New machine for rendering in Blender

lexe

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Hello people,

Because my machine is very out-of-date I need a new machine to do some heavyduty rendering in Blender.

This is what I would buy:

Win7 64b
CPU: i7-2600K
SSD: 2x 120 GB CSSD Corsair: These aren't bootable right ?
HDD: Western Digital WD2500AAKX: Small disk as a bootable C:. (I use a NAS for storage).
PSU: Corsair CMPSU-800G (800W)
RAM: Corsair DIMM 16 GB DDR3-1333 Quad-Kit: Is this overkill or not for a rendering system ?
GPU: MSI N560GTX: Not a heavy GPU is needed but it's the smallest one they sell. I would have gotten a GTX460 but apparently they stopped selling it.
MB: Z68: Need help choosing the right Motherboard. It needs SATAIII for the SSDs. I prefer it not to be Asus since I had a Deluxe board die on my some time ago. A friend had the same board he also had nothing but issues with Asus. So I'll probably go for an MSI board.


Any remarks or tips are welcome. Choosing the motherboard is the biggest problem.
 
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Intel Core i7-3820 Sandy Bridge-E 3.6GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 2011 130W Quad-Core Desktop Processor BX80619i73820
ASRock X79 Extreme4 LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

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GIGABYTE GV-N560UD-1G GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

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Mushkin Enhanced Chronos MKNSSDCR120GB 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

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G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9Q-16GBZL