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I’ve decided to setup a blog to share the cool things I have been doing recently with you all.
I thought about having a blog a while ago, but couldn’t think of anything to put in one. However, all of a sudden, I can think of lots of things to write about.
So, where to start. I guess a chronological order is probably the best.
2 weeks ago I bought a micro helicopter from Aria for about £10. I had got a helicopter from them before, about a year or two ago (I’m talking about that later) and wanted to get another one. I saw that they had these cool, indoor micro helicopters ont he superspecials. So I ordered one with some other stuff. About 2 days later it arrived. Got it out of the box, gave a quick glance at the manual and then turned everything on. It actually flew quite well out of the box, although it needed a bit of trimming, which unfortunatly is controlled by buttons rather than a proper trim slider.
Eventually I got the trim setup correctly and then gave it a full charge for 30mins. It flew much better after the charge, I hardly ever used full throttle as it would soar up very quickly and hit the ceiling.
Controlling it took quite a while to get the hang of. As it will only go up/down and spin left/right its rather hard to control which direction it goes in. It will however sort of go forward when you do a right turn. After multiple crashes into chair legs, walls and my mums face (oops) I got the hang of it and was flying round the house like a pro.
On the 29th of January I had my 18th birthday. Didn’t really do much. Got my new PC however, which comprises of:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 GO with Arctic Freezer 7 Pro
Asus P5K Premium WIFI-AP
4GiB Patriot PC6400 Cas4
Asus 8800GT 512MiB with a Thermalright HR-03GT
Samsung 160GB Hard-drive and another 320GB one and a 160GB one.
and my trusty old Thermaltake Armour.
And another pic with all the lights on and no flash,
I decided that after a week of letting it settle in and getting things setup that I had to OC it. I couldn’t not do it.
So, I read through the OC guide in CPC about three times just to make sure I understood everything, (I’m not a total n00b, just I was used to OC’in AMDs as that was what my old system comprised of). I then started upping the FSB, I am now running at 3GHz (303 x 9) and my RAM at 800MHz with 4-4-4-12 timings and it seems to be pretty quick. Much quicker than my old AMD 3200+ (S754) with 1GB PC3200 RAM.
Graphics performance is also phenomanel and was very surprised to find that I could crank everything up to max in all the games I’ve tried so far, even the Crysis demo. After reading lots of comments on the CPC forums and elsewhere I didn’t think I would be able to play Crysis at ‘very high’. but everything defaulted to that, granted the resolution is only 1024 x 768 but I’m on a 17″ monitor anyway. The defaults also didn’t set any AA, but I decided to add x2 just to get some and it didn’t seem to give any adverse affects.
Well, I think I’ll stop there for today, don’t want to make my first post an absolutly gigantic one and then not have anything left to write. I think I’ll just add some links to pics of my PC.
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