Looking For Expert Opinion for New Build. Add?? Delete?? Change?? Sure appreciate help.

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GrandePaw

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Putting together a new system and wanted some input on my selection of components. This system will primarily be used for:
25% running flight simulators with triple monitors
25% rendering videos and editing photos, downloading / uploading such.
25% Granddaughters (18 years old) running some of their games, Sky-Rim is the only one I remember but I know there are several others.
25% Compose, publish 1-4 page graphic intense newsletters, email and other online stuff

I want the system fast, but not outrageously expensive

Chosen / purchased to date:

Corsair 200r Case
5 ea Noctua Fans
Windows 7 Pro
ASUS Blu Ray Burner
Samsung EVO 500GB SSD
3 ea WD Black 7200 2TB Hard Drives
ASUS Z87-A Motherboard
Intel i7-4770K Processor (no overclocking)
16GB (2 x 8GB) G.Skill Sniper Series F3-1866C9D-16GSR (no overclocking)
Corsair HX750 Power Supply
2 ea EVGA GeForce GTX 460 SE 1024 MBytes Graphic Cards
3 ea Samsung SyncMaster 213T Monitors

Think that is most of the big stuff. Would appreciate any comment about the proposed build. Anything to add? Anything to delete?
 
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Those graphics cards will be weak; they're the 192bit versions of now 3-generations old tech. Everything else looks pretty extreme to me. I don't know how much data you'll be storing; I don't have all that much, and have a pair of 2TB drives in RAID1. Three drives makes me think you have in mind a RAID5, which can be a lot of trouble; the WD Black drives are fast, but I don't think they have TLER, necessary to keep that level of RAID from dropping members that encounter errors.
For the graphics card, I'd look into a pair of HD7870s at the least, and HD7970s would be more in line with the rest of the rig.
If you're not going to overclock, you can get a non-K CPU to lower the cost a little; may not be worth it if you might want to...
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Those graphics cards will be weak; they're the 192bit versions of now 3-generations old tech. Everything else looks pretty extreme to me. I don't know how much data you'll be storing; I don't have all that much, and have a pair of 2TB drives in RAID1. Three drives makes me think you have in mind a RAID5, which can be a lot of trouble; the WD Black drives are fast, but I don't think they have TLER, necessary to keep that level of RAID from dropping members that encounter errors.
For the graphics card, I'd look into a pair of HD7870s at the least, and HD7970s would be more in line with the rest of the rig.
If you're not going to overclock, you can get a non-K CPU to lower the cost a little; may not be worth it if you might want to overclock later.
I could see adding a couple of fans, but five seems like a lot, especially in a non-overclocked (and therefor cooler) rig.
Edit: Check to make sure about support for nVidia Surround vs. AMD Eyefinity. If you choose nVidia, GTX760s or GTX770s would be good; get at least 3GB/card, preferably 4GB for multiple monitors.
 
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GrandePaw

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Thanks very much for the input and comments.

The only reason I was/am going to use the GTX 460's is the fact I have them out of older systems. I guess another question along those lines, do I really need two graphic boards to run 3 monitors? If I can do that with only 1 board, I could spend the extra $$ to get a bigger/badder graphics adapter.
 
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