You are definitly making this harder than it has to be! lol I'm not sure if you do some really hardcore video editing and such, but even with that, any current model computer by any manufacturer will get the job done.
My video card bit the dust two weeks ago. As the computer was 4 years old with 500megs of ram and a pentium III, I decided I would be better off replacing the whole thing. I went to exactly two stores, walked home with a new CPU that's a bajillion times faster than my old machine, 3gb's of ram, dual core, yadda yadda. Less than $450 with tax.
I was editing hour long DVDs on the old machine, so imagine how blown away I was by the new one!
My point: There's really no reason to spend a fortune or put that much effort into a computer. At least not for me, and especially considering the average shelf life of technology. Get yourself a good monitor though! That'll make a big difference.
Just my philosophy, which I'm sure will vary quite a bit from the techno gurus! :-)
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