Need advise on new CS5 system

[pantheman]

I'm need to put a new system together to run adobe CS5.
After effects (which needs lots of ram)
Premiere Pro( has mercury playback engine so I need 1gb DDR5 ram Nividia Femi card. there a hack I wanted to try to use [FONT=&quot]http://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm[/FONT])
Photoshop. I will run this with 64bit Win 7 Pro. No games.
Overclocking, well I've built 4 different system but I have never overclock. I'm open to the idea but I would have educate myself on how to do it.


Here what I'm thinking of
GA-X58A-UD5 or Asus Premium motherboard (on the Gigabyte boards, is the problem with the raid only when using SSD or any hard drive?
I need firewire and esata to hook up alot of peripherals I own, so gigabyte board wins here.
Choice for ram
Mushkin 998770 PC3-10666 9-9-9-24 1.5V 1333MHZ 3X4gb Total of 12GB or
GSKILL Ripjaws Series 12GB (3 x 4GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9T-12GBRL 9-9-9-24 1.5V
MSI Geforce GTX 460 cyclone graphic card. Quadro are over my budget!
Case Cool Master HAF 922

Thing I already have
i7 950 bloomfield CPU
PC power and Cooling silencer 750 Watt
LITE-ON Black 12X Blu-ray Burner Model iHBS112
2 WD 7200 1TB raid 0
So what do you think? Any issue I should be made aware of? Thanks for everyone help.

 

[exar333]

The GTX 470 is a much stronger GPGPU card versus the 460 (GF100 vs. GF104), although it does produce more heat than the 460. There have been some crazy deals for the 470 around lately, so if it's not much more, it might be worth it.

 

[fffblackmage]

The fastest memory the LGA1366 i7 runs is DDR3-1066. Any higher requires overclocking of the IMC, I think.

And holy crap, are you sure the GA-X58A-UD3R can't do what you want? It's $80 cheaper.

 

[mfenn]

I'm with blackmage. The GA-X58A-UD3R has Firewire and eSATA, so get that. The G.Skill RAM and HAF are good though.

Can you elaborate on "the problem with RAID" on the Gigabyte board? If you're referring to non-TLER-enabled drives occasionally falling out of the RAID set, then that can happen on any ICH10R board.

 

[pantheman]

Yes over on tom's hardware Several people were having problem with raiding together SSD, It was said "NO, the Gigabyte X58A UD3R (rev 2) [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]SSD[/COLOR][/COLOR] + HDD = Disaster {BSOD/Shutdowns! Great on paper but poor real world."
So they were recommending Asus P6X58D-E instead. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/280140-30-motherboard-choice-help

I just want to avoid as many issue as possible and make sure everything will work together well.

Any suggestion on a good but not too heavy CPU cooler?

 

[mfenn]

Oh ok. I actually advise against using RAID0 with HDDs because it isn't much faster than a single one and much more prone to failure.

The Hyper 212+ is a good, inexpensive cooler.