Originally Posted by robbie

let me toss my dick in the pile:

My main rig in my office:
1 x case thermaltake level 10 full tower gaming case - black
1 x processor intel® core™ i7 980x processor extreme edition (6x 3.33ghz/12mb l3 cache)
1 x ibuypower powerdrive powerdrive level 2 - up to 20% overclocking
1 x processor cooling liquid cpu cooling system [socket-1366] - enermax dual silent high performance fan upgrade (push-pull airflow)
1 x memory 24 gb [4 gb x6] ddr3-1600 - corsair vengeance
1 x video card nvidia quadro fx 4800
1 x motherboard [sli] gigabyte ga-x58a-ud7 w/ 2x gb lan, 4x pci-e 2.0 x16
1 x motherboard usb / sata interface motherboard default usb / sata interface
1 x power supply 1200 watt -- corsair cmpsu-1200ax
1 x primary hard drive 160 gb intel x25-m mlc ssd - single drive
1 x data hard drive 3 tb hard drive -- 64m cache, 7200 rpm, 6.0gb/s - single drive
1 x optical drive 24x dual format/double layer dvd±r/±rw + cd-r/rw drive - black
1 x flash media reader / writer 12-in-1 internal flash media card reader/writer - black
1 x meter display nzxt sentry lx aluminum fan control, clock, and temperature display

my secondary rig in my bedroom:
1 223-4701 dell precision t7400 mini-tower, quad core xeon proc x5482, 3.20ghz, 2x 6mb l2 cache,1600mhz
1 311-8069 2nd processor, quad core xeon proc x5482, 3.20ghz, 2x 6mb l2cache,1600mhz, dell precision t7400
1 311-7702 16gb, ddr2 ecc sdram memory 800mhz, 8x2gb, dell precision t7400
1 310-7949 entry level, usb, no hot keys keyboards, dell precisionworkstations
1 320-3316 monitor option-none
1 x video card nvidia geforce gtx 470 - 1.2gb - evga superclocked - single card
1 341-7143 160gb sata,10k rpm 3.0gb/s 2.5inch,sata2 16mb data burst cache,dell precision
1 341-5370 c2 all sata hard drives non- raid for 2 hard drives dell precision t7400
1 430-1680 broadcom netxtreme 10/100/1000gigabit ethernet controller pci express,dell precision r5400
1 313-5709 16x dvd+/-rw, data only, dell precision t3400
1 341-5363 1tb sata 3.0gb/s, 7200rpm additional ncq harddrive with 16mb databurst cache, dell precision t7400/5400


for back up external drives i use esata connected drives. Way faster than firewire.

Adobe premiere pro cs5. The cuda gpu technology of the nvidia graphics cards + the cpu power of the machine makes rendering fast. Used to take all night. Now takes about 30 minutes.