No for real, I'm rebuilding my PC.

It's been too long putting it off. I manufacture's-warranty-returned my old PSU and GPU, and bought a new 900/1000W PSU, two replacement 120MM case fans, and a Mini PCIe eSATA card. I transferred the motherboard back into my bigger silver case, and the fans in it were absolute garbage. One would barely turn, presumably because of dust, and the other fell right off the bearing assembly, held on barely by magnet. The top 80MM blowhole fan is fine for now, but it's going to need replaced... I just want to hold off on it and get another blue-only LED one, or one of the newer, really strong and quiet pieces.

Finally determined, after all my drives passed diag tests, that the one that I noticed was clicking was the 250GB, so I dumped and removed it. Now there are two brand new 1.5TB Western Digitals, the first of which I bought in fear that the failing drive was my 1TB... So now the old TB is a backup disk, and one of the new ones is media, the other a torrent seeding drive. Then there's an empty 200GB and a 70GB 2.5" hanging out in there. I might need a new case I guess, depending on what I do, I might use the 200GB as a clone disk. I think I'm going to use the 2.5" as a drivers / app setups archive.

Right now, the O/S disk is a 120GB with tons of space sitting open. I've decided, not only am I building the PC with Windows 7 Ultimate/Enterprise, as opposed to Vista (lol) {and will be dual booting OSX}, I will be purchasing a ~64GB solid state drive instead of a Raptor for the O/S disk. I'm looking at Corsair and Western Digital. I'll probably still use a 150GB VelociRaptor for program installation, however (possibly two in a raid).

The solid state drive will most likely be a 2.5" SATA II, though I am looking at two right now, and it's going to be a compromise between speed and integrity (which is hilarious, as neither will be an issue, I'm sure)

Pros	Cons
Western Digital
Western Digital Advanced Wear-Leveling Advanced Error Correcting Native Command Queuing Data Integrity Protection ATA SMART 170MB/s write speed MTBF 1.4 million hours 3 Year Warranty It's a Western Digital Additional bracket is dual drive, and my old laptop disk is loose inside the case now.	250 MB/s read speed Cost $250 Have to buy $30 bracket
Corsair
Includes 2.5" to 3.5" bracket 270MB/s read speed Cost $184	130MB/s write speed 2 Year Warranty MTBF 1 million hours

So as we can see, the good one is going to end up costing about $100 more. And the slower read speed is a jokingly small disadvantage. I think I'll continue my Western-Digital-only streak. Corsair can have my money for RAM. Probably. But this will be my next purchase after a graphics card.

I think I'm gonna buy either one of these tomorrow at work, actually:
XFX ATI Radeon HD 5750 or 5770, both are 128-bit 1GB GDDR5 PCIe 2.0 with 1080p HDMI out and 2xDVI, DX11, one 6-pinpower.

Then I'll start seriously pricing the rest. I'm estimating:
RAM (8GB DDR3) $250
Mobo (Intel 775) $130
CPU (wolfdale 3.0 or 3.16) $180
subtotal $560
Raptor $160 ea.
Cooling probably another $100

God, I can't wait to replace this board.