I am looking at buying a SFF pc barebone system, and I was looking for some direction. My thoughts were with either a Trigem Kloss KL-i915a or Biostar DEQ 300G.

I would be using this pc for gaming, (doom 3, quake 3, AOE, Unreal Tourney, etc.) Graphics editing, business apps (word, outlook, etc), as well as filesharing.

The kicker is that I need this pc for video in / out to the tv (hi def or lower).

BTW, my old pc (which is DOA after moving) was homebuild with 1.2 ghz AMD athlon, 1.5 GB RAM, 500 GB of total HDD storage, 16x DVD +/- RW/R, ATI AiW 32 MB TV in/out

Any suggestions?

You're only going to get decent VIVO with something with standalone graphics (as well as being able to play Doom 3 at any decent resolution) I have a shuttle SN25P which is very nice kitted out with an X2 and 2Gb of RAM with a 7800GT which would do what you want very nicely but not very cheaply! Have a look at the shuttle range, they offer lots of nice SFF PCs including a nice AM2 based barebones.

No Core 2 Duo SFF cases as far as I know yet but they will make an ideal SFF CPU.

Any chance of using a PCI X card to achive that status I am looking for?

Most any new barebones sff kit will have a 16x pcie slot. I would try and ATI x1xxx card if doing video, something in the x1800 class for price/performance . I did see this kit on newegg http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6856101004 with AMD's price cut a nice x2 system should be reasonable, though all the sff kits are way over priced I think. Just make shure the psu is up for job as they tend to be lowwer watts in the sff's and a highend gfx card can really pull some amps. the one in the link is a 400w.

I second the sn25p, I've built two of these for customers and they are very nice, you can get a decent video card in them and they don't overheat.