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the Thermaltake view 71 snow edition shows off your build in style with a frosty white paint job and four tempered glass side panels you also get two pre-installed hundred and forty millimeter ring white LED fans a vertical GPU mount with bracket and 3-way radiator support for water cooling so click the sponsor link in the description to learn more what's up guys welcome back to Pauls hardware this is probing Paul episode number 27 this is my monthly Q&A video and I didn't do it last month so technically this is mine for August although it is September 2nd now and I just got back from a two-week trip through the European Union visited Germany as well as Austria and the Czech Republic it was pretty cool I brought back some spoils of my travels like I got some Czech crowns here and I got some euro dollars which were which are very fun but even though I just got home and like I haven't even unpacked one of the first things I knew I had to do was get my probing Paul on so thanks to you guys who have submitted questions which were from last month's probing poll which it goes pretty far back there these days supposed to comment on this video if you want me to potentially answer in next month's probing Paul but let's get right to it with question number one from Johnny t last chalasis a eternal question here looks versus performance with the PC he wants my opinion on that especially with RGB still going crazy not obvious stuff like spend more money on bling but about details so he has a rise in 1600 at 3.9 gigahertz 75 degrees on I 264 but he doesn't want to give up his Wraith spire LED because it's got that RGB ring on it which is which is a pretty nice little cooler especially for something that comes relatively stuck with like an 1800 X thank you for your comment Johnny and I'm gonna answer this two ways first for you specifically you have a rise in 1600 at 3.9 gigahertz 75 degrees on I 264 that's a stress test so you're not going to really be using your CPU that much in day-to-day performance I'd be curious to see what types of temperatures you get when you're just gaming for example or maybe rendering video or doing transcoding or something like that I think you're at a pretty good situation so you're probably just fine sticking with that race fire LED especially if you like the LED if you do what I upgrade there are sort of blinging colorful options like maybe a cryo rig h7 quod lumi for example that you could upgrade to that would give you some better performance while still giving you that RGB goodness but more to the general question of looks versus performance because I have dealt with this for a very long time and if I go back to my old school days when I was first building computers like in the 90s and 2000's I would always say performance is king always go for performance and anything that you're doing to make your PC pretty is basically vanity and you should ignore it and you should take that money and spend it on more performance and I still generally feel that way but I feel like building pcs has changed somewhat used to be more of a value proposition build your own computer and you'll save maybe 300 bucks versus buying a prebuilt from Gateway or whoever was building computers back then now you don't save as much money building your own computer but it does make it a personal thing and especially for PC gamers who might spend a lot of time on it building something that you like the looks of I think does have some value so don't throw those aesthetics out the window but still generally gear yourself towards buying stuff that's first and foremost performance oriented and then maybe add the blingy RGB stuff on later and even if you're trying to build like an all-black or just a single color PC that still can be challenging and you still might spend a little bit more money than you would otherwise but making it personal I think is important so take that into consideration next question from gu 38 I wanted to know your thoughts on multiple audio jacks featured on most motherboards do many speakers FET setups require so many 3.5 inch jacks for multi-channel audio and most home theater setups when an HDMI out to make more sense if you're using an AV receiver higher quality more features such as Dolby and DTS streaming compatibility and a reference there comparing the smartphone industry which recently removed the 3.5 inch jack so I'm gonna use my little mini portable benchmarking PC that I took on my trip but I did not actually use actually thankfully it would have been a little challenging to do that on the road but audio jacks right here at the back they're multicolored so you got the inputs your pink as the mic input blue is a line in which I've never used for anything before green is your standard left and right out the orange is subwoofer and center Channel and then the black and sometimes gray will be your side and your rear channels now the reason I think so many motherboards still have these is legacy supports and if you talk to motherboard manufacturers it's always something that they're concerned about is making a new motherboard but let's go some older features that pisses people off because they have some epic 7.1 channel surround sound system that they really wanted to use those analog outputs for but more to the fundamentals here what you're talking about is the difference between analog and digital and where that conversion from a digital audio signal to an animal analog signal that then gets put out over your speakers takes place if you're plugging into the motherboards analog outputs here then you're using the motherboards sound hardware in