gaming? You've gotta be kidding

https://www.winehq.org/

 

4 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

 

More ram

 

hahaha

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1 hour ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

There is over 1000 linux games on steam.

over 1000 games and not one I want to play lol (that I cant play on windows too) 

 

 

Everyone should own a vive.

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2 minutes ago, fpo said:

https://www.winehq.org/

Wine sucks ass. Coming from my Linux fanboy friends

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What you should do is go subscribe to PewDiePie and hope he deletes his channel at 100M subscribers!!!

 

Grrrr!

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5 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

There is over 1000 linux games on steam.

Poor EA and Ubisoft

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@Kazy judging by the way this thread is going you better learn some unix commands oh yeah

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