NinJake

Malwarebytes, and if you download it now you'll get the free premium trial which has a bunch of additional features. Also, ensure your Windows Update is fully up to date.

Someone's hijacked your PC and is mining crypto? It's odd that it's happened on your old and new CPU/Mobo, which leads me to believe a virus of some sort. Might be better off doing a clean install of windows.

QHD all the way for me. More pixels outweighs faster refresh rate in my books.

I'm in the process of rolling out Windows 10 machines to all the employees. This is one department at a time and the IT department is last on the list for the upgrade.

Work desktop.

Depends. I'd probably go for the Flip 4 just for the 1 hour of faster charge time as a bluetooth speaker would be used exclusively for hiking or disc golf if I had one.

PC and stereo is hooked up to a surge protector. I have a UPS for the modem/router.

mpc-hc?

Hello from Milwaukee! Do you have an android phone? Just use the Google "Keep". Perfect for jotting down tasks and you can create checkboxes for each task to check off once complete.

Spiceworks

You can't just take someone's advice of "look for good reviewed cables" and then say they don't. If anything you are researching has a bunch of good reviews, there's always going to be more negative than positive. I for one have ordered numerous items online and only once received a faulty solid state drive. I gave it a lower score than normal (3 out of 5) but due to the vendor replacing it free of charge, I put it back up to a 4.5 out of 5. Some people don't go through the effort or realize there is always a chance of getting a faulty component.

It's possible the hard drive is simply too slow and might start failing. Rather than "re-download" 1TB of files using your 1MB internet speed, get another drive and transfer the files before it's too late or you will be re-downloading the files. You can also run some hard disk drive utilities to diagnose your drive health. Also, is your Windows up to date?

@TVwazhere

If you take the 750Ti out does it still beep 3 times?