A few months ago, I built my first PC from scratch. I certainly didn't step in the shallow end and test the water first. I set my expectations pretty high for a novice. The built seemed to go well enough. The system will boot, and I was able to configure the BIOS. I ran into some setbacks here and there, and have yet to get the project finished.
My components are as follows:
Case - CORSAIR Special Edition White Graphite Series™ 600T Mid ATX
PSU - COOLER MASTER Silent Pro Gold Series 1000W ATX
MoBo - GIGABYTE GA-Z68XP-UD4 LGA 1155 Intel Z68
CPU - INTEL Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core
coolin - CORSAIR Hydro Series H60 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
RAM - G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000)
GPU - EVGA GeForce GTX 550 Ti, 2GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express(x2 SLI)
sound - CREATIVE SoundBlaster X-FI Titanium Fatal1ty Champ PCIe
SSD - OCZ Agility 3, 2.5" 90GB SATA III MLC (x2) - RAID0
HDD - WD Caviar Black 1TB 7200 RPM (x3) - RAID5
0pDD - Lite-On 12X Internal Blu-Ray Writer
disp - Viewsonic VG2436wm-LED 24" LED Monitor (x3)
I have yet to configure the 3 displays, as that will be a task for later. Anyway... I used the MoBo to set up both the RAID0 and RAID5 arrays. I was then able to install Windows 7 Pro on a partition which I created on the SSDs. I left room so as to also install Linux as well, either Fedora or Ubuntu (limited exp w/ fedora from a class, none w/ Ubuntu). The RAID5, data, array has not been particioned yet, and I haven't had any luck getting either flavor of linux to install alongside my Windows install.
I haven't touched the machine in a month due to a school semester ending, starting a new job, and other hectic life issues. I will post a better description of the "issues" soon. I basically just wanted to get a description of my system here, and see if anyone knows of any articles/posts that they could point me to that might help me to get it up and running. As I said my plan was for RAID0 SSDs dual booting Win7 & Linux, with 3TB of data storage in RAID5, with an external HDD backing up the system too. I would also like to know of any configuration recommendations for the SSDs, as I am new to them as well. oh, and given the forum--- perhaps some known OC settings for this set-up (have it running 4.1Ghz from just the MoBo's included "OC tool." Regardless, any help for a first timer would be appreciated. I hope to get a chance to post more details soon!
If needed, I suppose I can forgo the linux install for now, and just get the machine ready to play a little Diablo III =)
My components are as follows:
Case - CORSAIR Special Edition White Graphite Series™ 600T Mid ATX
PSU - COOLER MASTER Silent Pro Gold Series 1000W ATX
MoBo - GIGABYTE GA-Z68XP-UD4 LGA 1155 Intel Z68
CPU - INTEL Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core
coolin - CORSAIR Hydro Series H60 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
RAM - G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000)
GPU - EVGA GeForce GTX 550 Ti, 2GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express(x2 SLI)
sound - CREATIVE SoundBlaster X-FI Titanium Fatal1ty Champ PCIe
SSD - OCZ Agility 3, 2.5" 90GB SATA III MLC (x2) - RAID0
HDD - WD Caviar Black 1TB 7200 RPM (x3) - RAID5
0pDD - Lite-On 12X Internal Blu-Ray Writer
disp - Viewsonic VG2436wm-LED 24" LED Monitor (x3)
I have yet to configure the 3 displays, as that will be a task for later. Anyway... I used the MoBo to set up both the RAID0 and RAID5 arrays. I was then able to install Windows 7 Pro on a partition which I created on the SSDs. I left room so as to also install Linux as well, either Fedora or Ubuntu (limited exp w/ fedora from a class, none w/ Ubuntu). The RAID5, data, array has not been particioned yet, and I haven't had any luck getting either flavor of linux to install alongside my Windows install.
I haven't touched the machine in a month due to a school semester ending, starting a new job, and other hectic life issues. I will post a better description of the "issues" soon. I basically just wanted to get a description of my system here, and see if anyone knows of any articles/posts that they could point me to that might help me to get it up and running. As I said my plan was for RAID0 SSDs dual booting Win7 & Linux, with 3TB of data storage in RAID5, with an external HDD backing up the system too. I would also like to know of any configuration recommendations for the SSDs, as I am new to them as well. oh, and given the forum--- perhaps some known OC settings for this set-up (have it running 4.1Ghz from just the MoBo's included "OC tool." Regardless, any help for a first timer would be appreciated. I hope to get a chance to post more details soon!
If needed, I suppose I can forgo the linux install for now, and just get the machine ready to play a little Diablo III =)
