Rendering Machine Specs

I am looking to build a machine specifically for rendering. I have listed the options below. Does anyone have issues with this build? Improvements? Overkill?
Thanks for all input.
Processor: Intel Xeon Processor E5-2620 (15M Cache, 2.00 GHz, 7.20 GT/s Intel QPI)
OperatingSystem: Windows 7 Professional 64 English
Form Factor: Tower 7x9
Motherboard: D30 Planar - TPM Enabled - Win7 ME8.0
1st MemoryDIMM:16GB ECC 2Rx4 PC3 1600MHz RDIMM
2nd MemoryDIMM:16GB ECC 2Rx4 PC3 1600MHz RDIMM
First VideoAdapter:Nvidia Quadro 4000 (Dual link DVI, DP, DP, Stereo 3D) - 2GB GDDR5 - Win7ME8.0
Hard Drive
First Hard DriveBay:2.5" 256GB SATA Solid State Drive (OPAL)
Second HardDrive Bay:2.5" 300GB SATA - Solid State Drive (SSD), 6Gb/s, MLC
First Optical
Device Bay:DVD Burner/CD-RW Rambo Drive (SATA) - Win7 ME8.0

You will want a third, much larger, hard drive to keep your footage and renders on. One SSD for the OS and programs and one for the cache is fine, but I'd want a bigger drive to put everything else on.
The Quadro is certainly overkill for After Effects work. Barring third-party plugins (like Element 3d), AE only uses the power of the GPU for certain few things. Read about it here. Even if you use Element 3d, the card is still overkill.
The power of Xeon processors is really shown in that you can have more than one in your system. This is great for 3d software, but not so much for AE. In the current version of AE, AE is not very good at utilizing multiple cores, much less multiple processors. For some projects it works really well to render on multiple cores. However, for some projects, it actually makes it worse. Unless you're planning to put two Xeons in your box, I would consider getting the lower class of processor. And, whatever processor you get, I would get one with fewer cores and a higher clock speed.
Now, keep in mind that all of this processor talk is related to the current version of After Effects. I am very hopeful that they will sort out the multicore and multiprocessor rendering issues in a future version and get AE up to the blazing speed I think it could have.

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I currently use Premeire Elements 7 for SD editing. But I'd like to make sure my machine will be somewhat future-proof and allow HD AVCHD editing with PRE10 - I can definitely see that coming. Maybe even if I win the lotto one day, I'd like to do HD AVCHD editing with Premiere Pro, maybe even using a Mercury-supported CUDA card.
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Also, my plan eliminates the possiblity of overclocking. I'm wondering if overclocking would buy me anything in the real world - I've never done this but from what I read it makes your CPU run hotter and can cause stability issues. Not sure what the performance gains would be, but I would not want to trade stability for speed. On the other hand, if the CPU cooler would mitigate any stability problems, I could go for the i7-2600K and a Z86 mobo for maybe $40 more.

Jeff, thanks for the thoughts.
Re: RAM...
I hadn't heard about that 12GB usability. Mostly I was just loading up on memory because every PC I've ever bought I ended up adding more RAM after the fact. My chosen mobo has 4 slots and dual channel, so whatever I get, I'd probably go for a pair of something, i.e. (2) 4GB or (2) 8GB.
Frankly, I'm a little stuck on memory.
On one hand, it seems fairly simple: get the cheapest (decent) memory and plop it in. On the other hand, there's a lot of options with brand, speed, and latency... do they have any real-word effect? I have no plans of overclocking.
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8GB of Corsiar Vengeance (2 x 4GB) RAM is $50. Speed = 1600, Cas Latency = 9, Timing = 9-9-9-24.
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But then I read a few things that basically said that all other things being equal, 2 DIMMs is better than 4 DIMMs just because of the coordination between the chips. Plus if I use 4 DIMMs I've used up all my mobo slots - if I ever wanted to add more memory (for Windows 11) I'd have to throw away perfectly good memory to free up slots.
So then I think, well the 16GB should use 2 x 8GB. But doing so means going from 8GB (2 x 4GB) to 16GB (2 x 8GB) is a difference of $100 instead of $50. Maybe that's not worth it. Plus from what I know about latency, less = better, so are the 8GB DIMMs actually slower than the 4GB DIMMs?
Arrgh!
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For my initial build when funds are tight (i.e. my better half is watching closely ), I planned on just using the CPU GPU.
I looked up the GTX 560 and was pleasantly surprised to see that I could get an EVGA version for $190. That certainly makes the memory argument more compelling... a $50 memory savings won't do much toward getting me a GTX560, but $100 does!
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I am exporting an interview in Premiere Pro CC. It is 1:45:00 long and it has been 20 hours since, but the export is only 94% complete.
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My RAM is plenty - being used 40-70%
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Disks (which I was sure was the bottleneck) barely cross 10MB/s
Checked the "power options" in Windows also - everything is set to maximum performance.
It was a big mistake not to send it to Media Encoder as I could have continued editing a different project. Biggest. Mistake. Ever! (no idea why Adobe does not make it a default behaviour?)
I am fairly new to the industry and till last year was using a MacBook Pro until I started getting demanding projects.
I want to know is this normal? If I had used NEAT video for 100% footage then probebly I could have understood this, but its used for only 1/10th of thr footage and I have used NEAT before (but on After Effects CS6) on my Macbook pro (nowehere near as fast as my current machine) and it only added a small overhead - nothing of this sort.
I expected maybe 3 hours to export this 90-100 min seqeunce, not over 1 day.
So what could be the reason? Why isn't one of the above (CPU, RAM, Disk, GPU) at 100%?
I expected 1 of these to be the bottleneck but nothing is crossing 50% even when it should be on full blast.
I dread what if there is small tweak required in the edit once its complete. This video is due on Monday, I would have to reencode for 24 hours.
Please experts - let me know your thoughts. Could it be that Creative Cloud Windows is slower than CS6 Mac & its not a hardware problem?
I am sure I am missing some hardware that is causing this bottlenck. Attaching resource Monitor screenshot (let me know if I should use some benchmark software for you guys to get more information).

UPDATE: My export crashed (and heart sank) after 96% (25 hours). Win7 restarted. I have no clue why (If someone has any tip how to seach logs/dump in Windows to find a reason how, please let me know - I was worried about CPU temperature but that was around 40 deg, I was monitoring it.)
Anyways, so I used Media Encoder now (instead of direct export in PrPro) and made 2 changes:
1. I unchecked "Render Maximum Depth" just as it is in the the default Youtube 1080p@24p preset (but kept the keyframing distance at 24 instead of 72 which is default).
2. From VBR - 2 Pass, I made it CBR
Its been 15 min I started the export and the video is 20% encoded already, with remaning time just 00:30 min.
Now I am flabergasted.
Did not using maximum depth & VBR- 2 pass alone make such a difference? From 30 hours to 1 hour? I am still using all the video effects and absolutely no change to the edit.
I am seeing 2 differences the way my machine is working:
1. Is Adobe somehow using some old renders it did for the last export? I am using disk utility and it is refering to original source files and some "Media Encoder preview files" which I think it was not using before (could be wrong)?
So all that hard work it did for 25 hours is being utilized and if I do such a project again it will take me 30 hours again. Right?
2. GPU is now being used (and to good effect). How is GPU being used now? I am not scaling or using any fancy effects. Just Neat Video, 3-way color corrector & Sharpen.
This was before (export done in Premiere Pro directly):
And this is now:
Very sad that no one (even from the Adobe Staff) has replied to my post. Did I say something inappropriate or TMI?
C'mon guys I am on the Creative Cloud - show me some love

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