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    Sager 9262 programs to get me started

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by knudix, Jul 21, 2008.

  1. knudix

    knudix Newbie

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    I'm getting my sager 9262 (or Kunshan d900 which is its name from the retailer in Norway) tomorrow and I was wondering which programs that i should install right away to get the most out of my laptop.

    It runs with a quadcore and dual 8800gtx.

    Should I use the latest drivers from Nvidia or is there some custom divers that are better?

    And I read about a program somewhere on these forums that help getting the most out of your graphic cards for gaming(enable sli, AA, AF for individual games etc) I just can't remember its name.

    Anyone got any usefull links?

    Will run windows Xp as OS
     
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  2. Gophn

    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    Welcome to the NBR forums. :)

    For monitoring:
    - RivaTuner (for GPU, great for in-game monitoring)
    - RMclock (for CPU)
    - HWmonitor (for all)

    For web browsing:
    - Mozilla Firefox 3 (with extensions: AdBlock Plus)

    For Anti-Virus: (use only 1)
    - avast 4! Home Free Edition (100% free and good)
    - AVG Free Antivirus (100% free and good)

    For Firewall:
    - Comodo Firewall (100% free and really good)

    For spyware/malware scanner:
    - Spybot: Search and Destroy (100% free and really good)
    - Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware (100% free and really good)
    ..... both are manually used so they wont take up resources in the background. :)

    For an Office Suite:
    - OpenOffice 3 (100% free and good alternative to Microsoft Office 2007)
     
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  3. Mikelx215

    Mikelx215 Notebook Evangelist

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    For raster graphic editing:
    The GIMP - You can even make it look like Photoshop with GIMPshop

    For vector graphic editing:
    Inkscape - Like Adobe Illustrator

    Mac OS X style dock:
    Rocketdock - You can even close windows to it!

    Maintenance
    Glary Utilities - Keep your PC running smoothly

    Free up RAM
    RAMBooster 2 - Get the most out of your RAM

    That's all I could think of off the top of my head.
     
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