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gigabytes X $2.99 motherboard lineup features a range of options with support for Intel's Core x-series CPUs boards like the Auris X 299 gaming 7 are packed with useful features and support obtain memory Thunderbolt 3 and USB 3.1 gen2 click the link in the description for more information hey everyone how's it going - welcome to Paul's hardware it is nearing the end of 2017 and today I actually have sort of a bunch of random stuff to do around here so I thought at the same time I would ask you guys via Twitter if you had any questions for me to end the year so we've collected some of those I'm going to be just sort of setting up this system over here to ship out I'm gonna be taking this system over here apart and putting some stuff away and just trying to get tidied up and prepared for the next year in the meantime though let's start with question number 1 you have any plans for a home server built in 2018 alright so this question is from Bob Roche at CPU kid on Twitter and yes actually so earlier this year is a four or five months ago I went and I got this big old piece of walnut and been intending to wall mount that along with my htpc and a lot of people have asked about that and I haven't followed up with it several reasons contributing to that but one of them is I think I'm gonna make it more than just the HTTP see I think I'm going to integrate server as part of their at the part of that as well so because that's kind of been evolving over time I haven't gotten to it yet but yes I do plan to set up something akin to that in 2018 and hopefully I have more details on that for you soon what is the best time to purchase a Tektronix and its lifecycle to maximize value open time example get CPU community after march vs. Lane six months thanks XP this is questions from two Moon Studios on Twitter at Tumen studios and it's a good question and it probably varies based on the product that you're talking about CPUs for instance on the Intel side if you look at the past I don't know five ten years don't tend to drop in price all that much however the AMD CPUs that they've come out with this year already did have some pretty significant price discounts and everything especially just in the past few weeks going through audio sales and Black Friday so I would say a couple months after initial launch is a good time period to wait to sort of see if anything bad might happen for example if you go all the way back to say when Sandy Bridge launched p67 motherboards at the time had an issue with the chipset and they had to issue a recall which was a pretty big deal at the time stuff like that will come out pretty early in the products life cycle usually and then when it comes to discounts usually brand new products aren't going to be discounted if you give it a couple months depending on how successful the product is you may or may not actually see a discount at that point so that's a little generic but hopefully that helps you out a little bit major static computers and I don't know what type of degrees I could get to work in the field thanks all right so this questions from extra-large chai or a bad juju gumbo on Twitter and just asking about schooling when it comes to getting in the computers and first off I guess I should point out I did not go to school at all for anything computer related I studied film and television so you don't necessarily need that background but it could help computer science would be one that you should definitely investigate I would say definitely look into getting more familiar with software and programming that is definitely an area that if I went back to myself and wanted to re reassess what I was focusing on I would spend more time on the software side of it and then finally if you're interested in the hardware side of it then injury engineering and specifically electrical engineering that's what your focus should be on there what is the most expensive mistake yet have you ever made similar a computer this question is from Christopher Christopher at Mill Dog 2010 on Twitter and I've thought I've actually been asked this question a few times somewhat recently and I've had to think about it because I guess whereas on the one hand you have Linus who apparently drops and breaks things all the time I don't know if I'm just more careful or more lucky but I don't think I've really destroyed that much when it comes to computer parts I will say that if I go back to my days at new egg and this may or may not be my fault I I cannot take full responsibility for this but there was a 39 60x engineering sample which was a over $1000 cpu at the time and it died and it may or may not have been due to ESD some electrostatic discharge or it might not have been my fault at all I wish I could give you more details but I've been sworn to Secrets secrecy and silence by the others who were involved at the time but definitely killing a very expensive high-end piece of computer hardware especially a high-end graphics card or CPU I'd say that that ranks right up there with it that's my story I wish had more details than that what is your most favorite case ever made a good question alright so we're gonna be working with a case later today which you the video may or may not be up for maybe that'll be a really good case but I don't know I'm speculating on that all right might define our five over there which I modified for arctic panther I really like is a case just because it's a reasonable size it's not on right now and anything so it's not looking like it's a reasonable size I modified it and put tempered glass on but it's not just like a piece of tempered glass it's an actual steel side panel with a window cutout in it which personally I like much better than just these tempered glass pieces by themselves I also modified it to put a USB type-c USB Gen 1 USB 3.1 gen2 type-c connector on there so it's got all the modern connections and functionality that you'd want the other case of pops into my mind when you bring up that question is the courser 650d which is a case that is a similar sort of box like design to the define r5 the corsair came out with and one of the reasons I really like that case is because it's in my mind still has one of the best side panels as far as accessibility that that has ever existed simply due to the