From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PPweW-0002Gl-77 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:28:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B7765E0779; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 12:26:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89CBCE0779 for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 12:26:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywa6 with SMTP id 6so23978260ywa.40 for ; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 04:26:48 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=l/OXyLx13eS5kfbqfd1h/SJhpsOi1JmgaeVezeOfsBQ=; b=lElIF29Xc3MSIIAyWX/Xi/uvvPZUA7wdMdzaqAr3ypgUxautHMaX2nkJUWwH2JgOO8 xu/zygzVY5WVxvYpgxFgZmNICseD0WXWNJFTYVyqX0NiISsxhJTixRPLWbHixz44yczT o+/gzaFy5DnO46uqvPTwaI/hjf/xDj4Esz9+8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=TFIyPy+qlvTYMtXP73ybBXuMdP+QveAX7P4BUDGPCPpxb27lUwTlLpAjfFPS1vip8Y 3ikOce/xL6lSgGKzW0CEPvRwRi/LERFfeuxaVULlzwFvoGCTy83/J/F0guWNCXNC7+Jm oGcRzs+pvThexbtnIQIKUc6lr+mqtnuk6sLLw= Received: by 10.90.10.21 with SMTP id 21mr9537494agj.112.1291724808036; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 04:26:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-95-133-127.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.133.127]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i2sm3818109yha.25.2010.12.07.04.26.45 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 07 Dec 2010 04:26:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4CFE2804.3030504@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 06:26:44 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101109 Gentoo/2.0.10 SeaMonkey/2.0.10 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Somewhat OT. Building a rig. Want to get opinions before spending $$$ References: <4CF0269F.9030702@gmail.com> <4CFE202D.5090209@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f21f4596-26ef-4003-a618-38dc312c58af X-Archives-Hash: febadd4944f1a15f8e98716ff0ab076e Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: > 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. > I already ordered the stuff now tho. Newegg might get upset if I send some of it back. ;-) I'm hoping amd64 will work as well for me to then. Thanks for the info on flash tho. I read where some had trouble a while back but was hoping it was fixed by now. Now to go subscribe to the amd64 mailing list to. Dale :-) :-)