The hard drive will be backwards-compatible. In the case of my new Seagate 7200.11, it was with a jumper. Leave the jumper in, it was SATA 1.5 Gb/s; take the jumper out and it was SATA2 3.0 Gb/s. Can't say about the Core Duo -- I don't run an Intel rig, so I'm not super familiar with their socket sets. A modern AMD system would be -- if the chip fits in the socket, it'll go -- so if that's the case for your motherboard/processor pair, then it ought to still work. You might not get both cores, but I would think the processor would still function. Like I said, I can't say for sure though.
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