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    Okay thanks, for some reason every time I tried to look it up I came across this page (which doesn't specify annual in the sections I looked: https://m.gamestop.com/poweruprewards/home/faq
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    I'd normally think the same but I've actually bought pre-owned games cheaper than what's available on eBay a few times. Some of the deals in the "Price Drops" section for Ps3/360 are actually really good w/o the pro membership. I don't buy them all that often though so if the pro membership is annual it's probably not worth it for me unless I really wanted the Gameinformer mags.
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    I'm looking at the benefits of Gamestop Powerup Rewards Pro and it says it's $15 but it doesn't mention the frequency of payment. I'd think it's one time only since it doesn't specify but the benefits seem awfully good if that's true. Can anyone (preferably one who has a Rewards Pro membership) verify this?
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    I'm not an audio guy but even after googling for a while it just seems impossible to find anything on actually connecting these to a TV or sub. How in the world does this work with these speakers? I currently have a 2.1 setup- satellites are connected to sub via 3.5mm [I think] and the sub is connected to my HDTV via a red and a white cable (RCA I'd assume). If I bought these speakers, what would I need to get them working?
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    I bought the Rosewill Quark 650w PSU for $76.50 earlier because it was on sale with a promo code. Hopefully it will serve me many years
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    So, I'm assuming 7700k/GTX 1060-like rig would be fine with a CX-550M?
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    Okay. I'm wanting something good for the future (probably closer to GTX 1060 level but still - also, this is my 1060th post lol coincidences). Would it be better if I went for something that was rated higher even if at a lower wattage? Example - the Seasonic S12II 620w @ $56? Sorry if I've already taken up a bunch of your time xD, I'll probably make a decision after you respond.
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    So even if you were planning for the future and wanting (for example) a 7700k/gtx 1080-like rig, you still wouldn't want it?
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    So is the 700B only not recommended because of its original price or is there something actually wrong with it? atm it's only $5 more than the 600b (not including MIR buys).
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    Okay, I see. I'm aware of bokeh but I didn't think of that probably because of the lack of DoF outside of the specs themselves. Thanks
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    It's been used in games for quite a few years now but I don't know the name of it. Would you just call it a type of lens flare or something?
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    Okay, finally did everything asked (although it took a LONG time to boot up Windows after using DDU for some reason) and it appears to be working well now. Went to WoW, started up a video, and no issues yet (it used to go half speed consistently from doing so) so I think this is solved. If the issue happens to come up again after a while (hopefully not) I'll probably just start a new thread.
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    Okay, I'll try that and report back once I've found out about it. I can consistently get it to go down to half speeds by simply playing a video while playing WoW, so I can test it every time I try something new.
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    I'm not actually sure when it started occurring. Come to think of it though, it might have been the last time I updated the drivers (probably 4-7 days ago is my guess) I've never used DDU though since there's a clean install option whenever I update my drivers.
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    I've had this issue for a while now but I'm starting to really get sick of it. To be clear - the GTX 560's performance (when working properly) is adequate for what I'm wanting. The problem is that after a while of being on my PC, it will downclock itself to half speeds- my performance in WoW drops to about half in frame rate. I have to restart every single time it does this if I want to play at 60 fps, it's infuriating to me at this point. In case anyone's curious, I have it at "prefer maximum performance" in the nvidia control panel for power management. I also use the high performance Windows power profile. I've also tried to revert the GPU back to stock settings but it still did this.
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    I will use Firefox for stuff other than surveys when I start seeing at LEAST similar performance to Chrome on my PC. Unfortunately that day has not happened for years. I've always respected Firefox (and Chrome), although I respect them slightly less that I see they disable their comment sections.
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    np
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    This is an excellent cheap option. If you want to get a better one for even further in the future, or aim to get something better than an i5/gtx 1070-like rig, I'd probably recommend something like this (although there are quite a few good options in the $80-100 range).
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    Alright, thanks. Figured it was just online silliness or something but I just wanted to be sure I wasn't somehow missing out on info.
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    Think of downsampling like rendering a resolution in full and... well downsampling that to fit your display. Essentially, it's rendering at 1080p even on your 720p display. GTX 970 is still good at 1080p but you do want to watch out for some games depending on the target frame rate. If you end up having issues in terms of performance, I think it's generally preferable to have greater in-game settings instead of the downsampling but it's always going to be a matter of preference of one thing over another.
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    As far as I've always understood it, there've never been any real differences between file extensions outside of compatibility. I've always been told that it's just a container with practically no differences and the main differences lie in the encoder (like HEVC). My uncle was told that it's not "True" 4k if it's .mp4 however. I don't know where he got this information but I just wanted to make sure I'm not out of the loop here (or am, if I am). Anyway - is there any difference between .mkv and .mp4 of the SAME HEVC video at 4k?
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    NOT upscaling, downsampling. Very different thing and the results can drastically vary. For me, I've never been able to downsample and have it look good (with either AMD or Nvidia GPUs - it always looks VERY blurry for some reason). Although if you can get it to work for you, it should definitely look much better than if you were to upscale from 720p to 1080p, for example.
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    Keep in mind that if you're planning on uploading to Youtube, you'll still see more benefit from 4k outside of just downsampling. Bit rate is higher and there's possibly something to be said about it being closer to its original encoding. Mostly the bit rate though. With that said, you'd be able to get it to look nearly as nice if you recorded at 1080p and transcoded it to 4k afterwards, assuming the bit rate ends up higher than ~10-15 mbps (this is especially true if you're only able to use features like HDR at 1080p like my phone). There's also an option of using something like Twixtor Pro to interpolate 4k footage to 60 fps. Although interpolation isn't necessarily something everyone prefers it'd definitely look smoother (although with its own downsides such as a longer final render time and certain artifacts). It's also IRL footage so many users are more split on frame rate than something like gaming. Not everyone prefers higher than 24 fps (I most certainly do but not everyone does). I think this is more down to how many decades we've been used to it and not entirely down to things like natural motion blur but now I'm starting to derail.
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    I tried MSI afterburner with rivatuner earlier (forgot to mention in original post) but it only made the freezing worse to the point where I couldn't effectively track anything. Yeah, I do have all of my drivers that I'm aware of (used driver booster) and I recently tried using a very slightly older GPU driver. Not sure where I could get even older drivers than those but both drivers I tried didn't fix the issue.
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    I tried it and there doesn't seem to be any change. Also another game now is starting to do it, WoW.
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