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Well, it would depend upon what resolution he plans to game at. Like I said prior, if he's doing a large flat screen LCD and wants to game at high resolution he should investigate SLI more fully, if not it's not necessary but it does make for a good upgrade path in the future if he ever wants to...

SLI doesn't increase gaming performance? WTF? I'd suggest that you go read some reviews of SLI systems versus non-SLI systems and rethink your statement. You get about a 40% increase in framerates at high resolutions with SLI versus a single card. Now, if you plan on gaming at 1024*768 then...

For ease of use and ownership I say the Big Typhoon hits the spot.

Well, you have an advantage, you use Linux which is way more efficient of an OS so there's not as much overhead even when doing the same tasks. Save the earth, save energy, use an alternative OS.

Personally I'd go with an ASUS 680i board since they'll support 45nm and they use DDR2 which is way cheaper than DDR3. Plus you get the SLI capability that the Intel chipset lacks. Or the 780i which gives tri-SLI support and still uses the much cheaper DDR2. As to your HDD choices... well...

I don't think that you load your system fully enough for long enough for it to be a problem. You don't game on it while doing rendering or encoding/decoding.

You'll care about the noise when it kills your parts but it's your baby. I'm not talking about audible sound noise I'm talking dirty power noise, kills PC parts in time noise, noise that you, in all honesty, should care very much about. To be perfectly honest, I would get it sans a PSU and...

I'm glad to have helped. Hooking a HT setup to a PC is really a nice thing if space isn't a concern and you're not an apartment dweller, I ran an older PC of mine that way years ago (five to be exact although it seems like a few weeks back) and I loved it. Listening to ripped music, playing...

Avoid the GameXstream at all costs unless you're going with a model under 600W. The noise on the 12V rails surpasses the ATX spec (120mV) by nearly 100% (200+mV total noise) at full load on the units over 600W. If you want a good quad SLI PSU (which will only have four PCI-E G power...

Personally for $500 I'd look around on Craigslist and buy a decent HT receiver and a decent set of speakers. I see them daily for about that kind of money. You can get a good sound card that encodes to Dolby Digital or DTS in real time and use the SPDIF from it into the digital in on the HT...

I read it and outlined the only way for you to verify the Antec as the problem in your system. I must ask, do you have the auxiliary molex power connected to the mobo? If not try that, it is a must have for cards greater than 75W.

Cool, please do email it. And since you can run the board under stock speeds with an 8 pin and 4 pin I'd suggest trying another PSU just to verify the PSU as being incompatible with your specific setup.

This is between the GT and GTS I take it. The only thing I can suggest is using a different PSU (such as that OCZ) and seeing if the issue resolves itself. It won't work if the board has to have dual 8 pin EPS connectors but some will work with either an 8 pin or 4 pin ATX 12V. I'd have to see...

Is it not working in the same slot? That could point to a combination of PSU AND mobo incompatibility.

Have you tried swapping the PCIE-G power plugs around to see if the warning migrates? In other words, swap the power cables from one card to the other and if it is indeed a power issue (on the PSU end of things) the warning will move from the card doing it in config a to config b (the configs in...