Arch Linux stuff

I have been thinking about buying new computer for a while now, maybe for a year or so. Now I had funds to do it so I went and ordered components for new box. My previous computer was built in Shuttle barebones case and I really liked it so up-to-date Shuttle case was my benchmark when I was planning which parts I should buy.

Biggest decision was actually the case, as performance was pretty much dictated by my budget. And in the end Shuttle case + rest wasn’t price wise that much different to some case + some motherboard + some power + rest so I went with Shuttle again. This time with state of the art model SX58J3.

When case was decided it was pretty straightforward after that. One component I really wanted in my new machine was SSD drive to hold my root partition (and /home and /boot, I pretty much followed recommendations in this wiki page). After some reading around the web I decided on 80GB Intel X25-M G2. For CPU I went with almost top of the line Intel i7 930, which is 2.80GHz quad-core model. For memory I got 4Gb of Mushkin Enhanced Silverline in 2x2Gb setup. And for GPU I went with Nvidia GTS250 chip on card built by ASUS. And on lesser note, as main harddrive to act as actual storage I got 500Gb Hitachi drive and for optical drive LG DVD writer (I accindentally first ordered one with IDE connections but my new case has only SATA connections, so back to the store on that one

And when it comes to OS, ofcourse Arch Linux. Which is now installed and running well. I am writing this on my new machine so it seems that I didn’t mess up anything while assembling it, it has been a while since I have built computer by myself.

I will post bootchart later, it will be nice to compare to my old results now that I have upgraded performance quite heavily, and especially how my shining SSD will behave.

One gripe I do have. Fans in this new case are a bit louder than they were in the old one. I allready replaced fan for CPU for supposedly quiter one, but I think it actually might be power fan that makes the noise. Have to see if I can replace that as well.