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So with Anahiem not looking like a extremely likely outcome. I have been thinking about getting a new computer. Which is giving me a headache.
Its not that I feel attached to my current computer. Its more the case of me wanting to be lazy and not having to reinstall every thing I currently have on my computer.
Though I have mostly steam games. SC2, and some random old games form cd's. I just would rather not do it. I would rather stay with my older decent computer than take the trouble to reinstall everything onto it. Including my mouse, keyboard drviers. My graphics card, and everything else.
I mean really thinking about it I would have to reinstall not only those but redownload counter strike, divinity 2, dawn of war 2, hon, LoL,
plus would have to figure out where to save all my bw and sc2 reps. And then all my music too. Ugh what a annoyance. Gives me an aneurysm just thinking about it.
Anyone else have experince with switching to a new computer?
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It's not really that bad once you do it. If you only have one harddrive, get a second one, maybe an external, and you can put a ton of your files there.
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Vatican City State1872 Posts
Or just buy a new computer and an extra harddrive to put in ur old pc and put the one in ur current PC into an external case or even inside of your new case...
Also, you aren't going to be installing the same graphics card unless ur piecing in which case, I don't see how this is a hard process at all
like 1hr of work tops lol.
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Vatican City State1872 Posts
also if you're piecing equipment and just buying a new board and processor u can use the same harddrive... I'm pretty sure it would just all plug in and play, might have to install the new boards drivers but thats about it.
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England6749 Posts
i use standard mouse and keyboard so they are plug and play. and a simple visit to the amd site got me my graphics drivers.
while i was waiting on sc2 to download (with p2p turned off to save bandwidth) i spent about 30 mins sorting out the usual software
winrar
open office
skype
msn
utorrent
the most annoying part of starting from a fresh install is actually remembering what you had before  if you make a decent list you can be ready to go in under 30 minutes
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It really isn't so bad. It's nice starting from a clean slate actually. And yeah, just buy a new hard drive and keep the old one.
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Well here is the list I made.
League of legends
Open office
Skype
7Zip
Starcraft 2
Bittorrent
Heroes of newerth
divinity 2
Dawn of war 2
Counter strike
Starcraft Brood war
Demon tools lite
Brood war .ISO file
ICCup launcher
Rexplorer
BWChart
ADVLoader
Teamspeak 3
Gom player
Malware bytes
Steam
Ventrilo
Raidcall
Orbit download manager
CCleaner
Speccy
Flash live media encoder
Adobe reader
paint.net
Convert to DVD 4
Half of those I could easily put onto a DVD and when I get a new computer just take from disk and install. The rest I would have to download and reinstall from there. Personally the steam games would be most annoying. being around 15 GB between the buunch of them.
btw the new computer has a 500GB hardrive. so i'd be pretty satisifed with that size. Here are the specs incase anyone intrested.
AMD Phenom 9600 - 4 cores @ 2.8Ghz
Seagate 7200.12 500G HDisk
Kingston 2x2G RAM ( I assume its DDR2 Ram)
ATI 4670 1G
Cooler Master 460W PSU
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Remind me again which part of downloading involves 'effort' ?
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On June 15 2011 02:37 a176 wrote:
Remind me again which part of downloading involves 'effort' ?
Effort= Internet usage
I have like a 2-3mb connection. So patching or downloading a game takes away a lot of time.
Plus having to transfer all my music and files over to new computer is a hassle
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You dont need to download everything at once. Download some essentials like the ones turdburgler mentioned and go from there. When you need something get it...else why worry about it.
As for your music thats just a drag and drop. Put it in a folder and drop...voila, go watch a TV show.
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Oh my god.
I LOVE getting a new computer and installing everything BRAND NEW. Maybe that's kinda geeky, but I absolutely love doing it. It's like when you're younger and you get a new toy that you play with non-stop for a week. *__* Except you don't stop playing with this one.
I absolutely love having a new computer and everything is shiny and sometimes you forget to install things or forget you're on a new computer and then you're like "omg that's right NEW COMPUTERRRR!! like a boss!" p___q this might just be me
Can I ask what the old specs of your computer are? Because if you're buying this one as your new one..
Anyway, if you're willing to go through the 'hassle' (which again, I find to be super easy), you can head to a computer store(Memory Express, NCIX), pick up a superrrrrr cheap 500GB(or less) hard drive, and get a cheap enclosure for it, then take all your music/movies and transfer them over. Let it run while you have a shower or while you're making dinner+eating.
Then, once you have your new computer, just take the new hard drive out of the enclosure and pop it into your computer.
I can promise you, this is the easiest thing ever to do. I did this when I was 12, and knew absolutely nothing about a computer.
You can put all of your BW and SC2 replays on this too. SC2 replays are BEYOND easy to transfer over somewhere, don't know about BW ones though(Never played)
Actually, this all probably takes less effort than sitting on TeamLiquid and posting about it.
Like other people have said, it's super easy to just let the download run while you go to work, or while you're sleeping. And, like others have said, just download what you need right now.
Do you really need Adobe Reader(which most computers already have installed?) RIGHT NOW?
There's a lot of those you don't need unless you're a social butterfly and talk to everyone and play everything everyday.
Anyway. If you live in BC(Vancouver is what I'm pointing out mostly), it's super AND cheap to up your internet connection speed if you really wanted. My and my roommates are paying 160$ a month for the highest speed internet we can find..
You could come over if you really wanted, bring your computers, and I could do it for you if you really wanted =___=''
But if you live anywhere else.. -shrug- Just let it run overnight. It's no big deal.
In all honesty, I do not see the big deal at all. You're just being incredibly lazy and complaining about something extremely little.
Come on, new materialistic objects are fun and stuff!~ \o/ wheee~
Edit: Wow, sorry for the long post. I think I ramble too much. Either way, enjoy your new computer! ♥
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Well I have not gotten the computer yet. And I usually browse tl while working so :/
Here are my old specs.
CPU
Intel Pentium D 925
Presler 65nm Technology
RAM
2.0GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 266MHz (4-4-4-12)
Motherboard
Acer G945MK (Socket 775)
Graphics
Acer P216H (1920x1080@60Hz)
ATI Radeon HD 5570
Hard Drives
156GB Western Digital WDC WD1600JB-00GVA0 (PATA) 78GB Hitachi HDS728080PLA380 40Y9028LEN (SATA) Optical Drives
TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H652L
JEJABUJ NSHU70HY SCSI CdRom Device
Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio
From what I can tell the possible new computer is much better. Hopefully would be able to play sc2 on high setting or even ultra (from youtube it looks like the card there can only give like 30 fps constant on ultra though
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i have music projects that require unique folder structures to work, so yeah, im not very happy about the fact that some of my hardware seems to be crashing and ill need to update this summer.. 
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