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what's up guys welcome back to Pauls hardware this is probing Paul episode number three or at least the third of my QA monthly videos that I'm doing so every month I answer some questions that you guys ask this month I will be responding mostly to questions that were asked in last month's video this is last month's video where I showed the months before that's video if I keep doing this it will eventually like it'll go down to near infinity I imagine depending how many of these I do anyway thank for all the feedback and and all that good stuff in the last video appreciate that you guys and I'm back to answer some more questions so let's get right into it starting off with this one No that's the headline question but we have one actually that was right before that which is from Finn Jake and he said would the cards you put on the Shelf get dusty over the time this is this is pretty straightforward he's talking about the Shelf behind me the answer would be yes they do but I have this look it's a feather duster this is an ostrich feather duster which means it's very soft it looks best to you know clean the desks out of it after use it I got this because you know lots of stuff back here and I need a quick and easy way to clean it and a feather duster just works great now granted if you have a graphics card that's been in use for a while it's gonna have dust kind of caked up in there and on the fins but if it's just sitting out you know you just kind of go over the top give a little dusting off and then you're good to go so that's my solution for that anyway next question here is from Sufyan con who says is it worth waiting for AMD Zen or should I get an Intel CPU for gaming that's a very good question this is the this is like the ultimate question the eternal question should I buy new hardware now should I wait to upgrade in the future and there's no direct answer for it what I would ask you to answer this question for yourself is do you have a computer that you're using right now for gaming if gaming is what you want to do and is it living up to your expectations is it possible you know there's a lot of times a system can get to three years old and it can still do everything that a brand new system would do but it just does it a little bit slower so it all depends on how patient you are I guess to some degree how accepting you are of not having access to the newer technology like and not to these and nvme support and that kind of thing depending on what system you're current you currently using of course and then you also have that forward-looking potential or factor here which is that a and B Xen is something that we know is going to happen it should happen this year at some point we're expecting it in the second half of the year so that's at least three months but probably longer than that until we actually see an actual AMD Xen CPU that you can buy and install in a system so you have that maybe time that's like well you're gonna be waiting for months so you're gonna be waiting until December we don't really know an AMD isn't necessarily the best at always sticking to their release dates for certain products like they just came out with a Radeon Pro duo and that was supposed to come out in December and that was after being pushed back from like q3 last year so Hardware schedules can get pushed back waiting can be frustrating so all that taken into consideration it's obviously gonna be up to you whether or not you should invest or not but hey if you can't live with the system you have right now then just upgrade just upgrade and tell yourself you know it in three six months this is gonna be supplanted by something else that's newer and faster but hey that always happens that will not not happen regardless of what you buy so if you can sort of tell yourself that and live with it then it will give you a little bit more confidence to go ahead and buy right now that said and I know this is another future looking thing Intel should be launching cabie lake or kb lake in june we're expecting that in June so that's another I guess factor the throw in there to make this in even more confusing decision for you next question here is from Ray Marlin RT and sorry these are all pixelated I just screen captain what kind of camera to use a good question I've answered this once or twice before but the first answer would be the Panasonic Lumix gh4 DMC gh4 this is it right here the prices come down a little bit but if you buy it new you can get it for about $1,300 I just really like this camera because it's got features specifically for video that are really nice like the flip out screen so you can flip around and be able to see yourself it's got like an audio jack input which is just something that you really need it's got an HDMI out I'm using that to record right now so it's got a clean HDMI out accepted by lots of different capture cards so you can use it to record directly which is super helpful I've actually just ordered a new one of these I'm gonna have two of them to assist with my workflow and specifically for doing live streams I wanted to have a better image quality of the live streams all around and my other camera that I used right now which I swear to God I brought out here now is completely disappeared I'm blind it's right here okay this is my lumix Alex 100 which actually has also has a micro 4/3 sensor and really nice it's a fixed lens but it is a very nice compound lens it does really nice close-ups and I would just use this for what I bought the second gh4 from but what these camera companies seem to like doing is they take their kind of prosumer level point-and-shoots that are kind of like this that cost 800 to a thousand dollars and they cut out to like really really important features that video production people would want one is that discrete audio jack in so you can do a audio from a different source besides the built-in speakers and then the second thing granted you can do audio from a different source you just have to sync it up later in post but that's annoying the second thing is that clean HDMI out I thought this was gonna have it originally when I got it but that HD I'm out on this is only for watching recorded movies to be played back which is all of completely useless for me so for that reason I got another gh4 I'm looking forward to it arriving soon I got it on eBay for nine nine hundred and forty dollars I think yeah I got it