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anything up to or around ~$250 would be where I call it. I updated my post to put a price limit in there.
 

Ideally 1080p ultra at 144hrz, with the goal of hopping up to 1440p at 144hrz. (Sorry for the delayed response, got a bit busy yesterday.)

While i really hate that term, 'bottleneck', it's relative matter. It will yield less FPS in comparison with i9 9900KS overclocked to 5.2GHz. But for this price it's good, R5 3600 has even better value with slightly less FPS but in comparison with R7 3700X the difference would be minuscule.

Yes, but by such a small amount that it won't really matter. Provided you have fast memory the 3700x at ~4.2ghz will perform around 6-10fps slower than a 9700k at 5ghz. (This is at games that are running in the 120fps + range not at games that would be around 60fps.) Technically this would be a bottleneck, but I don't think you should worry about it. 

yes
 
though i do have to note, for pure gaming the 3600 and 3700x come very close to each other. for blender and such that'll be different
 
i also have to note that i would personally swap some parts if not bought already to make it both a better value and a higher quality machine

The 3700X is a great pick for high refresh gaming, especially with that 3600MHz memory you chose

Try using ccleaner?

Thanks man, ended up being windows temp files which wasn't properly showing up and contained like 140GB
 

Try using WinDirStat or TreeSize as admin. Might just be the hibernation/page/swap/indexing file.

Makes sense because that 30% is only going to be taken off the top end in any case, which would be seen in a server setting due to the high work loads.

NOTE: This is not an introduction to bitcoin mining. 
This thread was made to try and help anyone interested in understanding what they are and how they work, using the best of the knowledge and experience I have of them. I am by no means an expert. There is much about them that I do not know.   What are bitcoins? They are no different than a dollar bill you hold in your hand. Except for the fact that it's being held in your computer's hand, so to speak. The first thing to understand about currencies is that their worth is totally arbitrary. Think of currency as replacing the word "value". I can begin paying for items in paperclips as long as me, and the people receiving them accept their value. Bitcoins are simply a decentralized, digital currency. Decentralized means they don't have something like the Treasury here in America regulating and watching over them.   How do I get bitcoins? By running "mining" software on your computer is the best way to produce bitcoins. The term mining in bitcoin speak means using your computer's processing power to calculate many many hashes per second. These hashes you calculate help the bitcoin network run effectively (more on that later) so you are rewarded for your help.   What is mining? This is the most misunderstood part of bitcoins so this section will have a lot to explain. To understand why we mine, you need to understand at least the basics of how the bitcoin network operates. Mining is done to protect the bitcoin currency and the transactions of bitcoins that people send. When a transaction is made, the data is sent to the bitcoin network. Transactions are stored in chunks called "blocks". When you mine, the bitcoin network sends you a block to "solve". Your computer takes it and randomly shuffles the information inside of it, then calculates a new hash for it. What the miners are mining for is a hash that is smaller than a certain predefined amount. (starts with a certain number of zeros. Since the hashes are randomly generated, you can imagine how unlikely that many zeros in a row are) This amount is the "difficulty" which is calculated automatically by bitcoin software based on how quickly the blocks are being finished by the miners. This corrects for increasing hardware performance and mining speeds. Once a block is finished by a miner, the new block and new hash are sent back to the bitcoin network. If it is confirmed to be correct, the miner is rewarded with bitcoins. The current reward is 25 bitcoins per block. The reward for a block is constantly diminishing until eventually, there are no more bitcoins to give out and all roughly 21 million bitcoins are in the market*. Due to the popularity of bitcoins and the large amounts of money that people spend on mining rigs, the difficulty is high enough that a very expensive equipment would have to run for months just to solve one block. This would certainly be inconvenient for anyone wanting to mine. We fix this by creating "pools". A pool takes place of an individual miner in a sense. They take the blocks from the network and instead of one person calculating hashes, the pool sends the job out to all of the miners that are in the pool. For example, I mine for the BTC Guild pool. When the pool finishes a block, it divides the reward (as evenly as possible) to the miners depending on how much work they did. This gives people a nearly constant flow of income and allows cheaper hardware to mine. Blocks sent to the network are calculated in a special way so that they can certify validity of the previous block. This confirmation process creates a "block chain" which is what makes the currency so great.   Bitcoin transactions Every transaction of bitcoins that happens is logged and can be publicly accessed. This, by definition, can forfeit the anonymity of the currency. You make transactions using an "address" which is randomly generated by software and is not tied to your true identity. Everyone can search any transaction that has been made but there are no identities attached so it actually makes it very difficult to trace. Bitcoin transactions can not be reversed.    Random Info *Q: You said there are 21 million bitcoins? After they are gone, what happens? I can't get them anymore? A: No, you just can't get "new" ones anymore. Once the pool of bitcoins is depleted mining will still be essential to the network and you will still receive a reward for your work. When transactions are made, there are small transaction fees that are taken out. These fees are the rewards given to the miners.   Q: Are they legal? A: Yes. Nothing about them is illegal.   Q: Don't people only use them to buy drugs? A: NO! Stop spreading that. They can be used for anything just like other currencies. The fact that drug dealers on TOR accept them, doesn't make them bad.     There is so much more about them to know but I made this relatively short. Have questions? Post them in this thread and I will answer!

