Capture Card for pc and xbox

Jack30d

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I was wondering wht would be the best capture card for me if I want it to record my xbox and a specific window on my pc with one capture card. Using the same monitor.
 
The monitor has nothing to do with it directly.
What you want is a BOX (not "card") that takes in an HDMI signal, converts it and sends that back to the PC to save via a USB cable.

So the signal is just SPLIT inside the box and one path is sent out to the monitor and one path is used to record.

As for the PC itself, you need either an NVIDIA GTX600 or better card so you can use NVIDIA SHADOWPLAY, or use software tools like DXTORY but software performance reduces gameplay performance.

If you used an HDMI output from your PC you could use the same box as you use for the XBOX. If you didn't need sound and don't use HDMI you could use a DVI->HDMI cable to the box, then an HDMI->DVI cable from box to monitor.

Examples:
http://ca.ign.com/articles/2013/08/30/the-best-video-game-capture-kits-for-xbox-360-ps3-and-pc