Video editing build. Need expert opinion

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Hey everyone! This is a video editing build I'm putting together for my friend who is a professional video editor for a very very large company. Please tell me what you think about the build and ways to improve it. I'm trying to get him away from Apple. Where he has to buy a whole $6-$8000 computer every time he wants to upgrade. The budget here is about $5,000. Please and thank you!!

Points of interest:
0 - I haven't chosen case fans yet (unless you have an excellent suggestion don't bother)
1 - Gaming will probably not happen on this build
2 - Adobe CS6 will be used so the GPU choices are limited
3 - Animation will also be done on this build but it is secondary to video editing
4 - Is the dual CPU set up the best way to get processing power for ungodly large video rendering sessions?
5 - Is there a better MOBO/CPU combo to get maximum processing power and still leave room for the other stuff for about $5000?
6 - Is win-10 64bit even possible on this MOBO? Not from what I've seen.
 
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0- Noctua is generally the best to go with
1- makes sense because its a workstation
2- I would still only get one 580 instead of dual as rendering mainly uses cpu

4- dual cpus will give you decent power. Later on in the future you can upgrade to dual 24 core cpus which is extreme. Adobe software isnt well optimized for more than 6ish cores but as with any video editing/rendering, the more cores the better

5- Not really. Just more powerfull cpus will make the difference

6- I believe so but I may be wrong. Windows 10 pro supports dual sockets but if you were to go to quad socket, the you would need Windows Server

With storage, I would drop the 1tb ssd down to a 250 or 512gb ssd and buy another 240gb M.2 ssd for caching as well as a...

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0- Noctua is generally the best to go with
1- makes sense because its a workstation
2- I would still only get one 580 instead of dual as rendering mainly uses cpu

4- dual cpus will give you decent power. Later on in the future you can upgrade to dual 24 core cpus which is extreme. Adobe software isnt well optimized for more than 6ish cores but as with any video editing/rendering, the more cores the better

5- Not really. Just more powerfull cpus will make the difference

6- I believe so but I may be wrong. Windows 10 pro supports dual sockets but if you were to go to quad socket, the you would need Windows Server

With storage, I would drop the 1tb ssd down to a 250 or 512gb ssd and buy another 240gb M.2 ssd for caching as well as a scratch disk. Then the 2 4tb HDDs can be used in raid for mass storage. It can be raided for 4tb with redundancy or 8tb with much faster speeds. I know the 8tb with fast speeds is RAID 0 but I dont remember which one is redundancy.

Other than those, that build will do really well
 
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