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welcome back guys true harbor unboxed I've said that line many times now and it was just yesterday I was thinking about how long I've been creating YouTube videos for and I realized it's been about a year now in fact it was actually October 18th 2016 that I created my first video or at least jumped in front of the camera for the first time because I have been part of the harbor box channel since day one I was never meant to be something that I dedicated a good portion of my time to i rather is just something i did for fun on the side with Matt when Matt left harbor unboxed late last year so October we worried about I think was thirty two thousand subscribers and we were only growing by a few thousand each month it took us 18 months in total to reach the 32,000 subscriber mark and at the time we're both pretty amazed with that unfortunately I despite generating well over half a million views each month the channel is making virtually nothing in terms of money and it was really just getting harder and harder for Matt and myself to justify the time effort and money that we were investing in the channel obviously Matt decided to move on invest his time elsewhere which is fair enough and well that kind of left me with a bit of a tough decision to make I pretty much had the choice of jumping in front of the camera but also taking on the entire channel which there's a whole lot of stuff involved in running her YouTube channel that's pretty full-on or I could just axe the channel basically just let it wither away and die well obviously I decided the former and here we are I think things have gone about as well as they could have over the past twelve months we now sit at just over 150,000 subscribers yeah I think it's it's gone really well the channel 2 still doesn't make a whole lot of money but you know whatever I certainly don't do it for the money for me the funds in gathering the results you know shooting editing making the videos and of course engaging with you guys the viewers in the comment section I always really enjoy doing that and over the last 12 months I've certainly learnt a lot about presenting and video making and all that stuff but I'm sure there's much more to learn as we go on it is kind of fun to look back though one of my first videos in fact it was my second ever video was a review on Samsung's 960 pro 1 terabyte SSD and am looking back it's kind of hard to watch that video it's also a bit funny when I do and I think 52,000 people of now watch that one since then I've made 254 videos so over the 12 months that basically works out to be a video every day and a half every 34 hours so yeah actually a few of those videos were made by Tim but whatever in the last 12 months there's been plenty of content on the channel speaking of Tim he is currently in the final stages of wrapping up his university degree and then next year he will be joining the harbour unbox team which will be me and Tim full-time and hopefully together we can take this thing to the next level all that said though whatever happens going forward I just like to thank all of you for watching supporting the channel and yeah it's just really appreciate everyone who stops and leaves a comment and hits the like button and well just watches the videos of course a big thank you to all of our patreon members those guys are just amazing and with use YouTube's Adsense being the way that it is at the moment it's quite volatile I really do appreciate the guys that support us directly and help us keep on going and hopefully with Tim helping out next year it'll give me a bit more time to give back to the patron supporters so I've given myself a nice old pat on the back for making videos for 12 months and I thank you guys for just being awesome so I guess now it's time to answer a few of your questions okay first question actually I'll just let you guys know that I did ask on Twitter if you guys had any questions any questions at all I would answer them in this video I've got 50-plus questions so sorry if I don't get to your question I'll probably only do about 20 of them for this video but anyway first one is from neo voodoo tech at neo video gaming tell us about your first gaming PC experience was it recent or long ago what sparked the fire what got you into hardware and computers well okay I was going to try and just power through all these but this is kind of a big one still I'll try and be as quick as possible so my first real gaming PC experience that was back in high school like 20 years ago a couple here it's been that long now a friend of mine received what was at the time a high-end gaming system for his parents for his birthday I believe it had a Vudu graphics card in it from memory it's quite funny I remember at the time thinking well what's all the fuss about just a computer surely my Nintendo is better for gaming right then he showed me 3d accelerated MechWarrior 2 and my mind was just completely blown the graphics were phenomenal for the time so straight after playing MechWarrior 2 on his pc I saved up and less than a year later I hit the