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    Anandtech give-away winners? Was there an announcement yet?

    Sure, I checked my email; I just like to see the announcement just so I'm not wondering anymore -- you know, to have "closure." lol So I guess it's not standard practice here to announce the winners?
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    Anandtech give-away winners? Was there an announcement yet?

    I'm sort of new to AnandTech, so how long does it usually take for winners to be announced for giveaways here? I'm wondering specifically about this one: Antec soundscience rockus 3D giveaway It says the winners will be chosen by May 15, which already passed. Was there no announcement yet, or...
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    ANy reason to plug in a SSD designed for SATAII into SATAIII port?

    Really? That's interesting, never heard that before. Well, in any case, I do have 2 ports and only that SSD and a "green" storage drive to plug in, with no plans for other drives anytime soon, so I guess I'll go right ahead and stick it into the sata3 port. It 100% for sure won't hurt...
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    ANy reason to plug in a SSD designed for SATAII into SATAIII port?

    I just bought a Kingston SSDNow V+100 96gb for a very nice deal. It's going into my SB build (2500k on a asus p8h67-m evo motherboard). I have not installed any OS or anything yet; in fact, I have not even plugged in the SSD yet. So, would it make my drive slightly faster if I plug it into the...
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    H61 vs. H67 chipsets - anything bad besides no SATA 6Gb?

    I thought the point for H67 to exist was to allow integrated gpu to be used. I also thought P67 boards have iGPU functionality completely disabled and require you to get your own discrete graphics card. This is why I got an H67 board; the iGPU that comes with 2500k will do just fine for me while...