Buying a new dream tower at work. Look over the specs for me and see if I am missing something.

[weapon]

Two 2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
16GB (8x2GB) (I would go 32GB of ram but the expense out ways the reward.)
1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512MB
Two 18x SuperDrives
Apple Cinema HD Display (30" flat panel)
Apple Mouse
Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad (English) and User's Guide
AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi Card with 802.11n
iWork preinstalled
AppleCare Protection Plan for Mac Pro - Auto-enroll

My real question is the video card: Should I go with the Nvidia or replace it with the ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB? Also should I put a raid in the machine for backup purposes. Advice please.

The unit will be used for final cut pro, after effects, Huge 5GB or more graphic files with 30+ layers and lightwave 3-D.

[microchip]

It looks great. I'm jealous. I'd go with RAID for speed and redundancy.

Is there a reason why you need two superdrives though?

[weapon]

We do a lot of one off dvd duplication. I like to just pop the disc in drive one and burn a copy with drive 2. I may replace the superdrive with a blu-ray drive but that is just semantics.

[Black]

I don't see an outer case or a power supply listed.
I would call and make sure those are included.

[M>B>]

Since it looks like you make your living off that machine, I would include some kind of dual rotational backup that you rotate to off site!

[weapon]

If I add the raid, how should I configure the drives? I am not sure how they need to be purchased by size for the raid to be set up correctly.

Do I set it up like this?
Drive 1- 1TB
Drive 2- 1TB
Drive 3- 2TB

Or do they all have to be the same size?

[weapon]

M>B> wrote:
Since it looks like you make your living off that machine, I would include some kind of dual rotational backup that you rotate to off site!

We have a full tape backup system + servers in a fire proof room.

It would just be nice to get a local internal backup system in the machine as a first line of defense.

[M>B>]

Weapon,

Good going! Just had to ask.

[weapon]

I work for a government contractor so all of that stuff is mandatory.

[Article Accelerator]

The boot drive (at least) should be an SSD, preferably one of the new SATA 6 Micron realSSD SSDs.

http://www.micron.com/products/real_ssd/