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excellent what's up guys welcome back to Pauls hardware this is probing Paul episode number 11 and yeah I've been doing this for a while now it's my monthly Q&A video where I answer questions that you guys ask so all the questions from this month are being derived from last month's probing polyps toe number ten and look look how far back through time we can look through this portal that the original one is getting so tiny notes it's almost difficult to even see let's get into it with question number one though from striker X 1360 hey Paul again I 546 90 km z 97 with ddr3 I'm bottle Dyke in the hell out of my 1080 I was wondering is saving for an i7 7700 K would be wise he does video editing I believe the increased performance of the i5 variant would benefit me which is a good question but I will say look look at the 4690k now this is Devil's Canyon this was Haswell refresh still selling for 240 bucks on new egg not a very good deal when you compare it to say you know a 6600 K at 7600 K that's available now but obviously it still has some chops this is a too outdated of a processor now in the rest of your posts because there was a little bit of a cherry going on below we also found out that he's running 35 40 34 40 by 1440 so ultra wide with the high resolution and that also he's not overclocking although he does have a liquid cooling system in place now my suggestion here would definitely be to overclock this is only going to turbo boost to 3.9 gigahertz and you should at least be able to get 4.4 to 4.5 especially if you're using liquid cooling and that should help your performance however he also stated that the games he was having difficulty with with csgo on minecraft which really aren't that difficult to run they can be a little bit more CPU dependent than GPU defended but my suggestion would be maybe to look at other possible contributing factors because this CPU should be able to help if you overclock it in particular it should be able to keep up with that 1080 and I would wait definitely to like really upgrade at least until then and rise in CPUs come out next month or in the next month or two there should be some price updates hopefully that happened after that job so that should at least give you a bit better selection so you are considering upgrading but yeah overclock and maybe check out your software situation see if you have processes running in the background look at your memory see if that's somehow getting chewed up somehow and that's contributing to the lower frame rates because if you're running at a higher resolution like 34 40 by 1440 at least in games that are more GPU dependent the CPU should not be the bottleneck if you're running really low resolutions and the GPU is churning out a bunch of frames that's when the CPU can start to get bogged down a little bit so thank you for the question and let's jump to question number 2 which is okay murky conduct which is I like your name so tape all I the laptop that has Windows 10 on it is it possible to transfer it to a PC build I was originally just going to say no it's not Joel Reynolds also here replied and said yes if it's an OEM and he says he had to contact Microsoft and really push them because he got a replacement key with a pro key and he's able to talk them into it but let me just state this for the record my contacting Microsoft can be very hit or miss in particular if you're using an OEM key and laptops have om keys that's generally speaking how they work but let me give a bit of more of an explanation of kind of how Windows did things with Windows 10 is that if you buy Windows 10 directly from Microsoft and you get a key and then you punch it in to your newly installed computer the key is actually used it's burnt or whatever and then you get a digital entitlement that ties itself to your hardware and from what I understand the motherboard and actually it can do some specific writing into the UEFI there the cool thing about this is if you activate Windows unlike an old system or like a system with the motherboard and then take that motherboard and put it like you know reconfigure the system or something and do a fresh install of Windows on it windows should just activate the windows database should recognize the digital entitlement tied to that hardware and just activate the software that's happened to me two or three times so far with your particular situation you have a laptop so it's going to know am key and chances are you're not going to be able to change that or move that around at all Windows is much more restricted when it comes to giving people service when it comes to OEM T's that they say talk to the manufacturer of your device instead ever since window did the anniversary update I don't know when that was a few months back you can actually take your Microsoft account with your Windows 10 digital license and you can tie your windows 10 digital license to the Microsoft account this would actually allow you to have for example like multiple computers with the unique login for your Microsoft account so you can move between different machines there are some restrictions in place that I want to dive too much into the details right here but I will say I prefer not having the Microsoft account I prefer just a unique you know user login just to the machine but if you really have a Windows license especially if you bought it retail and you need the ability to switch between multiple machines consider tying it to your Microsoft account and that might make activation especially if you do a hardware update a little bit easier but to give it too long didn't read answer no you probably cannot take your OEM key from a laptop and move it to a desktop unless you're in a very interesting situation much like Joel was here and you managed to type talk Microsoft into it but that's seriously up to them and I really ever hear that actually happening here's a question from luga