new editing workstation... Have I gone overboard?

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So, for a while now, I have been using a Dell Laptop as my primary editing and work system. NO LONGER! (Insert evil genius laugh here). I built myself a little dedicated workstation and have started moving my crap across.

Here is the thing: I think I went overboard with the Specs (or is this normal?)
  • HARD DRIVE: 2tb
  • MEMORY: 8GB, upgradable to 16gb
  • PROCESSOR: Intel Core i5 Quad core
  • GRAPHICS: AMD Radeon HD 6670 (wanted something more beefy, but alas... budgetary concerns)
  • OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 8 64bit (Can't stand it, but I'll get used to it)
  • SOFTWARE: Sony Vegas Pro 11.0 (wanted 12.0 but the crashing thing was pissing me off), After Effects CS5.5, Photoshop CS6, Mocha for After Effects (which I will be greatful if somone can teach me how to use lol) and I will be getting my hands on Element 3D V1.
  • MONITOR: HP Pavilion 22xi IPS LED Backlit Monitor
Well... Have I gone over the top, or is this an ok set-up?
 
Fine - you might want to consider an extra internal drive - and I'm assuming the video files are then backed up on external drives?
 
I would throw in something like a 512GB SSD, and use that as a scratch disk. So all your programs n' stuff are on the HDD, and you work from your files on the SSD. Not necessary though, just might make things a bit quicker.

Other than that, it sounds like a good system. As for Windows 8, they are supposedly coming out with a free update, Windows 8.1, and it supposedly fixes a lot of the things people hate about Windows 8.
 
Built a new edit system a few months back

i7
32GB Ram
240GB SSD Boot (Win 7)
2 x 600GB WD Velociraptors striped as Raid 0
1 x 2TB internal storage drive
USB 3 external caddy to backup finished work.

Prem Pro editing.

Works well!
 
Off the top of my head it was about £2,000 ($3,000) without a monitor (or the Prem Pro)

I always work on the basis you can never have too much Ram!
 
Since we are swapping specs for our editing rigs here is my editing rig at work:
Intel Core i7 2600k at 3.8GHz
24gb Ram
2x 2tb Hitachi drives in raid 0 for source material
2x 2tb Hitachi drives in raid 0 for export (experimenting with the two seperate raids rather than 1 raid with 4 2tb drives in it which i previously used. So far the 2 raids is minimally faster than the single raid but overall safer.)
1x 2tb Hitachi drive for OS
Windows 8 (agreed that its garbage)
CS6
2x Geforce GTX 560
2x Envision 24" 1080p displays
1x Sony 48" 3d tv
Matrox MX02 mini
Presonus Firepod (8 ins and 8 outs)

Then for backups our server is 24x 2tb Hitachi HDDs in a raid 6 for 40TB of storage space.
 
I'm running an "older" system, that I had HP build for me in 2010, I think.

Intel i7 990 "Exterme" 3.46 ghz 6 core

24 GB DDR-3 Ram

2TB WD Sata 7200rpm drive used for programs only (would use an SSD if building new today)

2TB WD Sata 7200 rpm drive to back it up with

4TB G-Raid for project files

Synology DS412+ with 4 WD 2TB = 8TB running in Raid 5 backing up the G-Raid (Raid 5 cuts capacity down to 5.3 TB's), an incredibly fast unit!

GTX580i video card with 1.5GB Ram

600 watt power supply

Very fast machine, running Adobe CS5.5 Production Premium (did not like CS6 Premiere Pro for some still-unknown reason).

With respect to the Op's original question, I'd get the 17 processor over an i5 if possible.
 
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