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Looking back on an old journal entry, I saw that I hadn't updated by build log for the PC I'm using - deadly important to a comp-u-geek like me! I finally moved over to Intel this January, building a machine around a Core 2 Duo e6600 I bought from a friend. It was always my intention to overclock the chip, and have had no difficulty in taking it to 3Ghz by only changing the FSB. Running on a DFI Lanparty p45 motherboard and cooled by an Arctic Freezer 7 pro, I'm pretty happy with performance right now, but I know the chip will clock to at least 3.2 should I need some extra headroom. I knew I would be using Vista so I thought 4gb of RAM and

After a month of selling my old DVDs and games on ebay, I've bought a new camera - the Kodak Z1285. It's a 12 megapixel compact with plenty of features, so hopefully it will be a worthy replacement for my ageing Fuji s5000. On paper it looks like a real step up, considering the Fuji only had 3MP (allegedly 6 with "CCD optimisations") and as it's a compact camera I plan on keeping it with me a lot more than I do right now, the Fuji's SLR shape isn't the best for fitting in a pocket! The other selling point that swayed it for me was it can record video in 720p high definition at 30fps - the Fuji was only capable of QVGA at 10fps, so combined

I've finally got round to rebuilding my PC - I've been using a laptop for the last year at University and the PC has stayed at home. The laptop has been great but the graphics card is starting to show its age, struggling with my new favorite, Call of Duty 4. I wanted to rebuild the PC but I also wanted to stay on a tight budget, so I was going to recycle as many parts as I could while preparing the system for future upgrades. The old PC consisted of: Athlon 64 3000+ (Newcastle core) stock AMD cooler Foxxconn motherboard (broken onboard sound after lightning strike hit the house :D) Corsair 1GB DDR400 PC3200 RAM nVidia 6600GT AGP Hitach