Yea I'm not hard and fast about the 3 year rule, I just don't buy the latest thing to plop off the assembly line. I think we covered that in the "check out my new system" thread.
its not really a big deal. it may cause degrading of the sata 3GB ports only on some motherboards if the ports are used heavily. i built my system on the weekend and just plugged the hard drives and dvd drive into the 6GB ports instead. once the dust has settled and intel ship out the fixed chipset you'll get the…