"Green Light" to build a new system

I pretty much use all of what CC offers (PS, AI, ID, PR, AR, AU, LR, DW, Speed Grade and Edge Animate).  I am also the Creative Director and Solutions Sales Engineer for my company so I use this rig for more that just Adobe apps (but none are as process intensive as the Adobe apps are).
Ok soa few months ago I was looking to upgrade a few components to my existing system (specs below and thread is https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1661878 ).  As of this morning I have been given the green light to spec out a new build.  I was hoping that I would have learned from my current build on do'sand don'ts but I am solely looking to make this new build a high performance + stable machine and it's hard to not look at just getting the best available .  With that mindset I don't really get to see other areas of possible concern....all I see are specs!
A few questions:
1 - I think I am sold on the GPU (GTX Titans wee to be the choice of most but correct me if I am wrong).  I am looking to support 3 monitors with either 1 or 2 of these GPUs. If you had the ability to have 2 Titans would you?  Hoe would the Adobe benefit?
2 - I was looking into a LGA2011-3 socket type CPU + mobo but wondering if I should look into Xeon (single or double) approach or an i-series approach.  Thoughts?   Also note I will still have my existing rig so I can convert this machine to do strictly renders if needed.
3 - Since we are talking about CPUs what mobo would you use for your rig?I was already researching the Asus Z10PE-D16 WS board but that is a dual Xeon + DDR4 setup.  Price is insane and Im sure I can spend that money in other places to get better performances.
Its not often that I get this opportunity at work so I would love to build a rock solid, speedy rig and leave myself in a good position to grow with the rig.
The system is:
OS: Windows 8.1 (64bit)
Mobo: Asus Z9PE-D8 WS
CPUs: Dual Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz, 2601 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 16 Logical Processor(s)
RAM:  64 GB (32 per CPU)
GPUs:  Maximus Configuration using a Quadro 4000 + Tesla C2075.  Also added a Quadro K2000 later to add an output for a 3rd monitor.
For HDDs:
Samsung 830 (500GB) for OS + Apps
1 WD 1TB Raptor Drive for Lightroom Files
1 WD 1TB Raptor Drive for Caching
1 WD 1TB Raptor Drive for Previews
2 WD 1TB Raptor Drive in Raid 0 using the mobo Marvell controller for all media assets
All housed in a Cooler Master Cosmos II case and an Antec 1300 watt HCP Platinum PSU.
PPBM8 Scores;
Your CPU intensive PPBM8 score is in the top 10% of the current PPBM8 scores
Your GPU intensive PPBM8 score is in the bottom 5% of the current PPBM8 scores
Your Disk intensive PPBM8 score is in the in the lower half of the current PPBM8 scores

So here is my final build. G.Skill did not have a 64 GB kits. I will still have the ability to alter since this is more of a general overview of the system. 
System Build ($7,000):
MOBO: Asus X99-E WS
o   ASUS ThunderboltEX II Thunderbolt adapter
CPU: Intel i7-5960X
GPU: 2 x Titan X (6GB VRAM configuration)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance® LPX 64GB (8x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 2666MHz C15 Memory Kit - Black (CMK64GX4M8A2666C15)
HDD1: SAMSUNG XP941 Series MZHPU512HCGL-00004 M.2 512GB PCIe Gen2 5Gb/s up to 4 lanes MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
HDD2: Corsair Neutron Series™ XT 960GB SATA 3 6Gb/s SSD
Storage System ($3,400):
Areca ARC-8050T2 16TB (8 x 2TB) 8-Bay Thunderbolt 2 RAID Enclosure
Total System Cost is $10,400

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    Photomaster,
    I think you are on the right track to speed up this guys system (2600k w/ OC, dual RAID 0) and I second Harm's comment about large 7200 drives being better than the prev. generation VR 300GB drives (HLFS series).
    Be aware however that "rendering" does mean different things, and if you are thinking that MPE will increase AME rendering to MPEG2-DVD by 10x you will be very disappointed! Here is the rest of the story...
    Timeline rendering, as benchmarked in PPBM5, will indeed speed up on the order of 10x with the addition of MPE using the appropriate nVidia hardware. PPBM5 is a test carefully constructed test that represents how long it takes for Adobe Premiere Pro to prepare (render) a timeline for playback. In actual use, your results will vary. Some timelines may only be sped up by 2x (i.e. very complex and/or using non-MPE effects, filters, etc.) to more than 1,000,000x faster for the case where a non-MPE system requires rendering, whereas the MPE system can play back the timeline without ANY rendering (i.e. simple SD timelines with MPE compliant effects).
    Next, full timeline rendering and "exporting" from a Premiere Pro timeline to MPEG2-DVD format are both sped up, but more on the order of 2x. On my fast quad-core system, I'm getting about a 1.8x improvement from MPE assistance using the PPBM5 project for testing.
    Finally, using Adobe Media Encoder (AME), and I can only speak for CS5, the MPE hardware does not even come into play and does not speed things up at all. On a positive note, Harm has reported that AME ver. 5.5 ran just over 2x as fast as ver 5.0.3; possibly the newer version is in fact tapping the MPE hardware for this gain?
    Regards,
    Jim

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