Building a Little Budget Cruncher

[Aux10]

I'm making a little budget cruncher to help stave off my hunger while I wait for the Skylake CPUs. I just sent my order off to New Egg and got these part for $341. What Linux Distro works best for crunching? Last time I tried linux I used Ubuntu and I remember it watering down my GPU credits substantially. Since this is a budget box I don't want to waste my cash on a OS.

Case: Thermaltake Urban S1
CPU: Intel Pentium G3220 Haswell Dual-Core 3.0GHz
MOBO: ASRock H97M Anniversary
PSU: Corsair CX430
GPU: EVGA GTX 750Ti
RAM: Some stuff in my spare parts pile.
HDD: Old junk drive.

Now, what shall I name it? Hmm...

[Ron Shurtz]

Now, what shall I name it? Hmm...

BuddyC (Budget Cruncher)

Cy (Cyborg)

Gizmo

[Fire$torm]

Names: Lil' Aux, Aux-e-5, B.A.L.C (Bad A__ Little Cruncher) or how about "RAMBO"?

Distros: Mint might be a good one. To get the best performing distro, talk to Mumps about compiling your own using Gentoo.

[Duke of Buckingham]

Black Sheep would be a good name.

[Mumps]

Names: Lil' Aux, Aux-e-5, B.A.L.C (Bad A__ Little Cruncher) or how about "RAMBO"?

Distros: Mint might be a good one. To get the best performing distro, talk to Mumps about compiling your own using Gentoo.

Nope. Don't talk to Mumps. I've made no efforts to go through a Gentoo build-your-own installation. Have too many hosts to fiddle with finding optimal flags. I just go with the clunky old Ubuntu stock Desktop build. Not as efficient as it could be, but works for most projects that have Linux apps with little effort. Only gets weird with Video drivers. I've had somewhat better luck with nVidia cards than ATI cards at least.

[Shandia]

Black Sheep would be a good name.

Black Sheep is always a good name. Easy to see and count. ;-)

[DrPop]

...To get the best performing distro, talk to Mumps about compiling your own using Gentoo.

The guy you want to talk to is Trigggl - provided he has the time these days. The man is a Whiz, I got to watch him remote in and build up a couple Gentoo rigs back in the day...

[Duke of Buckingham]

The guy you want to talk to is Trigggl - provided he has the time these days. The man is a Whiz, I got to watch him remote in and build up a couple Gentoo rigs back in the day...

But the better name is still Black Sheep.

[Aux10]

The case came today and I installed the HDD, DVD Drive, and a 120mm front fan which all came from my spare parts bin. Now I under stand I only payed $45 for the case so I guess it comes with the territory but it was the most unfriendly case I've used. The front fan was a pain in the ass to install since the front panel is in the way of two of the 120mm screw holes and there is no way to remove it with out breaking anything. It's not tool-less which was expected but they need to work on their tolerances because some of the mounting points don't quite line up with the screw-holes exactly as they should've requiring me to use a bit of force. It didn't help that one of the tabs that the CD drive rests on was totally bent up throwing off the alignment entirely but I was able to fix that with a pair of pliers. I should also mention the the HDDs don't go flush with the drive cage like you'd expect them to; the back third sticks out. It's a budget case but I'd probably avoid it in the future. The components come tomorrow so I'll have it all together tomorrow night. Photos shall be posted.

[Aux10]

Also the name has been decided: Kuro Chan (Japanese)

Kuro simply means black. Chan is a Japanese honorific (it's similar to a suffix) that is normally used when referring to children, teenage girls/young woman or used as a term of endearment.