Woot!!!
I’ve been meaning to write this for a long time, but wasn’t really bothered 
Firstly, I passed my first year exams, but the results of still preliminary, they have to be confirmed by the uni board. Hopefully, the results’ll stay the same, or lean in my favor. I managed a borderline pass, passing 6/8 modules, the minimum required amount for a pass 
I was really worried about my results, I hardly did any revision. I got an A in Web Tech (web programming lol), but the rest I got between B and E
Secondly, I *finally* got a new PC 
. The old one (a P4 Prescott 
) was annoying the hell out of me with the constant problems it gave me. Once I’d fixed a problem with it, a new one would pop up. The last straw for me was when it decided it didn’t wanna work with my new power supply, I went onto OCuK, and ordered some new parts 
Specs:
- Intel C2D E6600 2.40Ghz
- Gigabyte GA_P35C_DS3R Mobo
- Corsair 2×1GB DDR2 RAM
- BFG GeForce 7600 GT OC 256MB PCIe
- Seagate 160GB SATAII HD
- Asus DRW-1814BLT DVD RW (x2)
- Antec P182 Case
A total of £550 (out of my saving up to buy a car fund ).
This isn’t exactly a top spec machine, but it’ll do for me It’s also sooooo much more quieter then the old pc, even during stress testing, it hardly makes any noise.
But I almost screwed it up when building it, I didn’t realize the heatsink pin for the Northbridge chip had come loose, and it kept crashing when doing stress testing. I was almost ready to RMA the bits when I noticed. Luckily, I found the pieces for the heatsink and managed to fix it again. (whoo, go me)
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