fact that they they put two latches right here so the side panel goes like that two latches it pops out a little bit and then you can just lift it off and away which in my experience at the time like if you had anything in front of the case but you needed to get inside there there's just a really good solution I believe it had that on both sides as well so it made access to the interior of the case very easily very easy other than that it was a well-designed case at this point it would be a little outdated simply due to the you know probably didn't have USB three and that kind of thing but I really like the side panel this design it was just very functional and I also like the overall look of that one with the rush metal and everything thought that was cool like a game developers are shooting away from multi-gpu slight performance and Pascal is horrible Thanks this questions from lathe Salman or doc Leith on Twitter and yeah it's a good question because SLI multi-gpu configurations crossfire on the AMD side although they don't call it crossfire anymore they're sort of those drool-worthy high ends configurations that a lot of people would look up to and the fact was though and this is from talking to different industry reps some Nvidia folks and that kind of thing actual people who have a two-way SLI or crossfire setup with two graphics cards let alone three or four-way is very very very small I don't have any actual stats for you but I believe it was down in the like less than 2% range for SLI and then even much lower than that when it comes to three-way and four-way configurations it also takes a significant amount of research and development work in developments of drivers and especially development of drivers with different new games that might come out so you're talking about a lot of man-hours and work on the back end for both the GPU manufacturer as well as software developers of the games and at a certain point they just realized you know what it's not practical to be investing this amount of time and effort into a configuration that is used so little by so few people so even though lots of people look at that kind of thing because it's the highest of the high end of what you can get so few people are using it that they kind of stopped even even doing driver support for that I can look at some benchmarking suites that are specifically just made for benchmarking like 3dmark and those are still updated and those do still have driver support for multi-gpu configurations but keeping up support for something like that that's a lot more contained and it's not a whole new game or anything like that is a lot easier for them maintaining support for lots of different games so that's pretty much what it comes down to money investment of time and also just the amount of people who are actually into it so it's obviously two sides to that and you might fall on one side or the other whether you think it's it's a useful thing to keep up with in support of SLI or crossfire configurations but for now it looks like two-way is the max it's going to be should I look at getting baggage of PC gaming or wait until cryptocurrency money stops the algae prizes on GPUs okay Patrick roseberry at raging iguana on YouTube I'm sorry on Twitter I like you I like your Twitter handle the difficult question because speculation has evolved in stuff and we don't really know exactly what's going to happen with a cryptocurrency I don't see cryptocurrency disappearing anytime soon by any stretch the the validity of mining cryptocurrency with gaming GPUs also may or may not be something that stays popular so for your purposes I would look more at the ramp races because the GPU prices have fluctuated they've gone up and down and if you follow the markets for example you can get a Vega 56 or a Vega 64 for almost MSRP if you were following along in the past few weeks they of course would back up again but they do dip the overall price of memory though due to the man shortage is crazy high so that is anticipated potentially to start falling off as some production ramps up and some of the fabs in 2018 so I would keep an eye on that maybe give a couple months into 2018 to look at those prices and then of course keep an eye on the GPU prices but just bear in mind the volatility of cryptocurrency can also affect the volatility of GPU prices and it's if you can predict that sort of thing you probably have a much better job prospects than I do coming up in the near future because it's never been anything that I've been interested in attempting want me to do a liquid cooling build and I am unsure if I should look at coal mine okay and today a UTI with the release of copulate it's a worth it to wait and buy copulate and your mobile or should I just stick with my hat so Jerry the question is about liquid cooling and should you water cool you're 67 or K and 1080 TI the way you're discussing this makes me think you're considering a full custom loop in which case I hope that you have been saving money for that because a full custom loop is expensive and is not often the most you can get for your money when it comes to actual PC performance in your situation if you really want the most you can get you got a 1080i you're doing just fine with that for now yes you could upgrade your 6700 K to copy Lake that would be a huge upgrade and there's also a lot of stuff rumored to be happening in 2018 so I'd say you're pretty good for now with your hardware setup when it comes to liquid cooling if you're interested in setting up that custom loop bear in mind that the Intel sockets have maintained backwards compatibility when it comes to the actual coolers for quite some time so you could for example take a LGA 1150 1151 1156 CPU mount cooler and still use it for example with coffee lake it might be a good time to start parting out some of your custom loop and then you might also potentially have an upgrade path to still use like a CPU block that you get right now even next year when Intel comes out with whatever next gen stuff they're coming out with next year all that said just please bear in mind custom look and cooling loop is not the best bang for your buck when it comes to the amount of performance you get for your money so just keep in mind you're gonna spend probably between 400 and $1000 on the cooling and I would try to make