Videoguys Budget DIY9 PC Build Advice

Looking for guidance regarding a PC build based on the Videoguys DIY9 project. I am trying to keep this in the area of $1500 to $2000. I primarily use Premiere and AE CS6.
1. Best hardware for setting up Raid Storage drives inside the tower. Is it better to go 4x 1TB drives in RAID5 or 2x 2TB drives in RAID0?
2. Compatibility of all the parts and the Power supply.
3. To go with an 256GB SSD for the boot drive or have the extra storage a normal 1TB 7200 rpm drive will provide.
4. Video cards -- just too many options it seems
Any input that could help me solidify this thing and get it built would be appreciated!
Newegg parts list:
Case: Antec Nine Hundred Two V3 Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Gaming Case
SSD Boot Drive:
Crucial M4 CT256M4SSD2 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive
CPU: Intel Core i7-3820 Sandy Bridge-E 3.6GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 2011 130W Quad-Core Desktop Processor
Graphics Card Candidates:
MSI N660 Ti PE 2GD5/OC GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
EVGA 012-P3-2078-KR GeForce GTX 560 Ti - 448 Cores (Fermi) Classified Ultra 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
EVGA 025-P3-1579-AR GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) HD 2560MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
EVGA 012-P3-1570-AR GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
Motherboard: ASUS P9X79 PRO LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with USB BIOS
PSU: CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX750 V2 750W ATX12V v2.31/ EPS12V v2.92 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC High Performance Power Supply
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9Q-16GBXL
Bluray Drive: Pioneer Black 12X BD-R 2X BD-RE 16X DVD+R 5X DVD-RAM 10X BD-ROM 4MB Cache SATA BDXL Blu-ray Burner BDR-207MBK
Storage Drives: ???

After reading a lot more - I now have a much better idea about what I want to build. Was wondering if you can take a quick look at this final parts compilation and just let me know if you think it needs adjusting as well as whether you would lean one way or the other where 2 different parts are indicated. Thanks for your time!
I decided to go with a double RAID0 configuration off the motherboard because my primary concern is speed and redundancy is not really necessary. I back up everything I do externally, and nothing I work on is critical if the project is lost between backups.
Questions remaining are whether it's better to go with the overclocked videocard, and whether there are better cases in this price range. All the cases seem pretty standard to me among Antec, Cooler Master, and Azza. Also, is a liquid CPU cooler necessary, or is this just a gamer's type accessory? I do not plan on overclocking to begin with. Also, the Power supply min recommended by the ASUSTeK calculator is 850W...might it be smarter to just go a touch higher?
CPU: Intel Core i7-3820 Sandy Bridge-E 3.6GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 2011 130W Quad-Core
MB: ASUS P9X79 PRO LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with USB BIOS
Video Card: MSI N660 Ti PE 2GD5/OC GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
or MSI N660Ti PE 2GD5 GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
CASE: Antec Twelve Hundred V3 Black Steel ATX Full Tower
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
or G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
HDD: 5X - Western Digital WD Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
One setup as C:\ for the OS
2 x 1TG in RAID 0 as E:\ for Media, Projects
2 x 1TB in RAID 0 as F:\ for Export, Previews, Media Cache
PSU: CORSAIR HX Series HX850 850W ATX12V 2.3 / EPS12V 2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
Burner: LG Black 14X BD-R 2X BD-RE 16X DVD+R 5X DVD-RAM 12X BD-ROM 4MB Cache SATA BDXL Blu-Ray Burner with SW, 3D Play Back