used I was okay with that alright here we go next question this one is from Adam Ricard he's asking do you have giveaways basically besides reviews and the answer here would be yes yes I do here's a bunch of giveaways I searched my channel for giveaways so I wanted to point out this one and particularly the one that's right at the top because we're doing another one just like this next month in April but I've done like I did a hundred thousand dollar giveaway where I gave away a full computer I mean hundred thousand subscriber giveaway not a hundred thousand dollars and then I also gave away for two hundred thousand subscribers I gave away a gtx 980 yeah I've done some giveaways I don't like to do them all the time but yeah again we're doing a really really similar one to this one coming up in about a month it is the same people it's me Kyle Jay and hardware connects Dimitri and yeah it's gonna be great you can dollarz you wanted to find an OS and some other stuff too I hope I'm not spoiling it by tell you guys early but yeah it's a giveaway and that'll be in first or second week of April I think so yeah another question here and this one's sort of associated that's from Sween 92 what's your recommendation for an affordable microphone lab or Yeti style for an aspiring content creator well you actually pointed to one that I would definitely recommend even though I don't have one and use it personally it which is a Yeti yetis are just they they do a really good job plugs in via USB really easy to use sits on the desk has a pretty decent Stan built-in with some isolation so you know you didn't get too much noise if you bang on the desk or that kind of thing I use a few different audio solutions so if you're a content creator obviously you're gonna want maybe better audio for a camera so this is a rode videomic this is a video mic Pro I find this to be very convenient to pop on top of a DSLR plugs in if you have an eighth inch audio input on your DSLR and this will just give you much better audio and much more directional audio because if you're pointing it at your subject and your subject within 5 to 12 15 feet in front of the camera it'll pick them up really nice its directional though you got to point it at them and then you only have the option of plugging in via this little 8 inch jack so another option well I'll show you guys what I'm using right now and this is since I have two of these this one would normally be up there but I pulled it off this is another mono priced product this is a what is this this is their large diaphragm condenser mic which if you want to find it it's just six hundred eight hundred six hundred eight hundred is the model of this and this is nice because it's XLR so I use this along with a soundboard this does need power but for 82 hundred bucks depending on whether it's on sale or not the sound you get on this is really quite nice I mean I have a lot of echo in this room and it still does a pretty good job I have it like right here right right in front of my face but just out of the camera's reach this also gives you like a shock mount and that kind of thing so you need to drop 8200 bucks on this and then you definitely need a sound board since you need power for this so you're probably gonna spend another 50 to 100 I don't know how budgets are affordable affordable you mean by by affordable so that tends to vary depending on who you are the last thing I will I will show you guys here is a audio solution that I used for the first several years that I was doing YouTube which is a zoom h1 this is about a hundred dollars and the nice thing about this is it's portable for one and it's also pretty versatile so it's it's still a hundred bucks apparently the price has not gone down although I've seen it cheaper here and there if you can find it on sale it's got pretty nice built-in mics so as long as you have it fairly close to your face as you're talking that picks up pretty good audio it's got built-in controls here so you can turn the volume up and down and all that good stuff battery powered so double-a battery and that lasts quite a long time with just a single double-a can record directly to the device itself via microSD cards it has a microphone input so you could connect it up to like a lav mic if you have a right lav mic that doesn't need phantom power you could plug it in here and use this as a digital audio recording device if you're not using the microphones it's also got a line out so you can use that to actually put some headphones on and record what's going on inside there and everything again it's 100 bucks and you get a lot of features in here it's not like the best audio quality but as long as you can keep it pretty close to your face or the subject or whatever you're talking to I find it does a great great job I even got this little this little bracket I don't even live those shockmount I got the shock mount as well which is not made exactly for this but um this allows you to even take it and use it kind of like the same way that I would with the rode videomic which is to mount on top of a DSLR or something like that and yeah speaking of microphones my mics probably picking up a train rolling by right now let's give it a second we'll come back that was a kind of long-ass train but hey it did go by faster than when I had to wait for my computer to update to Windows 10 which it did automatically right before I started recording my my my probe and Paul for today isn't that fun also the dogs are in the other room speaking of dogs wait this is the wrong question next question from where does the excellent in my intros come from well I'm not going to tell you guys directly but maybe someone in chat knows and I will also say that there's a big hint staring and staring you right in the face right now until it is I'll leave that and that's that's my mystery alright another actual tech question this is from Michael Webb he's got a memory question he says he has a skylight 6,700 kg1 gaming motherboard sets from gigabyte and won't let him use all four memory sticks he says only to work he has eight gigs in the machine so he's got a four by four gig kits and it's a g.skill 3,200 Hertz kits any ideas why it's only letting you have two sticks work ok Michael uh just a few things that you should check out here one is there is a chance that your motherboard is simply defective and that one of your memory channels isn't working properly two would be that your motherboard is