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excellent what's up guys welcome to probing Paul episode number 10 yeah the 10th time I've done this it's my monthly Q&A session that I do answering questions from you guys and all the questions from today are derived from the comment section from last month's video probing Paul episode 9 which I did from here and I also apparently wear the word same shirt that I'm wearing this time I was in the Philippines a month before that but um there we go looking at all of the historical probing Paul's back through time but let's get right to it again starting with questions asked from you guys this is Alex's question it's not really question he says he saw the beard and he automatically clicked like and there were a few people who who agreed with him there in case it's not obvious my beard my beard has been shaved I did that yesterday I soldiered on with it as long as I could i went through november like kind of that whole process and then i kind of kept it into december and then i was just i got too busy to shave it but honestly it's just as i feel like it's a little bit too much maintenance for me it gets itchy and and all that kind of stuff it's really easier for me to grow back though so i can't promise that you know the beard has gone forever it might come back but we'll see how that plays out in the future all right Jake Connor asks how many monitors is too many monitors a very good question Jake and you know I will point out to this picture that was actually linked by a fellow who responded to your question on the comments which is from someone who's doing day trading like stock trading with all kinds of monitors it really depends on what you're doing but I like three monitors I think and then maybe adding a fourth if you want to go that route if you're going to be just gaming I think focusing on a single really good monitor for that is a good way to go and I think 21 by 9 is a great solution for that so you can even get by with a single monitor in that situation especially if you have the ultra wide or a single 16 by not 9 monitor just as your central gaming monitor I think should be your primary focus beyond that having two monitors is a big step up I have two monitors and pretty much every workstation that I do work at here at home and then if you can add a third and get three of them then can get the whole wraparound thing going and that's really exciting you can just get so much work done with that kind of workspace and then I do like the thing of having the three in the front and adding that fourth one right up above I think that's a cool solution as well beyond that I think you start to get to the point where you just have too much going on and it becomes more of a distraction than then helping you keep focused or get work done but if the question is geared mainly towards gaming definitely just focus on your single main good monitor first off but don't throw away your old monitor keep your old monitor and use it as a second one because minimum I think two if you want to get anything done I think is the way to go that's my advice for that thanks for the question Jake Judi asks do you believe SST endurance ratings matter I was just wondering which SSD would recommend terms of reliability I have quite demanding read/write cycles and I read right about 60 gigabytes per day I have options such as OCZ vector 480 Samsung 850 Evo 1 terabyte Samsung 850 Pro WD blue OC zvx thank you thank you that you're enjoying the videos and let me see if I can help you out with this question SSD endurance ratings used to be measured in program erase cycles pe PE cycles which kind of refers to the way that data is written to SSDs but they've kind of updated that and this they're now they're listing tbw or terabytes written which is usually sometimes at least in the case of samsung's warranties here going to be a time period or the amount you've written to the drive so if you really hammer the drive and they'll take that as your warranty period versus like 10 years or something like that that you might get for an 850 Pro Series that said the pro series generally do tend to have a greater and durability more total bytes Rin as you might see right here the pro series compared to the Evo series actually kind of doubles what you get or at least what they're expecting but that's what the manufacturer says and the manufacturer is going to tell you something that's like as much as they can promise while still staying within the realm of what they think the expected failure rate will be so what you'll actually find is that a lot of SSDs can go way way beyond that but speaking from a more practical perspective here Zanon antique article about this is actually by an aunt himself Anand I should pronounce his name correctly but anyway he is talking about total bytes written and a bunch of different factors that go into that there's other things like write amplification as it's doing trim cycles and that kind of thing but he at least put down into a chart and they said assuming 100 binary gigabits written GI be how long will each of these drives last and this is 840 series this is a couple years old now and even the lowest-performing drive the 120 gig model they're estimating 4 years of Worth and that's what's like hammering the drive 100 gigabits binary gigabits gigabytes written per day is a lot now you said you're using 60 a day and I did basic math here to indicate that if you're writing if you're actually writing 60 gigs a day that will be 22 terabytes per year and depending on what driver using that may or may not use up that cycle be absolute but to be more realistic I are somewhat more realistic I'll also direct you guys to this article on tech report it's again a couple years old but I think it's still very valid and this is linked in the description this is by Jeff and he did like an endurance test with a bunch of different SSDs talks about how they die and why they die and NAND running out and all that kind of stuff but basically after several months of testing I believe it took several months for it to go through they finally all died but they took a long time several of the drives got to 600 700 or 800 terabytes written before they actually kicked the bucket the courser Neutron GTX got over a petabyte 1.1 to 1.2 petabytes written the longest-lasting drives in the tests where the HyperX drives as well as an a 40 Pro I believe the HyperX drives went over to petabytes and the 840 pro I think went to 2.2 or 2.4 but um I mean this is a