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what's up guys welcome back to Pauls hardware this is probing Paul episode number five that's my Q&A segment that I do every month and this is the one for June I actually skipped May because I was a Computex oh sorry I fam miss Tia I have questions going back to the last episode though which was probing Paul number four there it is there's actually all the probing Paul's going back to the first one and of course the origination of probing Paul when Kyle first added those words unyoked anyway I'm just gonna dive right into it and get to the first question which is from Chevy monsoon whore monsoon whore first of all I'm a big fan of your channel Paul favorite you're my favorite youtuber thank you thank you very much a question is I got an ass Rock b85 with the Xeon e3 12:20 v3 CPU running and a gtx 970 let's see key of putting a 240 or 250 gig SSD in the machine is it worth it how can I make my 2 terabyte hard drive work together with it he's never used an SSD before great choice to go with an SSD I definitely think you should given the specs of the rest of your machine you'll find it really improves the responsiveness and you should have a good time with it 240 or 250 gig you can get for a really reasonable price right now like 40 to 60 bucks depending on where you're looking about 20 cents per gigabyte though is what you would want to go for and I would definitely take a look at 580 gig or 512 gig drives as well because those are also coming way down in price I would just take the new SSD unplug your old drive put the new SSD in do a fresh install windows on that get it all set up then reconnect your old hard drive pull stuff off of it that you want to save and then format your old Drive and then just set it up as an additional storage on your machine next question from Zaire NEX are you more excited for augmented reality or virtual reality advancements I would say definitely kind of both augmented reality seems pretty cool and that's actually one that I haven't really tried yet but even on top of both of those I was reading an article the other day was from Wired so I'll show it to you I'll link this in the description too but this is about a company called magic leap and they're working with mixed so um they have a special lens that they're developing and stuff and I guess they're getting a lot of investment money right now but it seems like a pretty cool thing mixed reality because it's like taking augmented reality to the next level and look at that fancy thing that that dudes looking into that's pretty that's pretty cool and mixed reality is like if you think of augmented reality is like you're looking at a table and your headset or your goggles can like draw things on top of that mixed reality is actually it knows that there's a table there not just as a flat surface but it knows what's like the layout of the entire room is so it can like put stuff behind the table and like draw stuff around things so you can have much more sort of mixture between what's really around you and stuff that can go on top of that so definitely augmented reality seems pretty cool mix reality I think even more so I'm definitely still like just kind of getting my feet wet wet with VR though so I'm still pretty excited about that - all around it's all around very exciting but thank you for the question next up is tech showdown thank you for another question do you still enjoy making tech videos the same way you did when you first started or has some of the fun faded I would say 98% I think I still enjoy it just as much as I used to there's continually new challenges for me like making videos as compared to what I used to do when I was working like for a company on a team versus now making them on my own like where I do pretty much everything except for I do have an editor now who's helping me out that's probably the most tedious thing for me is the editing it just it takes a while to kind of go from vision to reality so yeah that's part is probably among my lesser favorite parts I just wish I had more time to do it but everything else like I still really enjoy like I mean being able to work with all the awesome technology and being able to use the computers that I build to actually do my work and edit videos and all that kind of stuff it's all it's all very much a lot of fun so yeah I still like it next question from Kane wolf do you even lift bro I need to know how you look so sexy thank you Kane wolf for your I appreciate that you're appreciating you know what I got going on here no I lift actually I'm probably being in shape is probably what's getting the least amount of attention when it comes to the stuff that I spend my time on like like benchmarking has been taking up most of my time just recently I need to like pull a go team J thing or something like that and like you know just start doing some new workout activity that I can track and get me into better shape because it's definitely really easy doing what I do to just end up sitting out here working or filming or that kind of thing and just completely forget about like oh yeah I should actually like walk around or like you know go to the park or that kind of thing walking the dogs does does definitely help with that but um but yeah I'm gonna I'm gonna get in better shape very soon very soon I promise Gabriel has the next question he says awesome video Paul of York thank you questions upgrading arctic panther for the cpu would I go for the Newman Silverado well II or the new AMD Zen FX or for the GPU same kind of question and video Pascal GPUs or AMD Polaris GPUs based on all the hype and all that kind of stuff so yes instance arctic panther kind of represents the epitome of my enthusiast tech of my channel will I stick with what I got or kind of go the other route well I will say this Gabriel because I got the Polaris GPU right here I got the 480 just started working with that also of course at least when we're talking GPUs we got the 1080 when it comes to the arctic panther this is a $200 GPU this is a six or $700 plus GPU depending on how you look at it right now I would go with this if AMD comes out with their Vega GPUs that are gonna have like eh be m2 and all that kind of stuff and probably be a much more different kind of story so right now I would go with the 1080 in the near future who knows if it's later this year I don't know what I'm actually gonna do this rebuild but hopefully sooner rather than later I do already have my motherboard lined up though right right here Asus x99 deluxe 2 which I think MIT is a suitable successor since arctic panther uses the x99 deluxe this one has RGB LEDs of course and some really cool other features as well so I will be using that and then for the CPU since it's an X 99 board 6950 X is the obvious go-to choice I only only I had I'm fortunate enough to have a 69 50 X and I definitely am looking into getting at least one