Re: [gentoo-user] New box

[Dale]

thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
> I'm putting a new system, it will be running mainly, VirtualBox,
> Asterisk, Hylafax etc. (nothing graphic intensive).
>
> - IN WIN BL631 Low Profile Micro ATX Case w/ 300W Power Supply,
> - AMD FX-8350 Processor 4.0GHz w/ 16MB Cache
> - Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 w/ DDR3, 7.1 Audio, Gigabit Lan
> - Kingston HyperX Fury 16GB DDR3-1866MHz CL10 Dual Channel Kit
> - Samsung 850 EVO Series mSATA Solid State Drive, 1TB
> - Asus GeForce GT 720 Silent CSM, 2GB, PCI-E w/ D-Sub VGA, DVI, HDMI
>
> Will I have any problems installing Gentoo on this configuration, eg.
> with Video Card etc.?
> Do I need more RAM?
>


I built a rig a while back and have 16GBs of memory.  I also have
portage's work directory on tmpfs.  There are times when I wish I had
more memory.  I'm planning to upgrade to 24GBs and eventually, 32GBs. 
I'm not sure what your board can hold but may want to think about future
upgrades.  I run KDE here, there are times where I use a lot of memory. 
I'm using ~8GBs as I type. 

I've been using a Gigabyte board for a long while.  I'm happy with it. 
I actually still have a 2nd board that I upgraded from.  It was a first
step to upgrade memory and such.  I think I had to change the IOMMU
setting in the BIOS.  I think that was the name of it.  It's something
like that.  I think I had to add something to the kernel boot line too
on that.  Let me know if you need it, I'll go dig. 

One other thing, I have a UPS that shows what amount of power my system
is using.  It shows ~150 watts.  It will jump to ~190 when compiling
heavily.  You may want to make sure that P/S is well made.  I've never
used a P/S that came with a case.  Generally, they are cheaply made. 
May want to make sure of that before you use it.  Nothing worse than a
crappy P/S. 

Dale

:-)  :-)