When life gives you lemons, make ya some good ol southern lemonade....
 
 
Financially, its been a hard past six months.  Fin got sick of trying to run on a weak laptop, and now fin getting to build a system, its been been awhile since ive had a system "laptop doesnt count" just from life happens past few years for me. Might be older tech, but its still gold to me...
 
 
KV5_Lemonade, my 5th system build
Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo"
Intel i7-950
Asus P6X58D-E
24GB OCZ 1066/9CL "Theirs a name from the past"
eVGA GTX 980sc 4GB
Antec Performance Series P7 Silent "To hold me over till Kirk can build the new case"
Seasonic  850W Platinum
SAMSUNG 860 Pro 512GB 2.5_SSD
coolermaster Hyper 212 Evo or a 120mm AIO
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The system will see full watercooling later on...




 
     To some of the members who have gotten to know me over the years and a thank you to;
Cool GTX, Tweaked, Gone Cruising & Notfordman.  
     The wife and I (please keep personal out of the threads please) are working towards doing our own game development as a husband & wife team. Our first two games will be a tactical shooter (Crysis meets Halflife ish) and a 2D Strategy/RPG/puzzle blended game for PC/mobile both games will be serious Linux pushed games, with the 2D game being Linux and iOS. 
 
Its been a longtime coming,
Knight'

Older tech, for the most part, isn't all that much worse than newer tech for the last 8 or 9 years. Being the hdd is the slowest thing in the chain, changing that to a ssd of some sort can have drastically good results on your build. You put the effort in and you will reap the rewards Knight.  

knightsilver
Feedback on running 2.5 SSD's in RAID 0, RAID5 or RAID10?

do you want redundancy or do you want size?   My last RAID was strip with two 500 gb for a total of 1 TB.    Back then, the price was better to get two.  As far as redundancy, either back up your main drive on something else or use mirror.   Just make sure if you ever stop using the raid and go onto a new build,  Disassemble the RAID array in the boot up software before taking everything apart. 

I'd only use the Marvel for port for an internal/external DVD drive or storage. If you decide to raid SSDs (two) this will result in some increased speed. Don't forget to backup often. 

My, what a BIG reservoir you have! LOL   Well knight, you have one of the best custom builders for your project. Hope you enjoy building it. 

knightsilver
I get it Kirk, the wife and I are both working two jobs atm, Bend really isnt cheap to live in. But ya dont have to explain your self, life happens...
 
Feedback on WD Blue HDD's for storge/backups?

I have had good luck with the blues and also black's myself. If you watch Newegg email's or Amazon, you can find some nice deals. 

Anyone know if ya can USB "usb flash" boot on X58?

Ill have a few pics of this weekend as I start the Lemonade build, which will be my 5th system build..

Very Nice build
 
I'll be looking for future updates