local computer swap meet with yeah really no idea of what I was doing so be ambitious but I think I had $1,500 Australian and I set out to build my first gaming PC it was very exciting times so yeah went to swap meet I bought all the bits and two days later a lot of messing around I remember those memory compatibility issues and things back then but anyway got it working and I've never looked at a console since so the second part of the question at first it was just about gaming for me but before too long I became pretty interested in overclocking and tinkering with the hardware side of things and there's much more of the story but yeah what headed me down the path of testing and reviewing PC hardware was just yet tinkering around my own computer and found it very exciting of course being a teenager at the time it was just all about gaming but it really wasn't too long before I became interested in things like overclocking I did have a seller on 300a and I purchased that because you could overclock it and I think I ran mine at 450 megahertz but anyway yeah got into the overclocking tinkering side of things and that's pretty much what put me on the path to rewards where I've ended up there's obviously a lot more to the story but that's pretty much the gist of it so thank you neo voodoo tech that was a very good question alright next we have a question from JC at JC Muir congratulations mate hope thank you quick chan is a 10-8 et is Li setup worth it for 4k gaming and what is the biggest 4k g-sync lighter there is hmm worth it yeah SL eyes never really worth it from a value perspective but I've always sort of said if you have the money to burn on something like you know to ty n GPUs like a pair of 1080 eyes then why not am i right oh yeah as much as I dislike SLI and crossfire I've always said that if you're going to use those technologies then do so with the absolute most extreme GPUs available at the time excluding anything with Titan in the name of course as for the biggest g-sync monitor I believe that award goes to either the Acer predator Z 35 or the HP omen X 35 and there as the numbers in the name suggest they're both 35 inch displays I don't know I haven't used either of them but looking at the specs I think the HP would be probably the model I would go for for that larger resolution and I hope that answers your questions JC but next question Steve at not not Steven right oh why is the universe the way it is hmm I feel like that's probably more of a science studio question so let's move on Warwick phirni lat Gabriel of park yep I put up that right what was your biggest PC disaster biggest PC disaster that's um hmm that's a tricky one in lots of little disasters not the biggest one would be I guess when I was reviewing the in win tow I think that's how it's pronounced I smashed a panel on it so that's a all glass tempered glass case that looks quite fancy does have quite thin panels on it but yeah when I was removing it I moved it bumped it into something Pat member what and shattered one of the front little panels on it and it's a $1,200 limited edition case so yeah it wasn't really a disaster though I suppose because in wind just shipped out a replacement panel so can I do better than that actually for a proper disaster I have to go way back like 14 years ago 2003 when I was reviewing the Athlon XP 3200 plus enough many of you guys watching this video are familiar with that processor but it was actually very good AMD processor back in the day though the Athlon XP series did have a tendency to go up in smoke if the cooler wasn't seated correctly or wasn't there at all so anyway I just seated a Oh actually I just seated the CPU so no cooler at all I just put the CPU in the socket a socket and that being yeah me being the amateur let's say that I am the system was plugged in at the wall of time so that was powered off but I just put the CPU and I was lazy and left the power cord in and the power supply was flicked on these days I always obviously flickered off but I'm working on it but hey I was young and stupid let's say anyway I made of mine had just turned up with the intention of playing a couple of games there was a knock at the door it was a delivery so I jumped up went and got that came back a minute or two later and there was a burning bit of a strange smell in the room and my mate was sitting there looking a bit guilty he got a bit excited to play some game saw the test system there paid no attention or what was in this system hit the power button on the case and yeah those of you that are familiar with the Athlon XP is in one second they just up in smoke in that sitting there was a $500 us almost $500 us processor at the time and I had to go and buy one the next day so that stung anyway that was lesson learnt I think I only killed about three or four more of those over the next you testing crappy soccer day coolers okay so moving on from cooking burning igniting Athlon XP process we have a question here from wild @db wild thing yes or no pineapple pizza I'd have to say hell no but that's only because I just don't like pineapple . okay goat emoji at