TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Trekkie4]

Finally got my HS-10 headshell And while I didn't have the time to take any pics (yet), here are the two audio samples, from both AT-95E and Shure M94E for detailed analysis. Both are quartz-locked to 33.3RPM, and are identical, without any deviation. Audacity confirmed it, both audio waveforms are identical in the terms of duration. However, Shure is more prone to pops & crackling due to smaller diamond tip, which digs deeper into the (very dusty) grooves. The amount of dust hanging off the cantilever confirms this theory

Audio Technica AT-95E
Vertical Tracking Force set to 2.00g, Anti Skate is "2"

Shure M94E
Vertical Tracking Force set to 1.00g, Anti Skate is "1"

Edit
OK, this is weird. Now I lost my other post from yesterday, my answer to @lexluthermiester

OK, enough is enough... Guys, where do I report forum-related issues & technical problems? I just lost the entire addition to my previous post, all the pics that I've uploaded!!
So, instead of editing the old one, here's everything once again, from the top!

It's kinda funny actually, because I never noticed this one before... Audio Technica has its own model number(s), and so AT-HS10 would be a premium headshell, such as the one that originally came with LP120. If this particular headshell were silver & labeled Audio Technica it would be called AT-HS1 where this one is obviously not AT (especially since it's black), so it's called HS-10


A set of phono mounting screws... Every bag has 3 dimensions included (two of each, obviously), along with two locking nuts & plastic washers


They're made out of aluminum for the sake of being lightweight and (I'm guessing) being non-magnetic, not causing any interference with the moving magnets inside the cartridge.


And there it is, already mounted on the tonearm Have to say, I'm quite happy with the way things turned out! The original headshell, previously mentioned AT-HS10 that holds stock AT-95E is now located behind the counterweight if & when I ever need it again.

 

[Retrorockit]

I just put up a post of some old Dell, BTX , overclocking coolers in another forum here. It's early LGA775 stuff QX6850 era.
https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/...-airflow-fan-setup.219337/page-4#post-3756951
Some forums get upset if you double post ( the same thing in 2 forums). They think your trying to raise your post count or something.
I just thought you guys might want to see what a $20 Peltier assisted water loop looks like.

 

[Robert B]

Fresh meat!

1. 3dfx Gainward Dragon 4000 Voodoo Banshee AGP3. 3V 16MB ICUVGA-GW816D - missing one capacitor - easy fix
2. P4 RAMBUS: Intel D850EMV2 + 4x128MB RIMM PC800 + Pentium 4 SL683 2.26GHz + cooler - needs two new capacitors - easy fix.



gallery: https://postimg.org/gallery/mizfb3da/

imgur:

http://imgur.com/a/9Ph2Q

 

[Apocalypsee]

I'm soooo jelly with you guys, prices of old stuff in my country approaching new stuff thus very little point of buying. It used to be cheaper like 7 years back before GST, I remember buying RD-RAM for my friend, the shop sells them in a huge bucket with tons of mixed RAM in it, and only charged few Ringgit for them. RD-RAM is pretty fast during its age, and very odd requiring C-RIMM if the slot is unoccupied, and runs warm to touch

 

[Robert B]

FLEA MARKET perfume

StyLophonic - DancefLoor

http://imgur.com/mU7EUY9

M o R e L a T e RrrRRrr!!!

 

[DR4G00N]

Socket 754 goodness.
Another nF3 250Gb for my collection, a little dusty and had a few blown vcore caps but I replaced them right away.
My UTT seems to like this board a lot.

 

[Mr.Scott]

Socket 754 goodness.
Another nF3 250Gb for my collection, a little dusty and had a few blown vcore caps but I replaced them right away.
My UTT seems to like this board a lot.

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I hope they like it more than that.
See you in stage 5.

 

[DR4G00N]

I hope they like it more than that.
See you in stage 5.

That's just with 3.1V vdimm, still have about 200mV of headroom left before more drastic measures.

Can't wait for the comp, getting the VIA s370 board prepped right now.

 

[Antykain]

Here is my old PNY FX 5600.. I still remember when this card was delivered to my doorstep. This card was in one of my first gaming rig builds years back.

Goodtimes..

 

[Apocalypsee]

Socket 754 goodness.
Another nF3 250Gb for my collection, a little dusty and had a few blown vcore caps but I replaced them right away.
My UTT seems to like this board a lot.

Ah I miss my s754 Sempron 2500+. At default 1.4GHz it beats my previous Northwood 2A GHz clocked at 3GHz. And its a beast, overclocked all the way to 2.5GHz on stock cooler using DFI nF4X motherboard. I'll try to find any pics on my desktop, on mobile currently.

 

[Trekkie4]

Ah I miss my s754 Sempron 2500+. At default 1.4GHz it beats my previous Northwood 2A GHz clocked at 3GHz. And its a beast, overclocked all the way to 2.5GHz on stock cooler using DFI nF4X motherboard. I'll try to find any pics on my desktop, on mobile currently.

I got this board some time ago, but never got around to actually use it for anything. It's also missing the I/O Shield but overall it seems to be working decently If you were anywhere closer, I'd be more than willing to send you this one (especially since I'm pretty much through with old hardware) but under the circumstances, I don't think it would be worth mailing it all the way to Malaysia

 

[Red_Machine]

I recently changed the graphics card in my retro battlestation from an nVIDIA Vanta-16 to a 3dfx Voodoo3 3000. Nice jump in performance, and I'm having fun tinkering with enabling Glide on various games and using custom dlls to enable it when it shouldn't be normally supported.

