Windows 7 and new programs....

Hello I just bought the below computer:

33642 Intel Core I7 920 2.66Ghz Box Socket 1366
34321 Asus P6T Deluxe V2 Socket 1366
35380 Scythe Mugen 2 CPU Cooler
34879 Mushkin Essential DDR3 PC3-16000 6GB 3x2GB 9-10-9-24
34010 Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA2 MAESTRO
34154 Cooler Master HAF 932
35218 Corsair HX850 850W Modular
36038 Asus Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5
35827 LG GH22NS50 Grabadora DVD SATA 22X Negra OEM
34641 Logitech Cordless Desktop Wave Pro OEM
36200 Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64bits OEM

I have two questions before it arrives tomorrow.... what partion of the hard drive do you recommend? I will just use the computer for gaming (Dragon age...here we go!) and internet...

Also, with my current rig (Windows XP) I have several other programs I have to take care of the computer like: CCLeaner, O&O Defrag, Glary utilities, Ad Awareand Regystry mechanic.... will those programs still be necesary in a Windows 7 set up?

Any other tips before I install windows 7? Any good web with good tips for good Windows 7 performance?

Thanks

Hello I just bought the below computer:

33642 Intel Core I7 920 2.66Ghz Box Socket 1366
34321 Asus P6T Deluxe V2 Socket 1366
35380 Scythe Mugen 2 CPU Cooler
34879 Mushkin Essential DDR3 PC3-16000 6GB 3x2GB 9-10-9-24
34010 Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA2 MAESTRO
34154 Cooler Master HAF 932
35218 Corsair HX850 850W Modular
36038 Asus Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5
35827 LG GH22NS50 Grabadora DVD SATA 22X Negra OEM
34641 Logitech Cordless Desktop Wave Pro OEM
36200 Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64bits OEM

I have two questions before it arrives tomorrow.... what partion of the hard drive do you recommend? I will just use the computer for gaming (Dragon age...here we go!) and internet...

Also, with my current rig (Windows XP) I have several other programs I have to take care of the computer like: CCLeaner, O&O Defrag, Glary utilities, Ad Awareand Regystry mechanic.... will those programs still be necesary in a Windows 7 set up?

Any other tips before I install windows 7? Any good web with good tips for good Windows 7 performance?

Thanks

MotherRussia

Well Ccleaner is always a good thing to have on your computer, and any other utilities that can be useful. Be careful on the registry cleaners though, using a 32bit Reg cleaner on a 64bit OS is a sure fire way to kill your OS and require it to be installed again. really it's all about preferance though for utilities. I don't mind just using the wondows disk manager and defrag and opt out on 3rd party software.

As far as performance whise go your rig is strong so performance won't be a big issue. You can speed up boot times by going into msconfig and using all your cpu cores at startup instead of the defaulted 1.

As far as hard drive partitioning I really prefer to just use one hard drive for the operating system and a 2nd one as the storage space. If you aren't going to use your old PC you can canabalize your old parts, if nothing else the HDD and Optical drives are always keepers.

[QUOTE="MotherRussia"]

Hello I just bought the below computer:

33642 Intel Core I7 920 2.66Ghz Box Socket 1366
34321 Asus P6T Deluxe V2 Socket 1366
35380 Scythe Mugen 2 CPU Cooler
34879 Mushkin Essential DDR3 PC3-16000 6GB 3x2GB 9-10-9-24
34010 Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA2 MAESTRO
34154 Cooler Master HAF 932
35218 Corsair HX850 850W Modular
36038 Asus Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5
35827 LG GH22NS50 Grabadora DVD SATA 22X Negra OEM
34641 Logitech Cordless Desktop Wave Pro OEM
36200 Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64bits OEM

I have two questions before it arrives tomorrow.... what partion of the hard drive do you recommend? I will just use the computer for gaming (Dragon age...here we go!) and internet...

Also, with my current rig (Windows XP) I have several other programs I have to take care of the computer like: CCLeaner, O&O Defrag, Glary utilities, Ad Awareand Regystry mechanic.... will those programs still be necesary in a Windows 7 set up?

Any other tips before I install windows 7? Any good web with good tips for good Windows 7 performance?

Thanks

Well Ccleaner is always a good thing to have on your computer, and any other utilities that can be useful. Be careful on the registry cleaners though, using a 32bit Reg cleaner on a 64bit OS is a sure fire way to kill your OS and require it to be installed again. really it's all about preferance though for utilities. I don't mind just using the wondows disk manager and defrag and opt out on 3rd party software.

As far as performance whise go your rig is strong so performance won't be a big issue. You can speed up boot times by going into msconfig and using all your cpu cores at startup instead of the defaulted 1.

As far as hard drive partitioning I really prefer to just use one hard drive for the operating system and a 2nd one as the storage space. If you aren't going to use your old PC you can canabalize your old parts, if nothing else the HDD and Optical drives are always keepers.

As far as performance whise go your rig is strong so performance won't be a big issue. You can speed up boot times by going into msconfig and using all your cpu cores at startup instead of the defaulted 1.Sparticus247

"Also, with my current rig (Windows XP) I have several other programs I have to take care of the computer like: CCLeaner, O&O Defrag, Glary utilities, Ad Awareand Regystry mechanic.... will those programs still be necesary in a Windows 7 set up?"... I wouldn't bother, at least give W7 a try without them for a few months. As for security/virus software be sure to check out Microsoft's excellent and FREE Microsoft Security Essentials.CellAnimation

So I shouldnt install any other antivirus apart of Microsoft Security Essentials?MotherRussia

[QUOTE="MotherRussia"]So I shouldnt install any other antivirus apart of Microsoft Security Essentials?CellAnimation

[QUOTE="MotherRussia"]So I shouldnt install any other antivirus apart of Microsoft Security Essentials?CellAnimation

Registry cleaners are a waste of time.

Any other programs key for a Windows 7 set up?MotherRussia

i recommend as an antivirus BITDEFENDER 2010 .

am also using those softtware for maintaining the pc

http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html?tag=mncol

http://download.cnet.com/Advanced-SystemCare-Free/3000-2086_4-10407614.html?tag=mncol

[QUOTE="Sparticus247"]As far as performance whise go your rig is strong so performance won't be a big issue. You can speed up boot times by going into msconfig and using all your cpu cores at startup instead of the defaulted 1.rock_solid

Well in both Vista nad 7 it didn't use all the cores by default. I had to manually set that up.

[QUOTE="rock_solid"][QUOTE="Sparticus247"]As far as performance whise go your rig is strong so performance won't be a big issue. You can speed up boot times by going into msconfig and using all your cpu cores at startup instead of the defaulted 1.Sparticus247

Well in both Vista nad 7 it didn't use all the cores by default. I had to manually set that up.

Download these following programs

-CCleaner
-Defraggler
-Revo Uninstaller

For protection
-Avast, Spybot Search and Destroy, and Malwarebytes are all good choices

[QUOTE="Sparticus247"]

[QUOTE="rock_solid"] i'm pretty sure windows uses all the cores by default...and that setting is just to LIMIT to less cores if you want to....for troubleshooting purposesrock_solid

Well in both Vista nad 7 it didn't use all the cores by default. I had to manually set that up.

Interesting. I haven't had any problems doing this however, and I've knocked about 10 seconds off my boot time. Now it could be a result of the updates fixing issues, but I'll have to look more into this. Thanks for the info though.

EDIT: Sure enough undoing the changes in msconfig didn't change my boot times. I did another install of windows 7 (have a few keys) and tried timing the boot times before updates and after updates, and that is what gave me the change in speed.