Hasta La Motion!

Hey everyone… I was wondering if I could get some opinions/help on a new computer setup. I’ve got a desktop right now but it’s pretty outdated and isn’t up and running currently, and rather than fixing it, I’m thinking about getting an entirely new setup.

I haven’t been keeping up too much with current hardware as much as I used to but looked into it a bit and have a little list of what I’d possibly be getting. As far as what I do on it is concerned, I work primarily in Maya, Nuke, and Photoshop. I’m graduating from Full Sail University in a couple weeks as a compositor (reel will be up soon :)) and all I have to work off of at home currently is my mac book pro.

Price range is probably around a couple grand… I’m sitting at 1500 with what I’ve got listed so far and thats without a video card and power supply.

So anyways, heres the list, any help would be greatly appreciated 🙂

OS: Windows 7 Pro 64bit

Monitors: Clicky. Not positive on the monitors yet, I’ll be bouncing around between different ones and physically checking them out.

HDD: Clicky. I was thinking about getting this or a similar solid state drive for the OS and apps and current projects, and I have a few 7200 rpm sata drives for data. Seems like it might be a good idea?

CPU: Clicky. Flexible on this but checking out the current i7 processors this one seemed like a good choice without spending a gazillion dollars.

Mobo: Clicky. I’ve gone with gigabyte before and haven’t had a problem with them so this is the one that seemed pretty good out of the gigabyte 1366 boards.

Ram: Clicky. Gotten OCZ memory before as well and haven’t had a problem with it. 8 gigs for now, but should be able to get more later. I read something on the Reaper X and not being able to have the sticks side by side, but this one shouldn’t have that problem.

Case: Clicky. This is the case I currently own. Got it way back, but seems like it should be fine? I haven’t done any overclocking and not currently really planning on it, not sure if I’ll need some other cooling options.

Video Card: Clicky. Checked out some stuff on video cards and this one seems like it would be pretty good. But I’m really not sure what to get… Not sure about the best video card setup for performance and price…

And for power supplies, also not really sure, I had a random xclio psu before, and wouldn’t mind getting a modular one this time around for easier organization.

Thanks in advance!