- The 3930K is about the strongest CPU you can get before you have to spend ridiculous amounts of money.
- 16GB of 1600Mhz RAM, nothing special.
- A 2011 board, again nothing special.
- Two Barracuda 1TB drives and a 120GB SSD, this will allow you to distribute disk load. SSD for the OS and programs, HDD 1 for holding raw footage and HDD 2 for having footage rendered too. This means performance isnt limited a single drive having to do multiple things.
- The 7770 is more useful as a display output more than anything, but will allow you to game at a decent level if thats a concern. If your applications can leverage OpenCL or OpenGL computing, then you can also harness the card for that.
- Good case, silence oriented.
- 650W PSU, just to give you some headroom with the high wattage CPU if you decide to throw on a stronger graphics card later on.
The rig can also overclock if you change your mind on that, but I would suggest upgrading the cooling before you try anything beyond +0.5Ghz