Can you check my final setup? Two things not clear yet

Question

Hey guys,
Just when I thought I got it all figured out, something new (at least to me) pops up and raises more questions than answers. So I go on and search more and more and more and now finally I think i've got my setup allmost ready to order. Could you check it and help me out on the final insecurities? Thanx a bunch.
Oh and please, if you have a suggestions to change something I feel is allready o.k (so no questions)...make it a suggestion with enough info to let me make a choice in the matter. Give me a link to a Benchmarksite or e really good test. If the difference is minimal (seconds) on about 10 min. of final footage, than please don't send me on a chase again. My girlfriend would like me to bed with her at the same time now after a week or so
and    I want to order the damn.. stuff and start.
Camera:               Canon XF 100, uses Canon  MPEG-2 4:2:2 50Mbps codec            
Software:             Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.53
Motherboard:       ASUS P8Z68-V Pro
Question: not to much benchmarks around on the Z68 combined with I 2700. Anyone who uses this board with the 2700 or 2700K step forward please and elaborate.
Cpu:                     intel      core I7 2600
Memory:               16 Gb    Kingston ValueRAM (2x 8 GB : 2 x 4 GB - DIMM 240-pins - DDR3 - 1333 MHz
or
Cpu:                     intel      core I7 2600K
Memory:               16 Gb    Corsair Vengeance Blue 16GB DDR3-1600 CL9 quad kit
Question:               I think I’d go for the first option. It’s cheaper and from what I’ve read there not a lot to gain. My videos mostly don’t exceed 10                               minutes of final footage. Anyone can acknowledge this (or not)?
Videocard:           MSI        N570GTX-M2D12D5/OC
Harddisk:             OCZ       Vertex 3 120GB   (sata 600) for my OS
Harddisk:             S’sung  WD Caviar Green WD20EARS x3 (sata 300)
To raid or not to raid is still not clear for me. 5 is definitely a no go
I’m thinking I’d put 2 disks in a Raid 0 for more speed and on a regular base BAckup to the other one( and eventually go for external back-up)
Is that ‘o.k. or mmh’, then fine. Is it a ‘oh no, what is he thinking’, please tell me.
Cooler:                Scythe  Mugen                 2 Rev. B
Housing:              Cooler Master  Xilencio
Powersupply:       Seasonic 620
Monitor:               Eizo       EV2333WH-BK
Optische drive:     LG          BH10LS30
Cardreader:          lexar     LEXAR PROFESSIONAL USB 3.0 DUAL-SLOT READER (for CF’s canoncamera)
Speakers              Creative              GigaWorks T20 Series II
Special :               Contour Design ShuttlePro2
Thanx guys and girls(?) for hopefully making my life easier. Greeting from Nieuwegein, Utrecht, Holland

Answer 1

Scott,
Referring to your post #8.
JCschild wrote:
i have proven this to be false....
This is a big concern to some of us end users who want to put our money where it counts.
Is there a clear benchmark varifying your actual test results, which us newbies can view?
Referring to your post #10 above.
they are also end users not system builders and do not have the resources/access we have to multiple platforms, processors ram etc.
How can we really know for sure if we go on word of mouth only, one swears by Ford, one swears by Chevy.
What should us newbies believe,
the feedback from end users who have the real world experience of the behaviour of their systems working regularly with large or complex projects, with strict timelines under time pressure, who cannot afford jerkiness nor delay of any kind, who must afford to save a lot of aggravation caused by less responsive systems, who cannot afford to be held back by hard disk failure or loss of data that took valuable time editing, who need lesser time requirements for regular backups, etc, who know what video editing involves in real practice,
or the feedback from system builders who have “the resources/access to multiple platforms, processors ram etc.” to run hardware tests, but who do not have the experience of high end video editing in practice?
Perhaps it is true that a video card running at PCIe-8x is not much slower than a video card running at PCIe-16x.
I don't know for sure.
What will happen if things change, sooner than we thought, with new drivers and CS6 PP utilizing the full bandwidth, and end users are stuck with systems that don't have the required PCI-e lanes to accomodate more than a 16 x PCI-e nVidia card?
It appears to me that the i7-2600K is indeed a great processor, delivering great value for money, for the majority of general-purpose applications, but
how does it perform when one works with large or complex projects, and multitask, such as having DW do a complete validation on multiple DHTML files, including SSE, running a resize action in PS on a couple of thousand images, encoding large files in FL and PR doing an export to a complex long form BRD?
I was very tempted, and came very close, to buying an i7-2600K for myself, but after learning just how much high-end video editing can demand from a system, I became hesitant to buy the i7-2600K with its platform. I need to be sure that the system I buy has no limitations for the work I need to do with it.
If Intel had video editing in mind when designing the i7-2600K, it would not have had integrated graphics, which is of no use when we need a nVidia card.
Regardless of the fact that according to http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core-i7-2600k-990x.html the i7-2600K outperformed many pricier products for a higher-end LGA1366 platform (even the $1000 i7-990X Extreme Edition yielding significantly to Core i7-2600K within the majority of general-purpose applications, except during video processing and transcoding, final rendering and a few specific tasks, such as encryption and batch image processing), Intel still positioned this processor as a mid-level processor, for a reason.
Intel knew before release what this mid-level i7-2600K was capable of, therefore releasing it positioned as a mid-level processor, they did so having the architecture to follow up with a mid-level processor that will outperform the i7-2600K, within the same price category, else who would buy Intel's next mid-level processors?
I suspect that for those who are willing to hold out and wait just a bit longer, so they can put their money where it counts, Intel has a pleasant surprise coming soon, and that the new platform will not be evolutionary like it has been for years, but revolutionary with feature improvements from Sandy Bridge like Intel's tri-gate transistor technology, PCI Express 3.0 support and Graphics DirectX 11 and OpenCL support, a bigger graphics performance and bigger CPU performance boost compared to Sandy Bridge.
what makes you think you need a raid controller.... the vast majority of Adobe users do not need one or an 8 drive raid array..
Yes, for those who never need a hardware raid controller, using it for general-purpose applications, the 2600K and its P67 or Z68 platform is nice.
The OP did not specify whether or not he will need a hardware controller, wherefore I cared to post my post #7 above,
nor did he specify his source material, editing style, the nature of his timelines and the time pressure he is under with his projects (other than a mention in his original post of his girlfriend's time request), or how long he intends to use the system before upgrading to the next one.
and why i finally posted the big cup of zip it thread.. to clear out some mis-leading comments. 
Scott
ADK
Quoting from your original post in A big cup of "zip it" or the definative final P67 vs X58 answer thread :
Now in all fairless of disclosure the drive benchmarks dropped from our previous tests on X58 which is odd, we are guessing the video card as its ramping up would take bandwidth from the controller even though its supposed to be running 8x.
Scott
ADK
Since you wrote that “the direct replacement for X58 is X79” (System build for CS5.5. Contemplating whether or not to wait for Q1/Q2 2012.), I am eager to learn which exact motherboard(s) was/were used when you ran those previous tests on X58?
Supposing the video card took bandwidth from the controller, even though its supposed to be running 8x, why do you think it would do that as it's ramping up?
Is there a clear benchmark varifying your actual test results, which us newbies can view?