 

[Apocalypsee]

I got this board some time ago, but never got around to actually use it for anything. It's also missing the I/O Shield but overall it seems to be working decently If you were anywhere closer, I'd be more than willing to send you this one (especially since I'm pretty much through with old hardware) but under the circumstances, I don't think it would be worth mailing it all the way to Malaysia

Oh wow that looks nice, yeah I know shipping alone costs a fortune. My current 980Ti is won from a forum giveaway, the shipping alone from US to Malaysia costs USD61. I could buy a decent retro gaming hardware for that price locally Anyway thanks, just the thought of giving it away warms my heart.

 

[Trekkie4]

No prob

If it makes you feel any better, I'll be probably keeping this one in my collection. Mainly because of the odd-looking mobo (and weird AGP-like expansion interface), but with that being said I never considered Sempron (especially model 2500+) to be a as capable as you described it, so maybe I'll give it a proper test some day Would love to see how it handles 7600GT for example, especially in Source-powered games.

 

[Apocalypsee]

No prob

If it makes you feel any better, I'll be probably keeping this one in my collection. Mainly because of the odd-looking mobo (and weird AGP-like expansion interface), but with that being said I never considered Sempron (especially model 2500+) to be a as capable as you described it, so maybe I'll give it a proper test some day Would love to see how it handles 7600GT for example, especially in Source-powered games.

Yep that motherboard is one-of-the-kind with odd AGP CPU upgrade thingy. Please do update us if you did try to overclock or test the little Sempron. I did coupled it with 7600GT back in the day, previously using X1800GTO that won't unlock but it died after I overclock the hell out of it.

 

[Trekkie4]

Yep that motherboard is one-of-the-kind with odd AGP CPU upgrade thingy. Please do update us if you did try to overclock or test the little Sempron. I did coupled it with 7600GT back in the day, previously using X1800GTO that won't unlock but it died after I overclock the hell out of it.

Yeah, I got this 7600 a while back & was going to use it inside S775 system that had AGP interface, but things never quite worked out, so I upgraded the mobo to a newer one that has PCIe & coupled it with Radeon X1550. The project was named RetroMaster 4000, the fastest & most powerful "retro" machine in my fleet.


I was thinking of using Sempron 2500+ as the CPU, perhaps adding 1GB of DDR400 & 7600GT (or at least 6600GT) as AGP graphics. The "ultimate" AGP retro system, but things never worked out, and I lost interest. Not to mention I already have way too many systems as it is, the number goes above 30 lol. So it's highly unlikely that I'll be making another system, any time soon but most definitely not entirely impossible either

 

[Trekkie4]

Here's a small tip to anyone who wishes to install Vista (or Win7) on one of the older Asus-branded systems. I'm referring to the motherboards obviously, this will work for all the models (such as P4SE/U2 for example) using C-Media onboard sound chip.

Since neither Vista or 7 are capable of auto-detecting the sound hardware (licensing issues between C-Media & MS?), you are going to find yourself in a tricky situation where the on-board sound doesn't work & appropriate driver doesn't exist. HOWEVER, after searching around for hours (not to mention loads of "trial & error" installations), I found that "C-Media 9738 Audio Driver for Win2K/XP" driver, for Asus P4S533-VM works under Vista/Win7 as well as Win2k/XP

So there you have it, hopefully this will save someone from a LOT of headache & frustrations

 

[stinger608]

Here's a small tip to anyone who wishes to install Vista (or Win7) on one of the older Asus-branded systems. I'm referring to the motherboards obviously, this will work for all the models (such as P4SE/U2 for example) using C-Media onboard sound chip.

Since neither Vista or 7 are capable of auto-detecting the sound hardware (licensing issues between C-Media & MS?), you are going to find yourself in a tricky situation where the on-board sound doesn't work & appropriate driver doesn't exist. HOWEVER, after searching around for hours (not to mention loads of "trial & error" installations), I found that "C-Media 9738 Audio Driver for Win2K/XP" driver, for Asus P4S533-VM works under Vista/Win7 as well as Win2k/XP

So there you have it, hopefully this will save someone from a LOT of headache & frustrations

Awesome information brother!!!!!! Thanks for sharing and I included this in the original post.

 

[Trekkie4]

Awesome information brother!!!!!! Thanks for sharing and I included this in the original post.

No prob, glad I could help! Wouldn't want anyone else to go through this process again, as it took me approx. whole afternoon, just to find the appropriate driver for this thing!

 

[Bungz]

Had a good clear out of some bit and pieces then these turn up.

 

[stinger608]

Oh wow, nice matching pair of Epox boards @Bungz !!!!!

 

[Mr.Scott]

Nice!
Both working or have they suffered the Epox sudden death syndrome.

 

[Bungz]

Only tested one.

Is working and oddly both boards don't have a blown cap on.

Seller had four of them but they weren't cheap and err two is enough lol

 

[Bungz]

Picked up a 680i board and graphics card.

Bit grubby and yes that heatsink sticker is genuine.

Also had a cut trace, really should have gone to the bin this board but its repaired and working fine now.

Still smells of dogs ( I have dogs and it still reeks) but is better than the cat piss system I found.

 

[Mr.Scott]

Last pic just makes you wonder, don't it? lol