Building a video editing rig

Q6600 G0
Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme heatsink, Scythe S-Flex 120mm fan
4-8 GB DDR2-800 in 2x2GB kits, latency and brand not important
Abit IP35 line or Gigabyte P35-DS3R/DQ6 motherboard
Geforce 8500 (hardware HD decoding, 2 dual link DVI ports, not too expensive)
Corsair/Seasonic/Silverstone/PC Power and Cooling/Thermaltake (Toughpower line only) PSU, 500+ watts
Case of your choice. The P180/P182 is not too expensive and keeps things quiet.

Ta-da.
 
Silent-circuit made a great build list to start from.
 
Sorry for leaving this unattended for so long.

Anyhow, what I mentioned in the original post is that I have a budget of $4,000.

These were the builds I put together in mid December

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I haven't decided if the massive I/O difference will make the mtron's worth their insanely high price. Any thoughts?
 
Why would you need that graphics card and motherboard in a video editing machine? Also, what are you using for video capture? Just firewire, or a hardware accelerated capture option?

For video editing, some apps and hardware don't like Vista yet. You might want to stick with XP. However, I can confirm Canopus EDIUS 4.5 working under Vista just fine, but I haven't tried any hardware accelerated capture cards.

Also, what is with the 16GB flash disks? For the OS? If you used Vista, it likes a lot of free space or else it will bog down. Have at least 40GB of free space at all times so it runs fast. Go with a nice Seagate perpendicular recording drive or a 150GB raptor for the OS.

Also, I assume you are going to be editing high def? If just standard def, you could save about $3000. :p
 
What size monitor(s) do you have again?

I'd wait on the SSDs for now. Definately not worth their price. You'd get better performance going with Vista 64-bit and 8GB of RAM, then using a RAMDisk program.

I'd skip the QX9650 as well. Its just too overpriced, IMO. If you can get it to 4Ghz, you may have gotten your money's worth, but still... I'd go for a Q6600 G0 instead. Not even a third of the cost and you get most of the performance, with or without OC'ing.
http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_2007.html?modelx=33&model1=1073&model2=871&chart=444

Ditch the Asus Striker Extreme. It doesnt even support the QX9650, and has problems OC'ing the Q6600, if you planned on OC'ing. Go with a P35 or X38 board instead. If you want SLI, go with a 780i board instead.

Spend $2k on a rig now, then spend $2k on a rig in another 1.5-2yrs, when Nehalem comes out. You'll get better performance for your money this way. You can maintain your RAID card + array through both systems, though.
 
For video editing, you're not going to want to OC. In realtime editing with multiple layers of video, I can assure you you'll see more system hangs and random program crashes.. even if you are 24/7 orthos stable. Just go with the fastest processor you can and keep it running at stock speeds. Any quad core right now is fine for realtime SD and HD editing. If you OC you're not going to gain any performance except for encoding, but what is a difference of a few seconds or few minutes time after you are already done with your project and you just finish it up by encoding the final product. Encoding high def video with an OC can cause jumps here and there anyway so it isn't the smartest thing.
 
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