Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Somewhat OT. Building a rig. Want to get opinions before spending $$$

[Hazen Valliant-Saunders]

Some considerations:

For your money the 890FX from AMD with an AM3 socket is the way to go right
now;

1. The MSI 890 FX GD 70 is the best value for the money on the market
2. Get at least 850W of power (1KW can be had for $169 if you shop around)
3. if speed is your goal, get the Phenom II X6 1090T

As for drives and cases, the OCZ Vertex 2 in raid 0 will run blazingly fast.
Get 4 drives in raid 5, 2TB can be had for about 80.

I've been running 64 bit gentoo for a while yet, some minor issues with
flash and a couple of others but those are probably my compile time settings
on these applications.

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:

> Dale wrote:
>
>> I'm planning to build a new rig.  My current rig is about 7 or 8 years old
>> now and it needs to be updated.  Current rig is AMD 2500+ with 2Gbs of ram
>> and a Abit NF7 v2.0 mobo.  Couple hard drives too.
>>
>>
>> This is build #2:
>>
>> I'll be using the same case, power supply, video card etc so I won't list
>> them all twice.  Just listing the things that have to be changed.
>>
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128431
>>
>> GIGABYTE GA-770T-USB3 AM3 AMD 770 USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard.  The only
>> thing I don't like about this is that it doesn't have a com port for my UPS.
>>  I guess a adapter will be found somewhere.
>>
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103675
>>
>> AMD Phenom II X4 945 Deneb 3.0GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket
>> AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor.  This should fit the mobo according to the
>> website.  Agree?
>>
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148325
>>
>> Crucial Ballistix 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
>> Desktop Memory.  According to newegg this fits the mobo.  Agree?
>>
>> I only plan to build one or the other not both.  I would like to make sure
>> everything should fit fine but I would also like to get a opinion.  I would
>> like a opinion on whether build #2 would be better in the long run?  It
>> appears to be a bit faster although the price is not much different.  Build
>> #1 is $611.92.  Build #2 is $637.92.  That doesn't include shipping but a
>> lot of the items have free shipping anyway.  Basically, I need this to last
>> me several years since I can't afford to rebuild every few years.  Also, one
>> reason for the HUGE CPU cooler, I run folding in the winter.  Helps heat the
>> place up a bit.  lol  My current rig with a Volcano 12 runs at about 90F at
>> full load.  I would like to run pretty close to that since it just makes the
>> CPU last longer.
>>
>> I'm open to ideas, discussion, problems and opinions.  I mostly want to
>> make sure each build will work and which I should build.
>>
>> Thanks for your time and replies.  If you need more info, let me know.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>>
>>
> I ordered the parts for the rest of my build yesterday.  I changed the CPU
> to a 3.2Ghz version and the memory to a single stick of 4Gb instead of two
> 2Gb sticks.  Easier to upgrade later.  Since I live only a few hours from
> the newegg warehouse, I get most of it today.  I been reading the install
> guide and have been trying to keep up with amd64 threads on here as well.  I
> still have a few questions tho.
>
> I usually use Knoppix to boot from but want to know if it supports a 64 bit
> CPU?  I Googled and found a 64 bit version of Knoppix but it says it is
> discontinued.  If the current version does support 64 bit, will it see all
> the cores so that emerges move along pretty swiftly?
>
> If knoppix doesn't work, could someone recommend something else to use?  I
> found Kanotix while doing my searches but still not sure if that is what I
> need either.  It looks like it is made to install on a hard drive or
> something.  I basically need to boot to install Gentoo on the new rig.  I
> also want to test the ram before installing as well.
>
> All this assumes that I need to install Gentoo with amd64 of course.  Has
> it got stable enough and everything working well enough to install it as
> amd64 instead of 32 bit?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
>