What do you think of this for a new build?

[Vince Becquiot]

First the case. It’s probably going to be one of the noisier versions from Cooler master. My favorite case from them is hands down the Cosmos 1000. It’s huge, heavy, built out of steel, but it has a ton of room and is very quiet, something important if you edit in the same room.

You might find that SSD to be a bit small. We’ve been using a couple of 128 gigs GSkill Falcon and couldn’t be happier with the performance and stability. It’s MLC, but holding its own after about a year, and it’s pretty cheap (comparatively speaking). Even with just program files and OS, we are about 3/4 to capacity.

You’ll probably need one more large drive for daily backups.

I won’t comment on AMD since we don’t own one. We love the Intel i7, but it’s certainly expensive and it’s very hot, especially if you are editing in the same room.

I will tell you that our systems are very stable on it, so I would ask around for performance on that particular AMD chip.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Oliver Maingay]

Many thanks for your reply. I’m pleased to hear you recommending the SSDs, I’m particularly excited about trying them out. The reason I chose only 80GB was that this will purely be used for OS, PPro and nothing else. No Photoshop, Documents or any other apps. I thought 80 would suffice?

Would you think I’d be better off with the 4×250 SATAs or 2xSingle Platter Samsung F3 500GBs?

Thanks again