Recent content by adamantine

Mint with XFCE desktop environment :)

Honestly, toss a coin or take whatever is cheaper. When I last checked, the m.2 for the Samsung SSD wouldn't have made much of a difference, if any. Maybe sustained read/writes.

IF your OS is on your SSD, it's not your hard drive. What SSD is it? Try disabling hybrid sleep (google it). Then try checking the registry with CCleaner, or doing a memory test at boot from your BIOS. Lastly, do a fresh install of your OS... That should get you somewhere

In my opinion, that hardware is good enough for another year or two. More if you upgrade the RAM.

I actually made a lengthy post on selecting NAS hardware recently (http://adamantine.me/index.php/2016/08/20/how-to-build-a-budget-nas-machine/) so that may help with drive selection. Gigabit speeds? Try to find a mobo with an Intel NIC - other adapters might not work well with Freenas/Nas4free...

The 960 draws 100W max (https://www.google.com/#q=gtx+960+wattage) and your other components shouldn't draw more than 200 together so you should be good. Also there are wattage calculators on some websites if you search.

Can't believe it hasn't been mentioned - Lubuntu.

I'd recommend a 240GB + SSD to save your OS and games to, and whatever 1TB drive you can get for around $40 if you have a lot of games/media.

Hello, I haven't bought speakers in a long time and I was wondering how much it would cost at the very least for a home theatre setup. I think I spent $300 around 10 years ago and got 5 speakers + sub woofer, but they are all dying. I imagine the main difference with products available now is...

Also, for future reference, if you ever want to wipe your Samsung drive, I think you can use the Samsung magician software to do that and a lot more if you haven't already installed it.

The 6800k will be a better deal for cost/performance. If you're not concerned about cost, go ahead and wait for latest and greatest and pay the premium. Though at the end of the day, your CPU is just taking inputs and giving outputs. You wont' be getting any new features per se

XxD34THxX (or if that's OPs build), Why do you have a 100+ Euro Cooler Master keyboard when you're only spending 75 on a power supply? I'd get a Seasonic, Corsair, or Evga PSU, modular, and maybe even platinum rating if electricity is expensive where you live.

Read I Robot, nothing like the movie :)

Focus on C++ for a while longer so you have a strong foundation with it. Do little projects of your own that use the code snippets/methods you're learning about. Once you're comfortable with this (you can start coding something up without having to stop and look everything up) then you can start...