building my own computer….suggestions please

[John Frey]

Make sure you install plenty of fans for ventilation(the larger, quieter kind with adjustable fan speed dial that you can route out the back of the case), a quality, quiet (Zalman) CPU cooler, and front card reader. Consider a Sata system drive or, you might also consider a Solid State Drive for a system drive. There are (3)OCZ SSDs on the New Egg site. Read the reviews on them before deciding. SSDs are blazing fast as system drives and have enough space for Vista 64, but they can be a bit complicated. Use(2)Sata drives (same brand, model and capacity) that you can set up in the Vista software as a single raid drive system for media. Sata drives are super cheap right now. You will get better overall performance putting your AVCHD media on the raid. Setup to a minimum of Raid 0. The i7920 proc is fast, but the real speed is in the $1K 960. Good Luck.

John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.

Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore

[John Frey]

Saw your choice of Asus mboard. I just installed an Asus in my most recent build. Great board, solid and has Express Gate – very helpful program built-in to the chipset and activates on bootup. Check it out!

John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.

Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore