Please advise on $2500 PC for videowork

[glasseye]

Proposal
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MOTHERBOARD
Tyan K8WE



CPUs

Dual AMD Opteron Socket 940 1.8ghz



RAM

4 x Corsair 512mb Registered ECC 2.5CL DDR400



SYSTEM DISK HDD

DiamondMax 10 SATA (250gb/16mb)



VIDEO DISK HDD

Dual DiamondMax 10 SATA (250gb/16mb) RAID0



SCRATCH DISK HDD

Generic 7,200rpm 30gb SATA



GRAPHICS

Nvidia 6800GT



AUDIO

Audigy 2 ZS Platinum



EXTRAS

Martox RT.X100

2 x 21” CRT Flatscreens

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Any incompatibility issues here? Any tweaks to this proposal that'd make a better system (within the budget)?

My ram...
Is it high enough performance and will it dual channel? 4 x $80
http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merc...ore_Code=M&Product_Code=140622&AFFIL=FRG&NR=1

Thankyou for your help with this project

 

[Apokalipse]

I still say go Seagate or Western Digital with your hard drives, maxtor is far from the most reliable

for your monitors: I think you's have to get one digital if you want to run them both on the 6800

you probabbly won't need that high end sound card, even a SB Live will do

for dual channel. you have to have exactly 2 RAM disks. if you want 2GB it has to be 2x1GB. 4 sticks will not run in dual channel
although that might be a different story with dual CPU,s. some motherboards dedicate certain slots to each CPU, so that each CPU will have its own dual channel RAM

 

[glasseye]

Thanks apokalipse, i was told that cause of the dual-opteron setup, i should do a dual-dual-channel, so each cpu has its own dual channel array.
you may be right about the hdds, i think im going to still with maxtor because $140 for 250gbs is good, and the 16mb chache, and NCQ and speed

 

[glasseye]

I was thinking it could be handy to have the extra potions on the soundcard, all those I/Os could be useful sometimes, and when it's so easy to get a good deal on ebay.. plus a remote control! i mean YEAH