Ordering in 2 days, need to reel the price in some

I'm building a machine for a friend, with emphasis on HD-video editing and gaming. He tends to keep his machines longer than most... ~5yrs

Some of this is overkill, and I'm currently about $400 over budget, but I'm trying to avoid potential bottlenecks..

Thanks for any advice.

Motherboard: ASUS P6X58D-E LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard ($210)

Video card and win7 Pro: EVGA 012-P3-1571-KR GeForce GTX 570 HD (Fermi) 1280MB ($454.98)

CPU: Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz 8MB L3 Cache Quad-Core Processor ($329)

CPU cooler: COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus 120mm CPU Cooler Compatible Intel Core i5 & Intel Core i7 ($25)

Case: Antec Nine Hundred Two V3 Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case ($110)

Power supply: Antec TruePower New TP-750 Blue 750W Continuous Power ($130)

Ram: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory ($100)

Primary HD: Intel 510 Series (Elm Crest) SSDSC2MH120A2K5 2.5" 120GB SATA Solid State Drive ($315)

Secondary HD: SAMSUNG Spinpoint 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA Internal Hard Drive ($65)

Blu-ray burner: Pioneer 4MB Cache SATA Internal Blu-ray Burner Blu-ray Burner ($120)

Wifi: Linksys WMP600N ($50)

Hello Ave05;

What the percentage mix in gaming vs video editing?

It'll probably be about 50/50 between the two... Even with the SSD, I doubt he'll take the time to reboot between them.

I had another motherboard in mind, not sure which at the moment, but I read on the forums that it doesn't support USB 3.0 under all conditions. Seemed like a strange limitation, so I picked another one without much researching. Which would you recommend?

Thanks!

How certain is he to want a 2nd GTX 570 added to the system later?
If he'll be happy with just the single GTX 570 we can move down a tier in motherboard AND power supply.

I'm not sure about the 2nd video card. If it does happen, it'll probably be a while. By then it might make more sense to upgrade to a new (single) card, and sell the 570.

Would it make any sense to bump the ram to 16Gb?

Thanks for the help, getting back within budget after your recommendations.

He definitely wants to create Blu-Ray discs to send to friends and family. He's got an HD Canon video camera that's collecting dust at the moment.

No problem going with that burner, thanks for the link. Should I consider another video card, or go with something in SLI?

I thought that might be the case with the memory. Will also adjust the list with the Asus wifi card. Thanks.

I'm going to give him a call, and find out what the model is. I know it uses mini DV, and outputs 1080i.

I can see him upgrading his video camera at some point, but just for reference, what would be the difference between HD video on a DVD, and the same on a Blu-Ray disc? Would they both look the same when played in a Blu-Ray player on a 50" screen?

You can do video recording, editing, burning and playback of 1080 HD video without ever needing Blu-Ray equipment.

He can ship his 1080 videos on DVDs and they will play back on Blu-Ray players without a problem. Plus any other friends or family without Blu-Ray are good to go as well.

You don't need Blu-Ray for 1080 video. You need Blu-Ray equipment to playback Blu-Ray discs and to burn Blu-Ray discs.

The fast and easy way it to just copy/paste and then clean up all the extra lines and 'fluff' content like "Return Policy"
Just part name, Item # and price is fine

What size are your friends videos?
The major difference in DVD vs Blu-Ray (apart from the equipment it takes to work) is the amount of data each will hold.
Blu-Ray is up there with 25GB/disc (or even 50GB with dual layer) and DVDs are 4.7GB/disc (8.5GB/disc dual layer).

My Asus P8P67 Pro has firewire support. I'm guessing the single GPU boards also have it.
Firewire is a technology on the way out that won't survive for long now that USB 3.0 is here.
Also the 2500k and the 2600k are both great cpus. There is only a tiny bump in performance between the two and a big bump in price. 2500K FTW!

A case with front panel Firewire support Antec Nine Hundred Mid Tower Computer Case $100 & $20 rebate

HDV/Mpeg2 uncompressed video does run ~13GB an hour.

AVCHD/H.264/Mpeg4 (Blu-Ray) works much better compressing video more effectively than older standards. If your friends video editing software uses the newer codecs he'll have no trouble encoding an hour's worth of HDV video to fit on a DVD.
Blu-Ray burner not needed.

Typical tigerdirect nonsense

Whenever something is 'hot' they claim it is in stock until you order it. They are quite frankly liars. I recently ordered a GPU from tigerdirect that was 'In Stock' at the time of order. The GPU was out of stock at newegg. Two days later an e-mail from TD... 'your crap is backordered it'll be in on Friday, then we'll ship it... BTW we hate you'

I called and tried to cancel the order they tried to sell me some service for $10 a month and I told them just cancel my order I don't want to sign up for your service. they cancelled but I wasn't sure if the sales rep in the Phillipines was going to charge my card for some service they had signed me up for.

Anyways the GPU came up on newegg for the same price that day and I ordered it. It was here on friday before tigerdirect would have even sent it...