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Video editing workstation

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I'm building a video editing workstation for a friend, and I've tried my best to make a perfect system for him. The aim was to get a Mac Pro Hex-Core like computer for half the price.

I've based the system around Puget System's Genesis, with some modifications where I found appropriate. The prices are in GBP.

Asus X79-DELUXE - 251
Intel 4930K - 415
Kingston 16gb ram - 112
EVGA 760 - 199
250GB Samsung 840 EVO - 105
Fractal Design Define R4 - 79
Seasonic X 650W - 108
Cooler Master Hyper 412S - 27
Windows 7 Pro 64-bit - 60
Seagate 7200.14 2TB x 2 - 126
wd 4tb green - 120
arctic mx4 - 4

total 1606 GBP

The hard drives would be SSD for OS, 2x2TB 7200 RPM for editing, 1x4TB WD Green for backups.

Can you tell me if there is something which you'd change or which is not compatible with the rest?
 
The X79 Deluxe is a great board. Have built 6 SolidWorks workstations with it and they all run great. I used OCZ RevoDrive 3X2 480GB PCI-e drives for boot (does away with the SATA bus transfer limits). They are now discontinued but Muskin is making an almost duplicate drive (Scorpion Deluxe) for around $785usd. If you can afford it you would be very happy with the speed (read & write seeds approaching 2000MB/sec.). Have never done video editing so I don't know how much Ram it uses, but I think I would put 32gb in to future proof your build. Might want to overclock CPU also!
 
jrweis said:
The X79 Deluxe is a great board. Have built 6 SolidWorks workstations with it and they all run great. I used OCZ RevoDrive 3X2 480GB PCI-e drives for boot (does away with the SATA bus transfer limits). They are now discontinued but Muskin is making an almost duplicate drive (Scorpion Deluxe) for around $785usd. If you can afford it you would be very happy with the speed (read & write seeds approaching 2000MB/sec.). Have never done video editing so I don't know how much Ram it uses, but I think I would put 32gb in to future proof your build. Might want to overclock CPU also!
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Thanks! Yes, RAM will be upgraded in the future for 32 and possibly 64 GB, it's just for a start. The great thing in a desktop is that upgrade path is so simple.

One idea for the SSD would be a 2 x 1TB Samsung EVO in RAID 0. It'd be super fast for the system and would allow 2 TB of video projects to be stored on SSD. But that one is a future upgrade path as well, there is nothing in the current build which would limit it.

Do you think the CM 412S would handle the CPU with a slight overclocking? Or I should go for Mugen 4 for example?
 
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