CattyNebulart Wrote:My initial list of suggestions, probably a bit on the expensive side but I am in a hurry. Anyway I need to travel for a bit so I will just leave these here for people to comment on.
Motherboard, I have good experience with Biostar, far better than Asus, and this looks like a good option. An LGA2011 slot is a must and if you are going to have this computer for a long time a lot of USB 3.0 slots are nice. If in 2-years or so you want to upgrade swap out the CPU, it will likely do more than increasing RAM.
CPU I was tempted to go for the 6-core version but that would break the budget.
RAM Decent speed for the cost, I decided not to go with overclocking the motherboard for faster RAM.
Ok continuing this;
One of these would be really nice, but likely budget busting, therefore I think you would be better of with 4 of these in a RAID-5 array for speed and some fault tolerance, but if you are using windows I'm not sure how well their RAID-5 system works. 3TB is a lot of space and one hard-drive failing will not cause data-loss (though if one fails you want to backup and replace ASAP since the other drives are likely to fail soon).
Since your stated goal is mostly 3d editing you would probably be better of with a professional graphics card optimised towards that kind of workload but since its a smaller market they can get really expensive. Someone with more experience on the current state of 3d software could tell you more but this seems like a fairly cheap but good professional 3d card, this is unfortunately a little outside my area of expertise. For a normal desktop card I'd take a long look at this, any 3d gaming (or even just a compositing dektop) would be better of with the later card.
That leaves case and powersupply, I recommend this case for some noise reduction and temperature control. This is a good power supply but a bit pricey, should make up for it in reliability though. I'd also throw in a UPS and a upgraded CPU fan to reduce noise and keep the chip cooler, but the socket type is new so not all fans are compatible.
Total cost is closer to 1500$ US, than 1000$ Canadian, but it is at least a starting point. Does somebody want to chip in? I'll admit I did at least half this exercise to see what I would buy if I wanted to replace my computer right now.
I assume you also want windows, so buy a 64-bit windows 7 licence, probably professional.
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