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jagdtiger00
Jul 21, 2007

This thread may help me out. I built my first PC 3 years ago. I had no knowledge really beforehand on how to most efficiently setup everything such as the BIOS and all that (still don't) and built my current computer (2nd) also for gaming (hardware wise).

Is it really just plug all the stuff in and turn the son of a bitch on? Both computers I've built I did just that and everything seems to be peachy. The only BIOS settings I've ever really tweaked with is raising the voltage to RAM to match what I saw what the RAM drew on Newegg.

As for partitioning, is it beneficial to create a special partition for Windows or just install it in the vast emptiness of a new hard drive along with everything else, because I've been doing the latter for years. I never really understood partitions.

I keep all drivers up to date (mostly).

jagdtiger00 fucked around with this message at 05:55 on Dec 23, 2010

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jagdtiger00
Jul 21, 2007

Fil5000 posted:


The only reason I can think of these days to have a separate OS partition is for those times where you want to format and reinstall for some reason. If you've got a separate partition you don't lose all your games/data/porn when you flatten and reinstall.

Ahh that makes sense. Hell the only reason I flatten and reinstall is to do a fresh start anyway. I like to reformat about once a year, and with high speed internet now my digital purchases of games come right on back quickly anyway.

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