Quote Originally Posted by EniGmA1987 View Post
You also need to find out if the video encoding you are doing will support either OpenCL or CUDA based GPU acceleration. If so then huge CPU power and RAM is not what you need, but rather one or two high end GPU's instead. If the encoding method will not take advantage of GPU's, then yes an i7 extreme will probably be the best way to go.
Cuda is only used for Video decoding and every nvidia card with cuda cupport can do that just fine... ( thats not where the monster power is needed)... In my experiance the bottleneck for encoding machines is always the CPU. I will pitch in for a titan or maybe two out of my own pocket for this system tho...since as mentioned before I'll have it at home and use it for work & play.

@Zanzabar- Those Intel 910 ssd-s look really awsome indeed. Will definetly look into it... We have been using totaly "normal" consumer grade ssd-s at work and the software runs really smoothly on those so I need to check if thse 910-s wont be too much of an overkill


Thanks again for all the nice suggestions and replys