Mog and Chips

It’s not NoScript - new comp on IE and I’m getting the Publish = ”Wish to edit this post?!” = blank. Categories perhaps? 

Edit: It was forgetting to give my post a category. I apologise to NoScript for blaming them =P

Hotdogs. Never eating them again. 

Well, I never liked them anyway, and mustard and ketchup should never be within 50 feet of each other, but those greasy tinned boilable hotdogs used to be an easy shortcut when I was 16 or so. Jamie Oliver showing people what they tend to be made of put me off slightly He’s ground up a chicken carkass into pulp, bones and all, and we’re thinking “Yeah, it goes in dog food and stuff, right?” Then he goes and holds up that popular american foodstuff.

Although, I suppose using the whole chicken is better than wasting it?

I don’t actually know where my camera is at the mo, so instead pics of the parts as I can find them.

The oh-so-cool CoolerMaster Cavalier 3 case with 2 case fans and slick looking outside, purchased only for the reason that it must look cooler than Paul’s =P

Quad core CPU (2.66ghz) with shitty design have-to-wrestle-with Intel fan

Non-spectacular Asus mobo with annoying PCI-E clip

ATi X1950 Pro 512 - which renders faster, but I haven’t tried any games yet - too much work to do so far. It needs its own cable to the PSU, so it sounds like it’ll be quite impressive. (Which was also why it wasn’t working, because I didn’t realise, my last card being in the AGP age.)

2gig RAM

250gb harddrive, DVD-RW yadda yadda, 500W PSU that’ll probably die at some point since it was £15 =P But surprisingly quiet. The 300W one I got from PC World way back when sounded like a jet engine, so much so Paul couldn’t do any sound work because it’d get in the recording.

And I built it all by my self Without anything blowing up. Though it took a couple of tries to get Intel’s fan in correctly and paniking the first two when the CPU temp in the bios started raising steadily at about 2 degrees C a second =P

I can’t get my head around mobos though. Other than making sure everything’s compatable and fits the slots, I guess it’s kinda like the cable between your PS2 and TV. Get a SCART and everything looks AMAZING (well, not compared to next gen but y’know), while if you’re a cheapskate and won’t buy one so stick with a PS1 RF cable *guilty grin* everything’s that little bit crappier. Although the cables don’t really affect the speed… while a mobo presumeably would… and has cool features like “Intrusion detection!” which I haven’t turned on in case it self destructs rather than allow a bit of fluff to touch my harddrive, and it’s already got a light on when it’s plugged in the mains so you don’t zap yourself.

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