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#1 Freelancer

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Posted 01 February 2012 - 09:59 AM

"Links to Everything" was setup as a place to go for well- anything. It consists of productivity tools, PC tuning programs, all and the like. We try to list all of the most asked for, as well as hidden gems. We posted this originally for our members, but figured Guru needed it's own thread as well (thanks Sojar).

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Browse through these and let them inspire you to start working on something great, whether it be tweaking your PC or creating something new.

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If you find a link that is bad, please inform me and I will find a replacement or remove it. Even though these have been personally or known to have been guild tested as safe, it is recommended you scan all downloads with an antivirus program.

Any program that is not free will be italicized.

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Posted 01 February 2012 - 10:06 AM

Nice one, this will come in handy.

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Posted 01 February 2012 - 12:20 PM

In your tech/hardware section, you have a couple of links for component suppliers in the US. Any chance you could add some links for suppliers in other parts of the world?

e.g. for the UK
www.overclockers.co.uk
www.dabs.com

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Posted 01 February 2012 - 01:03 PM

Very awesome! Recognize a lot, but definitely some interesting ones to explore that I don't recognize.  Thanx! :)

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Posted 01 February 2012 - 01:38 PM

Yol said:

In your tech/hardware section, you have a couple of links for component suppliers in the US. Any chance you could add some links for suppliers in other parts of the world?

e.g. for the UK
www.overclockers.co.uk
www.dabs.com

I'll add them right now.

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Posted 01 February 2012 - 01:48 PM

videocardbenchmark.net has a CPU equivalent, though I have no idea how relevant it may be,... cpubenchmark.net :)

Also, if we're adding tech/hardware sites for all countries; Tweakers.net is probably *the* best Dutch tech/hardware-site.

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Posted 01 February 2012 - 03:50 PM

I think a few useful utilities could be added:

CystalDiskMark: HDD benchmarking/performance testing utility
CrystalDiskInfo: good hdd health monitoring tool
GPU-Z good for checking hardware if you don't know what you have and GPU-Z is an awesome monitoring tool for video cards.
gparted maybe? Very useful tool to manage drive partitions since windows can't do everything.
Throttlestop maybe, but that one is more dangerous to use, here's the guide: http://forum.noteboo...stop-guide.html

If you're going to list media players like itunes and VLC, i think Media Player Classic Home Cinema, foobar 2000 and Zune software deserve a mention as well.

You might want to mention Opera in the browsers too.

Tech hardware site that deserves mention: www.anandtech.com, they also have a comparison tool: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU/2
Good starting guide on SSDs: http://thessdreview....eginners-guide/
For networking related issues: http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/

Might want to add www.memoryexpress.com and www.ncix.com for to the list of tech hardware suppliers.

While i am at it, add those to the drivers:
http://support.amd.c...ages/index.aspx
http://www.nvidia.co...aspx?lang=en-us

This is just a suggestion, but maybe regroup utilities like CPU-Z and HWmonitor into a monitoring category.

Edited by tijo, 01 February 2012 - 04:04 PM.

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Posted 01 February 2012 - 04:06 PM

Add
the following and I'll be a happy panda...

www.guru3d.com (hardware review site)

www.notebookcheck.net (laptop hardware information)

HW Monitor (a simple and easy to use Hardware Temperature Utility Tool)
http://www.cpuid.com.../hwmonitor.html


Very nice list, with a few new things for me to read up on. :)  Thanks for posting!

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Posted 01 February 2012 - 04:38 PM

Forgot to add, nice list, if there was a like button, i'd click on it ;)

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Posted 01 February 2012 - 05:05 PM

tijo said:

I think a few useful utilities could be added:

CystalDiskMark: HDD benchmarking/performance testing utility
CrystalDiskInfo: good hdd health monitoring tool
GPU-Z good for checking hardware if you don't know what you have and GPU-Z is an awesome monitoring tool for video cards.
gparted maybe? Very useful tool to manage drive partitions since windows can't do everything.
Throttlestop maybe, but that one is more dangerous to use, here's the guide: http://forum.noteboo...stop-guide.html

If you're going to list media players like itunes and VLC, i think Media Player Classic Home Cinema, foobar 2000 and Zune software deserve a mention as well.

You might want to mention Opera in the browsers too.

Tech hardware site that deserves mention: www.anandtech.com, they also have a comparison tool: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU/2
Good starting guide on SSDs: http://thessdreview....eginners-guide/
For networking related issues: http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/

Might want to add www.memoryexpress.com and www.ncix.com for to the list of tech hardware suppliers.

While i am at it, add those to the drivers:
http://support.amd.c...ages/index.aspx
http://www.nvidia.co...aspx?lang=en-us

This is just a suggestion, but maybe regroup utilities like CPU-Z and HWmonitor into a monitoring category.

