ASRock A330ION

ASRock A330ION nVidia MCP7A-ION Mini-ITX Motherboard Review

Like most guys, I like automobiles and electronics. My preference is old stuff, call it retro, vintage, classic, antique, or whatever. Though unlike many…being born in the late 1950s and growing up in the ‘60s and ‘70s, I remember when most of it was new. I recall a video in the 90s when the rapper Coolio was riding in a 1964 Chevy convertible. I rode in one when it still had the driveout tags and price sticker on it, and owned a hardtop model myself more than a decade before it was eligible for antique tags. As far as electronics, I like vacuum tube stereo and guitar amps, again I remember when that was the only choice, and when solid state transistor amps first started becoming available. My workstation speakers are over 2’ tall with 12” woofers in them, I bought them new in 1979. The main reason I like older stuff is that they are big, easy to work on, and most of the parts were designed with overkill in mind. Plastic was at a minimum, everything that could be made of steel was. A minor “fender-bender” was just that…minor, and as often as not everything could be repaired instead of replaced, if you had it repaired at all. Drop an amp and other than skinning up the outside, it probably wasn’t damaged in the least. This mindset has followed me in my tastes in computers.