Alucard86ers

As others have said, mint is not a bad start. It feels like your more want recommindations on what UI to use. Main Linux mint is ubuntu based (as others have said) so anything ubuntu should be easy to test out. It would be the desktop swap to choose. KDE desktop looks good and current at the time looks to be very windows like and fimilar. I have not used this much but feels good. Cosmic from POP OS! is a good choice for me. A variant of Gnome, with some tweeks. They also have the cosmic desktop coming out next year (looks to have a whole bunch of features the I have never seen impliment in linux) but unless you like the gnome/mac like desktop then that may not be what your looking for. If you want to get away from Ubuntu (and the snap etc) debian or Arch should be the go. Both are slightly more advanced than Ubuntu with installing and setup but nothing that cannot be done if following the guide (Debian is way easier in this instance). Also there are plenty of Youtube guides on this.

almost sounds like fan noise, have you ruled that out? Does it stop once in windows? I would make sure speakers are disconnected to rule out the groud noise suggested I woulk also see if stopping any of the fans stops the noise, this will help narrow it down.

Having a 5800X myself I can see the appleal esp witht the price going down But as others have said, there would be not much bennifet over what you have already. I would only switch the mb if it died or you really need the PCI Gen 4 slots. Otherwise that system should be awesome for a while longer.

I have not used mine since the brand name change announcement but I dont see there being to much change apart from the name. I am not even sure they will highlight the name change on the device it self. Even if it did it would have a little annimation to do it. The casual users prob would not care to much, as long as you still get to use the apps you have purchased it should be ok. I myself am looking forwared to un linking my FB account from it. I have not once used any of the FB connections on it and will not miss it.

I have recently used this software to swap ssd's my self. It does work well. I went from a nvme 950 pro to a nvme 980 pro.

your CPU and ram speed would play the biggest factor here but I have a few questions. Is it every game? what settings are you running in these games that are affected? have you tried changing the settings? What connection are you running to the display? (I am assuming DP but want to check) This monitor is only 1080p from what I can find. The cpu would show its limitation... another thing to check if for a bios updated (that supports your CPU)

found something that could help. Alt+F12 removed the counter on icue for me https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/geforce-experience/14/207809/turn-off-fps-counter-on-applications/

depending on the model used, you could also monitor power draw.

hmm the only thing that comes to mind is the power profile. There was issues with intel gpu drivers that would do something like that but on a system level if the power state was not set to high performance. Also maybe try turning off GPU acceleration in the browser to see if that makes a deference

this! if you have no plans on using it for gaming, you could use them to load up something like PF sense and use it to power your home network. I am looking at doing this myself with some old AMD hardware.

wow they look awesome myself i use a K70 RGB and a M65 RGB but this would be more for a friend of mine that is still using a Microsoft intellimouse and only just got a thermaltake mech keyboard recently.

this would be a nice bump up from the 960 i am running

that looks awesome!!