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excellent how's it going everyone welcome back to probing Paul my monthly Q&A video that I do this is episode number 15 and I'm going to be answering your questions that were primarily asked in last month's video probing call number 14 as you can see right here I'll link that down in the video's description if you want to go back into the history of questions that have been asked of me and you know figure out what my answers to them work so without further ado let's just jump right into it for today again mostly these were taken from last month's video I thought at least one other besides that first question is from Nicolas reef who asked this wasn't a question this was a follow-up to last month which the title was how to get rid of or sell old PT parts and I neglected to mention the subreddit Hardware swap and Nicolas pointed this out and quite a few people actually uploaded his comments so thanks plenty of guys who did that basically on that reddit Hardware saw Hardware swaps subreddit you can go on people post up there selling depending on the location you're at and that kind of thing I actually haven't bought anything directly off of here although I have browsed it before but it's a great way to find some good deals bear in mind that's apparently according to some of the other commenters if you're selling stuff there there's a tendency for people to try to lowball you with the prices that they're offering and everything but made a little bit more direct method of finding some hardware that's available in your area without having to go through something like eBay or you might have to pay extra fees or deal with the shady return policies or that kind of thing the next question was actually asked in the last night's awesome hardware and I saw this in chat and I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to screencap it or see who actually asked it but I've been asked this before as well but it's where do you get your Lord of the Rings t-shirts I'm wearing I'm wearing one of these right now this is my n smooch maple Meade shirt basically I have like three of these shirts my wife got them for me basically they're they're all like Lord of the Rings themed beers and kind of shirts with that which which thought felt pretty appropriate for me but they'll come from tee fury so if you go to tee fury and search for Lord of the Rings you can find this page where they have lots of Lord of the Rings themed t-shirts two of the three that I have aren't available anymore I have this green dragon logger one right here and then I also have the ministerios whitetail I believe and then of course my maple Mead there's also a Mirkwood merlot apparently but that's not beer I mean there's nothing wrong with wine but just not beer but that's where I got them again they might not also be available for for sale but if you guys want to check it out maybe they'll bring them back at some point next question is from Ellis frost what are the best ways to get into working with pcs I've applied to a few stores but haven't been accepted I'd love to be a system builder or somehow get a job doing benchmarks rather than as a Sales Advisor any suggestions this is a very good question and I get asked quite a bit because lots of people kind of want to do the type of thing that I do because it's a it's a really cool job as I'm not going to deny that I really like making YouTube videos about technology it's a difficult market to break into my recommendations for you would be first off make sure you have a solid foundation of knowledge of what you're talking about when it comes to the PC hardware if that's what you're focused on several responses to this question last month also point out that getting some certifications could be a way to get yourself up getting A+ certified or getting Network or security certification I like the real world experience though the hands-on stuff so definitely spend as much time as you can just doing what you do is a hobby try to get your hands on as much computer parts as possible will help out people building systems because the more you work with it the more familiar you will be with it but more realistically if you're looking at something entry-level I would look at companies that are already established that work in this market I started at Newegg doing something completely unrelated to what I eventually did there doing the YouTube channel but because I was interested in computers I was able to kind of work my way through up to a couple couple different positions to end up doing what I what I ended up doing I definitely say check out the review sites that are out there because there's lots of review sites of varying sizes that will often hire out third parties as independent contractors to write stories for them and I'll often be able to send you apart or something to take and do a review on or something like that that could be a good way to kind of get your foot in the door start to get yourself noticed and then of course start to learn the industry a little bit more because it's really not that huge of an industry when it comes to technology and computers in general but hopefully those are a few sort of starting out tips that could help you along on your way overall I would say definitely make sure you have a good grasp of communication skills because that's very important whether you're talking or whether you're writing you need to be able to use the proper words to get your point across as far as what you're saying and there's really no solution for that and I feel like as I talked about being able to speak well I should use better words to describe that but that's that's okay let's move on you're our proxy your proxy says I have a rise in seven 1700 is it a bad idea to buy a GTX 1074 1440p 75 Hertz gaming I'm assuming I would say no it's not at all a bad decision in fact the GTX 970 is considered by many to be the absolute ideal sweet spot GPU for 1440 they're also 75 Hertz so you're not gonna have to worry about hitting a really high frame rates but um 1070 should easily get you by and I would even say like I mean obviously if you go for a 1080 but I wouldn't even bother 1070 is perfect and I've