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    Odd hard drive issue

    To the OP: Are you happy with your new Rig? You've basically built exactly what I'm planning on getting.
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    I need money for school

    Yeah, I'd suggest to try and find something elsewhere and leave your current job. Even if it's for the same length of time/week you'll probably do better than $9/hr. I wouldn't advise spending more time at work, aso ther posters have said, if you're trying to play catch up you should...
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    Can I use the old unformatted HD in a new system?

    Yep, you can't boot off of that drive with a different system so you need a new HDD if you can't\won't format.
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    Another Recommendation for new Build thread

    Save some money and reuse old case? I say go with a C2D E6600
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    Hard Drive Failure - Can I recover the data?

    Unfortunately that's the only thing I know you could do. Tried the drive in a different laptop?
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    How long is Arctic Silver 5 good for??

    I remember hearing\reading somewhere that you are supposed to store it nozzle down. I can't remember why that was, though. Other than that it's good for the long run, I believe. edit: ^^ that was it, separation
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    Is it my hard drive?

    So I've got an aging system that is really on it's last legs - I'm sure that my motherboard is NOT in good working condition - it's a Gigabyte, based on the 865G, blah blah blah old news. When I use any form of IDE hard drive, the system slows to an absoloute crawl - I have no idea why. When I...
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    EVGA 680i - Overclock Questions & Compatibility

    I also have my eye on this motherboard and I just found an incredible deal on a Patriot memory kit: Patriot Extreme Performance 2GB 2X1GB PC2-8500 DDR2-1066 CL5-5-5-9 Anyone know if this stuff will work with the board or not? I have heard about the compatibility issues with the 680i BIOS...