Oh god, I know what you mean... I had difficulty taking it out of the package. I thought I damaged it in the process, but it was fine.
But don't be too careful with it. You HAVE to make sure that the heatsink fan has good thermal contact with the top of the processor, and that means having to push the heatsink's pins into the motherboard and making them mechanically snap in place, then adjusting the do-hickies on the legs to secure a tight physical fit.
My bad. I wasn't paying attention.2. If I were to go for i7, i would have just dished out for the 2600k, and as KT mentioned
Ooooh, whoops, that explains it3. For the processors at microcenter, they don't ship (or for the most part), so people still gotta drive out to one of their 23 locations nationwide, thankfully I live 5 miles from one.
I live near one as well. Thank god.
Ooooooh... interesting.4. I have read nothing about it, but my brother told me about it too. Some flood in Taiwan or Thaliand (No offense to those that live in said countries, I just can't remember which one he told me.. at least I'm not using them interchangeably like an ignorant asshole) that really jacked up the HD prices. I was confused as to why my buddy was paying $100 for a 1TB Internal HD when just weeks before I spent $65 on a 1.5TB HD lol.
I bet it has something to do with the manufacturing of read/write heads... those are probably the biggest pain of all the components to make for hard drives.
And it looks like it does have something to do with the read/write head after all, at least...
http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic...consumers_most
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