order to do that DAC work digital to analog conversion but as you mentioned in most cases it's actually much more sensible to do a digital output so you can get a digital 5.1 or 7.1 output via your HDMI you can also use the Toslink here s/pdif connection and that will also give you digital and you can connect that up to a home theater so most people I think now are not using those analog outputs unless you're just using the standard green jack for left and right if you're just plugging in headphones or something like that so it does seem like something that we might see go the way of the is a slot in the future but I wouldn't expect it anytime soon I don't think it's necessarily a premium and space savings right there and the motherboard i/o there's generally a decent amount of room there still and from other manufacturers that put a lot of effort into the sound circuitry like asus calls their supreme effects and there's different variants of that if you're not using those analog outputs then you're not using that componentry that's built into the motherboard so that kind of gets wasted next question from Clarion Hitachi hey Paul I only have a 500 gig SSD I want to expand my storage though I do video editing and gaming mostly gaming and I don't know what it should buy an SSD or hard drive SSDs are getting really pricey here your hard drive is really cheap one terabyte could be useful as since these actually have been coming down in price so I'm just taking a quick look at PC part picker here and I'm sorting SSDs by price per gigabyte 13 or 14 cents price per gigabyte and look at the capacities that you're getting the best deals on right now it's actually the 500 gig range SSDs even the one in terabyte ones gotta go down here to this inland 240 gig to get a 16 cent per gig $40 to forty gig SSD which is still a good price I'm not sure about this particular model but the point is you can get larger capacity SSDs for cheaper these days and 500 gig SSDs you should be able to get for around 70 to 90 dollars now of course if we compare that to standard hard drives we're looking at two cents per gig two to three cents per gig if you're looking down here at the these three and four terabyte models again it depends on the capacity price per gig to give you your total price but a three terabyte drive for $60 or a four terabyte drive for $85 some pretty good deals there on capacity so my recommendation to you would be to get both but that's actually more because of your use case you talked about video editing if you're editing video it really makes sense to have multiple drives the best-case scenario is to have a single Drive preferably an SSD for your operating system and your software another drive to have your raw video on that your editing and then even better to have a third drive also probably hopefully an SSD for a cache drive but that's getting a little bit more advanced but the mass raw storage is also something that you'll want especially if you're editing video you're gonna fill up your SSDs pretty fast so I would recommend look into another 500 gig SSD first because that's where your performance will come from but follow it up pretty quickly with a mass storage drive again you can get a 2 or 3 terabyte hard drive for very inexpensive these days so it's nice that storage prices have continued to fall and I hope that helps you next question here from prathamesh pest Conte and this is a similar question at least still storage related how do I know if the m-dot 2 slot in a laptop can accommodate MDOT 2 SATA SSDs as well and he means as well as nvme SSDs I am guessing so here is an example I have two SSDs both width and two connectors MDOT two physically is the physical connector so you got the connector on the SS DISA and then he has a slot and the motherboard itself but there are two standards to interface standards that these can also be compatible with so you might have a SATA MDOT - SSD or you might have an nvme m2 SSD nvme is newer and faster and better but sometimes you can get less expensive SATA SSDs which are still perfectly fast and adequate and decent enough basically it's the same amount of with you would get if you're connecting to a SATA rev3 connection like a standard SATA plug the short answer is you need to ask your laptop manufacturer by either referencing the manual or going to their website and finding specifically if your laptop can open up and has slots in there for MDOT two drives that you can expand with it should be clearly listed whether it is nvme compatible or SATA compatible or both and sometimes if it's both it might oughta detect or you might need to go into your laptop's bios to switch it until it I want nvme mode or I want SATA mode next question here from Kevin boggy hey Paul and many of your budget oriented PC builds you and other tech user youtubers really seems to be recommendation of a SATA 3 SSD and a SATA 3 hard drive each usually costing 50 to 60 bucks based on us pricing at that cost why do you not recommend a pair of raid 0 hard drives for optimal comfortable load times both the operating system and games he's talking about hard drives but I'm going to switch this in and then pretend you're asking about raid 0 a couple of SSDs the main reason I don't recommend hard drives at all for operating system drives is response time SSDs are much much faster with response time and that is a primary thing that makes it feel so much faster when you're loading into your operating system or loading out the program that's the SSD boost that you get now back to your question why wouldn't you then recommend maybe to SSDs that were less expensive and you can rate a couple SSDs together in