This all depends on what kind of video editing you intend on doing and how much hard drive space you will have available. If you plan on doing only standard definition then this setup will work provided you have enough disk space. You may want to consider an external hard disk (at least 250-500 GB) to store your produced videos.
If you plan on doing any high definition editing then you probably will not be happy with this setup. I have a 2GHZ Core2Duo with 4 GB of RAM laptop and that can play AVCHD files in the preview window of PD, but my CPU usage is near 100%. That does not include incorporating any transitions, color corrections, titles, and other effects. Rendering such files takes forever. In comparison my quad core Q9300 plays everything smoothly with a CPU usage at about 25%. Rendering a AVCHD file recorded at 24 Mb/s to blueray format took about 2 minutes to render for every 1 minute of raw video. In this case I was only applying a white balance correction and nothing else. During this rendering my file size would increase from 1.9 GBs for an 11 minute file to ~12 GB after converting to blueray format (HD MPEG2).
I would spend sometime reading through this forum for more information. Try the search feature to the top to see what you can find.
Good luck
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Q9300 2.5 GHz
4 GB Ram
Nvidia 9800 GT