Home PC that excells at video editing

[What User Name]

At first I was going to "soup up" my 6 year old HP 775 socket machine, by loading a copy of windows 7 on it and replacing the processor with a e8400.
I ordered the power supply, and a 240 gig SSD to help it.
But I have this nagging feeling that the board may not last too much longer. I already had to add a video card to it, something failed with the onboard video. The e8400 I just bought on ebay is on the way. It was about $30 delivered, money down the drain I think.
I will reuse the case and optical drives, and replace the guts with this:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1BFd8
As I mentioned the power supply and SSD are on their way.
I never play video games. I will use the onboard video or the crappy geforce 8400 1 gig video card. I say crappy, it is the low point in the windows experience index at 3.5. I have a feeling the onboard video will be better?

Too much RAM? I figure for video editing, it may come in handy.

Any comments welcome!

 

[Someone Somewhere]

What's it for? Because that's way overkill for basically everything.

 

[What User Name]

I want to put together / edit videos that I take via radio controlled aerial platforms. I have done a few already using movie maker, and it can take a while...... The last computer I bought from staples, and it was cheapo. I want to go on the other side of the fence, and have it be fairly strong so it does not obsolete itself as quickly.
Unfortunately, it will spend most of its life just web surfing...
Last year, I built a HTPC, using an I3 setup, and it works great. But I use that strictly for the home theater.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Ah. That would explain the extra processing power.

I'd suggest a few minor changes:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i7-4770 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($304.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: MSI H87M-G43 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($79.99 @ NCIX US)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($114.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Corsair Neutron Series GTX 240GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($219.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Toshiba 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($112.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Rosewill Tachyon 550W 80 PLUS Platinum Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($92.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($89.98 @ Outlet PC)
Total: $1015.91
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-09-09 01:19 EDT-0400)

Motherboad/RAM is a little overpriced, and there's little point in getting a hybrid drive you're not booting off, because it won't be able to cache much of the you're using.

EDIT: Alternate FX-based build, if you're using quite multithreaded software (video usually is). If not, get an i5.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor ($179.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($93.98 @ Outlet PC)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($114.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Corsair Neutron Series GTX 240GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($219.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Toshiba 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($112.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Rosewill Tachyon 550W 80 PLUS Platinum Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($92.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($89.98 @ Outlet PC)
Total: $904.91
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-09-09 01:22 EDT-0400)

 

[What User Name]

I am not interested in it now, but would it be one video card short of an awesome gaming system, just in case I wanted to go that route after a while?

Thanks for your suggestions!

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Yup. Add a 760/7950 and you have yourself a kick-ass PC, in either.

 

[What User Name]

Would the 8 core actually be more efficient rendering video than the I7 due to core count despite the slightly slower benchmarks?
I am sure no matter what I get, it will blow doors off the current machine.
For now, I am going to start with either windows movie maker, or Adobe premier. Not sure if either of those two will make use of multi core work?
The AMD solution will definitely save me a bit of cash.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Both of those should do well in multithreaded workloads. The i7 will be slightly faster, but only a little.

You can OC the FX-8350 too, while you'll need to step up to a 4770K and Z87 board to OC the Intel chip. You'll want an aftermarket cooler though.