Ordering this system; Please advise?

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Noyz-
My understanding is that if you are doing serious video editing then you can never have enough RAM and Hard Drive space. 4GB of RAM may seem insane but consider BF2 likes 2Gb of RAM and you can see the norms are changing quickly. I am not a pro on video editing, especially at the level you indicate that you will be operating but it may be something to consider.

Maxtor HDD's seem to be the subject of a lot of "help me" posts so you may want to look at Western Digital. You could put four 200GB SATA II's in RAID 0+1 and have both a fast access time and built in HDD back-up/redundancy and do it for $400 (ZZF has them on sale for $104 each).

Just my 2 cents worth. Good luck and looks like a well thought out rig.
 
I absolutely agree with the memory thing. I'd love 4GB and I'll probably add on in about 6 months or so. But for now it was either the extra 2GB or a dual monitor set up, which has shown to be necessary with Adobe Premiere Pro's screen clutter.

NOW you tell me about the Maxtor "help me" issues! I ordered the HDs yesterday. One of my externals is a Maxtor and it's been great, so I thought I'd give it a shot. They were only $104.99 each compared to Western Digital (which I did look at) drives at $130-$140. And with ordering 4 total, it was quite a big savings to go with the Maxtor. I just hope they hold up. It was also critial to have 250GB drives (1 for boot and .avi files, 2 to store my entire music library and a 4th for either more music---I have about 3000 CDs not counting MP3s from the internet---or for additional video storage beyond my 3 externals).

Thanks for the good advice!
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As I said earlier, if you put those drives on the extended RAID controller you can set them up in a RAID 5 configuration. You'll lose about 20% of the total space for parity information, but if one of your drives fail, you wont lose the data. You'll also get a performance advantage in reading data from the drives as its striped across all of them (writing data is a little slower as parity has to be written too).
 
Well, I'd like to report that the new system is here, built and all is well.

However I'm still waiting on my video card (and keyboard/mouse combo) from Tigerdirect! The video card was the very FIRST thing I ordered and it was over 14 days ago. I'm scheduled to receive it tomorrow. Tigerdirect has been a terrible experience due to some warehouse/inventory issues lately. I made 3 orders with them over 3 days (over $1300) and it's been a nightmare.

Thankfully I ordered the other half of my system from Newegg. They have been absolutely awesome. Even had a telephone customer service experience that was quite remarkable. My Newegg stuff was here in 2 days! I know I live closer to their warehouses than I do Tigerdirects' but c'mon...2 weeks to get me a #&*@ video card?

Anyway...everything is screwed in, hooked up and ready to fire. Just waiting on my last component.

Thanks for all your help! These boards are awesome!
 
Noyz-
I'd recommend you use another card and keyboard. There are lots and lots of things to do that you definitely don't need a high end card for.
 
Yes, I know, but I'm working round the clock on 5 projects with my current PC and I'd rather just wait for the new card for the new pc. I'm not in a work-related rush to move to the new box, but as you can imagine I am dying to mess around with it. Good suggestion though.

Wow those reviews are interesting. I just can't believe Tigerdirect! To give them some credit, they are refunding me my $100+ in shipping.
 
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