[Solved] Single or dual socket Dual Socket 1366 Motherboard?

Hello all,

Am a VFX artist my main usage would be on aftereffects and some amount of 3dsmax and photoshop with sometimes on adobe premiere,but most of the time i would be working on after effects.I have done some R&D regarding the system.I would be working on HD resolution.

But i have read somewhere that instead of a highend GPU invest in i7 extreme and just take a basic GPU.But can i do that coz can't invest too much on both.

I need to buy within this week.

CPU -i7-950
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819115211

mobo -Gigabyte GA-EX58-Extreme or ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution or Asus P6T WS Professional

http://www.motherboardpro.com/Giga [...] -1046.html
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813131390
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813131358

GPU -ATI Radeon5830 or ATI Radeon HD 5850 or ATI Radeon5770

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] mc=OTC-RSS
http://www.newegg.com/product/prod [...] 6814103085
http://www.newegg.com/product/prod [...] 6814102858

Memory -8Gb kingston
power -cooler master 600w
HD - Seagate Barracuda 1TB or samsung?I have never used a samsung HD Before
OS -Windws Xp 64 bit

Parts not required are monitor,mouse and keyboard

or

Dual Intel Xeon E5506 Nehalem-EP 2.13GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 4MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 80W Quad-Core Server Processors with ASUS Z8NA-D6 which supports Dual Socket 1366 Motherboard.The rest of the configurations stays the same as above.But would this be faster than the above and stable?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819117186

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/a [...] ,7211.html
http://www.newegg.com/product/prod [...] 6813131389

So will this be good enough or you can suggest something?

Thanks all

Welcome to the forum. There's a Build Advice form in my signature which you may want to fill out, as well. But from the looks of things, I think you would be fine with a single i7 930 overclocked, with good cooling, 12GB of RAM, and maybe a 260.

By cooling I just meant a good case Antec 900, 902 or Cooler Master 922, Storm Scout, etc. And a good HSF for the processor like this one
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 63938&SID=

Edit: Sorry, a 260 is the GTX 260 graphics card from NVidia

Best answer selected by astrol30.