more broad well II processor so that will it'll kinda depend how that plays out but obviously if I have that motherboard I'll go with a broad well II processor again if Zen comes out which I really want it to that would totally change things up but for now that's what I would go with thank you for the question then DBZ n media asks Paul being that you've worked with a lot of tech in a wide variety of companies is there one product you haven't had a chance to get your hands on that I really want to try I kind of going back to the last question Zen like the Zen CPUs are probably the thing that I'm most interested in trying out just because I kind of already know what's going on what's going on on the Intel side and the Zen CPUs have a huge potential to first hopefully infuse some more competition in the marketplace but also just for the future of like DIY desktop socketed CPUs and that kind of thing in the future like it's a really important launch so I'm super interested in getting my hands on it granted that's not out yet so other than that I mean like I have you know like I already showed you that got the 1080 and I got the 4r x 480 and and 6950 x and stuff so I'm very lucky to fortunately have access to a lot of the really high-end stuff that I would definitely be interested in checking out if I wasn't already I would say though apart from that since it is still tech and related to what I do higher end cameras is something that I'm definitely like I I kind of I'm getting to know cameras better and I'm just checking out some of the really high-end ones like these are black magics there's a Ursa and there are some mini which each cost three year or five grand depending which one you go with red of course also if you're going more towards professional level although still I was about to say reasonably priced they're very expensive but for professional cameras there they're very reasonably priced oh yeah checking out some some of those that would be super sweet I would say maybe I'll maybe I'll hit up brandon and i'll be--i'll doing an internship with him - Media Group and just be his like I'll be his his gaffer his wait is it a gaffer grip shoot I always get those mixed up anyway next question is from dizzy kipper and dizzy kipper asks can you do more content on capture cards let's look for in a card now that kind of thing as well as the software a very good question and since this is from two months ago when I did my last probing Paul you probably were not aware that I was going to post this video which is on the razor ripsaw USB 3 capture card which I reviewed and I have also been using since then it's actually plugged in right there although I'm not using it to capture what you're seeing right now I'm using black magic for that but um yeah razor ripsaw is a very nice card granted they're all like 170 hundred 80 ish bucks but the it's external USB 3 cuts way down on the latency so like kind of what you see is what you get there's a little bit of lag so but I'm you can use it like I can use it to directly control like a computer even though I'm just watching the the capture screen unlike OBS or something like that which is pretty nice there's also the Elgato Game Capture HD 60s which I don't have but I might be trying out I actually need to follow up with them which is kind of my bad but I've been busy lately there's lots of graphics cards coming out and that kind of thing as far as software OBS definitely OBS studio is really cool and that I use and I will maybe do a video on I'm still kind of getting to know it myself so there's that and then of course there's xsplit which is a very nice piece of software you do got to pay for the good one though for the broadcaster thank you for the question though the mono Turner asks Paul what inspired you and Kyle to start awesome hardware he shows up late to the party and maybe miss the start of the inception I don't think we have a really like good inception story but awesome hardware we have now done 127 videos of that I think that I think that would actually mean 66 yeah yeah we just did episode 66 I should look at the episode number Paul that would make sense yeah we've just done our 66th episode of awesome hardware they keep getting more views people seem to like him it's sort of inception well I have I definitely to give to Linus because he's the one who started the wind show and Kenneth was the first person to start doing the live tech show thing so definitely I mean we tried not to rip him off entirely but it's hard to when you're like we're gonna do a live tech show we try to differentiate ours a little bit though of course we have the alcohol drinking which we just said that will make it more fun for us well yeah we try to have fun and it came about because we wanted to have one a place where we could talk more broadly about lots of different tech topics since there's so many things that happen each given week and we can only really cover one of the two of them if we're doing dedicated videos like as far as reviews or that kind of thing and then the other reason was just to have more interaction with fans because we've got the live streams and the feeds going and we do look at chat from time to time occasionally we read chat and we answer it and stuff so that's a great reason that we do it as well okay I think we just get thank you for that question as well 16db asks hey Paul if I send you a plate of Norwegian chocolate it's supposed to be some of the best in the world would you and Kyle give it a score and an episode of awesome hardware I can hypothetically send you some Norwegian brewed beer as well to try called what is this Aetna Aetna this is like a Norwegian symbol this it means empty set to me so this is Aetna empty set L is the type of beer if we want to try it out and give it a score or rate them 16 VV if that is how your name is pronounced yes absolutely if you want to send Norwegian chocolate or beer send it right here Paul's hardware appeal box for three to five Diamond Bar California nine one seven six five and we will we will gladly try it out provided you know that you're on the up-and-up and everything which I have to assume you are being Norwegian but anyway guys that's all for this episode of probing Paul I hope you've enjoyed it if you did hit the thumbs up button leave me more questions down in the questions section down below cuz I had such good ones last time I didn't even end up reaching out for Twitter - Twitter or anything this time so sorry people on Twitter maybe next time I'll leave you back with another one of these next month's and of course I've got tons of awesome new tech videos like that msi gtx 1070 they're two-way SLI video coming out this weekend of the RX 480 at an indeterminate point in the future which you can probably figure out if you read the Internet and even more 1080 stuff come in as well so yeah stay tuned subscribe thank you for watching we'll see you next time