video editing and gaming computer

[soyoukan]

Case
FRACTAL DEFINE R4 BLACK PEARL QUIET MID-TOWER CASE

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-3770K (3.5GHz) 8MB Cache

Motherboard
ASUS® P8Z77-V: PCI-E 3.0 READY, WIFI, SLI, CROSSFIREX

Memory (RAM)
32GB KINGSTON HYPERX BEAST DUAL-DDR3 2400MHz X.M.P (4 x 8GB KIT)

Graphics Card
4GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 680 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready

Memory - 1st Hard Disk
240GB INTEL® 335 SERIES SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 500MB/sR | 450MB/sW)

2nd Hard Disk
2TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 64MB CACHE

3rd Hard Disk
2TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 64MB CACHE

4th Hard Disk
120GB KINGSTON V300 SSD, SATA 6 Gb (450MB/R, 450MB/W)

SSD CACHE DRIVE
20GB INTEL® SSD 313 SERIES - SLC CACHE DRIVE FOR SYSTEM / 1st HDD

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
15x BLU-RAY WRITER DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW

2nd DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM

Power Supply
CORSAIR 850W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX850 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE (£99)

Processor Cooling
Corsair H40 Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler (£39)

Extra Case Fans
1 x 12CM Black Case Fan (configured to extract from rear/roof) (£5)

Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

Network Facilities
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs

USB Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 4 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS

Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit w/SP1 - inc DVD & Licence (£109)



any constructive comments please?

 

[Rakk]

Just a couple of comments

Memory (RAM)
32GB KINGSTON HYPERX BEAST DUAL-DDR3 2400MHz X.M.P (4 x 8GB KIT)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H40 Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler (£39)

Are you planning on overclocking? If not then you could easily use the triple copper heatpipe cooler and be perfectly fine, also you could use 1600MHz RAM if not overclocking.
I know you said you will be video editing, and I know for video editing a lot of RAM is useful, but do you actually need 32GB?

Memory - 1st Hard Disk
240GB INTEL® 335 SERIES SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 500MB/sR | 450MB/sW)

SSD CACHE DRIVE
20GB INTEL® SSD 313 SERIES - SLC CACHE DRIVE FOR SYSTEM / 1st HDD

There is no point have a cache drive if you already have an SSD as the boot drive, the cache drives are for speeding up normal mechanical drives

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
15x BLU-RAY WRITER DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW

2nd DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM

Any reason for two DVD drives (yes I know one is blu-ray as well)? Are you going to be writing/copying a lot of DVD's?

 

[soyoukan]

thanks for the response. no, i wont be overclocking. so, is the triple copper heatpipe the cheaper option in the list? i use Sony Vegas 12 and it seems to enjoy lots of RAM so 32gb was (in my opinion) a better choice for ensuring speed for rendering, especially as i have discovered the SV "graphics acceleration" option is faulty and needs to be switched off (well it did with the video card in the test machine i used). I take your point regarding the cache drive, and will remove that. I wasnt sure but did suspect it was more for mechanical drives. 2 dvd drives, one blueray and one normal? I am not familiar with blueray systems (still in the days of the CD writer!) and wasn't sure of the fact if it writes normal dvds as well? if so, I can remove the other... and save a few quid.


.........and i might be using the machine for a little gaming too!


much appreciated.

 

[keynes]

The blue ray drive should write CDs as well, if you are not overclocking you could get the i7-3770 (non-k) and the triple copper heatpipe.

 

[vanthus]

I am not familiar with blueray systems (still in the days of the CD writer!) and wasn't sure of the fact if it writes normal dvds as well? if so, I can remove the other... and save a few quid.

The Blu-Ray drive you have selected,the 15x BLU-RAY WRITER DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW will write to Blu-Ray,DVD and CD Disks.What to watch for when buying Blu-Ray drives is "ROM",which means "Read-only Memory" like in the 4x BLU-RAY "ROM" DRIVE, 16x DVD "ROM" which won't write to any Disks,and the 10x BLU-RAY "ROM" DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW which will write to DVD and CD but not Blu- Ray Disks.