To me the two specs do look very similar indeed, I couldn't see any obvious differences (noting that I'm looking at it at work, pretending I'm doing...
I've heard that it's quite a lot, the Caviar Greens are meant as storage devices so tend to power down when not in use, they also tend to spin slower...
I feel your pain, I had to get the ECU on my car replaced about 3-4 years ago, they wouldn't even order the ECU in until I gave them a hefty deposit...
If you adjust the advanced windows power settings and the settings in NVIDIA control panel (at least you can for AMD cards so I would imagine NVIDIA...
I think its just at what point does it actually start making people think they should do their own build and not buy from PCS, because it could come...