literally is just a goat emoji and you'll see it on the screen at 3 LD 3 will the Lola's ole let's just leave it at that how long is your usual workday or rather how many hours / week I think you means per week do you put into your channel what is your most and least favorite video to make okay I'd say this year a typical workday has been at least 12 hours now probably more like 14 to 16 hours would probably be the norm I'd say I've been pretty much doing this seven days a week so yeah every day oh yeah it's a good thing it doesn't really feel like a job it's just a whole lot of fun but yeah it does get tiring at times but yeah I hope to back off a bit more next year once Tim's helping out YouTube is very demanding at the moment so having Tim helping will be fantastic so my favorite video well it's a bit of a tough one I really like a lot of the content we do I'm probably a bit biased but yeah I've really grown to enjoy the unboxing boxes series that Matt started yeah sort of initially I wasn't that into that but you guys seem to really enjoy it and got me into it a bit more and yeah I really enjoy doing that and of course I love the big benchmark videos but as for a favorite they've been quite a lot of good videos this year not trying to sound like I think I contains brilliant or anything but yeah I think we've done a quite a few good benchmark videos this year so I don't know if I could really pick a favorite I did really enjoy the testing behind that risin 5 1600 vs. core i7 77 okay and that was the one using Vegas 64 and the GTX 1080 so yeah that video was good as for my least favorite well least favorite I that's a tough one because I don't really do any videos that I don't enjoy doing mmm I guess thinking back to a recognition probably the most stressful time for me and sort of the videos I didn't really like doing I'm not that I didn't like doing and they just stressful was the Computex coverage that was pretty hellish if I'm honest I have went into Computex really having no idea what that was like as a YouTube creator how much was involved and it turns out there aren't enough hours in the day to even come close to covering five percent of what's at Computex and all the events going on a stuff so let's provide right off my feet for a week yeah kind of sport the experience and it was a great trip really but yeah just a lot of work so I think because those videos were so stressful and time you know time sensitive and whatever I didn't enjoy that as much as I could have I probably wasn't as prepared as well as I should have been or it's pretty hard when you've never done it before anyway next year I will have Tim helping me at Computex and I hope to have a hell of a lot more fun all right next question and I'm so bad at pronouncing the names you guys need me the hardest time of reverse magma at robotis magma what inspired you to test a wide range of games and other applications on multiple hardware configurations yeah another good question a lot of good questions from you guys curiosity mostly I would have to say like I really just like working out how certain Hardware performers in certain games you know just testing a couple of games it doesn't always give you the full picture sometimes it does but sometimes it doesn't it so anyway yeah I'd take curiosity and I just try to deliver the best content I possibly can it was really probably mostly because of you guys because YouTube you engage with the audience so much more than I've sort of experienced previously doing written stuff on tech sites and you guys are always like I want our three included I want GTA 5 included and this so many games requested heavily by so many different people that we sort of when we did the GPU head-to-heads I was like okay this game has to be included this game has to be included and those games you have to include because they're new and before long the list just kept growing at 12 games 16 games 20 games 30 games so I think that's part of the reason any I just like to try and deliver yeah the best content possible and I think all the hard work doing that really has helped Harbor a box standout and they just see of channels on YouTube so yeah that's a bonus all right next question is from a bingo snow at I'll leave that one ah warm toilet seat or cold just as I said the questions have been really good this isn't a good question warm toilet seat or cold so I have to pick one because I you know I'd like a warm toilet seat in winter that'd be nice and then a cool one in summer but yeah short of that if I had to settle on one can it just be like room temperature so I suppose that's warm yeah okay yeah moving on all right next up we have a question from Jacob do you plan reviewing gaming peripherals do you plan on reviewing gaming peripherals as well so mice keyboards and headsets how do we plan on reviewing peripherals again well yes that is definitely something we do plan on doing you know Matt used to do a lot of that on the channel it was sort of more in Matt's wheelhouse you liked playing around keyboards mice headsets and Bluetooth speakers and that kind of stuff I've been featuring there