After years spent on computers I decided I should make a list of all the gear/software/etc. I would recommend to people, and here it is.

Hardware

• Motherboards: Anything by Intel
• CPU: Intel Core 2
• Professional Sound Card: M-Audio Delta 24/96 (Most reliable, cheap recording sound card)
• Gaming Sound Card: X-Fi

Software

• Music Player: foobar2000
• Video Player: Media Player Classic
• DVD/HDTV Player: Cyberlink PowerDVD
• Defrag: O&O Defrag for thorough results, Diskeeper for ease of use.

Windows Server Related

• Mail Server: hMailServer (Free, open-source)
• Anti-spam: ASSP (Free, open-source, easy to install)

Websites

• Music Tracking: Last.fm
• Website Stats (Simple): SiteSubmit
• Website Stats (Over the top): Google Analytics
• Weather: The Weather Network
• To-do Lists: Ta-da Lists