Tell you right now, air is air. So any USB powered laptop cooler will work. Don't get sucked into the fancy crap that may add to the cost. Just get one that has two fans and works. Second, your wifi, unfortunately I really don't have a suggestion for you on the signal. Wireless works in two ways. First, the router itself can be tweaked through it's own settings for broadcast channel, encryption etc all of which (depending on model) may or may not be setup to allow a wide range of connection, on top of the fact that all crap nowadays, like (since you mentioned a library) might have thick walls etc...which of course you cannot do a thing about. So, don't waste your time on a new card imo, just invest in a descent laptop cooler and game on, when you have the connection that is LOL

What the hell kinda post is this?????? Really, no wires in your home. Man, this is not the year 3030, you gotta have some way of getting it (THE ISP) in to or at your house. You got electricity at your house I assume, unless your using lamps and solar panels or some other medieval crap or future method, if you got electricity, you have wires in your house. Just install the modem and all in your basement or closet and run a single cable from modem to a wireless router and do that. Or , since wireless blows for gaming , run a single cat5 to the location of your console/gaming pc....

Seems legit. I just saw a new gaming box that's as small(er) than the xbox 360 controller. Can even play crysis 3 to an extent. I love modding and building my own towers, just sometimes a compact simple, yet powerful machine is right on the money.

That's exactly the problem. See the bios is looking for a drive that has a boot.ini located on it, which will be there once you install the operating system on the drive 

And what will this be, Open source, a generic platform OS or what?

It might be set for Europeon Console versions not US. PAL or NTSC etc..... look on the case if it has it for the tech info which is on the back of the case above the ESRB info ,or whatever standard the UK follows

Dito

Depends. Metro 2033 was solid. Great story , technology, graphics etc... I agree that half life 2 was/is epic. 

good luck. All entries here indicate what you should/need to do

Core i5 K series of your choice and idk something MSI maybe for mobo and ram looking at less than 400 bucks. You don't need to upgrade that much for 500 bucks cap..... go under and have some left over for a rainy day