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when it comes to servers, enough is never enough. however, your current system should funtion, especially if you keep the game relatively small. whether you'll need to upgrade depends on the game, and no one can say yet for sure. id go for storage and memory before a processor unless i was getting severe problems. speed on both of those will be critical. ram in the UK is currently about 10p per meg so you have no excuse for not upgrading that at least.
hold on, 60 Gb to small? what is mirac on. id _kill_ for a HD that size. of course, if its full then you'll need more, but ive never seen anyone fill up a drive that big unless he was a digital photgrapher or movie maker. more important will be back-up storage, unless you want angry party members desperate to finish the quest that just got vaporised by a hd crash. go for a RAID system if you can afford it, set to mirror the data. keep backups on CD_R. do not do what my dad did and leave them gold-side up on a window sill, even scotlands summers will fry the dye used on them. keep them in a cool, dark place. a safe would be good.
(RAID stands for redundant array of inexpensive drives. mirroring refers to having the same data on 2 (or more) drives to increse reliability. as opposed to striping which spread the same file across multiple drives for speed improvment)
the graphics shuld not effect the quality of the game served(on any system ive used thus far at least) but might be needed for the editors. probably the most important will be your connection - not a problem on a LAN, but for the internet you really need broadband. even for simple things like quake 3. for NWN you'll probably needs gods own internet pipe.
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