AllTheMegahertz

Just recently, my framerate in video games has fallen quite a bit, but not in all games. I haven't made any recent hardware changes, so this is presumably a software issue. BeamNG seems to work fine, which seems to be a far more intensive game than Rocket League which is stuck at about 45 FPS. GTA V is stuck at about the same number. TF2 hover around that mark as well. My CPU is an R5 3600X which is not bottlenecking anything. MSI Afterburner reports that the GPU is stuck at 961 MHz, but it's not throttling as the temperature never goes above 40 °C. Interestingly, when I close Afterburner, I (sometimes, but not always) get some performance improvements. The GPU benchmark Unigine Heaven, which previously hovered at about 30 FPS, now can reach well over 100 FPS and never drops below 60 FPS. TF2 goes back to the normal framerate I saw before this issue (I cap it at 120), but it still has frequent stuttering every few seconds. Rocket League and GTA V see no such improvement. The GPU has no issues in other software such as Blender which maxes it out, hitting 100% usage and its max clock speed. I have the latest version of my GPU driver and MSI Afterburner, and I'm running Windows 10 Insider Build 21313. Does anyone else have this issue?

Yes, I'm running version 7C02v18. I assume that in the coming weeks another version will come out to improve boot speeds as has been the case with previous generations.

I don't think that's correct, nor would it be the issue here. I've changed motherboards before without reinstalling Windows without a problem. The Windows key is invalidated, but all you have to do is call Microsoft and that gets resolved within a few minutes. I'm pretty sure that this has nothing to do with Windows since the only slow part of the boot sequence is getting to POST. It takes almost as long to get into the BIOS, even when there isn't even any storage connected to the motherboard.

I recently upgraded to a 3600x and put it in an MSI Tomahawk B450; both the CPU and motherboard are new. Immediately I noticed that cold boots are extremely slow, I just timed it at 1 minute and 54 seconds. This isn't anything to do with storage as once Windows gets a hold of things it only take 11 seconds to get from the POST screen to login, but the board takes 1:43 to POST. I've looked around in the BIOS and I don't see any settings like "fast-boot" which were on my previous board. I did some research and apparently this happened with previous Ryzen generations and was fixed with a later BIOS update, but Ryzen 3000 hasn't had such an improvement yet. Is anyone else having the same issue?

Yea, the pricing is pretty screwed up right now. This is the only reasonably priced 1070 I've seen, the MSI Aero, a blower design, is selling for $20 more. I have been waiting for this one to come in stock for a while now, and once I got the notification I jumped on it.

The card is now sold out. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125875&cm_re=gigabyte_1070-_-14-125-875-_-Product Hurry up, this one sells out fast. Last time it was only in stock for 10 minutes! Quite a bare bones 1070, no backplate, no LEDs, but hey, it's going for $399, that's the cheapest one I've seen.

You can set a download speed cap, but there is not one by default.

A fast SSD. I have one, a 128 GB, but it isn't the fastest. Here is the crystal disk mark. Also, a better video card would improve my build, but that's the case for pretty much everyone.

Is it physically not clicking? Or is it just not registering in software?

I don't know if my PC would be eligible, but I guess that's for you to judge. CPU: FX-8320 @ 4.8 GHz GPU: Sapphire 270x 2GB Sorry for the bad photo, but here is my rig: Thanks for doing this generous giveaway, you're a cool dude!

Isn't Hola the one that was stealing peoples' data and stuff?

I want a key because it seems like a really cool game! Thanks Guys!