^ yeah, I use the single fan that came with the cooler. No need for two I don't think. I had to remove my motherboard but as long as you are careful it's easy to do
I have almost the exact same rig, but use an 850w antec PSU. I'd consider upgrading the PSU to 750w so you can upgrade to SLI 460's in the future. also you might want to tell him to overclock the i7 930, i got big gains doing mine with the 212 cooler and it makes a nice difference in game :) that rig is perfect for what he wants btw
I have the hyper 212 as well and the temps dropped by 30 degrees under load after overclocking compared to the stock cooler at stock speeds... it's a damn good cooler.
ah yeah you may find an improvement buying a new case then, you could always measure yours and then check it against the dimensions of the one you plan to buy. that will give you a good indication of improvement.
I had the same problem a couple of years back when I replaced my PSU and GPU in a shop bought HP, and I bought a new case and never looked back. More room will also improve the cooling
yeah that's the card, I can't speak for PNY personally as I've never had one of their versions but I have the Palit and it runs everything incredibly. No problems (especially if she is to use a 19" monitor) as for scaling down to save money, 4gb of ram is plenty, unless she's overly worried about waiting for videos to export. WoW won't utilise 6 cores so it won't make a massive difference downgrading to a quad.
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