Talyn
| Foehammer | |
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| Former commission of Oz K. | |
| Namesake | Leviathan-Gunship Hybrid from [[1]]. |
| Class and role | Hybrid-class heavy frigate |
| Chassis | Antec Aria |
| Mainboard | AOpen MK89-L |
| CPU | AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 2.0GHz |
| GPU | Radeon 9800 Pro |
| RAM | 1GB DDR400 |
| Storage | Unknown internal IDE HDD
80GB USB external 120GB USB external |
| Known quirks | Poor power delivery from bundled PSU
General instability Random resets Overheating GPU damage |
Constructed in October 2004, Talyn was intended to take over Oz K.'s desktop duties from its predecessor Phoenix. Specced with near-top-of-the-line parts for the era, the selection of the MicroATX case was an attempted continuation of the LAN-proven portability of the previous computer.
Talyn, however, was a complete failure. In place of Phoenix's cool temperament was volatile, hot-headed behavior; in place of Phoenix's fine performance was confusingly slow speeds; in place of Phoenix's low power requirements stood a machine that literally required five power plugs for conventional operation (LAN operations dropped this requirement no lower than three). Voltage for the processor was low enough to cause repeated, random resets, and the motherboard's BIOS did not have any setting for increasing said voltage.
Talyn had the shortest lifespan of any systems used personally by the Earl. It operated (with many issues) for less than a year, before suffering permanent GPU failure. While a replacement card could have been requisitioned, it could have prompted an Upgrade Cascade; a GPU replacement would require a PCIe x16 slot, necessitating a new motherboard, which in turn would require a new platform and improved power supply; as its existing power supply was proprietary, the swap would require a new case, at which point the endeavor would have been an entirely new build.
Talyn was decommissioned in late summer 2005, and replaced by 343 Guilty Spark.