little bit anecdotal because they were using the he just use single drives for all those tests but more to the point is that what these drives did before they failed was they started throwing smart errors so that can give you some indication that a drive is about to die and most of them didn't just die and stop working and even if you do get through all of the program erase cycles that an and chip is capable of doing most good drives will actually enter as a state called steady state rather than I guess solid state steady state just means you can't write to the cells anymore but you can still read from them so even if the drive did freeze up entirely as far as being not writable to anymore you should still be able to get the information off that drive that is of course unless your flash controller dies but flash controller really has nothing to do with durability and that's something that hasn't been quite as big of a problem I think since those older SandForce controllers got off the market okay I hope that is a pretty that's that's a pretty thorough answer to your question and the hope that gave you some good info anyway major McLaren asks is it worth buying a laptop with the new 10 series graphics card I would say yes for a few reasons one they're full sized GPU so if you get a 1060 1070 or 1080 from Nvidia in a laptop it's the full version of the chip and two would be that the best competitors I feel like for those GPUs the discrete mobile GPUs from AMD side aren't going to be available for a while what they're talking about right now with Vega and the GPUs based on Vega probably are going to be out in the laptop form via ap use that use n and Vega in the same chip probably not till the second half of next year so you still have a while now where I think the 10 series GPUs from Nvidia are going to be kind of the best gaming performance you can get in a mobile version and a laptop now again they're they're full size GPUs but they're still in a laptop form factor so often they they're down clocked a little bit some of the specs are very very slightly different but I did just get a razor blade 16 that I'm working on a video review for that has a 1060 in it and I think I think they work really well they're very power efficient too so great solutions if you really need a gaming laptop to take on the go alright Jason asks I was going to buy a new CPU for Christmas - 6600 K or 67 ok then I heard the new KB Lake CPUs are coming out should I wait for the new generation of processors or just bite the bullet and get skylake instead now you ask this question I don't know three three to four weeks ago when there was not as much information out as there is now now there's certain things I can't really talk about because there are ndas coming up that I am restrained by butts lots of news lots of leaks and certain stuff coming out especially on the AMD side and they just basically have told everyone there's n CPUs we'll be out in the first quarter first quarter could mean January to March so it's like a good three three and a half month time range that you'd be waiting for you're talking about skylake processors KB Lake is also supposed to come out again rumored at the beginning of 2016 and we don't know exactly when that might be again could be January it could be later than that but yeah the thing you're looking at right now though at least is the tail end of like the holiday sales happening so if you can get a good deal on a 6600 K or 6700 K I'd say it'd be worth buying especially if you don't think you can wait two months one month two month three months to get yourself a system up and running that said if you have a system right now that's functional that's getting you by I think it's worth it to wait because you'll have cable a cop shion's which will give you more options you might have some price drops on some of the other stuff you never know you might see skylight drop a little bit and then if Zen really comes out and does do what is expected then you might see some price shuffling as well on the CPU side so I think that assesses it there that that yeah that's what I think about that Juan asks hey Paul what brand of 2.5 inch SSD would you recommend for the average consumer for your average consumer still being reliable they're way way too many options to choose from I agree one and there are lots of options because there's lots of companies that you haven't heard of before that can purchase some man to get a controller and cobble together products without too much effort that said I like to stick with reputable brands and I think you should too the cool thing at least if you're looking at 2.5 inch SSDs is since they've been out for a while and since SATA kind of really they topped out what's what the SATA bus could could handle like two years ago you have lots of really comparable performance SSDs at the top of the range that are still quite affordable so all that said obviously you want to take a close look at what price you're paying and then I would say just go with a reputable manufacturer and my list starts with Samsung and Intel also crucial SanDisk Kingston ADATA Corsair Patriot Myshkin Plextor and OCC all brands that I would have no problem purchasing an SSD from then just look for a good cost per gigabyte and then make sure that the performance numbers that are listed are there and of course double check your reviews too and see what kind of experience people are having with them you want 450 to 550 megabytes per second reads and rates and most SSDs can hit 90 to 95 percent of what the fastest SSDs and the range can cost of course if you're looking for really good endurance like I was already talking earlier maybe go with the pro model like an 850 Pro but by and large you can get again 90 to 95% of the performance of the top-end 2.5 inch SSDs I mean even if you're buying the slightly more budget models a data SP 550 is one that I have worked with before good performance in a really good price and now you hear that train rolled by which means I should probably cut this off and start working on my next video so stay tuned for that hit the thumbs up button if you enjoy it and of course leave me comments in the comment section because I will be coming back and answering those next months in probing paul number 11 the first one for 2017 and maybe i'll even respond to a few of you who asked me to play a song on the ukulele ukulele I was I was considering doing that but um and my voice is I don't know my voice is anyway thanks for watching guys we'll see you next time