recommended it many many times for 1440 gaming again especially at the refresh rate that you're looking at next up is radioactive Phoenix with Acer and Asus having upcoming monitors that are 4k HDR and 144 hurts what GPU do you think would be required to achieve those specs I imagine to push a game at 4k resolution 144 frames per second average or minimum ideally what a gtx 980ti be enough so just to show you guys what radioactive phoenix is talking about here Acer just recently announced the predator X 27 a 4k HDR hundred forty four grits g-sync monitor the ultimate gaming monitor Asus has a monitor and the works as well with these very similar specs we're anticipating is probably based on the same panel now I'm sort of giving a broad answer here because I'm not saying here are the benchmarks that show this or that a 1080 TI will be adequate is what I would say obviously it's going to greatly depend on what game you're playing if all you want to do is play csgo at 4k 144 Hertz you're probably going to be just fine even with less than a 1080 Ti but you got to play the newest triple-a titles with max the you know eye candy and all the special effects turned on at full resolution with 144 frames per second 1080i even it's probably not going to cut it depending again on the situation in the game that's being played you would probably be looking at a two-way 1080 TI solution for something like this if you really wanted to maximize the game performance but realistically it's probably going to be the type of thing that you just don't use to its full potential until another generation of GPS come out that can handle that high-resolution a little bit more easily because 4k even though it's been around for a few years now it's still very difficult to push a game at 4k especially if it is a high-end game but thank you so much for that question radioactive phoenix simple question here from max fox ultra wide or 4k for gaming a simple answer ultra wide is what i would say right now reasons being 4k I think is a little bit better for productivity 4k is harder to push as we've already discussed there's more pixels in 4k even then in an ultra wide like the h3 predator x34 I have back here 34 40 by 1440 you get more more pixels than they would with 1080 or even 1440 you get a wide screen which is I think a bit more immersive and fantastic for gaming and again you don't need quite as much GPU horsepower to push it so that's what I'd go for even the 2560 by 1080 ultra wives I think are a great solution for getting into that market in that way of gaming without having to spend a ton of money lmf Gauri asks hey Paul I have a pretty old motherboard and an 8300 and SX 8300 should upgrade to the rise inside for 1080p gaming only lms go and as Gauri I say yes right now is the time to upgrade your FX based system the FX series launched in like 2011 so they're like 6 and the architecture used in them is even older than that six or seven years old so yeah I demonstrated in my Rison seven launch video that when you're playing on even an overclocked 8350 it really hurts performance even at 1080 so you're going to get a nice boost especially if you're pairing it with a decent graphics card and the Rison 5 lineup is is really nice right now and you get a lot of bang for your buck I'd say go for the rise in 5 1600 ad overclock it's that's that's my suggestion swap swap no chip odd ask what happened to your giveaway I'm not going to win but still I've gotten this question quite a bit over the last month so I wanted to address it here very briefly my giveaway ended there here's my tweets back at the beginning of April average I first picked the u.s. $1000 USD cash winner went to Peter from Vienna Austria he claimed that really quickly set that over to him I picked the domestic winner his name was Logan and he didn't follow up he didn't respond to me in time so I ended up picking a new winner who wait where you go new winner is Matt he's from Scottsdale Arizona he claimed it right quick and actually if you guys are curious Logan did get back to me eventually and I'm going to be sending him a sweatshirt from my store one of my hoodies just as a consolation prize because he was disappointed obviously but he was also very reasonable about it Matt who did win actually since I donated on awesome Hardware last night and gave us an immature link which I neglected the show on the show but I wanted to show here here is the RGB build in its new home he's actually done some building and reconfiguration he's upgraded it's got like seven terabytes of storage in it now he moved the liquid cooler from the front to the top but as you can see he's got a really cool looking kind of flame looks like fiery color scheme going on right now and there's his full setup that he sent a picture of too so very glad that it went to Matt because he was super cool actually I didn't even send him all the pieces that for the case I missed out on some of the accessories he got in touch with fan techs and they replaced those for him so that was very cool fan text as well so that was a really cool giveaway and I'm glad the Matt when it and of course apologies to any of you guys who didn't win but at the Memphis final question from Jordan asks he says I love you Paul would you like to spoon with a 35 year old 65 to 70 pound italian-american man Manoah big guy but I would be gentle Jordan I'm intrigued obviously I'm married so I got to take that into account but you know what there's nothing mentioned here besides spooning that could be purely platonic and you know it just it feels like it would be warm and and it would like it would feel safe so I'm not going to say no I'll leave it at that but guys that's all for this video this episode of probing follow thanks so much for all the questions that have been submitted I'll be doing this again next month so if you have any more questions as to leave them in the comment section down below of course if you're down there and you want to take a gander at the description I've got some links to some of the stuff I've talked about today as well as the thumbs up button if you want to like the video as always appreciate it helps me out a lot thanks again for watching guys and we'll see next