The 2 extra sata connectors are in a bit of a tricky position but it wont effect me since I have right angle sata cables.
Also the extra lan is nice but in all honsty I dont even use it on my current mobo. Having 2 less usb out of 12 overall usb connectors is fine by me. (theres 3 extra...
I'm with you on that one, I'm still running my E6600 I bought on launch day. In my adventures with the chip its had a great life. I will be upgrading to bloomfeild at or near launch depending on the motherboards. Heres hoping ddr3 prices drop at least another $50 around launch. ^^
if you play games like Oblivion and have a crap load of texture mods the 1gb of video ram is very useful. theres also the Half Life 2 cinimatic mod that likes tons of memory for the improved textures.
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Make sure theres just 1 entry in the hompage box. My parents somehow had a simmilar issue where yahoo would open up 4~5 tabs of the main page.
For myself I use it only as a general idea for failure. If the SMART readings get under 50% fitness I will dump everything vital onto another hard drive and use it as a scratch disk or temp drive till it eventually dies.
The more heat your hard drives are exposed to the faster they wear out...