Ordering this bomb at the end of the month!

Question

After weeks of planing, researching and negociations with my systems integrator, here's what I'm going to get (some minor things to consider still). I'm getting it via business lease, so I'm maximizing my components as much as possible, while staying in the realm of sanity. Example, SSDs would have been nice... but... hehe!  Its a rig not just for PremierePro, but also for After Effects, Photoshop and 3ds Max (hence the Quadro and not the GTX).
- Case: Lian-Li PC-A77F (To get as much drives as possible with proper cooling) - Alternative Antec Twelve Hundred V3
- Still looking for non-hotswap 4x 3.5" to 3x 5.25" cages (or better), frame only for better airflow. Suggestions?
- Power Supply: Corsair Professional Series Gold AX1200
- Motherboard: Asus Rampage Extreme III (Greater control for overclocking)
- CPU: Intel i7 990x (O.C. to 4.2GHz, or to it's Speed/Stability sweet-spot), with Antec Kuhler H2O 920
- RAM: 24GB, Dominator GT 2000MHz C9 (2x12GB kit) and Airflow II Fan
- System Disk: 300GB SATA3 Raptor
- Support Disk: 2x150GB SATA2 Raptor (on mobo, JBOD or RAID0, for scratch, pagefile, cache)
- RAID disks: 12x Hitachi Deskstar 7k3000 SATA3 64MB cache 1.5GB (RAID3 or 5, will run benchmarks to see what works best with this setup)
- RAID card: Areca ARC-1880ix-12, 4GB cache
- Optical Drives: Liteon Bluray burner IHSB112, and Liteon DVD burner IHAS124
- GPU: PNY Quadro 5000
- Video IO: Blackmagic Design Decklink Extreme 3D
- Monitor: NEC PA271W-BK-SV (27" IPS with calibrator)
- Adobe Production Premium (50% for FCP users... great timing!)
- Mouse and Keyboard: Logitech G500 and Logitech Illuminated Keyboard
Any thoughts, comments, and warnings before I officially order?
Thanks,

Answer 1

Hi Roy,
Long story short, with all the research I've done, I wanted to get the best I could afford on a business lease. I'm pretty close to a wish list as is, all the while toning down on some other items that can be added or upgraded later on.
1. Monitor... well, after more deliberation and research, the general concensus from my circle of friends and colleagues is that NEC has an edge on color accuracy, especially in the NTSC gamut. I also took the model that comes with the calibration puck (hence the higher price).
2. Quadro 5000: I didn't want to end up changing cards half way through my lease time. Then it would have cost me twice or more anyway. So getting a faster card, I can probably rest assured I won't have the "ichies" for swaping out cards. A risk I'm willing to take, being the computer geek I can be sometimes. hehe  OK, seriously... the card may not be twice as fast as it's price may suggest, but it is a much faster card. While PremierePro might not benefit as much is one thing, my other apps will. I'm pretty confident that I'll see some pretty nice real-time action from the Quadro 5000 on PPro. But... if I were to pay cash for a GPU, I would not hesitate to get the 4000. It's only because I can spread the expenditure over time that I'm indulging myself.
3. 1200W: Yes, I like my PSUs to be overkill. It will last me longer (hopefully another generation PC), capacitor aging is reduced drastically, and I won't have to worry much about instabilities due to an overstrainned and prematurely aged PSU. But... and I say BUT!  Using the PSU calculator with 30% aging, (think of it as overhead, if you will), I ended up with 1330W. That was with fully loaded HDDs on the RAID card. I'm taking Harm's suggestion to get a 24-port Areca. If I ever go up to that many drives, 1200 is not so overkill.
4. Mobo: The Rampage was not my decision. It was my system integrators. I trust his judgement on this one. Most motherboards O.C. capabilites are made through coarse increments. And from what he said, the Rampage can achieve finer control. Now, if someone dissagrees, then do tell, I'd be interrested to learn more. I personnally never overclocked PCs, so I don't know what I could or could not do without damaging the components. I don't have that patience anymore... I just want to work, and I want a computer that works well. I want my system to be overclocked to a certain point, keeping stability a priority, hence the needed finer control.
5. SSD: Actually, I am going to get SSDs. Again, because my lease gives me some financial flexibility to do so. I will have Corsair Force 3 disks. A 240GB system disk, and two 60GB support disks (pagfile, cache, scratch...) Although, I'm thinking of getting 4 and RAID 0 them together... hehehe.  Of course, my dream to have my media drives to be all SSDs will be put on hold.... for now! I do want to keep things sane for now. Anyway, swapping out disks is a lot cheaper then swapping out Quadro GPUs in the future... lol.  Imagine 16 to 24 SSDs in RAID?!?!?!  OK, back to earth!
Frederic