more in the unboxing boxes and I get that's not really a technical review that's something I definitely expect Tim will be interested in picking back up alongside his laptop and use technical monitor testing and reviews and stuff like that you'll probably do some roundup so you'll see some gaming mice around ups and he'll probably get a lot more in depth with the more technical more scientific with them testing of mice than we ever have on the channel so yeah that could be something to look forward to thank you for your question Jacob Andre Paley at jailer 14 do you think the people are sometimes a bit too emotional about tech like Lowell Intel sucks don't buy them or AMD sucks and throwing around insults yeah I do it's okay to prefer one particular company and I can certainly understand someone you know sticking with a brand they know and they've had a good experience with however childish behavior like the example it was just given there you know people attacking one another just because they like a certain brand or whatever just poor conduct in general it's really disappointing to see I have to say I do try to stop that out as much as I possibly can on the channel and I'll probably get a lot more aggressive with that in the future especially as I say with Tim helping out I'll have more time to moderate that kind of stuff so yeah you'll see me sort of jumping on that a bit more than I have been I really do like when I come across you know a group of tech enthusiasts that are having a discussion about AMD Nvidia or Intel whatever it may be and they're doing it in a really constructive and you know polite all that kind of stuff good comment etiquette and then you see someone just jump in there and make a childish comment just derail the thread it all goes to crap so yeah I definitely want to jump on that a bit more and stop that from happening but that's yeah to answer your question yeah I do okay next question from echo at Zen strive why do you choose to look like a cubicle drone also please review a full tower case that is less than $150 USD and has an 8 expansion slots ah alright well what do you mean you don't like my shirts come on what's wrong with the shirts well you give me a hard time at the shirts guys just back off on the shirts what was the other part yes the case review well I can see I can certainly see what I can do about the case review a $150 full Tower that expansion slots yep I'll look into that for you buddy shirt hater all right where was I Adam at major Z Man what's your main source of income smiley face I guess you knows that's a bit of a cheeky question given a little smiley face at the end there anyway to the question I can tell you it certainly isn't YouTube not yet anyway it's helping but yeah it's a smaller piece there I don't really have a main source which out today is kind of nice yeah not all eggs are in one bar there are a few different sources that keep me afloat so here that's nice yeah you have to be a bit dynamic at this level I'm sure there'll be other content creators it'll tell you the same you still have to branch out and do a few different things I think once you're north of a million subscribers you can probably start looking at YouTube full time so yeah get back to me in 10 years time okay next up we have prathamesh o 9f I said that right what oh sorry ah you in favor of teams implementing the halo cockpit in f1 next year okay well for those of you who everyone fans are know anything about f1 it's open cockpit racing and sometimes when the cars go under things in accidents or flip over the driver can be at serious risk there it's kind of a controversial thing at the moment as for my opinion on it honestly might sound a bit bad because you know I know this is all in the name of safety but yeah my answer would be no not really in favor of it yeah I think it pretty much spoils the complete look at the cars and I'm not really convinced it's needed that said though like most race fans it'll probably get to like midsi's and I'll get over it more just keep complaining about how you can't follow and do the air or something like that so yeah thanks for the f1 related question alright next question from indigo deep debt deet deet probably at neo old you've okay in your opinion I know it's not the best time to be building a gaming PC he said that but still possible but is it still possible to make it worth it seconds still there tripped me up a bit okay is it still worth it yeah I'd say it's still worth it you can get GeForce graphics cards aren't too bad the RMD fanboys incoming pretty hard for just recommending Nvidia but I something like a GTX 1060 graphics card they're very capable and they're quite well priced they're not too far off the MSRP and even the GTX ten 70s aren't to about either at the moment so I think they're sort of starting to normalize a little bit there I've even noticed other Radeon graphics cards are coming down I think I saw some rx5 80s for 250 us which is still above the MSRP they were only the 4 gigabyte models and I think they're meant to be more like 200 us so they're still $50 u.s. is still quite a bit