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Your power supply should have 4-pin Molex connectors on it already. They look like this: They might be a different color...mine are black. Doesn't make a difference though.

Safe mode doesn't have networking...not unless you specify it, anyway...? Google isn't turning anything up. How do you boot into diagnostic mode?

Out of curiosity, is this a pre-built computer? If so, what brand? The reason I ask is that companies like Dell and HP often mess with their installations of windows, and a lot of what they change often has something to do with the boot-up process. It doesn't always work right.

Only a motherboard change will break the license agreement. Windows doesn't particularly care about anything else. It's all in the EULA...

Diagnostic mode = Safe mode, right?

The Antec High Current 620W is basically a Seasonic S12II 620W. Pretty good. Not top-of-the-line, but at least above average. The Truepower New line is also Seasonic built, is easily the best of the ones you posted. It's nearly as good as Seasonic's M12D platform, which is legendary. It...

You...changed them out for the same card? :confused: You know that most all of those are reference boards, right? There's very little difference between them, if any at all. MSI Afterburner is a good program to overclock with. It's pretty simple to do...just keep inching the frequencies up a...

Loose wire? Like in the power supply?

^ Metro and Crysis both use more resources than Oblivion. My single 5770 can max oblivion, easily. Something's wrong there. Maybe it doesn't like the crossfire setup? Try disabling crossfire in Oblivion and see what it does. The extra card isn't adding any noticeable performance anyway.

^ Nah, there shouldn't be a difference. eSATA is the same interface as regular SATA, just shaped a bit differently.

^ Huh? They're usually up there with Corsair in terms of quality... :confused:

I'd guess that something slipped loose somehow.. :/

It'd be fine for checking facebook and whatnot...no flash videos though. You'd want to put some flavor of Linux on it, I'd think.

A quality machine will run a lot longer than 5 years. My power supply is under warranty for that long...

Actually, in this case, you're right that they won't swap...but for the wrong reason. I didn't realize that the GX280 uses a socket 775 motherboard. You said the motherboards were the same, which threw me off. (They aren't the same.) However, the product key on an operating system is tied to...

Games do push the PS3 to its limits, using current techniques. Dev's are having to think up completely new ways of coding parts of their games to eek out a bit more performance out of both the PS3 and the 360.

If the motherboards are the same, why not just pull the processor and RAM out of both machines and swap them? Seems like it'd be simpler that way...

^ Awesome And no, there's no need to update your GPU drivers every week. AMD releases drivers every month or so, but there's no need to update them unless the update either fixes a problem you're having or provides a huge perfrmance boost. If it 'aint broke, don't fix it. ;)

As far as quality goes, that's a great unit. It's not top of the line like a Seasonic X or Antec Signature, but it's still solid as a rock and quite a bit better than what most people have. Definitely a steal for that price.

Looks good to me. Why that hard drive, though? Look pretty expensive for the performance you'd get... For 500GB drives, these have the best price/performance balance on the market: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152181...