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New PC, Musthave software

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System Name Purple Haze | Vacuum Box
Processor AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D (-30 CO) | Intel® Xeon® E3-1241 v3
Motherboard MSI B450 Tomahawk Max | Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD5H
Cooling Dark Rock 4 Pro, Arctic P14 & P12 case fans | 212 Evo & P12 PWM PST x2, Arctic P14 & P12 case fans
Memory 32GB Ballistix (Micron E 19nm) CL16 @3733MHz | 32GB HyperX Beast 2400MHz (XMP)
Video Card(s) AMD 6900XTXH ASRock OC Formula & Phanteks T30x3 | AMD 5700XT Sapphire Nitro+ & Arctic P12x2
Storage ADATA SX8200 Pro 1TB, Toshiba P300 3TB x2 | Kingston A400 120GB, Fanxiang S500 Pro 256GB
Display(s) Mi 2K Gaming Monitor 27", AOC 24G2U
Case Modded MS Industrial Titan II Pro RGB | Heavily Modded Cooler Master Q500L
Audio Device(s) Audient iD14 MKII, Adam Audio T8Vs, Bloody M550, HiFiMan HE400se, Tascam TM-80
Power Supply Rosewill Capstone 1000M | Enermax Revolution X't 730W (both with P14 fans)
Mouse Logitech G305, Bloody A91, Amazon basics, Logitech M187
Keyboard Redragon K530, Bloody B930, Epomaker TH80 SE, BTC 9110
Software W10 LTSC 21H2
Haven't checked all of the stuff people already mentioned, but I'll share what I use daily.

-MusicBee for the lossless, Spotify for the rest and an exploration;
-Firefox
-uTorrent 2.0.4
-HWInfo, RTTS, PBO2 tuner, FanControl;
-mpv player, Image Glass, Portable PS8;

I have a library of tools (mostly portable ones). Some from this folder are used daily, others haven't been used for years, and there are those not used even once:

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Memory Micron DDR4-3200 2x32GB D.S. D.R. (CT2K32G4DFD832A)
Video Card(s) AMD RX 6800 - Asus Tuf
Storage Kingston KC3000 1TB & 2TB & 4TB Corsair LPX
Display(s) LG 27UL550-W (27" 4k)
Case Be Quiet Pure Base 600 (no window)
Audio Device(s) Realtek ALC1220-VB
Power Supply SuperFlower Leadex V Gold Pro 850W ATX Ver2.52
Mouse Mionix Naos Pro
Keyboard Corsair Strafe with browns
Software W10 22H2 Pro x64
Hi Guys,

I just upgraded my pc and made a new windows installation.
What are your recommendation for standard software?

I have the following":

- Office
- Chrome/Firefox
- Steam (and all other game launchers)
- Drivers of the mobo, chipset, GPU
- Workrelated stuf (Wireshark, VMWare)
- Discord
- Greenshot
for older games
if you have anything that takes HEIC pics

general
7-zip
sumatra pdf
my buddy like this one
 
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System Name ASUS TUF F15
Processor Intel Core i5-10300H
Motherboard ASUS FX506LHB
Cooling Laptop built-in cooling lol
Memory 24GB @ 2933 Dual Channel
Video Card(s) Intel UHD & Nvidia GTX 1650 Mobile
Storage WD Black SN770 NVMe 1TB PCIe 4.0
Display(s) Dell 27 4K Monitor S2721QS; Samsung Odyssey G55 Curved 2K 144 Hz LC27G55TQWRXEN
Audio Device(s) LOGITECH 2.1-channel
Power Supply ASUS 180W PSU (from more powerful ASUS TUF DASH F15 lol)
Mouse Logitech G604
Keyboard SteelSeries Apex 7 TKL
Software Windows 11 Pro
Tixati
Process Lasso
Process Hacker for me plz

Keywords here being "NEW PC" :wtf:

Chipset+GPU+Network drivers
CPU-Z
HWinfo
DiskInfo
WinaeroTweaker
GPU-Z
HDTunePro
FanControl
7-Zip
Media Player Classic
Oculus drivers
PowerShell 7
Windows Admin Center
PCMark
VRMark
Python
Steam
GOG Galaxy
Nexon launcher
Epic launcher
Itch launcher
Game Jolt launcher
Ubisoft Connect
NOX player
DMM Game Player
Fiddler
Figma
Draw.io
OneNote
DejaVu
NitroPDF/Foxit
CDisplay
Anki
Obsidian
Shift
Wakan
SQL Server 2016
SQL Server Management Studio
Visual Studio Community 2017
Unity engine
Unreal engine
VMware Workstation 16 Pro
Blender
OBS Studio
WinDirStat
DriverStore Explorer
LatencyMon
Wireshark

A few to avoid:
TCP Optimizer
Discord
Twitch Studio
Game Ranger
IPFS Desktop
Speedfan
Transmission
Baidu NetDisk
CCleaner
EcMenu

That's about all I've got.
don't forget avast/avg antivirus and malwarebytes anti malware + other "anti malware" malware....
 
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