over the MSRP but anyway other components like the rise and CPUs they're incredibly good value and the supporting motherboards they're all readily available at good prices be 350 boards you can get one no worries for like $70 us and you can easily get away with 8 gigabytes of ddr4 memory for now of course if you're not desperate it might just pay to wait until early next year you'll probably see better memory prices and graphics card prices and all that stuff early in 2018 all right next up we have Santiago wizkid Oh Atlas Caen you have problems with D monetization thing of YouTube okay so do you have monetization issues on YouTube at the moment and what do you think about the new policy of Activision about matching marketing so that would be the micro transaction based matchmaking system I think the Activision was micro transaction based matchmaking system yeah pretty dumb idea that's pretty insane I can't see that playing out too well for them but yeah I haven't looked into it too much and don't have yet much more to say on it I do have to say on the YouTube D monetization I suppose they're calling it the what is the ad pocalypse 2.0 that's pretty much what they're calling it on YouTube and yeah that's definitely hurt me a bit if I relied solely on the channel to support my family I'd have to say there'd be quite a few sleepless nights so it is a bit of a scary time at the moment for content creators but thankfully for me anyway that isn't the case like I said I have many baskets with eggs in them I did have a video I think I'm gonna be one of the top 5 worst video recently yeah it's not a big benchmark video but a lot of work and effort and editing all that kind of stuff research and stuff does go into those videos so I spent quite a bit of time on it and I did receive a hundred thousand views on the first day so for our channel or my channel it's a huge success fortunately though I didn't get a single dollar for that video so yeah that sucked the video now is about a hundred and forty thousand views I think it is and it's made me about twenty four dollars us so yeah that's why they call me mad money stacks $24 the YouTube climate is very volatile right now the views are down sub growths down and all those all that stuff's just massively slowed down and thankfully though it's not just for my channel pretty much all smaller YouTube channels and to say 500,000 subscribers the tech channels that I sort of follow on that they sort of seem to be seeing the same kind of slowdown so hopefully that picks up soon but yeah not much I can do about it so I'll just keep plotting along pumping those videos out and hopefully YouTube starts pushing them again soon for us next up we have Bernie Inge at E Bernie what's the relationship between techspot and harbor are boxed was an avid reader of text but before age of YouTube okay that's a pretty good question I've been writing for text but for at least a decade now and I will continue to do so for the foreseeable I do have a great working relationship with the team at text spot I think we're doing a pretty good job of merging the content between the YouTube channel and the text spot website but basically the relationship is iron Harbor unboxed whereas I essentially just freelance for text spot yeah enjoy doing both of them and we'll continue to do so again thanks for the question moving on we have fangs vortex at fangs vortex can you build me a PC sure I can do custom however a box fan builds if you want let me know what your budget is next that we have Teemo for life at dak dak master what does your sorry why does your intro sound like someone is flushing the toilet good question why does it sound like that well I suppose they could very well be flushing a toilet who knows how they make up those sound effects these days yeah it's a pretty crap intro I know Matt and I just whacked it together on the channel or I think Matt picked it and did the text and stuff on it I can't really recall but yeah it's just a pretty generic intro not a lot of thought went into the time we weren't really taking it that seriously it was just YouTube with something to try and have a bit of fun making videos if you see our earlier videos you'll see what we've come from but yeah it's something I definitely plan to change I just really haven't had time like I said I've been pump out a video every 34 hours so give me a break on the intro I do plan to come up with something in the near future that is a little less P inducing I promise probably expect to see that early next year might do something over the Christmas break sit down with someone and work something out anyway yeah new intro will be comfy okay next up we have to the max gamer what advice would you give to budding tech channels also how's your day been well first of all days been good thanks mate just take it easy answering a few questions as for advice well I think probably first and foremost would be prepared prepare yourself to work hard yeah like super hard it's incredibly YouTube tech channels in particular it's just incredibly competitive there's just a sea of them now so yeah making it is