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14kvision

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Hey everyone. I am currently piecing together a new system which I plan to build myself. This will be my first build. I will be using the PC for graphics (CS 5.5 photoshop, illustrator), some video work (CS 5.5 Premiere Pro), and website design related applications (dreamweaver). I may also do some minimal gaming, but that really isn't the focus of the PC. I want to put together a system that is somewhat future-proof (as much as possible), to provide the longest life to the computer. Below I will list the components I plan on getting and would really appreciate any feedback. (Do you see anything that won't work well together? Anything I am overdoing? Something I could scale back on or something I should increase?)

Corsair Carbide Series White 500R Mid Tower Computer Case
ASUS Sabertooth X79 LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel i7-4930k LGA 2011 64 Technology Extended Memory CPU Processor
Corsair RM Series 850 Watt ATX/EPS 80Plus Gold-Certified Power Supply
Corsair Dominator Platinum 32GB (4X8gb) DDR 1866MHz (PC3 15000) Memory (10 model)
Samsung 850 Pro Series 512 GB Sata (Primary Drive)
Western Digital Black 4TB Sata III 7200 RMP 64MB Cache HardDrive (Secondary Drive)
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - CPU cooler with 120mm PWM Fan
NVIDIA Quadro K4000 3GB GDDR5 Graphics Card
ASUS Internal 24X SATA Optical Drive DRW

Price: Just north of $3200
 
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You don't need an 850 watt PSU. I would go with a 600-700 watt one from SeaSonic/XFX/Antec/Corsair. Also, being that you are doing video editing, you may want a blu-ray burner. Any reason you want a 512GB SSD? I would only recommend using it for your OS and apps, a 256GB one should be plenty. You could even get 2 and RAID 0 them for increased performance. Or perhaps get a second smaller one to use as a project/scratch drive.

The reliability of those big 4TB drives is lower than the smaller ones, I would maybe consider a couple 2/3TB drives instead. Or consider a backup solution if this data is very important.
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Looks good to me, though I would caution you to make sure that RAM will fit under your CPU cooler. Your CPU cooler is large, and the small fins on the RAM make it a bit bigger then the low profile variety.
 
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You don't need an 850 watt PSU. I would go with a 600-700 watt one from SeaSonic/XFX/Antec/Corsair. Also, being that you are doing video editing, you may want a blu-ray burner. Any reason you want a 512GB SSD? I would only recommend using it for your OS and apps, a 256GB one should be plenty. You could even get 2 and RAID 0 them for increased performance. Or perhaps get a second smaller one to use as a project/scratch drive.

The reliability of those big 4TB drives is lower than the smaller ones, I would maybe consider a couple 2/3TB drives instead. Or consider a backup solution if this data is very important.
 
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