About 3 years ago i decided to build my own desktop pc
It started out with an Antec 300 tower which comes with built in chassis fans, an Asus P5b motherboard with a 775 cpu socket, an Intel core 2 duo E7300 dual core processor with a standard out of the box clock speed of 2.66ghz "it actually runs at 2.72ghz & i haven't even bothered trying to overclock it yet" i also put in 4gb of Corsair Xms2 ddr2 ram with 5.5.5.18 timing speeds & an Nvidia XFX Geforce 8400GS 512mb graphics card.
Then i added a Corsair TX 650watt psu along with 3 Hitachi deskstar 500gb sata hard drives also a LG dvd rewriter & an Hitachi cd rewriter.
I have also added a 16 in 1 HP card reader, i used the keyboard & mouse from my old hp pc.
I have to have external speakers for this pc so i decided to get a pair of Creative T10s & they whack out some sounds, not bad at all for 2.1 channel sorround sound.
The monitor is a Sony Bravia 26 inch lcd tv with built in freeview, I've recently brought another one to match it so i can use dual screen apps which is great because it allows me to have my vista side bar on the right hand side of the second monitor & it's out of the way along with all the desktop icons.
My operating system is Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit, i was using the 32bit version but there was something wrong with the registry which kept currupting itself for some unknown reasons. So i switched over to the 64bit OS & haven't had any problems since.
I even treated myself to a new printer which is an HP Photosmart C3180 series & then got a Buffalo 500gb external hard drive for backing up & also storing all the photos, videos & music collections that i have accumalated over the years.
I brought all the parts from Amazon, Play.com & Ebuyer not bad for just over £2225 for a pc that is near as damn it server spec.
Got some moderations to do to it yet so i can quieten the fan noise down which means i have got to get some 12volts to 9volts fan noise reducer cables along with a case fan & psu rubber gasket set.
Speaking about servers one of my next projects is to build a server with roughly about the same spec of the pc i built which is going to have Windows Home Server installed so i can do away with the external hard drive for back up & storage also the good thing about Windows Home Server is that it allows you to be able to access all your stuff on the server & also upload to it from anywhere in the world.
It's all about me, What I get up to, my fishing, the gear I use for my fishing, also other stuff from time to time & anything or everything else that comes & goes along in between ; )
Wednesday 13 January 2010
Some Of The Music I Listen To
I would've added a few more but some user accounts on youtube have requested that the embedding codes for their videos are to be closed.
Tuesday 12 January 2010
A bit more about my fishing
I mainly fish Rivers such as the Trent in & around Nottingham, The Severn at Ironbridge, The Dove at Uttoxeter & the Soar in Leicstershire, for barbel, chub, carp & pike. I also like fishing canals ( mainly the Nottingham & the Grantham canals ) & occasionally stillwaters, where i have caught numerous tench & bream & also carp.
I have also fished a couple of the commercials, ( lakeview in Melton Mowbray & also jansons fishery in Bingham ).
They have different rules on the commercials compared to rivers such as, no keepnets barbless hooks only, some even ban cat meat, others that do allow you to use a keepnet will also charge £1.00 extra on your day ticket for each keepnet you want to use. Some of the commercials charge around about £5.00 for a day ticket, others charge more, your best bet would be to look in the Angling Times for prices.
Ok they have got net dips, toilets on site & some have also got tackle shops & cafes, others insist on you using their own branded pellets. At lakeview they have a team of girls who come around the lakes every 10 to 15 minutes asking everybody who is fishing if they want anything from their shop/cafe, it's not a bad place but it is regularly matched fished & does get busy.
While the snow has come our way it's been a great chance to sought through my fishing tackle, wiped all the rods down & cleaned the reels, got rid of all that dust & grit/sand crap that accumalates at the bottom of the rucksack along with the caster shells & grains of dried hempseed, also the dead spiders & other bugs that found their way in there, even replaced the batteries in my head torch ready for the big thaw out.
Turning my attentions to a spot of chub fishing now, got the gear ready along with some nice big juicy lobworms brought from my local tackle shop at £7.50 for a quarter kilo box full, ( i ain't digging them out the garden with all that snow on it ), hopefully that road salt going through the rivers at the moment has not put them off, saying that the water temperature will be rather cold with all that snow melt but that is not going to stop me from going fishing.
Edit: So much for the big thaw out then, looking out of my window this morning (weds 13th jan) there is a blizzard coming our way damn.
Shall have to wait & see what the weekend brings at this rate.
I have also fished a couple of the commercials, ( lakeview in Melton Mowbray & also jansons fishery in Bingham ).
They have different rules on the commercials compared to rivers such as, no keepnets barbless hooks only, some even ban cat meat, others that do allow you to use a keepnet will also charge £1.00 extra on your day ticket for each keepnet you want to use. Some of the commercials charge around about £5.00 for a day ticket, others charge more, your best bet would be to look in the Angling Times for prices.
Ok they have got net dips, toilets on site & some have also got tackle shops & cafes, others insist on you using their own branded pellets. At lakeview they have a team of girls who come around the lakes every 10 to 15 minutes asking everybody who is fishing if they want anything from their shop/cafe, it's not a bad place but it is regularly matched fished & does get busy.
While the snow has come our way it's been a great chance to sought through my fishing tackle, wiped all the rods down & cleaned the reels, got rid of all that dust & grit/sand crap that accumalates at the bottom of the rucksack along with the caster shells & grains of dried hempseed, also the dead spiders & other bugs that found their way in there, even replaced the batteries in my head torch ready for the big thaw out.
Turning my attentions to a spot of chub fishing now, got the gear ready along with some nice big juicy lobworms brought from my local tackle shop at £7.50 for a quarter kilo box full, ( i ain't digging them out the garden with all that snow on it ), hopefully that road salt going through the rivers at the moment has not put them off, saying that the water temperature will be rather cold with all that snow melt but that is not going to stop me from going fishing.
Edit: So much for the big thaw out then, looking out of my window this morning (weds 13th jan) there is a blizzard coming our way damn.
Shall have to wait & see what the weekend brings at this rate.
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