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I would love a Panther drive...."they've done studies you know....60% of the time...it works every time." AND DON'T TELL ME THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE!!!

So I need a nice new shiny display for my new killer PC. I am debating between an X34 and the Z35. Although I am open to other suggestions. I intend to game on this machine. I am not into video/photo editing. I have some significant horsepower under the hood, so driving these higher end monitors shouldn't be an issue. (6700k overclocked to 4.8 and 2x Titan X SC) The X34 is appealing due to the higher resolution. The Z35 is appealing due to the higher refresh rate. I'm unimpressed with the response time on both of these monitors -- would really like something in the 1ms - 2ms range. G-sync is a must, which isn't a problem for either of these monitors. At this point I could talk in circles for hours. So this is a plea to anyone and everyone. What is your advice? Better resolution (X34) or better refresh rate (Z35), or something different entirely? I'm really open, but I would like to make the purchase in a day or two. So your help is appreciated.

I agree with @Mikensan, I use Nas4Free on a computer very similar to yours. (I think I technically have 4GB of RAM.) Works like a charm. Nas4Free broke off from FreeNAS back in like 2010-2011 (nobody check those dates they could be terribly incorrect ) A simple install and a few quick clicks, and you should have a working NAS that is ideal for backups. I am a little paranoid about backing up data, so I also use the rsync features in Nas4Free to create a redundant copy of my critical data to a mounted USB drive. Before my Nas4Free setup, I was just using a standard samba file server configured on Ubuntu Server. Worked really well, but Nas4Free is definitely a step up for me.

Should probably add the reference for that chart above: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-100-series-chipsets,29993.html

Check the attached .JPG. shows RAID support for the various Skylake chipsets.

A lot of this will depend on whether or not you can take advantage of multi-channel memory. Like @Trey222 mentions above, your CPU will determine if you can take advantage of multi-channel memory or not. Also check that your motherboard supports multi-channel memory in the configuration that you desire. The new Intel Skylake processors, for example, don't support quad-channel memory. If your processor and motherboard support multi-channel memory, go for gold and get a quad-channel memory kit. There are performance gains from having a quad-channel kit installed. See the following link that shows results from some tests run on dual-channel memory vs. quad-channel memory.(http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/4416/intel_x79_quad_channel_and_z68_dual_channel_memory_performance_analysis/index5.html) ONE MAJOR WARNING: You can't just go buy four sticks of ram and slot them and expect them to work as a quad-channel kit. (The same applies to two dual-channel memory kits.) When you are looking to fill out four slots on a motherboard that support quad-channel kits, you need to buy the ram in a kit. They will often be labelled as a quad-channel kit. This indicates that they have been tested in this type of configuration and that everything should work out just fine when installed. Hope some of this helps. Let me know if you have any questions.

If you aren't able to zip a file with the built-in compression method provided by Windows, and you aren't able to compress files while using third party applications (like 7zip), I would begin to consider that the user may not have the necessary permissions to compress the file. I would recommend the following... 1. Run 7zip as an administrator (right click > Run as administrator) 2. Compress your file/folder If you continue to receive errors that state "file not found or no read permissions" I would consider logging on to the local system administrator account. Are these machines joined to a domain. There are several domain admins that will deploy group policies that block file compression. This is often implemented when the CPU on the machine couldn't cope with the load required to compress files/folders. What is the OS on these machines? Hope some of this helps.

First post on these forums...so here goes... Do you have a prebuilt Windows PE laying around? Can you get access to one? I would boot into Windows PE and browse the drive. From there you can always copy your files/folders to another network location or even to a USB drive. If it were me, the first thing I would do is make sure that my files are safe. From there you can start to repair Windows.