For that kind of money you can build one hell of an expandable DELL PowerEdge server with SAS RAID, higher end dual video cards, redundant power supplies, etc. but it won't look like a little trashcan.
That's exactly what I was thinking. For that kind of money you're going to have something with at least a half-dozen hard drives running in RAID, dual processors with at least 16 cores, and a heck of a lot more internal expansion options than that thing. It would be noisy, however, and not very compact. But I don't really care about that since I sit right next to the server room.
Although previous poster was right, it would look good sitting next to a Walker! :banana:
PS - love the fish tank!
