1. Yes, but it comes with some coolers 2. It's a lottery, no 2 components will OC the same 3. Yes 4. IIRC they do 5. You won't OC far with a 500W PSU 6. It does not have a front panel header for USB 3.0 7. What? 8. An update to the firmware on your motherboard, known as BIOS and UEFI. Kind of like updating Windows, but for your motherboard.