Budget Video Editing PC

[abdulhamid]

I am trying to spec up a video editing PC for my brother and came up with the one below. Any thoughts will be appreciated, his budget is £700.

Case
COOLERMASTER CM690 MKII ADVANCED CASE
Processor (CPU)
AMD PHENOM II X6 1090T (3.20GHz/9MB CACHE) - BLACK EDITION
Motherboard
ASUS® M4A79XTD EVO: DUAL DDR3, S-ATA II, 2 x PCIe x16, 2 x PCIe x1, 2 x PCI
Memory (RAM)
8GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 4GB)

Graphics Card
SAPPHIRE AMD 6870 (Supplied by me as I am thinking of getting this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-ENGTX5...ARC/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1305794110&sr=8-3)

Memory - 1st Hard Disk
500GB SERIAL ATA 3-Gb/s HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (7,200rpm)
Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
Power Supply
600W Quiet 80 PLUS Quad Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£59)
Processor Cooling
SUPER QUIET 22dBA TRIPLE COPPER HEATPIPE CPU COOLER (£19)
Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities
ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)

 

[Rakk]

As mentioned in a lot of other threads, see if you can squeeze in one of those Caviar HDD's instead of just the bog standard HDD

 

[abdulhamid]

As mentioned in a lot of other threads, see if you can squeeze in one of those Caviar HDD's instead of just the bog standard HDD

Thanks Rakk, should have explained, my brother will be using his own HDD for this system. He would have gone with no HDD if that was possible in the configurator. Other than that would this be ok for video editing?