pretty hard but I mean I wouldn't say don't do it or be discouraged by that ideally though you just want to start it as a hobby something you just do is a bit of fun probably you know instead of maybe playing some games work on your tech channel so it's probably a more construct you see a time still play some games but ya may cut it into your gaming time as what I'm trying to say and yet hopefully it eventually evolves into something that can become full-time and can support yes oh that is obviously the ultimate goal that'd be nice still working on that the number one thing though is ya can't stress this enough don't do it for money there's realistically very little money to be had yeah like I said before unless you get close to a million subscribers more than a million subscribers you're not really doing that well on YouTube or at least that's been my experience so far and also just don't do it for the free hardware I know it seems cool getting all this hardware and stuff but yeah it's kind of like just it becomes your tools to do your job so sort of how I look at it now it's not hey look I've got an awesome new GT X 1080 Ti or whatever it's I've got a new graphics card for testing I still get excited about half the passion for it but you know what I mean it's the same sort of thing when guys watch me do unboxing boxes I've got a massive unbelievably huge pile of boxes I've got to get through here and it's kind of exciting to get into them but at the same time it's like well I then have to do things with them make builds and stuff and you guys are sitting there thinking all that sounds terrible you have to build some pcs with it but like anything when you've done it a million times it sort of loses a bit of its magic for example I've got you know sitting right here a motherboard from MSI and I have to use this and a few builds and do a few things with that to keep MSI happy so yeah and there's mountains of things I've got to do so yeah it's a job but like I said I put a lot of hours into it it's a lot of fun so I'm not complaining or anything I love doing it obviously which is why I do do it yeah just don't do it for the free hardware I definitely don't do it for the money do it because you love it and you like playing with PC hardware it's really all the advice I have all right to stop me from droning on with the answer in question part of the questions we have Hugo at Hugo TPD a well what's it like to grow as much as you did in a year and become one of the MOU reliable solid benchmark of slash reviewers out there hmm that's very nice question well before I can answer that yet firstly thank you very much that's really nice to hear yeah that's really nice it's been great to see the subscriber base just explode it's been like five times I guess in the last it's grown by five times in the last 12 months and I think the best part of that is just having so many more of you to interact with and discuss videos with and topics and things like that so yeah it's been good as for the becoming a reliable source yeah I really do my best to provide the most accurate and unbiased information and results and stuff that I possibly can I'm definitely proud of the work that I've done on the channel this year but you know as always there's still areas and things I want to improve on the fact that so many of you guys leave you know positive comments and support and stuff that really does encourage me and help me keep me pumped up to keep delivering those big benchmark videos I guess is what I'm trying to say so yeah big thank you to you guys again I really appreciate all the support on that note thank you to everyone who asked questions I was quite shocked by how many of you actually replied I wasn't sure there be that many of you but yeah big thank you they were a heap more that I didn't get to and you guys keep asking questions all the time on that Twitter thread so yeah if this is something you guys enjoyed watching sort of me rambling on answering questions then let me know and I'll do it on a regular basis and probably try to do it a bit more yeah work it out a bit more before I get into it and maybe make it a Sunday special or something beer if you enjoyed it let me know if you didn't also let me know you guys will anyway I suppose if I did make it a more of a regular thing it might be a good idea to pick like five tech related questions maybe five or less personal channel related questions and then maybe just five around and questions like what kind of toppings do I like or don't like on Pizza of course if you did enjoy the content like I said let me know in the comments below I'll gauge the response and we'll just go from there like we always do anyway it's been a mega year so far of course there's still more to come it's we're not at the end of the year yet and yeah again either late this year or early next year team will be coming on board full-time to help out with the workload and that's just going to be amazing I think it's going to really help take the channel to the next level so that's it for this one I'm your host Steve thanks for all your questions I'll see you again soon