TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Ruru]

Yes, my bad

NP, the 1st gen Phenoms are kinda a thing many had no experience. But FYI, it's not a BE, that 9750

e: typo

 

[lexluthermiester]

10EUR including shipping

That's a great price. Dead cheap.

Asus M3N78 SE

That is a nice board. IIRC it was well liked because it was very stable.

 

[Ruru]

That's great price. Dead cheap.


That is a nice board. IIRC it was well liked because it was very stable.

The only problem with that board is that is has only 2 DDR slots :/

 

[Trekkie4]

Finally received my vinyl gear earlier today! Since we already talked about this the other day, figured I'd mention it in here

Depending on the overall interest, I might upload some pics?

 

[biffzinker]

Depending on the overall interest, I might upload some pics?

Yes please

 

[lexluthermiester]

The only problem with that board is that is has only 2 DDR slots :/

True, but it's limited to 8GB anyway, so that's not a big deal.

M3N78 SE | Motherboards | ASUS Global

www.asus.com

 

[Ruru]

True, but it's limited to 8GB anyway, so that's not a big deal.

M3N78 SE | Motherboards | ASUS Global

www.asus.com

No, Im not buying 4GB sticks for that ancient platform

 

[lexluthermiester]

No, Im not buying 4GB sticks for that ancient platform

Are you doing XP on it?

 

[Ruru]

Are you doing XP on it?

The non-AGP AM2? WinXP with last updates

 

[lexluthermiester]

The non-AGP AM2? WinXP with last updates

Ok cool, then 4GB would be perfect. Get a GTX 770 2GB or an RX460/470 2GB and you would have an excellent XP retro system.

 

[Trekkie4]

Yes please

Okay then!


This thing is extremely solid & built like a tank! Plinth (top side of the turntable, featuring the labels, logo & buttons) is metal, most likely made out of steel. Which was a genuine & pleasant surprise, I assumed that it would be plastic, even in this price group. They basically took the old "LP120", model which I had for over 2yrs, took care of all the commonly-mentioned issues & transformed it into this, which is now (in my personal opinion, at least) seriously close to a real SL-1200. Don't really know what else to say about it, other than I absolutely love it! I'm not a big fan of blue LEDs however, I'd prefer the red ones, but other than that I can't find anything wrong with it

I also took the liberty of ordering & swapping out the included stylus (XP3, "DJ" one) with HiFi-friendly AT-VM95E, along with headshell/cartridge display case for my three Shures which I bought over the last couple of years. M75, M91 & M99. So really, most of the stuff is old & re-purposed, the only true investment was with the LP140 itself & VM95E stylus.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Okay then!

This is most certainly welcome. This is old-school hifi electronics, and high quality at that. Very cool!

 

[Ruru]

Ok cool, then 4GB would be perfect. Get a GTX 770 2GB or an RX460/470 2GB and you would have an excellent XP retro system.

Nah, I'll grab a Radeon HD 4890 from my stash

e: I have a HD 6850 but I love HD 4890s more

 

[biffzinker]

Okay then!

Appreciate the photos.

 

[Trekkie4]

Appreciate the photos.

No prob! There's probably going to be more of those, as I'm in the middle of cartridge re-alignment... It would appear that my old table used different geometry (tonearm configuration), because none of my old carts seem to match the protractors any longer. Which is a long and tedious work, but alas it has to be done properly.

 

[lexluthermiester]

e: I have a HD 6850 but I love HD 4890s more

The specs say the 6850 would be the better choice..

 

[agent_x007]

Got my better M.2 adapter, where should I test it... I know

DO NOT try to redo this.
It does NOT work beyond this point (NVMe isn't visible under storage manager and GPU is at Code 43 error).
Here's a photo of system : LINK.

PS. This board is MASSIVE pain in the a&% to work under Windows 10 x64 (like, interrupt not working properly, which forces a PS/2 key to be pushed all the time so that hard drive reads/writes don't "stall" on eachother).

 

[Ruru]

Whaaaat, AGP AND a M.2 drive, hold on a minute


e: Ah, it's that Asrock board..

 

[agent_x007]

It works with PCIe 3.0 stuff, but it's x4 only :/

Limiting power on card limited by PCI-e power... (my model doesn't have 6-pin external power).
Of course interrupt issue is present even on GTX 750 Ti.

 

[Ruru]

GTX 750 Ti is simply one of the greatest cards ever
I'm gonna freeze my GT 1030

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[lexluthermiester]

Whaaaat, AGP AND a M.2 drive, hold on a minute

Yup, that was my reaction!

GTX 750 Ti is simply one of the greatest cards ever

There is no denying it's a sweetspot card.

 

[Ruru]

There is no denying it's a sweetspot card.

I had a 750 Ti too back in the day, in fact I also used that same Twin Turbo with it.

750 Ti is just the legendary card without a 6pin even tho some models have one.

 

[Trekkie4]

In case anyone's wondering, yes I'm still planning to freeze (or to shut down) my account, but I didn't get around to address this issue ... it would seem 2020 started out extremely busily, but also (and I'm happy to say) very much positive! In fact, I have another project coming up tomorrow, that's related to HiFi, but doesn't have anything to do with Audio Technica.

Speaking of which, I didn't even have the time to enjoy my LP140XP yet, but after consulting some of the guys over at Audiokarma, I finally came up with the right protractor to re-calibrate all my previously aligned headshells, to fit new geometry, suitable for 140. Which (as I already explained) was boring & tedious task, so there wasn't much point in taking pics. That being said, I was messing around with the included head (the one with replaced stylus, VM95E) & took this pic shortly after:


Blue LEDs are from the XMAS lights that I've had on my bookshelf at the time, which kinda fits the overall "blue" theme the LP140 is going for, so I figured why not! I'd still prefer red ones to be honest, it looks more "natural" and faithful to the original SL-1200 (even though 1200 Mk7 now has the ability to switch between red & blue LEDs, so in a way it still resembles the real thing)

 

[lexluthermiester]

In case anyone's wondering, yes I'm still planning to freeze (or to shut down) my account, but I didn't get around to address this issue ...

Trekkie, give that a second thought... or third.... or even fourth.

 

[Ruru]

I'd rather quit smoking than leave TPU myself.. I love this community and you guys just rock! And like lexluthermiester said, don't leave us :3