set to use XMP mode if your motherboards is set to use XMP then as you're booting up it's automatically trying to run that memory at 3200 mega transfers per second for a second to be specific and it might not be able to do that your processor might not be able to do that your processor is where the memory controller is and if it's memory controller can't run at that speed then you can't run that memory at that speed so definitely try checking to make sure you have XMP is on or off try running the memory at the default speed for skylake which would be 21 33 and then maybe instead of enabling XMP try ramping up from there and seeing if that does it by and large you just need to test everything that default speeds and see if all four sticks are recognized if it's not they're running at default speeds and chances are you got a motherboard problem maybe a CPU problem but more likely the motherboard and what you're really going to want to do is find a repair shop or something like that that you can bring the equipment into so they can test each components individually in working systems like the CPU and a known working motherboard the memory and a known working system just to pinpoint exactly where you've got a hardware failure if you are dealing with a hardware failure and it's not just the fact that your memory your CPU can't handle that speed again 3200 mega mega transfers per second for ddr4 is an overclock speed until only actually guarantees you'll be able to run that's at what 21:33 is the default so yeah moving along from Alex want is we have that's Robo hazard by the way we have a very important question I've I've been asked this a lot and thankfully yes I do have a peel box now and here it is I have only shared it with a couple people so far and I'm sharing it with you guys here on probing Paul here towards the end of the show peel box for three to five Diamond Bar California so if you guys want to send me anything that's legal to be sent through u.s. mail and hopefully not like huger useless make it be useful or at least I don't know food no don't send food unless it's fudge your might beginning some fudge in the mail soon okay let's move on to the last bit of the show here which is going to be the Twitter segment and I didn't ask for questions on Twitter today I asked people to come up with a cool backstory for Heroes scar so here is our new little dog I say little but that's not true he's actually 85 pound mastiff pitbull mix and he's got this he came from the from shelter we we got him from rescue shelter he's about 7 years old and he has some pretty his ears are cropped pretty pretty hurt heinous ly we don't really approve of that but you know he's he's amazingly cute super friendly he's got the scar on his snout right here and it's very mysterious he looks he looks like a real tough dog so I'm just gonna go down the line here and see what people had to say about this timmy said fighting off a mob of ninja kittens Zayn said an entire bushel of ninjas were they ninja kittens I don't know Paul says ninja cats so obviously there's ninjas of some kind possibly the feline variety involved here I got it when the Fire Nation attacked from Mike I think that's a that's a Last Airbender reference I believe I'm not familiar with sorry here was a retired samurai dog he lost his ears and got it got his scar after a vicious sort of eeeh Slee he's alright so he rose I mean it's a Japanese name so I guess that's why we're getting the ninja side of a shaving accident that's a possibility breaking out of the crate he did escape from his crate the other day using his massive strength and then he went and laid down on the couch because he just wanted to lay down on the couch inside the crate he used to be a pirate and fought off a group of ninjas now we're introducing pirates to this alright nodding through a chain-link fence perhaps any of those two escaped from the kennel Dog Shawshank Redemption I could imagine him standing out in the rain too pouring down freedom all that got into a fight with YouTube execs on Cal's behalf that's a good one we need some sharks and the story somehow pulled the bumper off of a truck that's how he did it Dougy kryptonite treats as he fought giant cat robots from outer space were they ninja cat robots could be defending a GT 740 from a big nasty bullet gtx 660 was a fan blade strike during epic midair battle I like that I like the inclusion of the actual hardware their secret ninja obviously when in doubt could be aliens fighting alongside the humans against Sauron all right also the elves and all free folk dorbz he got shot into work she got shot in the war bar fight with a shark it's be a pretty fun bar to be a part of Dave put a he did a whole story here adopted by this man Tito Leibowitz he's a small-time gun runner and a pit bull fighter promoter born to this we'd like bitch of a mother he was always a shameless man and ashamed of this man wait ashamed of this and then right after I completely I completely read that first the first of all to understand what happened to here you got to understand who here the dog was I hate anyway thank you Dave I like I like your whole story that I am Dee fury ax overheated exploded as it flew towards him as he threw it on his way to and they flew it exploded as it flew toward me he threw himself in the way oh so he sacrificed himself for me I like that one too I might go with that one walking down the alley in the back one night we don't really know what happened just just came up with a scar and then you're supposed to tell there was something about you should have seen the other guy I think was the other option wow they're a lot more there's quite a quite a many responses quite many responses he thought an arctic Panther that's a good one there yeah and if anyone asked you say he should have seen the other guy it's beautiful all right guys that is gonna wrap it up for this episode 3 of probing Paul thank you all so much for watching I hope you have enjoyed it you can hit like button down there cuz that's always a good thing to do I have links in the description for my store if you want to buy shirts mugs or glasses and mugs like this one as well as pint glasses and all those good things if you want to ask me more questions leave them down in the comments and I'll be coming back to this in particular before next month's probing Paul really appreciate you guys all watching have a safe and wonderful weekend and we'll see you next time