How's this for an Editing PC Spec?

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magicmat

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Dell's new XPS 420 has been touted as a good editing PC, and looks pretty slick. I've "up'ed" the spec a little, and have come up with this...which works out as £825 ex VAT (using a variety of discount codes and free delivery offers!).

I am currently using Ulead Media Studio, but im soon to be using Adobe Premier 1.5, and then upgrading to CS3 I think. I have an extra DVD burner to install, and 2 x 22" Screens. All footage is filmed in Mini DV, with a view of upgrading to HD soon. So, is this a good, suitable PC, ok to use with HD in the near future, or am I barking up totally the wrong tree?! Can i get better for my money?

Your thoughts please!

PROCESSOR Intel® Viiv™ Technology Intel® Core 2 Quad-Core Q6600 Processor (2.40GHz, 8MB, 1066MHz) edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium - English edit
HARDWARE SUPPORT Base Warranty - 1 Year XPS Premium Hardware Support (incl. Gaming and On-Site Support) edit
MONITOR No 20" Wide Monitor edit
MEMORY 4096MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [4x1024] edit
HARD DRIVE 1TB Dual Hard Drive Raid 0 Stripe (2x500GB - 7200rpm) edit
GRAPHICS CARD SINGLE 768MB nVidia® GeForce® 8800 GTX graphics card edit
TV TUNER & MULTIMEDIA ACCELERATORS Dell™ Xcelerator™ including Integrated Avio card and Hybrid (Analog/Digital) TV tuner card edit
OPTICAL DRIVE 16x DVD +/- RW Drive edit
 
I've built myself a similar spec system from Newegg recently, but I'm running on Vista Ultimate, have 2 gigs of ram DDR2 1066mhz, and an 8800GTS 648GDDR3 card and a 22inch HP monitor, ran me about 1450$ after eveything. OC'ed it to 3.2GHZ at 1333FSB works like a charm. Good luck with you system it's going to be awesome :)
 
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