Added all of that. Great links!

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Add
the following and I'll be a happy panda...

www.guru3d.com (hardware review site)

www.notebookcheck.net (laptop hardware information)

HW Monitor (a simple and easy to use Hardware Temperature Utility Tool)
http://www.cpuid.com.../hwmonitor.html


Very nice list, with a few new things for me to read up on. :)  Thanks for posting!

Added!

10char. :)
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Posted 01 February 2012 - 06:02 PM

What no winamp for the music section? XD i love winamp. Lol

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Posted 01 February 2012 - 11:31 PM

Great list of sites.

I just stickied it.  If the boss disagrees he may unsticky.

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Posted 02 February 2012 - 11:16 AM

dhatcher1 said:

Great list of sites.

I just stickied it.  If the boss disagrees he may unsticky.

I don't see why it would be unstickied. I saw a few things, i didn't know. XD

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Posted 02 February 2012 - 05:35 PM

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What no winamp for the music section? XD i love winamp. Lol
In regards to this a multimedia section may well be interesting to a lot of people, and from my own experience with trying to view DvD's on my computer i found out that: Windows Media Player Classic Home Cinema; from http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/

Is just the thing you may need to get rid of the horrible 'you can't play this DvD' messages i got with the normal 'media player', all leading to irritating pay to d/l codex or w/e to play a DvD.

To actually make soundfiles i use Audacity : http://audacity.sour...ge.net/?lang=en
Which has served me well over the last couple of years.

Also wanted to thank Freelancer for keeping this upto date, very usefull list !

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Posted 02 February 2012 - 06:44 PM

MPC-HC is my media player of choice for anything not supported by Zune, i nuked VLC from my hard drive soon after switching to MPC-HC. Of course,  media players are a matter of supported formats and preference, but i'll take anything over itunes. I spent one year without itunes and yes i own and ipod, just reinstalled it to update my library and now i remember why i got rid of it.

Edited by tijo, 02 February 2012 - 06:47 PM.

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Posted 02 February 2012 - 10:17 PM

Arghore said:

In regards to this a multimedia section may well be interesting to a lot of people, and from my own experience with trying to view DvD's on my computer i found out that: Windows Media Player Classic Home Cinema; from http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/

Is just the thing you may need to get rid of the horrible 'you can't play this DvD' messages i got with the normal 'media player', all leading to irritating pay to d/l codex or w/e to play a DvD.

To actually make soundfiles i use Audacity : http://audacity.sour...ge.net/?lang=en
Which has served me well over the last couple of years.

Also wanted to thank Freelancer for keeping this upto date, very usefull list !

I'm going to look into that.

Personally I've recommended VLC Player for most, because it's so universal. It will literally play nearly anything you throw at it. (it comes with most every codec out there).

MPC-HC is also really nice, but its nearly the same as VLC. MPC has more features, but VLC is lighter weight.

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Added memrise.com

A site that allows you to learn languages/new topics while playing a game to reinforce positive behavior. Not only addictive, but a great learning tool.

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Added Audacity. What a wonderful program :)

Edited by Freelancer, 02 February 2012 - 10:26 PM.

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Posted 03 February 2012 - 01:43 AM

Oh, this is a fairly interesting thread. Great idea! Of course, there are still more links to be added, and here are my suggestions (apologies if something has already been added):

Audio/Video

DVDVideoSoft - simply a must have for all your video and audio conversion excursions and youtube downloading (and more than that)!

Media Players

KMPlayer - a really excellent free media player. Plays almost anything!

Books & Comics

calibre - this is simply a must have for all your e-book organizing habits.
Adobe Digital Editions - a very sleek interface for reading books.
ComicRack - reading comics has never been easier. :surprised:

PC Maintenance

Wise Registry Cleaner - really cleans the registry.

Other stuff

Auto Shutdown - a neat lil' software for when you're not around the PC to turn it off.
HJSplit - ever had an archive you wanted to chop off in multiple smaller archives? This is what you need!
TeraCopy - copypastaing has never been easier.
XNote Stopwatch - useful if you don't have a mobile at hand.
yWriter - are you a writer or want to be one? This can help get you organized!

Gaming

Overwolf - an excellent gaming overlay with a ton of widgets for communication.

English

WordWeb - a great lexicon of the English language.

IRC - You might wanna list links for the all popular mIRC and xchat and such.

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Posted 04 February 2012 - 12:46 AM

KQ said:

Oh, this is a fairly interesting thread. Great idea! Of course, there are still more links to be added, and here are my suggestions (apologies if something has already been added):

Audio/Video

DVDVideoSoft - simply a must have for all your video and audio conversion excursions and youtube downloading (and more than that)!

