Ziggy

Ziggy is the first computer I ever built, sometime during the first quarter of 2004. Ziggy is named after Ziggurat 8 (aka "Ziggy") from the Xenosaga series, due to the fact that he (the character) calls himself a "mishmash of parts", and Ziggy (the computer) definitely had a random assortment of parts inside.

Ziggy was originally built with a socket 478 Pentium 4 2.8GHz Prescott core, 4GB of DDR 400 RAM, and an ATI Radeon 9550 SE; the graphics card being upgraded a few years later to an AMD Radeon HD 4650.

Ziggy had 4 different CPU coolers installed to try to lower the temperature, but it wasn't until later that I found out there was a manufacturing fault with the temperature probe; Zalman's CNPS9500 AT is what he is currently using.

I was without Ziggy for a while at one point, but I eventually got him back.

There was once when I thought Ziggy's CPU died, but after quite some inactivity, Ziggy "miraculously" turned back on. There was another time when Ziggy wouldn't turn on again, but eventually did - found the CMOS battery dead and assumed that was the problem.

Ziggy is currently not being used at the moment, as he is a 32-bit single-core processor, but a use will eventually arise.



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