(example) Building an ubuntu machine

[KamakazieX]

I figured I would post my rig to show off for everyone. Once you reach a certain threshold, its not worth using windows anymore (unless you play windows games). Here is my rig and why I don't use windows anymore. (Ubuntu user since 5.04).

Intel D945GTP Desktop Board
Pentium D945 2x2m
PurePower 500W (not in pics)
4x 1gb PQi Turbo 4300 (highest supported on board *667)
1x 250gb SATA II (not in pics)
1x 80gb SATA II (used for swap / pagefile.sys / FAT32 share)
2x Samsung Light scribe SATA DVD burners (not in pic)

A Westinghouse 24" 16:10 LCD (also used as a 1080p HDTV)
A Samsung 997DF 19" for extra workspace

SWIFTECH proprietary watercooling (serviceable without draining)

MCP655 Pump
Apogee GT CPU Block
No Rez (Pressurizzzzzed!)
MCR320 Radiator (3x120)
MCW30 Chipset cooler

BFGTech 7600GT OC for video

and.. Compiz on Ubuntu to top it off.

Sorry about the windows desktop in the pics! (Took it right after I got my monitor)

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x28/mjlar94/th_BlackBox2.jpg (http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x28/mjlar94/BlackBox2.jpg)
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x28/mjlar94/th_BlackBox1.jpg (http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x28/mjlar94/BlackBox1.jpg)

Can anyone recommend any changes?

[DiaBase]

I just built a system using the same motherboard that you have, with a couple of Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250 GB SATA-300 drives. I'm new to Ubuntu have only installed it on my old system so I would like to know if you have any pointers for using RAID capibilities of SATA drives in an Ubuntu system with this motherboard. I'm looking to get the most speed reading and writing to the drives and am not interested in fault tolerance.

[SpiritIsReality]

howdy
hope this helps
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=site%3Aubuntuforums.org+raid+sata&meta=&btnG=Google+Search
trails

[Extreme Coder]

Sorry, can't help you in that :/

Tell me though, what's the 4 GB RAM for? Isn't 2 much more than enough?