New PC for Adobe CS6

Question

OK, I know I have not been around in a long time, but I need some help. I have read a tremendous amount of online material regarding the components I want for a new editing PC to use with the Creative Cloud.
Rather than clog up the forums, I put up a page with the specs I am looking at, set up an email address for suggestions and an email address for integrators to use if they want to quote it. I want to pull the trigger on Friday June 15th.
I would really appreciate it if some of you would take a look and let me know what you think. I am OK with what I listed on the page, but I want you all to poke holes in it if I have made a mistake.
I would also appreciate some quotes. Either for the system as shown, or one that is along the same lines using your own suggestions.
If you think your suggestions warrant everyone seeing them, please feel free to put them here.
And yes, I really do plan on cleaning up my web site and bringing it current.
Thanks,
Steven Gotz
http://www.stevengotz.com/New_PC_for_CS6.htm

Answer 1

I made my decision. I am buying my PC from ADK in Kentucky. http://www.adkvideoediting.com/
Eric was just so helpful with his explanations, even through a lot of changes. I wanted someone to challenge my assumptions and he seemed happy to do that. The fact that he is on the Adobe Forums so prominently really made a difference. I used to be a fixture here. This is where I got my start. I have to say I got a lot of help refining my thoughts on this from two other integrators and people on this forum as well.
Anyway, here it is. This is what we came up with. It just so happens, that after everything is said and done, it came to only USD $79.00 over my original budget. Pretty remarkable. Yes, I took a few shortcuts. I settled on 32G of RAM. And I settled on the ever so slightly less powerful GTX670 instead of the GTX680. The “bang for the buck” on the GTX670 was just too good to pass up. I also gave up my second optical drive. It would have required another SATA port and it really was just there because my last system had one. I have only used it a few times over the last few years and I can do without it.
I got rid of the card reader also. If I need one, I can get a USB version. It was also just something I threw in there – just in case.
Surprise, surprise, surprise! I am going to have Eric overclock it after all!  Hey, he supports them after the sale, and he basically said it is almost silly not to do it with the parts I am using. The reduction in price due to the change of the GTX680 for the GTX670 more than made up for the charge to overclock the system.  I can live with that.
I was told when I first started all of this research that I should contact Eric. I rather wish I had. And just let him help me get to where I am now without quite so much tedious research and tearing out of what little hair I have left. Oh, well. Live and learn.
Quite a bit of thanks goes out to Bill Gehrke and Harm Millaard. By the way, neither of those names is particularly easy to spell without looking them up. ;-)  Those two guys have been at this a long time. Heck, Harm beat me to joining the Adobe forums by a whole 13 days back in 2002!
I can’t wait to get this system humming and I look forward to running the CS6 version of the benchmark test at http://ppbm5.com/ - It doesn’t look like the CS6 version is ready for us to use it yet, but I did a little poking around and it looks like those two might be pretty close to getting it ready. Hopefully by the time I get my system.
I did not include the price here, because such things change quickly, I imagine, and I don’t want to put Eric on the spot. But you can use their online configuration tool and get pretty close if you are curious. They don’t exactly have this configuration on their site. But I am sure if you called and asked for the Steven Gotz special, they would help you out. But by the time I have it in my possession and get it benchmarked, something new and better and faster will be available. That is inevitable. It is probably a lot easier just to tell Eric what you want to do, and let him advise you as to the best way to do it.
I am on the road for business and the company laptop won't let me FTP. So I can't post this on my web site. That will have to wait until this weekend.
Case
ADK - ADK Tower: (8) 3.5" bays 6 are removable, (4) 5.25 Bays Firewire/USB2 in fr
Power Supply
Top Power - Striker 850 - 850W, up to 94% efficiency, 5 year Warranty
Motherboard
ADK - Core i7 SB-E, 4 PCIex16, 2 PCIe, up to 64Gig ram no firewire.
Processor
Intel - 6 Core i7 overclocked 4.5GHz or better with HT 12meg cache
Cooling
Intel - Intel Liquid cooler self contained unit (quiet)
Cooling 2
ADK - ADK Quiet Case fans (2) 8DB Noctua
Memory
32Gig (8x4gig)DDR3 1600 Low Voltage
Hard Drive 1
Intel - 240G 520 Series SSD: 550MB read/520 write (Boot Drive only. No data storage. No "My Documents" to wear it out)
Hard Drive 2
Western Digital - 4000G raid 0 or 1 (2x 2 TB 64Meg Cache - Sata 6Gb/s) (Media)
Hard Drive 3
Western Digital - 4000G raid 0 or 1 (2x 2 TB 64Meg Cache - Sata 6Gb/s) (Temporary files, cache, renders, etc)
Hard Drive 4
Western Digital - 2TB Black 7200rpm Sata 600 64Meg Cache WD2002FAEX (Finished products and maybe the Windows Registry?)
Hard Drive 5
Intel - 240G 520 Series SSD: 550MB read/520 write (Duplicate boot drive - all clean and nice without beta testing software)
Video
GeForce GTX 670 4GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Lifetime warranty.
CD/CD-RW/DVD
Asus - BW-12B1ST Internal Blu-ray Writer
NIC
Included wired not wireless
Firewire
SIIG - Firewire 2-port PCIe card. Firewire 1394a (I still shoot HDV with a Sony FX-1 when not just using my cell phone.)
Operating System
Microsoft - Windows 7 Pro 64 bit OEM
Other Software
Paragon Backup & Recovery 11 Suite with ADK recovery DVD.
Keyboards
Logitech - Cordless Desktop Optical: Cordless Internet KB and Cordless Optical Mouse.
Warranty
2 year parts and labor, onsite pickup, Lifetime tech support.