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Ccleaner for cleaning up your PC is vital.
RadeonPro is another one, especially for AMD users as you can then use Adaptive V-Sync amongst other things.
MSI AfterBurner for GPU overclocking and over/undervolting.
Swiftshader if you wish to emulate pixel shaders on the CPU, which can allow you to play more modern games on old hardware.
CPU-Z
GPU-Z
Core Temp - So you can monitor your temperatures and clocks.
CPUID Hardware Monitor. - Name says it all really.
PowerISO. - Create an image of all your old archaic games on those optical disc things and never use them again.
wPrime. - CPU Benchmarking/Stability Utility.
Prime95. - Same as above.
SetFSB. - For overclocking laptop's.
Clockgen. - Same as above.
XSplit. - Record your games, CPU intensive, recommend a Hexacore CPU if you are running a quad-threaded game and recording in greater than 1080P.
Xfire. - Tracks where and when PC gamers are playing.
TeamSpeak. - Name says it all.
Ventrilo. - Voice chat channels.
Mumble. - Similar to above.
Raptr. - Cross game messaging application, which hooks into AIM, MSN, Steam, Games for Windows Live and amongst others.
TCP Optimizer. - Lets you fine tune your LAN/Internet connection for lower latency/more throughput.
nHancer. - For nVidia cards, haven't played with it much.
FileZilla. - A requirement for any gaming PC that goes to a Lan party to download Pr0n/Games er... I mean Patches and Linux Distro's.
Image Resizer. - Resize those screenshots with ease.

Benchmarking...
Unigen Heaven Benchmark. - Pretty Tessellated bits.
Catzilla. - It has cats.
Furmark. - Kinda' obsolete now that GPU's throttle when this is run.
3D Mark. - All of them.
Crystal Disk Mark. - Benchmark dem' SSD's.
Sandra 2013. - All your Rams are belong to us.

And that's all I can think of, other than stuff like Winrar, Winzip, zZip, Steam, Origin, uPlay...




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