My system is such that each of my 2 PCs has barely enough resources to record a HD channel and play back a different HD recording. If I had both DVB cards in the same PC, I'm quite sure there's no way it would be able to record 2 HD streams and play back a third with no problems, while streaming a fourth HD file to the second PC. Thats why I want to distribute the load. *sigh*.. but it looks like that's not going to happen anytime soon, so I guess I'll put both DVB cards in the less used PC, and hope for the best.