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hey guys welcome back to Pauls hardware this is probing Paul number 35 my monthly Q&A I will be answering your questions that were posted in last month's probing Paul which you can check out if you want to look at the probing Paul playlist it goes back pretty far these days that's impressive but I will link that down in the video's description all of the questions I'm answering today are taken from the comments of last month's video so feel free to leave a comment in this month's video if you're interested in me possibly answering it next month if the thumbs up button while you're down there but only of course if you watch the entire video and enjoy the things I have to say let's get right into it with our first question this is from joon-tae and he says our MDOT two heat sinks necessary I just acquired a used motherboard and it doesn't have a heatsink with it no they're absolutely not necessary in fact there's some sort of weird things with them dot two heat sinks that not everyone is aware of first off you don't always need them depending on the speed and performance of the drive the fastest drives like Samsung's higher-end drives like a 970 pro and 970 Evo can get pretty hot if they're under sustained loads for a very long period of time so consider how you will be using your MDOT to drive if it's just gonna be an operating system driving a gaming PC then it's not gonna get a lot of heavy sustained use over time especially with heavy loads from writes if you're using it for video editing or something like that well then you might want to consider that it might get hot over time but the other thing to consider is that you don't necessarily want to cool down everything on the SSD itself there is the controller which you can sometimes distinguished from the other chips because it looks different you'll usually have multiple chips that look the same that's NAND flash then you have another chip that's your controller controllers you want to keep cool so if you do get a heatsink make sure that the heatsink goes over the controller but not necessarily the NAND mantle actually likes to be warmer it's better for nan to be warmer while it's being written to and then it's better for it to be cooler when it's just not being used at all so you actually want to avoid a heat sink on the NAND for extended writes but you would want to keep that controller cool so that is really where I think the problem and the confusion lies that said for most SSDs and for most home usage in a gaming system you're never going to hit the SSD hard enough for it to get warm enough and even if it does get warm enough it's just gonna throttle itself it'll dial back the speeds a little bit so it doesn't overheat and it'll still finish writing your data it's not gonna suddenly explode or stop working or anything like that so for my money in most situations just don't worry about a heatsink on your SSD if your motherboard comes with one feel free to go ahead and install it it's not like it's gonna hurt the drive but consider that a lot of SSDs now the label that's on top is actually a heatsink label it will help distribute heat across the NAND chips as well as the controller so if you do drop a heatsink on there it is not a bad idea to remove the label from the Nance the Manns can actually get warmer and you'll have better heat transfer from the controller next question from David Montaigne who says hi Paul of the series long time watcher first time Probert don't worry David you always remember your first time but the question is how can I benchmark my own games to see if the FPS I'm actually getting is in line with what I had expected from watching Hardware reviews from yours and other channels I'm feeling I'm getting less than I should be this is a good question I'm actually surprised it doesn't come a little more often because when you look at hardware reviews and benchmarks of like a graphics card you'll often see a $200 $300 graphics card paired with the best possible processor like a $500 9900 Kay you might get that same graphics card and install it on your system where you're using a perfectly adequate r5 2600 or something like that but maybe not quite the same performance as you get out of a 99 hundred K and then the question you're invariably gonna have is why is my performance going to be a little bit behind the professional review that I've seen or have compared to the best way to get a good idea of this which is practically impossible for most people is to finder a viewer who has used your exact same configuration and then even beyond that you'd have to look at the specific settings they're using for the game because they might be running at high settings here there might be one or two little settings that they have changed that can significantly affect the actual performance in that game that you might not have set up so David where I would point you actually is synthetics in this specific circumstance granted take the games that you play try to find a diverse array of reviews that have tested that game with your hardware or at least your graphics card and then you should be able to get kind of a ballpark range of what you should expect but if you can get a synthetic benchmark I would recommend 3d mark because they have multiple tests in multiple DirectX 11 DirectX 12 VR and ray tracing as well you can download most of the basic tests for free run the tests and then you'll actually see all of their results I don't have a direct example right now but I pulled this image up online because they give you this run detail sheet where it shows your performance and comparable systems performance as well so you can look at those charts and sort of get an idea like is there something that's holding my system back or am i kind of within the range where I should be because chances are if you are in the range you should be but you're not quite where you think you should be there's just some minor things you could do like maybe a little overclock or maybe you can mess with your memory settings or maybe you can again just double check the game settings that you're using to make sure that you've dialed things in appropriately if you're comparing it to an online test next question here is from Mike the manic geek hey Mike how you doing man he says how high PR you over Borderlands 3 and if you aren't typing why I am moderately IP I suppose over Borderlands 3 because I didn't play Borderlands 2 and I beat it and I played through the whole game and you know that's that's more rare for me these days to have the time and be that involved with the game to play it through to the end so that you know means that I enjoyed it so I would hopefully enjoy the follow-up to it Borderlands 3 and I probably I'm going to try to play it if I'm not as hyped as I should be it's because for one I can't play as many video games or devote as much time playing video games these days as I used to which kind of sucks but also kind of goes hand-in-hand with getting a little bit older but the other side of it is that as you guys probably know I have a baby on the way should be born any minute now and that will probably take away a little bit of my gaming time which I'm perfectly fine with but it just means it's by the time I get around to playing Borderlands 3 it might be a little old but I'll definitely play it I'm definitely excited about it just not as excited as I could be because I know I'm gonna have limited time