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  • Michael Rizzo

    October 26, 2011 at 8:15 pm

    Chris,

    You’ve got a pretty solid parts list there. Good work. A few points:

    1. I love that case, provides a lot of room to work with and guys like us end up filling up our hard drive bays.

    2. Monitor, hard drives and SSD are all solid.

    3. Video Card will actually speed up your render times under Vegas 11 if the propaganda is correct. I’m a gamer as well who has always maintained two separate machines and never bothered to put heavy graphics in the workstation, but that may be money well spent this time around.

    4. I think the sound card is a waste of money. Any decent motherboard has pretty good sound these days. Unless you’re the sound engineer on a VERY high level production, I doubt you’ll hear anything different with the sound card.

    5. Cooler Master makes a decent PSU. I don’t settle for decent PSUs in my computers. A power supply is the one thing you should spend extra money on to be absolutely certain you don’t have a problem. I recommend Corsair or PC Power & Cooling, and for this rig, 750 watts is more than plenty (I run a PC Power 750 in a machine very similar to yours and it’s wildly underutilized).

    6. I would spring for a Z68 motherboard. I prefer Gigabyte boards myself from years of building experience. There are a few minor features that could come in handy like SSD caching. But this isn’t that big of a deal.

    7. Love that CPU fan, it’s on my system right now. Bargain.

    8. Red LED fans are dumb. Just use whatever they give you. Although in the case of the HAF I think those have LEDs too.

    I would install the OS and Vegas on your SSD for fast application loading times.

    I keep my raw footage cataloged in a series of 2TB drives by client and shoot. I render to a separate 1TB drive for finished projects and working edits.

    You’re in very good shape so far. The 2600K is the chip to get right now. 16GB of ram is overkill, but cheap, so who cares? I can’t say anything you’ve picked is explicitly a bad idea. Just think about those few suggestions I made.

  • Ted Snow

    October 29, 2011 at 12:08 am

    One thing I would add is hard drive coolers. Even the cheap HD cooler fans make a world of difference in the temp of your hard drives. You can touch a HD after being on only a few minutes and it will burn your finger if you’re not careful. But if you have a HD cooler on it…you can touch them after hours of run time and they are cool to the touch.

    I have hard drive coolers on all my hard drives. The cheap ones don’t last as long but you can buy them in bulk dirt cheap on Ebay if you don’t mind changing them out every now and then. More expensive ones last longer but the cheap ones cool just as good…I’ve used both.

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    ASUS P8P67 Deluxe MB
    EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1 GB DDR 5
    Intel i7 2600k 3.4 Ghz
    Corsair HX750 power supply
    Two Seagate Barracuda 500g SATA III drives
    16 Gig G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3 1600
    Canopus ACEDVio card
    Thermaltake V9 BlacX Edition case
    Xigmatek Dark Knight CPU Cooler
    Win 7 Pro
    VEGAS 8.0
    VEGAS 11.0 32 & 64 bit
    Sony VX2100
    Sony HVR-Z7U hi def
    Alesis HD24

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