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Would this desktop handle GoPro video editing (60fps video) OK?
I've edited video on my MBA before and it worked well.
The benefit with the Air though is the PCI-e SSD. If I were building a rig with video editing in mind I would buy the largest SSD I could afford, maybe even spring for a PCI-e SSD. Video editing is very data transfer intensive.
Not sure I agree with this. Video editing has two main phases - editing, and rendering. You "see" performance differences mostly during rendering. Editing is relatively undemanding because your own speed editing clips, trimming, etc is so slow compared to the computer. Most people edit videos that are a few minutes long. Loading the source material (clips) is primarily I/O - so disk speed matters here. But once the clips are loaded the disk speed doesn't matter much unless you fetch other items (like sound). But these files are typically not huge so I/O speed isn't a big deal at all. If you are short on RAM, the disk speed will matter if your system is forced to use the swap file a lot. But an 8Gb system is more than enough for most people. Edit long HD videos? Get 16 Gb.
Rendering is a transcoding - and it is cpu intensive. Watch the Windows Task Manager and you will see the CPU cores hit 75-100% unless there is another bottleneck or the software can't fully utilize the CPUs. Most purchased video editors can use four CPU cores - some will use more. So rendering benefits from fast CPUs with multiple cores.