I bought a 240 for my first rig.
 
Never again...
 
Acer monitors are fine though and older AMD CPUs still work. Just sell the 240 and buy a 750Ti/1050/1050Ti.

For that budget build the 750ti isn't a bad suggestion, had one floating around a while back and it ran most games on medium to low setting at 1080p just fine. I do recommend the FTW edition as the increased heat sink and fans are good for extra air flow and keeping is quieter as you can just tone them down a bit. However watch the price if you can get a 1050ti for a similar price, I'd spring for that.
 

Mining bitcoin is about as lucrative as mining for unicorns, if you want to mine you would need to find a different currency. 

It also depends on if you see yourself adding expansion cards in your system. Mini-ITX only has a PCIe x16 slot (for the most part) so you're not going to be adding any other expansion cards other than the video card. And while having a small system can be handy and convenient, depending on the case, it can also be a pain in the butt to work in.
 
I'd say have another look at MicroATX, it's a nice balance between the two. If you don't want a flashy case, Silverstone's PB series is budget friendly and retains a tower formfactor.

Full-sized ATX and mITX are on the polar extremes from each other, and I don't see anything in your requirements that would suggest mITX is anything other than something fun to try. I've built 3 mITX rigs in the past year and I simply wouldn't recommend it to folks who don't really need or desire the small footprint due to its thermal (largely case dependent), cable management (again case dependent), and expansion limitations. Since you're not against it, I would recommend the middle ground mATX form factor; it's generally the best of both worlds.
 
My personal daily driver is a mITX build out of a Phanteks Enthoo EVOLV ITX, which is close enough to mATX in size and as such comes with many perks its size affords (e.g. cooling and cable management) minus the expansion slots. I place my case in an opened air cabinet, where larger cases have not fit in the past, so mITX was a no-brainer for me. Prior to this, I built a mITX rig out of a Silverstone Raven RVZ02B, which is approximately XboxOne-sized. Although I enjoyed its size and portability, I did not like the thermal performance, particularly since I did not have AC in the room at the time and the Raven has zero fan and AIO expansion-ability. My most recent build is out of a Cougar QBX mITX case which is a great balance of between size and thermal performance as it has support for AIO radiators. This build had to be placed on the desk (most of mine are under) so I needed it to be small, but also work with an AIO. 
 
(edit) Added notes about cable management concerns w/ mITX.
 
 

Servos use PWM signal inputs to represent a position the servo should be in. So if you are trying to have button a = locked and button b = open you would need button a to send the PWM signal representing 0° and button b send the PWM signal for 180° (or whatever values give the range of movement you need) This Article gives a brief overview of how servos work. The second item you have linked seems to be a relay box of some kind although looking at the listing I'm struggling to understand exactly how it functions but I don't think you could use it to control a servo directly.
 
However if the A and B on the remote are closing two relay circuits you could use an Arduino to detect when one of those relays are closed and then send a PWM signal to your servo either locking or unlocking it
 
I hope this helps

-Thread moved to Folding@Home, BOINC, and Coin Mining.

I believe mining will not die because mining zcash and others is still profitable. It is just an up and down in my eyes.
 
I hope the mining prices will recover because I am trying to sell my 1070. I wasted too much time playing games this semester.

A newish cryptocurrency has been making waves on the internet, called Ethereum. This has led to a spike in the amount of people buying graphics cards (mostly Radeon) to mine Ethereum, hence the lack of stock. Luckily, the difficulty of mining is skyrocketing, possibly leading to a future growth in the used market for GPUs in the coming months.

Mining started dying a short while ago, just give it a little more time. 

http://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-have-found-a-metal-that-conducts-electricity-but-not-heat
this could be used for PC hardware and stuff, that would be really cool. 

Check out Qt, for embedded devices it offers a really comprehensive set of graphical and control programming interfaces. Its more often than not whats used in touchscreen car dashboards and other devices like that.
https://www.qt.io/

building from scratch or will be using smartphones etc etc?
 
building from scratch, i would rate 10++, since calibrating it is a pain in the arse
using a smartphone and programming an app for it would be easy (relatively easy)