Quick notes on building my own computer
Hardware
- case
- power supply
- mother board
- cpu + fan + heatsink
- ram
- graphics card (if not available on mobo)
- hard drives (RAID1)
Tricky parts when putting together:
- Install cpu, fan, heatsink, and ram before mounting mobo into case; fan and heatsink is tricky for my AMD X6 chip
- Place the color coded mobo guide thing (USB plug, sound, etc.) onto the back of the case before mounting mobo.
- Mounting mobo onto case: screw in the screw mounts (brass) onto case first and then mount mobo onto case with screws into the screw mounts.
- Follow mobo manual for plugging in wires. I couldn't find an 8 pin plug from power supply for the CPU power; google results says the 4 pin one should be fine and it was.
- Set up RAID1 from mobo manual and then install Ubuntu server.