I am turning to my most trusted consultants (you).

I am going to build a new personal machine. Primary software use will be Vegas Pro, Sound Forge, Blender, Camtasia. None of these use a lot of GPU. Most are main CPU and disk bandwidth intensive. Later I will save up for a monster vid card and add Maya or GPU applications, but that is build phase two.

I require at least two displays of 1920x1080. The MB is PCIe 2x16 for the vid card. I am thinking about the PNY NVida GTX260 with 896mb. $179 I am looking for input about other options and what you think of various manufacturers. Reading purchaser reviews on video cards tells me that there is some real garbage out there.

The I considering an i7 980X with 12gb DDR3 1600 RAM, 1TB 7200 rpmSATA 6gb system drive, and two 1TB 7200 rpm SATA 3gb data drives. the case also has 4 hot swapable SATA 3gb bays.

I am debating about the i7 980x vs. the i7 960. The 980x is six cores at 3.33GHz vs the four core 960 at 3.2GHz. Any comments about how they stack with Vegas? There is a $500 difference, ouch.

All comments appreciated on this. I tried to be as specific as possible to help with comments. I hate, I want a fast computer, what do I buy.