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what's up everyone it is Sunday afternoon it's actually very rainy here in Southern California which is weird we have weather there's like wind and stuff so um anyway I was watching my wife play Final Fantasy 8 and I decided you know what I should do a Q&A video well to be honest I've been planning this for a little while I was a little bit self-conscious cuz I was like you know there's lots of people who do like regular Q&A videos I want to do this maybe like once a month but then I remembered this that sums it up for the tech world today and that will shift gears to our new segment probing Paul where Paul answers your tech questions so that's the name work going with for my segment okay so I'm calling this video series ask Paul for now but hey I can bring probing Paul back if that is what you guys want and this video is truly all about what you guys want so let's dive straight into it I have quite a few questions to go through for today I've I'm gonna start actually I'm gonna start out actually with one straight from YouTube that's from mr. lithium 69 and this was posted on the video that I posted earlier this week about overclocking nan Kay Intel skylake processors he asks that unpopulated blank motherboard PCB with standoffs is pretty cool I guess this isn't really asking its anyway anyone know what that is and there's another there's actually a few other questions on this video asking that same kind of question and I can show that to you guys right now um it's right here although my little test bed is still on it and basically this is it it's a blank motherboard PCB and it has little rubber standoffs on it I cannot tell you guys where I got this because I was told I'm not supposed to have this but if you look at like a motherboard manufacturing video they manufacture the PCB as per the layout of all the traces and everything like this first and then it goes through a process called SMT which is super multi transport know what is SMT stand for surface mount technology where they actually start placing different things on there and then they do like solder flow and all that kind of stuff over it anyway you're not supposed to be able get these in this particular format with nothing on them this came from a friend I use it as a very easy like portable test bed so I can just take a motherboard and set it on top and it's nice because it's positioned far enough up that like dropping your graphics card in there and stuff still works and that's not too tough but anyway that's what that is I actually get that question pretty frequently so um if anyone if you see anyone asking that question in another video direct them over here alright next series of questions all come from Twitter I'm Paul Hardware on Twitter if you guys want to send me questions in the future and let's start out with this one from dual shot dual shot underscore CS asks can you sli or crossfire two different cards for example gtx 960 and 970 this is a this is a tech support question and i'm gonna be doing a few of these here but a lot of the other questions in this video are gonna be a little bit more random short answer here's no nvidia has requirements for how you can sli things together gtx 960m GTX 970 don't go together and videos requirements are it has to be the exact same GPU so a gtx 960 or a gtx 970 and it also has to have the same amount of frame buffer the same amount of video memory that's also there for example a gtx 960 4 gig and a gtx 960 2 gig cannot be SL ID together beyond that of course best to have the sli bridge directly am DS requirements for crossfire are a little bit less stringent AMD allows you to crossfire cards that are in the same family not necessarily the exact same GPU so if you really are into crossfire and you want more flexibility or if you already have an existing card and you're looking to get another card that could drop in maybe consider AMD I guess AMD will even go so far as to let you crossfire like at 290 X and a 390 X together cuz they're still based on the same GPU but there are some vagaries in there I don't want to go into too much detail since I have lots of other questions to get to you to get to you but dual shot thank you for the question let's move on to Reeve taylor who asks where do you see your channel in five years a very good question um this question probably when i think about it makes me think mostly about where these computer industry especially when it comes to like component level computer manufacturing goes because there's been lots of speculation for many years that the whole the desktop is is you know on its way out or that kind of thing I don't necessarily believe that I think desktops are still here for quite a bit longer I think for people who want to get work done and people who need to do heavy lifting and for more advanced stuff a lot of the wind's blowing for more advanced stuff like like actually doing video rendering or 3d modeling or like VR work there's lots of uses for full-size desktop computers so I don't see my channel going too far away from what its current the current topics are as far as you know DIY PC building stuff that kind of thing although I do want to continue to branch out because when eventually all computers are you know the size of this coaster and you know can be bought for a hundred bucks each and you just set it there