New Pc Build...Help!

[bsbentley]

Ok been looking over this forum for a few weeks now and it appears you guys have some good insights into New builds, Pc parts, etc..... So I thought I'd post up what I'm thinking about regarding my new build. This machine will be used for 1st-Gaming -2nd Work-3rd Video Editing. I guess I might be getting much work done Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Case:
Antec Performance I P180B Black 0.8mm cold rolled steel for durability through the majority of chassis 1.0mm cold rolled steel around the 4 x HDD area ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail
$115.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811129017

PSU:
OCZ GameXStream OCZ700GXSSLI ATX12V 700W Power Supply 100 - 240 V - Retail
$155.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817341002

Processor:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 Conroe 2.66GHz 4M sharing L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor
$501.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115002

Motherboard:
Asus P5N32-SLI Premium/WiFi-AP Core 2 Duo nVidia nForce 590 SLI Intel 1066MHz FSB Dual Channel DDR2 800 LGA775 Socket 775/T ATX Motherboard w/ Quad-SLi Ready 2x PCI Express x16, SupremeFX Audio, Dual GB LAN, Wireless LAN, SATA 3G/II, eSATA, RAID, USB 2.0, Firewire 1394
$300.00
http://www.excaliberpc.com/ASUS_P5N3...id-569502.html

Cooling:
Zalman CNPS9500 92mm (Ultra Quiet)
$49.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...NE&N=0&Ntk=all

RAM:
CORSAIR XMS2 1GB (2 x 512MB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X1024-8500 - Retail
CORSAIR XMS2 1GB (2 x 512MB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X1024-8500 - Retail
$458.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145030

Video Card:
Need suggestions. I will most likely be getting a new Nvidia DirectX10 card (GEForce 8 Series) when they come out. Right now just looking for a good card or cards. I have Dell 24” Monitor and would like to take advantage of it’s native 1920x1200 resolution in games (COD2) etc…I thinking about the Radeon below unless someone thinks I should stick with a Nvidia card.
SAPPHIRE 100177L Radeon X1950XTX 512MB 256-bit GDDR4 VIVO PCI Express x16 CrossFire Video Card - Retail
$420.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102045

Hard Drive:
2XWestern Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB 10,000 RPM 16MB Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM
$390.00 with $60 dollar rebate
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136012

Data Drive:
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3750640AS 750GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
$390.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148134

Optical Drive:
PLEXTOR Black 16X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 6X DVD+R DL 16X DVD-R 4X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 24X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 8M Cache IDE Slot Load 16X DVD±R DVD Burner - Retail
I’m looking to do some video editing on this machine also and would like to make DVD’s. Not sure if there is a better Drive out there. Also should I have two Optical Drives?
$146.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827131352

Sound Card:
Creative SOUND BLASTER X-Fi Platinum 7.1 Channels 24-bit 96KHz PCI Interface Sound Card - Retail
$179.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16829102190

Couple of Questions.

Compatibility of Parts used. Does anyone see any issues or better match ups?

How noisey will this build be on a scale of 1(quiet) to 10(loud).

The PSU. I'm planning on running SLI dual cards in the future, will this be enough power.

RAM. Since I'm planning on doing video editing from my Digital video camera on this machine should I move RAM up to 4GB's?

Vid Card Help. See above Vid Card.

Optical Drive. See above Optical Drive.

Am I missing anything. I'm itching to start this build however, does anyone think I should wait for better motherboard release?

[glc]

Yes, if you plan on SLI with a Core 2 Duo, wait a while till the new NForce chipsets are out and debugged.

[bsbentley]

Any idea when the new chipsets will be out?

[chuck4456]

They need to get all of the glitches out of the ones currently available first.

[trowand]

If you want to run SLI later then why the heck would you want to buy an ATI card? Wouldn't you want to buy a good Nvidia card and then just add another one later?

[newbuilder14]

MY recommendations:

That power supply is good but there are better ones. The reason I wouldn't choose that one is because you can't enjoy the blue lights in that case. Look at a Seasonic 600w or similar.

With Intel go with ATI's equivelent of SLI, Crossfire. Get the P5W DH motherboard by Asus.

Get 2x1gb sticks of memory. Leaves room for future upgrade.

Everything else is fine.

[Mr.Ferrari]

Originally Posted by bsbentley Any idea when the new chipsets will be out?

The only nvidia chip I would wait for are the C55 NF590's/6xx series.

THE reason why the current NF590 is NOT being recommended is simply this:
The chipset basically is not worth it. Theres no performance increase, no immediate advantages over intel chipsets besides the ability to do quad sli. Which in itself has not yet matured. AND 5xx is being phased out.

DFI and a few others had plans to release their NF590 boards a MONTH ago. They delayed/cancelled. They produced prototypes and saw the major flaws and disadvantages of it.

Most manufacturers are waiting for the C55 revision which is supposed to really evolve the NF590 chipset into one thats actually worth manufacturing.

It will probally be relabeled with the "6" mark, introducing nvidia's new intel series of chipsets.

When is it coming out? Hopefully with the release of ati's R600.