I recently built a new computer from components (with some guidance from my friend Jim who has more experience in building systems).  Unfortunately my Wiki wasn't up and running at the time and I didn't take any pictures whilst building it so there's no documentation of the build itself or the early installation of [[http://www.gentoo.org/|Gentoo]] on it, but this page documents its evolving configuration.

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====== Hardware ======

The hardware was bought from various places including [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/|Amazon]], [[http://www.ebuyer.com/|Ebuyer]] and [[http://www.scan.co.uk/|Scan]].

^ Hardware ^ Component ^
^ Casing | [[http://www.hipergroup.com/products.php?lv=3&cate=6&type=9&pid=118&w=1280&h=760|Hiper Anubis HTC-1K614]] |
^ PSU | [[http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/500W-ST50F-230-v-10-Strider-PSU-silent-modular-cable-V-10|SilverStone 500W ST50F-230 v-1.0]] |
^ Motherboard | [[http://www.gigabyte.lv/products/page/mb/ga-x48-ds4_13/download/manual|Gigabyte GA-X48-DS4]] |
^ CPU | [[http://www.ebuyer.com/product/139971|Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Socket 775 (3.0GHz) 1333FSB]] |
^ Cooling | [[http://www.scanshot.co.uk/products/arctic-cooling-freezer-7-pro-v2-s1366-1155-1156-775-am3-am2plus-am2-939-up-to-130-watts|Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Quiet Intel CPU Cooler]] |
^ RAM | [[http://www.ebuyer.com/product/148816|Corsair 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 1066MHz/PC2-8500 XMS2]] |
^ Hard Drive 1 | [[http://www.ebuyer.com/product/146252|Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 16MB Cache]] |
^ Hard Drive 2 | [[http://www.ebuyer.com/product/143288|Samsung SpinPoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 32MB Cache]] |
^ Hard Drive 3 | [[http://www.ebuyer.com/product/143288|Samsung SpinPoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 32MB Cache]] |
^ Graphics Card | [[http://www.ebuyer.com/product/154994|nVidia "Palit 9500GT 1GB DDR2 Super + VGA DVI HDMI PhysX and Cuda ready PCI-E ]] |


Full [[Home Build Hardware Listing]] as reported by [[http://ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter|''lshw'']].

I opted to go with a full 64-bit install on this system.

====== Upgrading ======

I've upgraded the motherboard, Hard-drives, RAM and various bits over the years.

===== Migrating OS to new SSD =====

Got a new M.2 250Gb SSD and wanted to migrate the OS.  This is fairly straight-forward.

  * [Gentoo Forums :: View topic - Best Way To Move An Existing Install Between Drives?](https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-947250-start-0.html)
  * [TheChymera/mkstage4: Bash Utility for Creating Stage 4 Tarballs](https://github.com/TheChymera/mkstage4)


====== Kernel ======

Various versions of the kernel configuration are available below

  * {{:config-gentoo-2.6.28.bz2|sys-kernel/tuxonice-sources-2.6.31.config}}
  * {{:gentoo:2.6.39.config.bz2|sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.39.config}}
  


====== Configuration ======


===== Gentoo =====

  * ''{{:darwin.make.conf.bz2|/etc/make.conf}}''
  * ''{{:layman.cfg.bz2|/etc/layman/layman.cfg}}''
  * ''{{:layman.make.conf.bz2|/usr/porage/local/layman/make.conf}}


====== Manuals ======

{{tag>gentoo linux howto article hardware tips portage}}