VAIO

My parents bought this computer sometime after I built Ziggy, (I'm not going to go into a certain aspect of this, but it's something probably better left unsaid.), and after building the Intel build for my parents, the VAIO came into my possession.

The VAIO came with an Intel Pentium 4 HT 3.2, 512MB of DDR 400 RAM, and an ATI Radeon GPU (I don't remember the stock card at all). It also came with a DVD-RW and DVD-ROM drive, both of which I removed. The RAM was eventually upgraded to 4GB, the video card upgraded to the ATI Radeon 9550 SE (that Ziggy was built with), and the CPU cooler was changed to the Thermaltake that Ziggy used before the Zalman; there was a bit of trouble with the Thermaltake cooler, but that was because the BIOS was weird, and luckily I found a way around it.

I haven't used it much at all, since I don't really have a use for it; I may pair it with the YAMAHA keyboard, as they both have floppy drives, but the keyboard is used very seldomly, so it's probably not that great of an idea either.

What's interesting is that the VAIO is actually slower than Ziggy - this is because Ziggy's CPU is the Prescott core (VAIO is Northwood) which has the 1MB L2 cache (the VAIO has 512KB) and also the smaller 90nm die (the VAIO is 130nm). Another proof is that the VAIO took an unnecessarily long amount of time to install from the live openSUSE 13.1 disk, and I decided to pull the plug (quite literally) instead of waiting for it to possibly finish.

Since I don't really use the VAIO for anything right now, there's really not much more to say about it.



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