Upgrading a Friends PC, New Stuff & Freeview!

Recently my mate purchased a digital camera – a first for her – I helped her find it, get all she needed, buy all the helpful extras as well.

She got a Nikon Coolpix L20, 4GB SDHC, Energizer Recharable NiMH & a Internal USB Flash Card reader.

To make life easier, I installed the Internal USB Flash Card reader – discovered that the Foxconn motherboard would drop the voltage on the USB itself when the reader was plugged in – rendering the keyboard & mouse useless.

So an upgrade was planned,

• Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 Processor BX80571E7500
• MSI P45 Neo3-FR Intel 775 Motherboard
• Enermax Tomahawk ETK405AST, 400W ATX PSU, Metallic
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 SATA 3Gb/s 250GB Hard Drive
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 SATA 3Gb/s 1TB Hard Drive
• BenQ G2220HD 21.5" Full HD
• Transcend JetRAM 2G DDR2-800 Dual Channel Kit (2x 1GB), 240-Pin, 64Mx8 CL5
• microsoft windows 7 home prem 64bit
• ASUS NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS EN8400GS/HTP/512M(LP) DDR2 512MB Efficient Cooling Fan
• Linksys WRT54GL Wireless-G Opensource All-In-One

Along with her existing, DVD-RW & ATX 2.0 Case plus the USB Card Reader I installed, she now has a very decent system. It’s all installed, setup and running – well except the WRT54GL, that’s yet to arrive – we expect that by courier soon though!

I also plugged up her Logitech G51 speakers, which her purchased via TradeMe – which had missing the audio plugs which we had to replace lol – we got the speakers plugged up and she loves the sound that comes out of them.

I swapped her older system into a spare case I had lying around in the back room.

I’ve placed a AGP MX440 64MB graphics card into it to make it run a bit smoother. Its a 775 setup, seems quite alright.

Anyway my mate absolutely loves it, its quieter than her previous setup, she can actually do stuff, aside from the obvious fact that it’s faster, more powerful, dual-boots into Ubuntu Linux 9.10 32bit.

Anyway after I set it up at her place, went around a about 15minutes after I completely finished and showing her what’s what, showing her everything’s working – we go around cuz she got a bit panicy over something lol

After that, we went to town – purchased myself some Rugged Shark Sandles – I had no idea that Rugged Shark even make sandles?! – I got some, on sale too!

I purchased Battlefield Bad Company 2 Limited Edition on Steam – thats 15-16GB of game!

I can’t wait for the official release – I haven’t downloaded the Beta release of it, yet; that’s 1.5GB though.

Oh I decided that I’m sick of limited amount of TV that we have, I want freeview – but I don’t want a standard bog, freeview brand stuffy box.

I ordered a very new – about  to be somewhat officially available on the 8th Feburary  – Satellite receiver box with DVD player built in & USB PVR. It’s also DivX compatiable – it supports everything a normal DVD player would support as well as MPEG4 & DivX.

I’ll post up pictures and video of the box up on my website, it seems to be a great little sat box.

So I’m back blogging again

Yep, its strange you know, I’ve had no interest in blogging since July last year – but lately I felt like I want to do it again – so when I reinstalled Windows 7, I installed Windows Live Messenger as usual but I installed Windows Live Writer as well.

So this is the first post, again… kinda – well you get the idea lol

I should be back blogging again – I have a fairly decent camera now, I have a Nikon Coolpix P80.