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overkill or eventually necessary?

i typically have 200 firefox/IE tabs open (up to 400/500 would be better) along with 10-20 adobe files, 50-100 outlook emails open, multiple window folders, 15-30 excel files, 10 word files and a few other small programs all running/open at the same time. I am looking for a computer that will last me at least 6-8 years. i'm looking at a computer running -

*either I7 5820k, 5930k or possibly 5960k
*definitely 64gb ddr4 ram
*definitely ssd 1TB
*probably RAID 1with additional 1TB ssd
*running windows 7 pro
with multiple video cards because i'm assuming (is it true??) that is optimal when running multiple monitors??? (although i presently run 2 monitors off a laptop with some "startech usb" gadget that helps me through the single video card issue)

any advice would be greatly appreciated

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Danny Child

Apart from the Adobe mentioned, I don't see any requirement for such expensive hardware. Even Adobe - are we talking Acrobat, or Photoshop - that's a massive difference? You're in Workstation territory, which is normally high-end video editing, 3D rendering workstations, engineering modelling, fluid mechanics, and so on.

Save some of your cash, and plan to replace the PC in 4 years instead.

Most SSD based systems use a smaller SSD disk for the boot OS, and traditional or hybrid disks for file storage. More bang for the buck.

Danny Child

We bought a system from these guys a few years back, for financial modelling
http://www.workstationspecialist.com/workstations/ws180/configure/
It had 2 Tesla graphics cards in for crunching the numbers.
cost was £8,000 - approx $12,000
- but you need to really specify the end goal to get the right solution.