I think if I spend an hour revising each day and an hour doing work each day, that should prepare me enough for everything and should still leave me enough time to do whatever it is I want to.

So what shall I be doing during the holidays? Well I have no idea, apart from seeing people a couple of times, i think we’ll just have to play it ear, which should be good. Oh, and plenty f sleep, I need to sleep alot this holiday too

That’s about it, just keeping ye olde blog ticking over, oh and Techious2 is now synced up to my laptop so I can work on that remotely too which I’m sure some people will be glad of

Well, more sleep needed so cya.

Oh yea, theres also a 720p YouTube plugin in here now so once that works, I will be porting that not only here, but also into the main Techious Forums for funs and lols!

For the lols, here is a nice picture of my internet’s speed here:

Edit: I’ve added a picture of it being even quicker

Well, I better go off finding stuff cyas,

However, I sense the curse of buying games will follow me. It seems any game I buy on release is almost half the price a month later, and any game that I don’t buy in the first month will remain like that for the next million years or so. Being I haven’t got spore, chances are it is going to be one of the latter, especially with it being the huge hit it appears to be. I mean half my Steam list is on spore, and well it’s not even on Steam, thats just people that launch it through there. It’s currently 4th on the Xfire most played game list, and being it’s not even been out for a week, thats some feat! Only trailing between COD4,2 and WoW (wow that rubbish is popular).

My computer is running well, apart from I only get a framerate of 5-10 when I forget to turn folding@home-gpu off (6 hour work unit ftw!).

Left4Dead coming out in October, that shall also be awesome, can’t wait to see what Valve have done to pimp the Source Engine some more, though it seems that soon Source might be having a huge graphical upgrade, so DX10.1 might come in useful for ep3 More games to buy, just great. Now let me work this out, if I don’t eat for the next 3 months while I’m at Uni, I can afford to get spore and l4d. I know, I’ll try this new votey thing and see what the two people who read this thing I should do!

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In other more home news, my photos site is down (noooooo) while I upload all 1 million gigabytes to the new server. It’s about 40% done so should be back up and running by the end of the week. And don’t worry Reedy, your blog’ll be back up soon enough!

Moving to Uni on the 27th. That is going to be one heck of a shock when I move in, though a bit of TF2 or HL2DM might take the edge off No more matches though, I think last night set that we are screwed with that, and with the admin plugin kicking the wrong person :/ yeah, I think we need a bit of work all round,

That’s about it, hopefully enough for you to spam comments on Skillers

Firstly heres the motherboard in my cleaned case with the CPU and cooler attached.

Motherboard in the case

Here is the finished result:

The finished result

Not exactly the tidiest result, but at least its all there. Also you might see my USB bluetooth adapter thats now stuck inside attached to my PCI USB2 card. I probabily don’t need it, but the more USB ports the merrier.

Oh but wait, it gets worse, 350W generic POS power supply, that won’t power that. Oops noob mistake, should have checked that. Quick rush for a new 600W modular power supply, fitted it in and heres the actual final result:

The finished result (with new PSU)

I think that result is tidier. Air can actually flow, and it runs quite well.
Hope those pics are good enough for you Skillers

Firstly, the parts that I ordered:

• Corsair Memory 2x1GB 240-Pin DIMM XMS2-6400 CL5 Corsair Memory 2x1GB 240-Pin DIMM XMS2-6400 CL5 – £29.84
• Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 2.53GHz – £75.18
• Gigabyte S775 Intel P31 DDR2 ATX Audio Lan Gigabyte S775 Intel P31 DDR2 ATX Audio Lan – £41.46
• Gigabyte Radeon 4850 512MB PCIE 2xDVI 625MHz/1.9GHz – £115.13
• Grand Total: £261.61

Now, firstly my parts had arrived in a box that surely was too big for what it needed?!

A big box

And the parts inside the box:

The CPU:

The box for a processor

45nm, “You are so small, it’s funny to me!” I believe would be the heavys reaction.

Top of Processor Box

Surely such a big box for this small processor?

Back of Processor Box

Ooh it spins… hopefully enough to cool it down so I don’t melt my new processor.

The Motherboard:

Motherboard box

Well, the processor fits on there, thats about as much as I know lol

Graphics Card:

Motherboard Box

Shiny box… let’s hope the graphics are as shiny

Graphics Card

And the shiny graphics card, not as shiny as it’s box, but defnetly better than the nVIDIA 5200 that it replaces.

RAM:

RAM

2GB should be enough to let me actually use this thing lol

Ooh, maps copied I’m gonna now test this system and put more pics later