Advice sought on PC build

[VinceB]

Hi,

I would really appreciate some advice on this PC that I'm having built, as I'm on a bit of a steep learning curve here!

At the moment it will be used for working with some rather hefty files in PS CS5 but will also be needed for video editing with Premiere Pro very soon.

Case
Silverstone TJ09B Black Aluminium Full Tower Case

CPU
Intel Core i7 3930K, Six Core, 3.2GHz, 12MB Smart Cache

Motherboard
Asus P9X79 Motherboard - X79 Chipset

Cooler
Corsair H100 Hydro Series Extreme Performance CPU cooler

Memory
16GB (4x4GB) Corsair Vengeance LP, DDR3, 1600MHz

Nvidia Graphics
1280Mb EVGA GTX 570, 797MHz GPU, 480 Cores, 3900MHz GDDR5

Power Supply
650W PSU, Corsair Modular, 85% Eff', Quiet Fan

SSD’s - X 2.
128GB Corsair Performance Pro, Marvell, Read 500MB/s Write 340MB/s
1 for OS & 1 for scratch drive.

Hard Drive
1TB Western Digital Caviar Black, SATA 6Gb/s, 7200rpm, 64MB Cache

Blu-ray
LG BH10LS38 Blu-ray Writer

On board sound card

Windows 7 Pro 64 bit

The guys that are building it are suggesting that it should be overclocked but I'm wondering if this is necessary as I've read that it is not always a good idea? They have also mentioned that this graphics card might not be totally suitable for PS CS5 but I seem to have read that this isn't the case?

I have an external hdd system set up so don't need any more storage drives.

If anyone has an opinion on whether I can lower the spec. to save some money or up it to improve performance it would be very welcome.

Thanks,
Vince

[Lucio]

Given the storage intensive nature of your work, I'd suggest a better configuration would be a 2TB drive and a 128GB SSD configured to act as Cache, that way you should get near SSD performance but with enough storage to handle your large files. Whilst you might have external storage to keep older projects on, you'll appreciate having as much working space as you can.

It'll also be easier to setup, simply build the system with the 2TB drive, installed normally without partitions, then after the OS is installed, add the SSD and install the software that comes with it.

Other than that, I'd suggest dropping the water cooling system, if this is your first real build, then it's the last thing you want to be mucking around with. Get a more straight forward cooler that's easier to install