Goon-Approved Hardware/Software [SUGGESTIONS WELCOME]

[SIZE="2"]Throughout the thousands of forums and websites out there, there seems to be a general consensus on products and software that are generally agreed on as goon-approved. This is my attempt to try to enumerate these, so please post your goon-approved items! (And why they are so great)

Here's what I have so far:

Hardware:

• WRT54Gv4
  
• Dell 2005FPW/2007WFP
  
• LaserJet 3/4/5
  
• Samsung ML - series laser printers
  
• Dell Latitude notebooks
  
• Samsung 205BW 20" widescreen LCD monitor
  
• Logitech MX3200 Keyboard/mouse
  
• IBM Model M
  

Software:

• NOD32
  
• Xplorer2
  
• Ultramon
  
• foobar2000
  

MP3 Players:

• Creative Zen players
  
• Zune
  

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Wheels!


Lightbulbs!


Pants!


Commodes!


Clothespins!



Straws!


Chik Fil A!


And finally, the Logitech MX518 laser mouse! Everybody loves this mouse, and I don't know anybody who doesn't. I'm using it right now! To type! It's that good!





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[SIZE="4"]Goon-Approved

Hardware[/SIZE]

*Seagate Momentus XT ST95005620AS 500GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s with NCQ Solid State Hybrid Drive -Bare Drive

*AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Thuban 3.2GHz 6 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Six-Core Desktop Processor HDT90ZFBGRBOX

*Linksys E2000 IEEE 802.3/3u/3ab, IEEE 802.11a/b/g, IEEE802.11n Gigabit Advanced Wireless Router

*Samsung 40" 1080p 120Hz LED-LCD TV UN40C6300

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*Avast Antivirus/Internet Security

*Auslogics Disk Defrag & Boostspeed

*Notepad++

*Teamviewer

*Openoffice.org (Similar To Microsoft Office But Free)

*Filezilla

*Iobit Game Booster

*HLSW

*Google Chrome

*Mozilla Firefox

*Malware-Bytes Anti-Malware

*7-zip File Compression/Extrator

*Winrar & Winzip

*WeGame (Alternative To FRAPS)

*xFire

*VLC Media Player

*Utorrent/Bittorrent

*AVG Anti-Virus/Internet Security

Software - Rocket Dock

Processor:
Intel® Core™ i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz (8 CPUs), ~1.6GHz

Memory:
4096MB RAM

Hard Drive:
500 GB

Video Card:
ATI Radeon HD 5770

Monitor:
24" Samsung

Speakers/Headphones: Plantronics 5.1 Surround Sound

Keyboard:
Microsoft Digital Media Keyboard 3000

Mouse:
Razer Deathadder 3.5G

Mouse Surface:
Belkin

Operating System:
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600)

Motherboard:
EVGA 141-BL-E757-TR LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX X58 SLI LE Intel Motherboard

Computer Case:
AzzA Midtower

Software:

CCleaner
Sony Vegas Platinum
Sharpreader
Utorrent
HLSW
Faststone Capture
Adobe Photoshop CS5
Fraps
Foobar2000
Coretemp
Eset
Malwarebyte's Antimalware
CCCP
AVS Video Converter 9
dBPoweramp Audio Converter
Defraggler
Exact Audio Copy
Virtualbox
Winrar
Firefox
Whatpulse

Oh lol..

The hybrid drives actually aren't that much of an improvement compared to a HDD, and they're actually considerably noisy.
Known to overheat, KEEP IT VENTILATED WELL, it gave me tons of errors. This thing lights up quite quickly..
The small 4 gigs of SS practically only leaves the drive back at the same rate of writing or reading as any other HDD.
Other than that it gives a small boot time improvement and is generally as fast as an 10k RPM HDD.
If one of you uber techies has any way to access the SS part of the drive, then we can actually tune this..


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Mah Goonz Approved:

1. Phenom II x2 550 - Extremely fastass dual-core processor, offering all the advantages of the Phenom II series. Includes the possibility of being a Quad Core, with a simple unlock. For $100, you practically turn this into a 950. A worthy successor to the Athlon 7750.

2. Adobe Premier CS4 - Advance video editing tools as any other without the hassle of a learning curve.

3. After Effects - Used by numerous people to create 3D designs, animated logo's, and effects for videos such as the Jumper Effect, Legit-Looking Explosions, etc.

4. Creative Sound Blaster Arena Headsets - Uberass headset for a decent price. Not exactly Audiophile quality, but it offers a tight bass and great sound quality. The mic is good, but a little too bendy for my taste, but it works. Does a good job on surround sound deciphering on what is in front or behind you. though not as efficient as an actual speaker surround sound. It has a built-in sound card so it offers very consistent quality on wherever you go compared to other Headsets relying on a decent sound card. The only real problem with this headset for me is that it isn't very pretty, though I'd just simply spray-paint it black since the white really does it make hideous.

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Hey instead of trolling.

Let's discuss on why we Goon-Approve on the wonderful biological hardware: Penis.