Using old hard drive

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Tomex28

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This is what I'm gonna build.

Motherboard ASUS P8P67 LGA 1155

Graphics card ASUS ENGTX550 TI DC/DI/1GD5

PS corsairs enthusiast series CMPSU-650TX 650W

Intel core i5 - 2400 sandy bridge 3.1 GHz (3.4 GHz turbo boost) quad-core

Corsair vengeance 4G ram

Now my question is can I use my old hard drive, its a seagate barracuda 7200.10 360 GB, this my first build with no computer knowledge. It has vista and I can get windows 7, so I get a new hard drive. Probably will use my old cd writer also.:cool:
 
Well if its a Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 SATAII NCQ 3Gb/s 360GB 8MB (Quick google search) then yes you can.

But what i would do is because that new motherboard your geting supports SATA 6Gb/s id pick up a brand new SATA 6Gb/s Hard drive,Size of your choice and use your old HDD for storage or something. :)
 
So this would be better western digital caviar blue
320 GB
7200 RPM
16Mb cache
SATA 6.0GB/s

All I have on old drive is music and WoW game, I read that I could transfer all of this typo my 1TB external drive, then move it to new one. Is that correct?
 
Most likely you won't see much performance improvement (if any) by going to the SATA 6G since an HDD can't even match the speed of a Sata 3G connection. In order to take adavantage of Sata 6G you really need an SSD.
 
Well it looks like SSD is out of the picture, cost too much, so looks like I will get the western digital caviar black
7200 RPM
SATA 3.0Gb/s
32MB cache
 
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