Looking at this atm:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883227314
Notes:
-It is Sata2, not Sata3.
-I don't know if 480W is a large enough power supply.
-Not crazy about the GPU. Looking over it's benchmarks on another site and it seems pretty middle of the pack. It should handle all of the stuff he's interested in now, but I don't see much of a future in the card.
Probably still going to leave this tower in the 'maybe' pile for now though.
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Eff_Dee
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