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That depends on which CPU socket do you want, Socket 2011 or Socket 1150? Both of them a great motherboards for their socket.

hats a good motherboard for gaming, its decent, and will do the job. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131991

Windows 8.1 Pro has downgrade rights, but not stock 8.1

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Did You select Cd/DVD/Cd Rom in Boot options. If no Set the DVD drive as Prinmary boot, then you select the dvd drive as first boot (it's in a different tab option). You have to SAVE and EXIT. If ther is no disk in the dvd drive it will revert to the next bootable device, if any.

Buy an external hard drive enclosure. Install the old drive into it. Plug it into your laptop's USB port. Windows should acknowledge it and you should see it as a new drive letter in Windows Explorer.

Did you check to make sure in the BIOS that the SATA Type is set to AHCI? Your OS may have been installed in AHCI Mode and the BIOS setting might have reverted back to IDE. If it still does not boot,

The best way to move an existing Windows installation, along with all of the installed programs, is to clone the drive. But cloning normally copies everything on one drive to the other. That doesn't work if you have 800GB of files and only 120GB of new storage. What you need is cloning software...

can you tell me your motherboard

GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 MSI Z97-Gaming 3 Biostar Hi-Fi Z97WE

If you have an unused 5.25" bay, you could purchase a fan controller. The decent ones run $25 - $40 tho. But, it will run of the PSU, and allow you to control the speeds of up to 5 different fans: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811992005...

There is No difference between the case fan connected to the PSU, or the case fan connected to the mobo (Besides the fancontrol).

Check that the front audio cable plugged iN on both ends and on the audio header on the mb. Most are abled ac97 for analog. In the realteck control panel make sure there not mutted and the audio output not set to digital output. Try installing Audio Drivers...

Go for Corsair h105