and it wirelessly connects to everything and manages your whole life for you and you don't need to touch it granted that'd be kind of cool but you know I like tinkering so I might branch out in the future other stuff I don't know but but yeah hopefully in five years I'm still doing roughly the same what I'm doing now just with much faster hardware and VR capability and fancier newer things I guess okay let's move on to X I see X is CA or BAM some BAM some MC Pro anyway how long have you been doing PC oriented stuff is the actual question here that goes all the way back to gosh where would it start my dad had a console just like a like a keyboard and a and a like a one of those old green CRT monitors back when I was like 9 or 10 and he would use it to remote into his work and I would jump on there and I did a little bit of like BBS stuff like back then probably more so it started it would say like Commodore 64 was the first like computer that I kind of played with I remember playing jump man junior back on that although I didn't I never took it apart or anything like that I started doing PC oriented stuff as far as actual PC oriented stuff when my dad decided to take us out when I was like 14 which would have been 94 not to tell you guys how old I am or anything but I'm yeah about 14 we we went out and got an HP like an actual one of those flat desktops with them where the monitor sits on top and everything had that for a little while I upgraded the memory in that and quite a few lessons in the process I actually built my first computer when I was 16 and then from there it just kind of took off and I I never actually I would always build my own computers because I always just had more fun doing it I like the flexibility and I like knowing about the stuff so yeah I guess it goes back to when I was early teens it's kind of when I first started out all right sneaks II Corsair asks so what's one non PC or YouTube related hobby that you have then he follows up and says it's non youtube he correct himself okay I'm gonna I'm gonna give you three answers here one is gonna be snowboarding even though I'm not a huge snowboarder it is something I really enjoy doing and I have actually planned some trips coming up soon so maybe I'll do some vlogging when I go snowboarding and that kind of thing really enjoy it again I only get to go like maybe once or twice a season but we're gonna Mammoth pretty soon so excited about that second one would be guitar playing another thing that I can do but I'm not good at and I don't do often enough but I enjoy playing guitar playing guitar in a video here there before and then third would be like hiking I guess hiking backpacking I like I like exploring the outdoors detaching getting out into nature and all that good stuff so that's another one but thanks sneak seek we're safe for sending that in how many more question I've got like five or six more questions left but these are these are more straightforward ones so I'm gonna try to bang through them pretty quickly geek geeky extra tech asks what video on your channel was the video that made your channel big this is a hard question to answer directly because I will show you some of the I guess more popular videos on my channel but the real answer here would be Newegg TV is really what what really provided me with an existing audience when I was doing videos for Newegg and when I started my own channel there was just sort of a natural flow of people as I was like hey and I have this video over here on my channel too where I you know I'd say my actual opinions and that kind of thing so that was definitely the biggest help was starting out with Newegg and that gave me kind of that launching point it's one of the things that I always bring up when people ask me like I'm starting a new channel what can I do and I always point out like look I had a I had a leg up on a lot of people by having that built an audience with Newegg and the audience would already go to Newegg and watching to make videos and so they naturally see me and all that good stuff anyway though are the videos on my channel sorted by popularity and hey i have a new most popular video my best cpu for gaming video with haswell-e comparison to sky like and as well Wow broke 600,000 happy about that but yeah my Titan my GTX Titan 4 Way SLI video is very popular for a while that's a - almost three years old now a lot of my tutorials I guess are very helpful doing something that I know people will hopefully get a lot of benefit from in a long run like my how to clean a mechanical keyboard video did that over a year ago but it's still getting the regular views it's still one of my very commonly viewed videos and I still get comments on it and stuff so yeah doing videos I guess that you feel like have a longer lifespan or that will help people for you know an extended period of time is often helpful in doing the comparisons that people like to see so I couldn't a 9 64 gig first came out I did a video on that and I specifically tailored it for using it with GTA 5 which is very popular at the time anyway I'm probably going off on too much of a tangent but those are some of the videos that's made not a channel popular awesome Rheem lad 2k asks what got you into computers our tech and this is a typo I'm assuming computers or technology going back to that other question of like how I kind of first built my own