Jeff Lawson said:Perhaps you're a very narrow minded individual, but PC's are very versatile these days, you can play games and create a media ctr, but the media ctr still wants reasonably high specs{not as high as a proper gaming box}.....so the one box does it all, the major difference is the GPU, but being that a 6600GT is acceptable for both gaming and TV capture, why would you settle for less?
i wouldn't go for less than a 6600GT (thats actually the card i plan on getting with my new rig) but i wouldn't go higher than that either (considering th next step up to a 6800GT is a whopping $200). i didnt mean i would get a last generation 9800 card or something, simply if i was a person who burned CD's, edited mp3's, all that multimedia stuff...i wouldn't do it on my gaming computer. i'd build a secondary computer and trade in my server computer.