sure that that stuff can be used for as long as possible which CPU generation do you feel was the most innovative and why this question is from Randy Martin are at name brand Randy on Twitter and it's a little vague here so I'm assuming you're talking about the entire lifespan of computers as it has ever since there were consumer computers out there there's probably lots of potential answers to this question but I would actually go for the stuff that AMD was working on back in 2005 and 2006 with their original Athlon FX series of processors because they did some crazy innovative stuff back then that's Intel at the time they kind of said you know we don't need to do that stuff or anything the inter integrated the memory controller onto the CPU and they also introduced dual core they also introduced 64-bit CPU architecture so that didn't all happen at exactly the same time but it is all kind of that same timeframe and it really gave Intel a kick in the pants right around 2005-2006 AMD was on top they were winning and it wasn't until a good 11 or 12 years later coming back to this this year in 2017 that AMD finally actually has sort of come back again when it comes to their cpu game so I think that's what I would point to well we do for a cold night bar what would I do for Klondike bar man that's an old reference I used to have so I'm old right I'm older so I used to have VHS tapes recorded of movies you know they come on actually we had a Betamax - back in the day and I remember we'd record movies from TV and then they'd have the commercials in them and I'm that's what the Klondike bar commercial reminds me of would you dress up like a clown that's the one yeah yeah I would dress up like a clown that's the only thing I would dress up like a clown for what is your favorite video you produce this year and what was your favorite text uber video this year oh that's a good question this one's from Lenny at malice Fox on Twitter and so if I'm going pee early by revenue my my for reasons PC building sucks right now that video took off lots got lots of views on that lots of feedback so not necessarily my favorite video though I kind of go back to the LGA versus PGA video was one that I did this year that I felt like turned out really well so that was a lot of fun the arctic panther build series of course was a lot of work but also a lot of fun and actually still ongoing that's not a single video so I don't know if I could I don't know if that counts and then also what's my favorite tech tuber video this year also a very good question I not a specific video but I really like the work the gamers Nexus has been doing this years they've just really been setting the bar when it comes to the level of testing and validation of different components and that kind of kind of thing no single video stands out but um yeah I have a lot of respect for the work that Steve and company are doing over there and I would also throw in the hardware connects video that they did just kind of recently talking about the vertical GPU mounts on cases when you put a GPU right here just doing some practical real-world world testing of a configuration that has gained popularity due to an aesthetic value but actually tested it and found when you have especially a tempered glass side panel right here up against a vertically mounted GPU that's believe it or not it blocks a decent amount of the air and your GPU runs hotter and it affects the performance so I like the practical testing like that and I do feel like it's something that I need to do a little bit more of this coming year so I'm gonna do more of that this year I'm gonna do games this is a Cole Cortez at sea underscore Cortes 84 on Twitter and let's see so you're starting a channel something so the advice that I usually give in the Kyle I feel like it gives pretty frequently people ask us about starting a youtube channel is not to start it with the intent of it being a full-time job of your profession to do it because you enjoy making the videos because you enjoy the contents not necessarily because you want lots of views or you want lots of money that might come in the future but you need to start from the right mindset from the beginning and if that mindset is I'm gonna make YouTube I'm gonna make youtube channel I'm gonna be famous I'm gonna make lots of money I just I haven't seen many people achieve success because it takes a lot of work several years of work building up a channel from the get-go and you should not be looking at view counts you should be looking at the feedback you get from the people who do watch you should be responding to that you should be updating your content and adjusting it so that it's still true to what you want to do but also a has some vague aspiration towards appealing to the people who you want to watch your channel as well and then just remain diligence and just don't have high expectations from the get-go it takes a long time to get started and get the ball rolling especially now compared to five or ten years ago so yeah just make sure that you're doing it because you enjoy it and not because not because of the money the money comes later power alright guys I would like to thank you for bearing with me today since I have really just had some kind of logistical cleanup and tacking of stuff to do but I was happy to answer some of your questions at the same time if you missed it then go ahead and follow me on Twitter at Paul Hardware and perhaps next time I do a Q&A you can get a question in there as well in the meantime I got that H 400 I build all taken apart and the case back in there the case actually I it's pretty pretty nice case I felt like it was just the build overall with the various quirks and everything ended up pissing me off so maybe we'll see that again in the future and then of course this is the entry level thread Ripper giveaway PC which I'm picking the winner of today but use probably in the past for you guys by the time you see this video point is that's all packed up here and then I got all the retail boxes and a graphics card in this box over there so whoever the lucky winner is we'll get that shipped to them ASAP once they answer their email of course but guys that's gonna wrap it up for this video so hit the thumbs up button if you enjoyed it thank you so much for watching and we'll see you next time