the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I'm putting a new system, it will be running mainly, VirtualBox, > Asterisk, Hylafax etc. (nothing graphic intensive). > > - IN WIN BL631 Low Profile Micro ATX Case w/ 300W Power Supply, > - AMD FX-8350 Processor 4.0GHz w/ 16MB Cache > - Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 w/ DDR3, 7.1 Audio, Gigabit Lan > - Kingston HyperX Fury 16GB DDR3-1866MHz CL10 Dual Channel Kit > - Samsung 850 EVO Series mSATA Solid State Drive, 1TB > - Asus GeForce GT 720 Silent CSM, 2GB, PCI-E w/ D-Sub VGA, DVI, HDMI > > Will I have any problems installing Gentoo on this configuration, eg. > with Video Card etc.? > Do I need more RAM? >
I built a rig a while back and have 16GBs of memory. I also have portage's work directory on tmpfs. There are times when I wish I had more memory. I'm planning to upgrade to 24GBs and eventually, 32GBs. I'm not sure what your board can hold but may want to think about future upgrades. I run KDE here, there are times where I use a lot of memory. I'm using ~8GBs as I type. I've been using a Gigabyte board for a long while. I'm happy with it. I actually still have a 2nd board that I upgraded from. It was a first step to upgrade memory and such. I think I had to change the IOMMU setting in the BIOS. I think that was the name of it. It's something like that. I think I had to add something to the kernel boot line too on that. Let me know if you need it, I'll go dig. One other thing, I have a UPS that shows what amount of power my system is using. It shows ~150 watts. It will jump to ~190 when compiling heavily. You may want to make sure that P/S is well made. I've never used a P/S that came with a case. Generally, they are cheaply made. May want to make sure of that before you use it. Nothing worse than a crappy P/S. Dale :-) :-)
