Originally Posted by RevTKS69

Okay, you didn't give me much to go on, so I'll play by your rules and choose from the choices on the page:

Intel® Core? i7-965 Extreme Edition 3.2GHz 8MB Cache LGA1366
? Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit
? Asus X58 Chipset Mainboard
? 12GB PC1333 DDR3/10666 RAM
? 128GB Solid State SATA Drive
? 1TB 7200RPM SATA-II DATA HDD
? Dual NVIDIA GTX 280 1GB Video
? 20X Blu-Ray Player Drive
? 20X DVD Rewritable Drive
? Flash Media Writer/Reader
? CoolerMaster Cosmos Gaming Full Tower 800W Case
$3599

There are a few key reasons here, that might help you out regardless of which system you get or where.

First off, the i7 processors use Triple-channel RAM...that means you'll need three sticks of RAM (regardless of capacity) to get the most performance from the machine. Most of the machines on that page had either 3GB (the minimum) or 6GB...not much better, IMO. This system has the 12GB and the 64 bit OS can access all of it and will do very well with video encoding, picture editing or gaming. The Extreme edition process is the fastest on the market so it smokes.

Second, it has an SSD (solid state drive) which also provides blazing read speeds (writes are slower, so this is good to run games from or apps...don't use it for pic/video storage).

Third, the dual video cards give you plenty of horsepower and finally, you have a 1Terabyte main drive to store all those vids and pics. This particular rig is also liquid cooled, so no worries on heat. Just read the manual on care and feeding of water-cooled systems and you are set with a primo rig for decent cash.

Hope this helps...