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Howard_Casto:
I'm still looking for a monitor. Case finally came in today and after a legitimate four hours of routing cables to make it look pretty I'm up a running. It'll be at least another day before I get all my junk transferred over and all my important apps re-installed. I'll take pics or vid tonight, but I doubt you all want to see the mountain of cardboard boxes piled up all around me so I'll wait until I've cleaned up a little.

slickam:
Something I've used whenever I set up a new computer is https://ninite.com/ It builds an installer for every program you select from its list, which takes all the defaults for install location and things like that, but doesn't include extra junk like toolbars.

Howard_Casto:
Eh I don't think that'd work for me. Installing vb6 on windows 10... it's an adventure. I'm getting it done. Backing up and transferring email now. I think I'm just going to throw this harddrive in the new pc as a secondary unit for the time being.... that'll make any transfers easy.

Howard_Casto:
I got everything buttoned up and threw the hdd from my old pc into the new one so I can transfer stuff at my leisure. As for games I don't really have anything super taxing on hand so I threw Dirt Rally on there. Yeah it's a 5 year old game, but the benckmark test showed it averaging 106 fps on ultra settings. Mind you I'm using my old 1600x900 monitor so it's bound to take a dip at 1080p, but overall I'm satisfied with those results.

I'll start seriously looking for a monitor now and maybe get a new UPS as my old one is flaking out.

Btw I'm amazed... even web pages load faster so my poor pc must have been struggling.

Howard_Casto:
So I'm still looking for a suitable monitor but I have everything installed and the way I like it. Since every other post in the main forums ask about "how powerful a pc do I need to run X?" are there any tests you guys would like me to run in terms of benchmarking pc games or running emulators? So far I've tried dirt rally, mortal kombat xl, and the new killer instinct and they've all ran great at maximum settings. I also tried pcsx2 and it ran fine with outrun 2, which absolutely chugged on my old pc. Gamecube emulation maybe? Something hard to run in mame?

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