raid zero and then you would get better performance out of them and you would combine the capacity of both the reason there is complexity as well as failsafe and I don't like to recommend a solution to people that has the potential for disaster one of the ways we like to describe raid zero is that you have zero fall backs if you actually have a drive fail so two points of failure and if either of those dies your data is gone there's also a little bit more complexity to setting up raid 0 you gotta usually go into the motherboards BIOS to turn on raid mode and then you got to create the raid or array and then sometimes when you're loading windows you need to get an extra driver in there so that windows can recognize the raid array in order to load onto it it's not that complex but it's usually another step or two that a first-time user wouldn't be as familiar with so for that reason I usually recommend a simpler solution of a single SSD for your operating system and frequently use programs and a long-term mass storage hard drive that you know have your backups on actually two hard drives in raid one would be what I really want for your long-term storage that way you can have a little bit of redundancy built in there that way if you have all your you're irreplaceable pictures personal files and one of the drives fails you still have a backup solution but perhaps I'll do a more advanced like storage simple storage solutions video in the future that'd be a reasonable idea thank you for your question though Kevin next up is wd-40 with an interesting question here why doesn't somebody make a graphics card that literally plugs into two PCI Express slots I mean as long as you have a motherboard that supports 16 lines by two that would give a lot more Headroom and more bandwidth to deliver more power and it must although it must be a pain in the ass k PCIe Lane synchronized it would also allow a massive cooler to have plenty of support and to combat GPU sec now the first part of your question I think it's somewhat answered by the existence of two-way SLI configurations like with Nvidia and they just use an sli bridge to connect those two cards together there is also not really an issue of band width when it comes to a by 16 PCI Express gen3 slot you have some I think 32 gigabytes per second bi-directional there so a single graphics card even your highest then like gtx 980ti is not going to be able to saturate that Nvidia for example only requires a buy eight connection in order to support SLI configurations but the second part of your question I think is kind of interesting the idea that GPU sag is a problem in a lot of situations and there are triple slot cooler designs would it be possible to make an extension or an add-on to the cooler or something that just slots into that third PCI Express slot to provide more support a dummy slot that doesn't actually make connection with any of the gold contact points I could maybe see that happening it would hurt potentially the compatibility of the card but what if there was a cooler that had like a bracket you could snap on to it and then that would slot into the third one so you could remove it if you didn't necessarily have that slot right there where it was supposed to be that's a very interesting idea I think and I'd be curious to know if any of my GPU manufacturer friends have already potentially thought of that or at least considered it because they have lots of ideas that don't all necessarily come to fruition so maybe I'll ask about them we follow-up in a future video just a couple more quick questions here from stop pre-ordering video games it's a very good name does anyone know which mouse wrist rest Paul uses the great one and my capture PC that's that's this one right here this is made by hand stands and I found it's just on Amazon and I will link this in the description I actually tend to link this in the description of most of my Q&A videos just as a random link that goes in there because this question actually gets asked quite a bit this one does have some nori fur on it but I like it because it's got the microbeads in it and I wanted one that's not attached to a mousepad because I have lots of different mouse pads and I tend to move it around a lot from PC to PC and one of the tricks with this that I read about in the description is if it's a little too full for you if you want it to be a little bit flatter you can sort of undo the threading here a little bit and squeeze out some of the microbeads and make it a little flatter for you but I like to use a wrist rest because economically speaking if you're using a mouse you should try to keep the plane of your wrist as flat as possible and I just I'm in the habit of using your stress and I like this one and the last question from Patrick Stewart I'm honored sir how many probes can Paul take before it's too much it's a good question probably as eternal a question as the first question in this video about looks versus performance but I think many more many many more probings are still to come so guys thank you so much for watching this video I hope you maybe have learned a few things or maybe just enjoyed hanging out with me if you know the conversion rate for Czech koruna then let me know how much this is actually worth this is this is 70 I have 70 Czech crowns right here ready to ready to spend next time I'm in the Czech Republic Prague was beautiful but guys leave questions in the comment section down below if you want me to answer them in next month's probing Paul which will probably just be in a few months since it's already September thank you so much for watching this video once again and we'll see you next time