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MatthewBowker

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    MatthewBowker reacted to jonrosalia in PC upgrade for AAA games   
    I would look into the used market locally and see what's kicking around and see if you can find a cheap 1070 for sale some one is selling doing a upgrade or a 6Gb 1060 is also a good choice used right now to get you back gaming and not break the bank . if you cant find good deals used for a Nvidia 10 series card I say look at the RX580 with 8gb of ram they are cheap as hell now.
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    MatthewBowker reacted to jonrosalia in PC upgrade for AAA games   
    I personally like zotac because they usually make great overclocking cards and give great performance but I would look to the local listings and see what's floating around used to save a few dollars. as far as the new ryzen is concerned Im not getting exited before I see the testing and overclocking numbers its how people got suckered into RTX and that was all hype I would love to see 5.0+ with ryzen and have a alternative to intel but cores/threads I don't need arnt enticing to me im looking at the 8350k for my next build 5.0+ghz 4 cores for $160 done.
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    MatthewBowker reacted to NunoLava1998 in PC upgrade for AAA games   
    No, there's not much difference and it'll perform normally.
    Upgrading your CPU would make a difference, but it's pretty small.
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    MatthewBowker reacted to Firewrath9 in PC upgrade for AAA games   
    I’d keep cpu for now, wait for 7nm ryzen, and get something like a rx 570 or 580 for 1080p AAA. Mabye the new GTX 1660 non-ti if its better than rx 590 for 230$.
     
    When 7nm ryzen is out, get the 6c12t.
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    MatthewBowker got a reaction from m0k in Laptop is crashing every time a user logs in   
    It's a HP Pavilion. Unfortunately I do not have it in front of me currently so I am waiting on my girlfriend to provide me with more info if she can.
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    MatthewBowker got a reaction from m0k in Laptop is crashing every time a user logs in   
    Yeah, everything was formatted apart from a sliver which was some sort of recovery.
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    MatthewBowker reacted to m0k in Laptop is crashing every time a user logs in   
    @MatthewBowker 
    HP Pavilion 15-n229sa Notebook PC
    found the win10 drivers page
    http://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/hp-pavilion-15-n200-notebook-pc-series/6529948/model/6733588#Z7_3054ICK0K8UDA0AQC11TA930O2
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    MatthewBowker reacted to Captain_WD in Western Digital Black or Red for Media?   
    Hey there MatthewBowker Welcome to the community!    WD Black is a great performance drive designed for durability, extensive and heavy workloads and high speeds. It has a long 5-year warranty and is great for game builds and workstations. However, what you are looking for is a NAS/RAID drive that is designed for RAID array usage. That would be WD Red. It has additional features such as TLER that reduce the chances of a drive dropout or data corruption. Any drive would work but for safe and more stable performance I would recommend going for the WD Red drive.     Feel free to ask if you happen to have any questions!    Captain_WD.
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    MatthewBowker reacted to dalekphalm in Lossless Blu-ray films on Plex?   
    @MatthewBowker the easiest thing to do is use a handy feature in Handbrake called "Constant Quality" (Shown as the setting "RF"). It's similar to the idea behind "variable bit-rate", except that rather than choose a target file size, you're choosing a target quality level.
     
    Basically, any given scene in a movie doesn't require the same bit-rate to achieve the same level of quality. Eg: A scene with a person looking at a wall painted white will require a lot less bit-rate compared to a scene of a space ship firing a particle beam and destroying another ship.
     
    See this for details on RF settings:
    https://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/ConstantQuality
     
    Most guides I've seen recommend using a "RF" setting of 18 for near lossless quality of Blu-Ray videos.
     
    I recommend you start with one Blu-Ray, and try a few different RF settings until you find the one that is up to your standards. Most of my Blu-Ray's using RF 18 come in around 8-12GB in size, with a few going as large as 20GB, and some going as low as 6GB. The vast majority of them are around 10GB though.
     
    If you want smaller size, use RF 19 or RF 20. The scale works as follows: The closer you get to RF 1, the higher the quality. However, there's not much point in setting it any lower than RF 17 or even 16. The file size will just start to balloon like mad, and can even end up larger than the original Blu-Ray unripped.
     
    This guide might be a good place to start for the whole process:
    http://lifehacker.com/5559007/the-hassle-free-guide-to-ripping-your-blu-ray-collection
     
    Point of note: If you want to achieve maximum quality, and don't care about shrinking the file size, simply rip the Blu-Ray using MakeMKV, which is an uncompressed exact copy of the original movie, ripped into MKV format, with all the chapters and audio/subtitles preserved (You can choose which audio and subtitle tracks you rip):
    http://www.makemkv.com/download/
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