HEY YOU HELP! This is my new video editing comp for $1100. Any advice? running adobe premier ele 8

Motherboard - GIGABYTE GA-P55M-UD2 LGA 1156 Intel P55 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

CPU - i7 860

PSU - CORSAIR CMPSU-550VX 550W ATX12V V2.2 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Compatible with Core i7 Power Supply

HD- Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive

Video Card- HIS H387QS512NP Radeon HD 3870 512MB 256-bit GDDR4 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support IceQ3 Video Card

Sound- Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE 7.1 Channels 24-bit 96KHz PCI Interface Sound Card

Burner- PLEXTOR Black 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA 24X DVD/CD Writer LightScribe Support

Fan- Scythe S-FLEX SFF21E 120mm Case Fan

Ram - 2 x CORSAIR XMS3 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMX4GX3M2A1600C9

Reader -Nippon Labs Delux 3.5" Internal All In One Card Reader/Writer with USB2.0 & eSATA Ports Model ICR-BB

Poer Supply - CORSAIR CMPSU-550VX 550W ATX12V V2.2 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Compatible with Core i7 Power Supply

Case - Rosewill R223-P-BK 120mm Fan ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Im going to run windows seven and adobe premier elements 8 with this!

Look compatible right? Its pretty darn good on paper?

 

Pretty solid build. On the HDD Id consider a switch to WD. You have 2 PSUs listed. So if you really added it to your cart twice, drop one, or get a 650. 550 should do you well though.

The video card is a bit weak for video editing imo.

 

What Video card would you suggest? If you can be specific!

 

You don't need a video card for editing video if you have a CRT monitor, on my video editing computer I'm just using the onboard motherboard video. You can get a basic radeon hd4350(for 40.00) only if you want to see a good quality picture on a LCD monitor.
The CPU is the most important thing for video editing, and you build everything else around it. Hard drives would be second most important (multiple drives at least 3 of them). And finally software.

my video editing computer xp sp3
Amd phenom quad 9750
2gb ram
1x300gb boot drive
3x500gb storage drives
onboard video/audio
400 watt "works" power supply.
liteon 16x dvdrw
software
videredotvsuite
womble mpeg video wizard dvd 4.0
avidemux

There are some video cards that can help speed up the video encoding, but that is more of a new feature on some very recent nvidia cards. But the newer quad cpu's are already fast enough by themselves.

The intel I7 is cutting edge for video editing an excellent choice, many people are always recommending the quads for gaming, but there main use is for video editing. Even my outdated phenom quad 9750 double my video editing performance.

 

Having at least 2 hard drives is nice for some types of video editing where the CPU isn't being taxed as much...reading from one, and writing to the other can get you twice the speed for twice the price...usualy twice the speed costs 4x as much or more. However, if you want RAID1 protection, then 2 hard drives is actualy 4 (or at least 3 if you only need RAID1 on your boot drive)...and hard drives are now a big part of the build price.

The 3870 is overkill for just video editing, but it is also able to play most games (even if at a low setting), and it can handle programs like Rhino with ease...although I'm not sure if you will be needing such capabilities.

Plextor drives are great at reading around scratches and such...but that is about all they are good at. They don't burn any better than the much cheaper LG units, and they don't last as long as most drives.

The I7 is designed as a high-end workstation processor...it is great for gaming because it supports multiple video cards plus hardware RAID, and it is good for video editing for the same reason...assuming you have about a thousand dollars (or more) worth of nVidia video cards. But without all the cards, it is actualy slower than a I5 at the same speed for most things.