computer and all that kind of stuff I Legos as Legos a good answer here I from a very early age I really liked just kind of taking things apart and putting them back together from like a cassette tape like I used to do I used to do like surgery on cassette tapes and take the things apart and take the cassette tapes out and like fix like splicing together cassettes I don't know just stuff like that building whatever popped into my head with Legos was always something that kind of I felt like I had an aptitude for earlier on in life and then when I started working with computers I guess I like I'm big on logic I like things to be to make sense and be logical and I always thought computers made sense the way computers worked just kind of made sense to me so I guess those kind of things earlier on kind of got me into that and then of course the stuff already mentioned earlier in the video with my dad sort of my dad my dad's a software but he kind of started me out that path earlier on although now I'm the hardware guy so he always PS questions about hardware I get them ok here's a Lamont Cranston question he s will you ever do any hackintosh related videos this I feel like also ties into those other questions about how I started out with technology and computer building I would say probably not at least not in the near future I don't have any plans to because I don't really work with much stuff over on the Mac side that's been kind of intentional on my part because I get a lot of tech support questions and as much as I like having a breadth of knowledge I just kind of cut out the Mac side of it I don't know quite a few years back simply because I didn't want have to keep up with both and because I have been someone who has built my own computer for many many years now the Mac OS was always something like like building a hackintosh it's easier now but like like Apple blocked that for quite a while they didn't want people building their own hackintosh azure their own Mac computers so that was I was kind of like all right then I won't I'll just stick with Windows and stuff like that so that's why I really haven't done much with hacking Tosh's again it's not something that I would ever rule out it might be a fun thing to kind of delve into but I don't I don't have any plans for it in the immediate future I guess is the answer to that one all right I have what four more questions okay this one's from Swarna Vasile or at silver sparks on Twitter one software or app that I can't live without be it for PC or from mobile give this some serious consideration I was going to say premiere because I edit all my videos on premiere and that would be that would be rough to live without but I have used other editing Pro software so I will say the software that I use to help organize this video which was Google Docs I have become really really invested in using Google Docs for lots of stuff just like I can get my laptop and type something here and then it's just over here all that kind of stuff I use Google Docs all the time and I hope there's no evil thing at the bottom of it that's watching everything I do or something like that Jimmy o or at plain old Jim asks would you rather fight 1,000 forever a Kyle sized fractal Josh's or one J's $0.02 sized nori hardware a very good question and I see what you were going here before here Jim for every Kyle or Kyle who I do the the awesome hardware show with on Tuesday evenings is he's very small he's a small person but he's not like super tiny if we're talking like you know the size of you know like this mug or something like that then yeah maybe I would go for the the forever of Kyle size fractal Josh's fractal Josh also is me he's a mean fighter and nasty fighter so um you know that's something to consider to see I guess I would have to go with the Jays to synthesize nori hardware because I feel like a thousand fractal Josh's of any size is just not something that that I want to deal with ever Liam or Liam mr. K asks how tall my I am about five ten and a half five five eleven so I don't know I have no idea if this is accurate but about but a little less than six feet tall is about 1.8 meters for any of our friends who are viewing this from across the pond or I guess no not across anywhere else in the world besides America well there's a few other places that use the imperial system but mostly America all right last question here this one's from Jason of Angelo at killer fm he's a writer of tech articles on Forbes and lots of other places too anyway boxers or briefs briefs 100% always briefs sometimes I'll wear boxer briefs but that's usually for like working out or that kind of thing you know when you need a little bit more security I suppose anyway guys that's all for this video I really hope you have enjoyed its just answering some random questions from all you folks out there again I want to do this I'm thinking maybe monthly maybe at the end of every month a little doodle Q&A section but again let me know in the comment section down below if you're enjoying this if you want to see it more frequently than once a month what do you think I should do with the title if you think I should change it up at all but thanks all you guys who have submitted questions feel free to leave some more in the comments section on YouTube and I'll check that out before I do the next Q&A video and as always thank you for watching