I suppose the power supply I listed is underpowered for a serious gamer, but it should only be about $20 to get a better one on there...it is good to buy a good PSU, but if it's a mid-range system with upgrades unlikely, it can stay under 400W.
And as for Windows, A) Most of my PC building friends just pirate it, but B) Most of my friends also have access to student copies of Vista, which are regular licensed copies of Vista for like $10. I'm not sure of the limit per student, you might only be allowed one or two copies of each Microsoft product.
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Bet with disolitude: Left4Dead will have a higher Metacritic rating than Project Origin, 3 months after the second game's release. (hasn't been 3 months but it looks like I won :-p )