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Aside from my 8-5, I run a successful home based leather holster business in my spare time. But, making holsters is a TON of work, so... early on, I made a few tutorial videos available via online rental (pay a few bucks, get viewing access for 24 hours). They sold pretty well, but when I upgraded my website I couldn't get the rental system to work so I decided to make them freely avaialble on YouTube and try monetizing them with little success so far. With my new videos, I might like to switch back to the rental system if I can make it work on my website.
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http://www.adamsleatherworks.com/hows-it-made/
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RAM - G.Skill Ripjaws X 16GB (4 x 4GB) 1600 - $100
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Drive D (Media & Projects, Photos, Documents, etc.) - Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 2TB - $90
Drive E (Page-file, Exports) - OCZ Vertex 4 128GB SSD - $120
Drive F (Swap, Previews) - OCZ Vertex 4 128GB SSD - $120
Drive G (Backup of D drive) - debating on just using my WD Passport external drive for now (free, for now)
Optical Drive - LG 14x SATA Blu-ray interal rewriter - $80
Case - Fractal Design Define R4 ATX Mid Tower - $125
Power Supply - EVGA SuperNOVA NEX750G 750W 80 Plus Gold - $140
CPU Cooler - Corsair Hydro H100 - $105
Extra Fans (2) - Noctua NF-F12 PWM 120mm - $16.25 each
Video Card - EVGA GeForce GTX 660 2GB - $220
OS - Windows 8 Pro 64bit - $140
Media Card Reader - Kingston FCR-HS3 15-in-1 USB 3.0 - $27
Mouse/Keyboard - Logitech MK550 Wireless - $65
Monitors (2) - 23" to 24" matching LCD screens @ 1920x1080 - $170 each
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Lastly - I'm curious what the routine is for recovering space on your "D" drive once you've edited and ouput your videos. I look at all these YouTube'ers that have hundreds of hour long videos and always wonder what kind of storage system they have in place - I ask, but they never answer! I'm leaning towards archiving my current videos to blu-ray discs, then deleting them from my drives...? Or should I store my "business" related videos on a dedicated drive, back it up via RAID 1, then migrate those to larger drives as time goes on and never actually delete/remove any of my videos? I have little experience with RAID, so I'm not sure what the actual process is for migrating to larger drives.
Anyway, enough rambling, and I look forward to whatever help you folks can provide.
Thanks,
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Antec Twelve Hundred V3 Black Steel ATX Full Tower Unbeatable Gaming Case
ASUS P9X79 PRO LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with USB BIOS
Intel Core i7-3930K Sandy Bridge-E 3.2GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 2011 130W Six-Core Desktop Processor BX80619i73930K
EVGA 04G-P4-2673-KR GeForce GTX 670 Superclocked+ w/Backplate 4GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
CORSAIR Professional Series Gold AX850 (CMPSU-850AX) 850W ATX12V v2.31 / EPS12V v2.92 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Full Modular PSU
Intel BXRTS2011LC Liquid-cooled Thermal Solution For the LGA2011 Socket
VANTEC 2+1 FireWire 800/400 PCIe Combo Host Card Model UGT-FW210 (Ti chipset)
1 Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drives (media drive)
1 Western Digital Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 rpm SATA 3.0 (Boot drive)
1 Hitachi 7200rpm 1 TB SATA 3.0 (renders and exports)
64 GBof Crucial RAM - 8GB 240-pin DIMM DDR3 PC3-12800
• CL=11 • Unbuffered • NON-ECC • DDR3-1600 • 1.35V • 1024Meg x 64 •
I plan on overclocking using the ASUS auto overclock feature. From what I’ve read 4.3 seems to be a reliable speed to shoot for. The videos I’ve watched on the auto overclocking with the UEFI interface look straightforward.
I’m going to use the 670 to power 2 editing monitors via DVI, and an ASUS P24A6 via HDMI as a client monitor.
For the foreseeable future, I’ll be editing AVCHD footage. Don’t do much motion gfx work, mainly cuts & dissolves, with a fair amount of color correction & grading applied. How does this system look to do with this configuration with this workflow?
Also, any feedback on cooling appreciated. It looks like the Noctura has some compatibility issues with this board fully populated with Crucial RAM, so I’m going with the Intel liquid cooler, which looks easy to install and was recommended by ADK. With this case and this cooler, will I be good or is there any other type of cooling I should add to cool the RAM or the PSU?
Anything else I’m missing? Thanks much to all who post here. Special thanks to ADK, their participation here is invaluable and the advice they gave me was much appreciated. Were this system my main source of income, I’d buy from them for sure.