Media Players

KMPlayer - a really excellent free media player. Plays almost anything!

Books & Comics

calibre - this is simply a must have for all your e-book organizing habits.
Adobe Digital Editions - a very sleek interface for reading books.
ComicRack - reading comics has never been easier. :surprised:

PC Maintenance

Wise Registry Cleaner - really cleans the registry.

Other stuff

Auto Shutdown - a neat lil' software for when you're not around the PC to turn it off.
HJSplit - ever had an archive you wanted to chop off in multiple smaller archives? This is what you need!
TeraCopy - copypastaing has never been easier.
XNote Stopwatch - useful if you don't have a mobile at hand.
yWriter - are you a writer or want to be one? This can help get you organized!

Gaming

Overwolf - an excellent gaming overlay with a ton of widgets for communication.

English

WordWeb - a great lexicon of the English language.

IRC - You might wanna list links for the all popular mIRC and xchat and such.

Added nearly all of that, will be adding IRC etc soon. Great additions.
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Posted 04 February 2012 - 01:07 AM

Audio/Video, you're missing freemake.
Protection, you're missing AntiVir.... and for some reason AVG is there...
Office, Replace OpenOffice with LibreOffice.
Music, add Foobar 2000.
OS, replace memtest with memtestplus
Web, add WOT.

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Posted 04 February 2012 - 04:35 PM

Added Prime95. Can't believe we forgot that one :)
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Posted 04 February 2012 - 05:51 PM

Speaking of stress testing, maybe OCCT and Intel XTU.

http://www.ocbase.co...ex.php?Download
http://downloadcente...uning utility""

Another tech news site: http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/.

EDIT over edit: nevermind, missed wallbase in the list :p

Edited by tijo, 04 February 2012 - 05:55 PM.

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Posted 04 February 2012 - 05:57 PM

Auslogic Disk Defrag (comparable to Defraggler, but I prefer Auslogic's program myself).

http://www.auslogics...re/disk-defrag/

Sapphire Trixx - My favorite AMD GPU Overclocking Utility.

https://www.sapphire...riXX/TriXX.aspx

Edited by Elder III, 04 February 2012 - 05:57 PM.
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Posted 04 February 2012 - 06:09 PM

Wow, totally forgot about trixx and yeah it'll work on any GPU. Great little piece of software.

Anyways, just took a look at the utilities i have on my desktop and here are the ones i have that aren't listed, some serve the same purpose as other programs you listed though:

HWiNFO64: http://www.hwinfo.com/download64.html -> monitoring
Cinebench: http://www.maxon.net.../cinebench.html -> benchmark
wPrime: http://www.wprime.net/Download/ -> benchmark
superpi: http://www.techpower...I_Mod_v1.5.html (single threaded benchmark)
AS SSD: http://www.alex-is.d...D Benchmark.zip Direct link to dl as the homepage is in german
ATIFlash: http://www.techpower...Flash_3.89.html + RBE: http://www.techpowerup.com/rbe/ dangerous stuff, but essential if you want to mod the vbios on AMD video cards.

Edited by tijo, 04 February 2012 - 06:17 PM.

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Posted 22 February 2012 - 12:09 PM

Game Booster is a good tool for optimizing your PC for gaming. Its designed to reduce lag and increase FPS. It does this by stopping services and processors aswell as tweaking your OS (if you are using Windows 7 it will change your theme to basic when you start a game) to reduce overall resource consumption. It also clears your RAM.

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Posted 05 May 2012 - 09:23 PM

MSI Afterburner can also be used for video recording and its completely free. You should also replace VLC media player with either MPC-HC, CCCP codec pack which has MPC-HC included or MPlayer. VLC sucks so bad no one should use it.

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Posted 16 May 2012 - 11:27 AM

how about RaidCall for voice/chat ? its free and my legion was using it, so from my experience is "light" for the pc performance and i never noticed lag !

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Posted 23 May 2012 - 01:52 PM

Please add Bandicam. Its for video recording and after testing fraps....i hate it! Bandicam allows for much larger videos to be recorded at great quality for FREE

LINK: http://www.bandicam.com/downloads/

Edited by Regal, 23 May 2012 - 01:53 PM.

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Posted 12 June 2012 - 10:40 PM

View Postloulaki, on 16 May 2012 - 11:27 AM, said:

how about RaidCall for voice/chat ? its free and my legion was using it, so from my experience is "light" for the pc performance and i never noticed lag !
I haven't seen that one at all and what about C3? http://www.downloadc3.com/ . i think this hasn't been up recently. XD

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Posted 29 October 2012 - 01:46 AM

Game booster should be on here! http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html
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