to actually devote to it next question from Killers 34 should we wait on Intel's 10 nanometre or pull the trigger on the 9900 Kay this is sort of the flip-flop to last month's headline question which is should you buy rise in 2000 series now or wait for 3000 series intel should be launching 10 nanometre desktop parts this year it's still up in the air when they're actually going to come out there's speculation that we might see something at Computex but according to what Intel has said it's probably going to be later in the year so if you're already in that boat of where you're waiting for what Intel has next I would say keep waiting the ninety nine hundred K is a very expensive processor it's over five hundred dollars and I'm gonna bet that when AMD launches whatever they are planning to launch mid-year this year probably in June or July it's going to put even more pressure on Intel to be competitive to come out with a good product not just a good product but a product that they're going to have to price more competitively because they can only ride on that sort of historical Intel has the fastest processor for so long and if any of the rumors are remotely true when it comes to the performance of AMD's risin 3000 series we're going to look at a much much closer race when it comes to IPC performance single core performance and that is where Intel has the lead right now so if AMD can bounce back with Rison 3000 series then whatever Intel comes out with next which I hope is good because they've been working on it for like three years this ten nanometer thing if not longer than that then by the end of this year you should have a lot more options a lot more performance available on the table and you should have better prices as well so that would be my recommendation right now don't grab a ninety nine hundred K they're very expensive just just wait we've got a lot of stuff coming out later this year and prices for everything else like SSDs and memory and everything have been coming down as well so I think you'll be in a better situation here is a long question from JJ Bonifacio it's a question about an upgrade from an existing computer which he lists here at the top which has a 4690k as e97 X gigabyte motherboard a Radeon 390x GPU 16 gigs of memory and a C sonic power supply he's planning on handing this down to his nephew and building a new system and he wants to know whether he should wait for third gen or not or go the 2700 x route his planned upgrade is a rise inside 2600 x with a gigabyte p450 motherboard a 1660 TI still 16 gigs of memory but faster as well as a m dot to nvme SSD to terabyte hard drive fantex eclipse P 400 JJ I will tell you that this is a good plan that you have here but because you're already using a 4690k I would say you should hold off before now because just as I said to previous question asked her about the 900 okay we're looking at a bunch of upcoming launches both from AMD and Intel right now if you were dealing with an older system like that you were really struggling to get by with I would say you know go ahead and invest right now because you're gonna be getting a nice upgrade but you've got a 4690k that's a good gaming processor especially if you overclock it a bit 390x also still has legs on it I mean if you're gaming at 1080p that should be doing a perfectly adequate job for you if your nephew is like about to steal your computer then maybe you've got no choice and you just need to invest now but I would say because you're working with a pretty good existing system hold off a little bit because in given another month or two I think we're gonna be looking at a refresh to landscape when it comes to the CPU side new motherboards lots of cool stuff like that and I think it might be worth the wait just a couple more questions this one's from Daniel red zinyak who says Micro Center has a 1600 that's the rise in five 1600 480 bucks I guess this isn't a question it's more of an FYI for you guys blessed to get a motherboard with you get an extra $30 off here's that actual deal at micro Center even even advertising right here safe thirty bucks when you bundle bundle looking compatible eligible motherboard micro Center has insanely good prices on CPUs and I feel like I bring them up from time to time but I haven't for a while so just to point it out to you guys who might not be aware that micro Center exists you have to go in store so that is the downside to it so there's a lot of regions that just don't have physical access to a micro Center because there's not one near you I have one I can get to down in Santa Ana and the reason I even brought this up today was because Joe my editor is actually picking up horizon 5 1600 for the build testing that we're going to do tomorrow and it's it's only 80 bucks there online you can get them for a hundred and fifteen dollars which is still a really good deal but $80 plus the $30 off of a motherboard just just crazy good I I'm jealous for those of you who are able to buy a setup like this right now compared to people who didn't have access to that in the past I guess anyway just kind of an FYI for any of you guys who might have local access to a micro Center definitely hit them up they don't always list these on PC part picker and stuff like that though so I'm you I have to go directly and just make sure they have it in stock and keep an eye out for crazy deals on CPUs David SJ next asks hey Paul does skipping the commercials at the start of videos have a negative effect on monetization amounts as opposed to letting the commercials run to the end he's a few people and they haven't known I David to be perfectly honest I don't know the direct answer to your question either but I'm pretty sure this is how it works if you watch a pre-roll ad who plays at the beginning of the video that I post and you wait for until you can skip because I always do skippable ads I never do non skippable ads then I get an impression for that and I believe I get commission from the advertiser I think sometimes they do set up special deals or if it's a longer like minute or two minute at or a full video and people watch the whole thing then I'm it might give me more Commission but like I said I don't know a full direct answer for you maybe I shouldn't have answered this question today but I do know that yes even if you skip it I still get an impression on the ad and I still get some money for that so that for me is like the best sort of in-between I can appreciate anyone who wants to use adblock or something like that don't blame you guys at all there's plenty of websites that that is very useful for I recommend you block origin if we're gonna do that but if you guys do like my content like watching my videos if you've ever gained anything from it you want to whitelist me I greatly appreciate that but I don't hate on people who use ad blocker by any extent but thanks for asking the question and just having that in mind in general it is a significant part of my revenue the money I make and the way I'm able to keep making YouTube videos like this one so if you guys do want to waitlist me cool do you want to watch the beginning of those ads cool if you watch the whole thing that like don't do that cuz I mean if it's if it's interesting that's interesting and useful to you then maybe you can thank you very much though David last question here I guess this is not a question this is just I wanted to end the video on this 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