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The other alternative here - which you have not mentioned as a real issue for you - is to simply upgrade the card on your PC.

Given the CPU, I'm guessing your mobo has a PCI E slot.

An Asus NVidia based GTX 260 or an Asus Radeon 4870 might do nicely.

Note - the 4870 is HDMI compliant and even has HDMI sound processing on the card. You can get one from Newegg right now for about $225 after rebate. The 260 is about $35 more, but has less bells and whistles (it runs more quietly though and NVidia drivers are superior to ATI's).

I have both the GTX 260 and a Sapphire 4870. I still slant to the 260, but the 4870, since the bios update, is a solid card and admittedly a lil faster than my 260. (Before BIOS update, the 4870 was a defective piece of crap, but that has finally been fixed). I would, if given a choice, always get an Asus over a Sapphire, all things being equal). To be clear, Asus makes both the NVidia 260 based card and a Radeon 4870 based card.

Either would be a good choice. And given your new HD set, it might be the 4870 and a Blu-Ray drive for your PC would make you a happy camper. Or maybe just the card?

If forced to choose between a gaming PC and a console is a choice you believe you have to make (i.e., you can't get both), in terms of gaming, the titles available you want to play - and how you prefer to play them - would be the determining issue. Generally speaking, the PC version of the game is almost always better (almost means almost, not always), but these days, there are less and less titles with any PC version.