Helping a friend build a cheapo video editing system

[The Internal]

Greetings,

An aquaintence of mine is building a budget minded system with video editing and capture in mind with Adobe Premiere Pro. Unfortunately, they didn't consult me before buying the motherboard and processor, and are stuck with a board with a VIA chipset and no PCI-Express. They did get a Pentium 4 3.0 GHz, which isn't bad.
He needs to keep the cost of the video card and the hard drive under $400.
Currently, I'm suggesting the ATI RADEON 9600 XT All in Wonder ($189) (gotta love tv tuner capture) and am still trying to figure out which 250 GB SATA hard drive around the $150 price point would be the best. He can't afford the Maxtor Maxline III and the Raptor II doesn't have enough space for lots of RAW video files. Is the Maxline II any good?
Suggestions welcome.

 

[halfadder]

Any modern 7200 RPM drive will be more than enough for DV video. The consumer DV that most of us use is 25Mbit/sec = 3.125 MByte/sec. Most drives can do at least 10x that fast even on the slowest part of the platter.

Any modern CPU will also be fast enough, and even a Radeon 9200 or GeForce FX5200 Ultra will be enough graphics power.

On Windows, I like Avid Free DV for a nice *free* editing package. Avid Xpress DV is a nice commerical package with more features.