Stu,
Looks like you have done a lot of work for this to be your first pass here as a build list; there is a lot more that looks right than wrong.
Regarding how is this system for your workflow? This PC would certainly do what you want it to do.
Regarding cooling, RAM and PSU will be fine.
Regarding is anything missing, yes a Blu-ray burner.
You did not state whether you want to A) build this and leave it alone for years, or B) make some upgrades in the future. If B), I only have a suggestion for your RAM choice. If A), I do have some suggested tweaks to how you spend your budget for this build.
You've heard it here before, but it is so true that Adobe has mastered the ability to tax just about all of your PC components (cpu, RAM, bus, drives, and video card) with Premiere Pro CS5 and above in order to make HD editing fast and fun. This makes balance important and in some ways a system is only as strong as its weakest link.
Your current plans strike me as:
CPU = A+, RAM = A+++ on paper, but possibly a bad idea, Drives = B-, GPU = A-.
My only strong suggestion is to go for 32GB of 1600 RAM. You want to do a moderately strong OC on the CPU and the memory controller of the 3930k is not strong enough to pull this off.
Minor suggestions: A) more drives - go for at least one 2x1TB RAID 0 array for media, projects, and scratch (adding one more drive). B) SSD for boot - for spending as much as you are here, I think your build deserves a 128GB SSD for the boot/OS drive - no this will not help after Premiere Pro has started and you are editing, but it will make the PC faster for lots of other things that most users do.
Regards,
Jim

Unable to post FR50 (Original Budget) for New Fund Center

Dear All,
We are in ECC6.0 and using Former Budgeting, Our business team created a new fund center and assigned it to cost center in the derivation rule.
Before they granted original budget using FR50, the business users started posting various invoices, expenses, POs, PRs against the cost center accordingly the Available Budget became Negative.
Now they are trying to post Original Budget for the new fundcenter using FR50, however system gives an error saying Payment Budget exceeded.
Please advice how to grant budget in such situations, we had an alternative to reverse all commitments and actuals posted against the fundcenter and grant budget, this worked in our test environment. However in Production we will not be able to do this due to too much volume already posted.
Is there a way to fix this, note that Availability control is active and not sure why system allowed to post without budget.
Any pointers, is this how standard SAP behaves or are we missing something.
We have also checked on master data elements of commitment item/fundcenter.. everythign looks fine.
request your inputs.
regards
Diwakar

Hi,
I believe you are using Former Budgeting. Please check below if this is not the cause for your issue:
Please check the following customizing that you have done in your system:
SPRO -> Public Sector Management -> Funds Management Government -> Former Budgeting -> Availability Control -> Define Parameters for Availability Control
See if you have set the flag: Check on lowest budget object with budget in your customizing.
Please check the documentation about this flag, specially this part:
"If you do not set the indicator, availability control runs against the first budget object, even if it has received NO BUDGET. This is the setting in the system as delivered."
You can check also report BPINDAN2_NEW.
This means that the budget is going to be checked in the first object with budget in your budget hierarchy.
If this is your case, you have only two options:
1.- Remove the negative budget you have in the combination of funds center/commitment item.
2.- Add the Combination funds center/commitment item to the exemption list of AVC.
I will prefer that you do the first option, as for me sounds strange to have negative budget, but this is one decision that you need to discuss it internally in your company.
If you choose any of the 2 options above, please do not forget to reconstruct your budget and assigned values AFTER you have done one of the options above, with the following transactions (in this order):
1.- Run transaction FMBV in order to reconstruct Budget values.
2.- Run report RFFMRC04 in Test mode in order to check if there is still some inconsistency.
3.- If RFFMRC04 shows inconsistencies, then run this report in Update Mode.
4.- Reconstruct distributed values with transaction FM9P
5.- Reconstruct Total values with transaction FM9Q
6.- Reconstruct assigned values with FMBV again.
I hope this helps.
Best Regards,
Vanessa.

Funds Management - Budget Structure

Hello -
Is it required to create budget structure? and make Budget address check active in version. I understand we can restrict the budgetable addresses. In what way does it serve the business purpose.
I am thinking of implementing BCS without budget structure ( bud address / posting address etc.) in place. Am I going far off from the standard, Any suggestions?
If you have implemented FM, did you create budget structure.
Thanks
Chris

Hi Chris,
Nothing is unstandard here; in 40% of projects I implemented FM in, the client preferred not to maintain budget structure following our advice as it was not in the business requirements.
Regards,
Eli

Cisco Security Manager Advice

Hi,
I'm looking into Cisco Security Manager. From what I understand you can monitor and manage Cisco security appliances. I'm interested in the monitoring of our Cisco ASAs - specifically, monitoring VPN sessions and their trending over months at a time and I would like to monitor other Cisco devices on the network for link problems/performance and such - I don't want to use Cisco Security Manager as a management point. Would Cisco Security Manager not be the right tool for this?
We have SolarWinds and I've heard that you can assign UnDPs(Device Pollers) to devices you want to monitor, including ASAs and these pollers can give you trending for VPN sessions with graphing. I just want to make the most of our budget dollars.
Any advice?
Thanks, Pat.

