
Got the case and popped off the front for a good cleaning. There's no real filters on this case and there was a lot of sticky dust everywhere.

Dust behind the cables as well

Got it to boot by replacing the RAM with my 2x4GB testing set. The hardware is still good, just the original RAM module was faulty.

Graphics card is a regular EVGA GTX 650, which unfortunately doesn't quite have enough oomph to stack up to modern games.

Don't forget this screw to remove the shroud along with the ones next to the fan.

GPU heatsink has the same dusty story

Cleaned it up best I could so I could see how it works

I ran the Monster Hunter Online benchmark to see how it would do, and it did as I expected to...38% is nothing special, but relatively good for the aging hardware.
I did find that the motherboard is an MSI Z77 chipset one, and the CPU is an i5-6600K. I will fit it with liquid cooling and see what kind of overclocks I can get on it to see how viable it can be on modern stuff. My i7-2700K at 4.6GHz was rated VR Ready by Steam, but the Core-i5 line lacks hyperthreading.
My recommendations at this point, assuming overclocking will be successful, will to upgrade both the graphics and the power supply. The GTX 650 isn't strong enough to run new things at 1080p, and the PSU is a no-name unit that is rated for 750W but I will be surprised if it can survive being loaded to 500W. EVGA recommends just a 400W PSU for that card, and they assume the system has an i7 as well. A GTX 960 or even a GTX 970/1060 will push this into the modern [email protected] with possibly some streaming on the side quite well.