The Final Order
This is what will be ordered on Monday:
- Western Digital Caviar Blue WD1600AAJS 160GB 7200 RPM SATA HDD $40
- Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST380815AS 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb $36
- Patriot Signature 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Unbuffered DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) $130
- ENERMAX INFINITI EIN720AWT 720W PSU $150
I changed one to a different Seagate drive. This one is newer and has the same cache as the WD.
March 1st, 2010 at 1:00 am
Sorry in advance if I’m asking about things you already said.
I didn’t catch what graphics card are you going to use. And what OS are you planning to install? Just curious
btw, I have the same motherboard, and a phenom II X4 revision C2 too, but the slower 905e. And I’m running ubuntu.
March 1st, 2010 at 7:34 am
The system will be running FreeBSD 8.x with ZFS as the filesystem.
For video, nothing special. Something cheap that I can find in my box of old cards. The console will be used in text mode only.
March 1st, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Great. Remember it can be cheap, but PCI or PCI-Express, not AGP. I didn’t, when I’ve assembled mine. Then I bought a SAPPHIRE VAPOR-X HD4890 1GB DDR5 PCIE (made it also my gaming machine)
Another thing that may or may not help. I have configured the bios to use AHCI (not RAID). I am using software RAID (mdadm) with ubuntu, and I have a dual boot with a WinXP for the games. Just to point out also that:
* On the bios, you may choose RAID or IDE or AHCI for your internal disks (I saw you bought a RAID card).
* I was able to install XP with the ‘S’ key and the driver from asus for AHCI
* You have 5 sata internal ports and a eSATA back port on that board.
Enjoy.
March 2nd, 2010 at 7:20 am
ETA is 03/04/2010