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 Gentoo on it, but this page documents its evolving configuration.

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Hardware

The hardware was bought from various places including Amazon, Ebuyer and Scan.

Hardware	Component
Casing	Hiper Anubis HTC-1K614
PSU	SilverStone 500W ST50F-230 v-1.0
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-X48-DS4
CPU	Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Socket 775 (3.0GHz) 1333FSB
Cooling	Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Quiet Intel CPU Cooler
RAM	Corsair 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 1066MHz/PC2-8500 XMS2
Hard Drive 1	Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 16MB Cache
Hard Drive 2	Samsung SpinPoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 32MB Cache
Hard Drive 3	Samsung SpinPoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 32MB Cache
Graphics Card	nVidia "Palit 9500GT 1GB DDR2 Super + VGA DVI HDMI PhysX and Cuda ready PCI-E

Full Home Build Hardware Listing as reported by ''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.

Table of Contents

Hardware

Upgrading

Migrating OS to new SSD

Kernel

Configuration

Gentoo

Manuals