Also, you might want to rethink the case that you're going to get and/or its cooling: I have that case (the CM690II), and it can barely handle (with its stock cooling) an i7-2600K that's overclocked to only 4.4GHz. This is because its included fans, especially the intake fan, spin too slowly to do much good - even at their full maximum speeds. You'll either need to get higher airflow (and thus louder and noisier) fans or get a new, bigger, roomier case with larger, higher-airflow fans just to handle even a moderately overclocked i7-3930K (which runs significantly hotter than any LGA 1155 CPU)..

So which one would you advice RjL190365 and Jim?

I mean, why you say that about Kingston memory Jim?

The First Ideas for a new system

http://ppbm6.com/Planning.html

Premiere Pro benchmarks

http://ppbm5.com/DB-PPBM5-1.php

Video Cards for Adobe Premiere CS5 CS6 + tweaks

http://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm

Sandy Bridge Memory Scaling: Choosing the Best DDR3

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4503/sandy-bridge-memory-scaling-choosin g-the-best-ddr3

CPU cooler, look at Coolermaster TPC-812

http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=2654&page=5

To calculate the PSU power needed http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp

The best Power Supply reviews: (Also other interesting stuff too)

http://www.silentpcreview.com/section10.html

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/page/power

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In your monitor list the best choice without any doubt is the Asus PA238Q

http://www.prad.de/en/monitore/review/2011/review-asus-pa238q.html

On the distant second position is the Dell U2312HM

http://www.prad.de/en/monitore/review/2011/review-dell-u2312hm.html

For 10-bit output you need better monitors like Asus PA246Q, Dell U2711, NEC PA series, Quato Intelli Proof and Newer Eizo models, a Quadro class card + Display port + Windows 7/8 http://www.imagescience.com.au/kb/questions/152/10+Bit+Output+Support

For photo/video we have to avoid monitors with TN panels because

of the color/tone shift caused by the narrow viewing angle +- like 160/170º

MUCH better options are the IPS panels with 178ºplus viewing angle.

About the panels technology http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/articles/panel_technologies.htm

Reviews sites to check:

http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews.htm

http://www.prad.de/en/monitore/reviews.html

In the Prad reviews pay attention to:

-The UGRA test (download the PDF)

-The panel brightness distribution

-The gamut coverage (good place to compare http://www.iccview.de/content/view/3/7/lang,en/)

-The contrast is the least important as any monitor have more contrast than any paper print.

-Profile accuracy and the calibration curves, the good ones are in 45º

My case is a Corsair Carbide Series 500R model. There is tons of air flow. It keeps my computer nice and cool. As for the CPU cooler, I would suggest to go with a Corsair product again. The Hydro series are excellent. Personally, I have an H80 and my i7-3930K (OC 4.3 GHz) never goes beyond 62 or 63 degrees. But for about $20 more, you can get an H100. It is even more efficient than the H80.

Regarding the mobo, I can only speak about the one I have: an Asus P9X79 Pro. I especially love the fact that it has a lot of USB ports - the USB 3 are fantastic! However, I recently read a review on Tom's Hardware web site and they recommended the Asus Rampage IV Extreme.

I don't know if you've ever heard of the VideoGuys web site. But they have their own recommendations for builds using the more recent technology available.

http://www.videoguys.com/Guide/E/Videoguys+DIY9+Its+Time+for+Sandy+Bri dge+E/0xe9b142f408a2b03ab88144a434e88de7.aspx

Yes, I believe the GTX670 would be a better choice. There is no point going to an earlier generation. Not when you are buying as a new generation of cards starts.

It's for those reasons I believe it is not snobbery to stay away from the lower rung video cards.

Jim,

That Kepler fix came today, in the form of the After Effects CS6 11.0.1 update.

Redundancy wouldn't really be a problem because i have about 4 tb of external hard drive backup. It would be better if i had an additional hard drive to projects and another to exports, and i will, since hard drives prices come down.

Each Raid Controller manufacturer uses a different system of Meta-data for the Raid volume table information. This is why the partition size is different for 2 raids on different raid controllers.

Eric

ADK