CSM 4.3 and above can be used to monitor VPN sessions on Cisco ASAs. You can definitely use CSM as a monitoring only solution for ASAs (without using it for management). You can also explicitly disable policy change privileges for all admins so they do not modify stuff by mistake. Note however that CSM is primarily focused on end-to-end management scenarios (including policy change, troubleshooting, reporting, etc). So you may not find all the bells and whistles in CSM for monitoring scenarios that you may find with some of the pure monitoring only solutions.

Error when budgeting for Funded Program in FMBBC

Dear All,
I have activated funded program in the spro config : Activate Account Assignment Elements and we wish to use funded program for minor projects. Apart from Funded program, we are using funds center for department budget.
when i budget for funded program in FMBBC along with commitment item I am getting an error as below.
Enter a funds center
Message no. FMKU031
My question is why should I enter funds center, i want to budget for funded program and through derive funded program for budget consumption.
Please advice what steps/configuration must be performed to resolve this as it is stopping testing.
Thanks and regards
Abishay Solomon

Hi,
You must use the following master data elements in Funds Management:
Commitment items
You use commitment items to map out functional units (expenditure and revenue structures) in a hierarchy. They divide up the content of the budget and the business transactions affecting liquidity into revenue items and expenditure items.
Funds centers
You use funds center to represent the organizational units (responsibility areas, departments, projects) of your organization.
See the online help:
[http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/en/f0/ca3480260211d28a430000e829fbbd/content.htm]
So, you will need to use Commitment item and Funds Center along with your Funded Program
Kind regards
Mar

Hardware for Java build server

I don't know if this is the correct area for the question, so I apologise if it is not...
The company I work for is budgeting a seperate build server for our developers to use. We are currently 100% sparc in the server environment. Does anyone have any real work benchmarks or experience with using different architectures for compiling code? We are looking at benchmarks between T2000, V40z, and x4200. It looks like we will get all three to get our hands on to test ourselves, but wanted to know if this has already been done and documented somewhere. The server will not be doing any application/db/etc work, just compiling. Are the FP shortcomings of the T2000 any issue with java compiliation? Would a 2x or 4x dual-core opteron be faster? Thanks in advance.

Depending on the size of your projects, the frequency of buildcycles, etc., you might just pull one of your oldest servers out of your serverfarm (and put a new one in instead) and use that.
That's the way most companies (and individuals) do it.
That machine doesn't have to be blazing fast, it hardly matters if a build takes 10 seconds or 30 for example, as usually people won't be waiting for it (or if they are they have other things to do while waiting like smoking a fag or drinking coffee which they'd otherwise do after the build was complete).
At home I use an old laptop with a Celeron 400 and 196MB RAM as my buildbox.
For my single project it's plenty fast enough, taking maybe 2 minutes when on my P4-2.4 with 1.5GB RAM it takes just over 1 minute to build the same project.
It could easily handle a lot more too, but at the moment I have no need for that excess capacity.

Building a new Premiere/After Effects Rig

Yes another rig building advice question but I would really would appreciate any advice and help that can be offered.
Here is what i had in mind.
Corsair Obsidian 750D Computer Cases
Corsair RM850
Asus X99-DELUXE/U3.1
Intel Core i7-5930K CPU
Corsair Vengeance Pro Series 32gb
Cooler Master V8 GTS
PNY GeForece GTX 970 Video Card
256GB Samsung 850 Pro Series (OS Drive)
WD Black 1 TB Hard Drive (Cache and Source)
WD Black 1 TB Hard Drive (Render)
WD Black 3TB Hard Drive (Storage)
Windows 8.1
Anything I am missing, should change or way off base about?

case - if you want, silent cases are nice. such as the fractal design refine R5.
psu - if you are going corsair, consider hx series and above.
cpu cooler - might want to look at quieter mfg/models. noctua, phanteks, bequiet are a few.
storage - might want to get another samsung pro ssd instead of hdd for cache.
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