aspire
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I would go for a single powerful card first. Crossfire is great but you can only add a second card once (yes I know that tri fire is an option but it tends not to scale well enough to be worth it at normal resolutions)
If you buy a HD 4890 now and need more power in 6 months you add a second HD 4890 which will most likely have had several price drops by then. However if you buy 2x Hd 4770's now and need more power in 6 months you have to get rid of both cards which are now worth a fraction of what you payed for them and buy either one or two new gpu's.
I've used an 8800gt for a year and a half and its ran everything I thrown at it.
Chances are a single 4770 will last him just as long. And when he needs more a year and a half later, he can pick up a second one for a fraction of the cost of the first and that'll last him another year or so.
You don't need to get a new fracking graphics card every 6 months, games don't move that fast...