What does everyone have installed on the G73JH?

What does everyone have installed after a fresh format of WINDOWS 7 from driver's to program's I'm trying to get a feel on what to do so please chime on this thread.

 

I dont have a G73, but if you do a fresh install, besides the notebook's actual drivers, you should install AVG free, peerblock, pidgin, firefox, superantispyware, malwarebytes antimalware, winamp, and SC2 Also, for work, install MS Office or openoffice. GL HF

 

Here : http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus/468027-complete-walk-through-doing-clean-windows-7-install.html

 

Adam i already read the walk-through just wanted to see what everyone is running on their G7.

 

Office 2003, MediaMonkey, Crysis, Civilization V, firefox, Team Fortress II, Supreme Commander, HW monitor (to track the temps), and of course the most important program in this forum....Furmark (to make the temps).

 

Bios 211, vbios 93 oc, ati 10.8, performance test 64, PC pitstop optimize 3, advance system care 3, microsoft security essentials, open office, steam client, 110gb movies, 40gb music, intel chipset latest driver, Utorrent, winrar, world of warcraft, fear, fear2, MOH all, COD all, halflife the orange box plus all the old ones, and tons more.

 

Is your system stable while Gaming? (and other media features) on bios 211, vbios 93 oc (clocks used? default ones?) ati 10.8??

I am still on stock bios 206, stock vbios, stock ati 9. or 8. something...
I am not experiencing any problems while gaming or any other activity (crysis, crysis warhead, fear 2, alien swarm, left 4 dead 2, the witcher)
Hence if I could enhance my gaming by gaining more FPS, more performance then why not?? ;-)

It's just that I try to avoid the "Flashing" process although i've read the flashing process here in this forum a hundred times and know what is to be done and what is to be avoided.. still... i try to "flash" only if worthwhile changes are to be gained. (especially when it comes to Gaming)

Is it worth upgrading?
Any graphical enhancements you have noticed (noticeable higher FPS? (especially in crysis warhead while playing on high def, 'enthusiast' settings, where FPS drops sharply sometimes) other matters?)

By the way my 3dmark06 on stock 206, stock everything is around ~12,000-12,500
And my temps. although I havent really monitored them are normal even, cooler than normal.. (That's how the laptop "feels") And fans run very "normally", mostly not lousy at all.

Thank you loads for your feedback

 

BIOS 209, vBIOS v93, ATI 10.8, Microsoft Security Essentials, Steam, Intel Rapid Storage Technology, Intel Chipset Driver (go to the Asus site for this one), ATK package, Synaptics drivers, Realtek Audio Drivers, Just Cause 2, STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, Firefox 3.6, Crysis, Crysis Warhead, Flash Plugin...might be some more, but I'm not on the G73 right now so I can't check.

I think I got them all anyway. I did have Furmark on there for a little while for testing purposes, but I uninstalled it. Have the installer in my Downloads folder anyway.

These are the ONLY things I have installed on there. None of that unnecessary OEM stuff.

 

I have a bit of crap installed now, but what I use regularly:

Dragon age: Origins
Modern Warfare 2
Firefox (duh)
Thunderbird
Daemon tools light

+ some more shady tools

EDIT: missed keystroke!

 

Microsoft Security Essentials, Steam, Sony Vegas, AIM, FRAPS, HWMonitor, GPUZ/CPUZ, HWiNFO32, tons more crap and only the essential drivers and stuff, not all the fluff Asus packs into the G73. The rest is just programs and stuff I use on a regular basis and of course all my games. I have BIOS 211, vBIOS v93, Catalyst 10.8 which works fantastically and as far as games go, here's my meager list: http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/3356/steamgames.png

 

Well I just had to do a fresh install actually so I am going from a maxed out 500gb drive to the essentials.

In about a week when I feel I have everything I use normally I will make a core backup image for restore should I ever have to do a fresh install again.

Here is the stuff I did so far.


> Updated the GPU drivers to 10.9
> Firefox
> Irfanview
> Foxit Reader
> Adobe Flash
> .Net Framework
> Direct X Updates
> Daemon Tools Lite
> Photoshop
> Winamp
> Songbird
> CCCP
> VLC Player
> Winrar

On the to do list:

> FRAPS
> Nero Burning Rom
> Uniextract
> HJ Split
> DVD Flick

+more to list later.
>

 

microsoft security essentials, steam, ccleaner, vmware workstation, open office, drivers + junk. Thats what I roll with.

 

Nice games i just did a fresh install last night so I'm just looking out for what's best for my baby I'll be looking to take a little bit of what everyone is using then see what i will pick from the list.

 

More than anyone else here more than likely.

MSE 2.0 Beta is the Virus Scanner I use. Works like a champ.

 

I should get my baby back tomorrow any more ideas what i could possibly add?

Has anyone repartitioned their drive to a one size format? instead of having 4 partitions let say have 3 and have the partition that hold's the os bigger? I am thinking about using g-parted and doing so.

does anyone have a tut or a video they can point me out to so i can partition my drive?

 

my list...

 

Security
- Anti-virus/malware: Malwarebytes' Anti-malware
- Internet Security: ZoneLabs ZoneAlarm Firewall PRO

Gaming
- PS3 Controller Driver - MotioninJoy

Latest ASUS/Realtek/CCC drivers

 

What i did:

-Windows (C: ) - 465GB
-Storage (D: ) - 232GB (with only my pictures/movies/music)
-Games (E: ) - 232GB

My current games are:

-Battlefield BC2
-Medal of Honor
-Call of Duty MW2
-Just Cause 2 (Best game ever if you ask me ^^)
-The force Unleashed II
-Darksiders (not really my type of game)
-Racedriver Grid (awesome with an Xbox 360 wireless controller)

And then some photoshop CS4, Autocad 2010, and the usual.

 

well since i have the Elitebook, my G73 mainly sits and plays my media lol

but my machine:

C: System 16 (Win 2k) 8GB
D: System 32 (Win XP) 25GB
E: System 64 (Win 7 Pro) 80GB
F: Pagefile (24GB) (disc 2)

(Note C/D/F are hidden in win 7 - E/F are hidden in XP - Everything else is hidden from Win 2k)

N: Applications: 200G
R: Games 100G

Disc 2 is just

X: Everquest 2 (25G)
T: Music (200G) - All my old DJ vinyls
Z: Recorded TV (200G)

sizes are guestimates, as i cba getting out of bed lol.

My games list is quite immense, but recent ones are on steam, LfD LfD2 etc, all COD, all BF.

I also have some old skool games like carmageddon, Discworld 2, Colonisation (DOS version) and such running in XP.

Applications, 3DS Max EDU edition V9 & 2011
Adobe CS5 Teacher Edition
Office 2007

Yes i am allowed to be called eccentric

 

So far i partitioned my Win 7 os space with 300 gb.

Next I partitioned more space about 30 gb for my Linux distro and another 1 gb for cache space, and the rest of the 80 so gb I set it as ntfs for my music movies pic's.

I still have another 465gb space left, for god knows what lol

 

Basically what i got:

Firefox, Openoffice, IDM, Powerdvd10, glary utilities, smart defrag, Drive sweeper, Roxio, AVG, Fort Zombie, FSX, CIVilizations IV, Rainbow Six Vegas 1 & 2, SC2 (of course), Crysis Warhead, Dirt 2 (which sucks btw, bcse can't run properly due to the damn thing detecting a external input device which does not allow it to start career mode, BS thats what i call it, and don't let me get started on Code-masters Customers Support...) ohh and Zuma Revenge (who btw is giving hell to the 5870 card on the computer, hmm go figure)