What do you think about "
mini cases"?
Specifically
this one.
Edit:
This is one that I put together using Eugene's PCPartsPicker site and it's still coming in around $1200, but it DOES include a (small) monitor.
It uses a smaller tower, so the video card will block a few bays.
Whoops, I left off hard drives, but I have a few extras that I could use.
Edit #50: Would I be able to run video through this to my Sony television via HDMI? Would the video suck? I assume so.
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