why did you leave new leg what made you have your own channel this is a question I've actually sort of addressed before in probing Paul but I bring it back up very specifically because alright I feel kind of bad about this just a little bit but I I wanted I wanted to do it so I'm just going to do it anyway even though I feel kind of bad alright so I left new egg for a variety of reasons one of the big reasons was that I tried to work with management to sort of coordinate things because when you're doing a creative job like creating videos even if you're just talking about PC hardware that kind of thing you need to kind of you need to keep a little bit of a fire going and if you feel like your voice isn't being heard when you're saying I think we should do things this way or whatever it just tends to sort of suck that out of you so that over time plus sort of what I might've was not mean my voice is not being heard by the people who are actually running things and making decisions led me to decide you know what I think I'm just going to kind of go in on my own when I left doing is about like 80 to 85 thousand subscribers and the stupid thing is that the people who I had disagreements with they aren't even there anymore like they so they went in and did whatever they did and now not there anymore but I didn't want to point this up first off new egg has a new crew that's working there actually met them at CES and they were very nice people so if you guys do want to check their stuff out I think they have improved it in the past few months things seem to be turning around they seem to be more Hardware Hardware focused and that kind of thing but again my bit of schadenfreude I here to use a word that I'm my old Newegg co-worker Rachel really like to use is that I have finally passed them in subscribers I'm at 456 now and I didn't really like tweet about that or anything but it's two years in two years and four months or so this is my announcement video that I had separated from new AG which was September 21st 2014 so two two years and three or four months and that comes so far so I'm happy with the decision and again I bear no ill will towards new eggs of course there were some people who aren't there anymore who I wasn't super happy with but we'll leave it at that and hopefully that gives you guys a bit more of an explanation of what went down there anyway next question is from McLaren's Carr of week reviews right here I'm currently using a Hauppauge HD PVR 60 that's as close as I can get to pronouncing this hauppage it is a Native American word a Native American Indian to be specific HD PVR 60 I would like to step up to something with a higher bitrate I have built a PC to handle aside from Elgato and if your media options with 60 K bit rates which would include like the elgato hd60 what would you recommend for video capture swimming no limit in file size I almost kind of felt bad bringing this question up and answering it because I don't really have a very good answer to it to be perfectly honest I have a bit of research I've done I'll point you towards a couple brands the first brand is made well and they they're more sort of towards the prosumer getting into the much more expensive professional market so the capture cards tend to cost a lot but although I have not worked with them directly I have heard very positive things about them recently although the website needs to they need to change their website a little bit because they obviously have a code issue throwing there at the top anyway but yeah major well parts can be expensive you know starting around 300 bucks going up to the you know 500 two thousand dollar range but again I've heard good things out them beyond that I would check out black magic again people have hit and miss stuff with them my most recent capture card purchase is this black magic deck link mini recorder 4k internal PCIe card and I did some testing initial stuff with it about a month and a half ago and I haven't touched it since purely for lack of time so again I wish had a better answer for you for that but some yeah at least black magic and major well I would say check those out next is a motif I'm a I'm a tow sing I'm sorry if I'm pronouncing your name wrong dual sixteen by nine or single 21 bind what's a sixteen by nine on top definitely single 21 by nine with the sixteen by nine on top if you're going to gain your frog in a game on one screen having a twenty one by nine screen I think is a very ideal gaming situation and yeah I mean you're basically giving yourself more screen real estate by twenty one by nine and a better gaming experience and you can put that sixty mi9 up on top or you could flip it a vertical and put it off to the side which is a great way to look at web pages and that kind of thing as well Jonathan Heiner asked a very good question well he actually corrected me first from last month's video give a bite not gigabit which was definitely my mistake when you're talking about bits versus bytes and how they are calculated and how they are actually shown when you're advertised products there is confusion there but anyway more to his point thanks for the SSP discussion I'm still weighing options for a future upgrade and I'm slowly becoming less interested in MDOT to nvme as the prices are simply too high / gigabit give give big bite I feel most consumers don't need the added performance my thoughts I would completely agree with you Jonathan largely because those and nvm iam that two jacks are still so freakin expensive it's cool to look at like a little chewing gum stick you know roughly sized SSD and think like wow that by itself has the same performance as like a two or three or four even like six drive raid array with standard SSD like standard SATA SSDs some impressive performance but if you're not going to use it it's definitely not worth it you really need to have something that you do with that SSD to make it like worth the money that you invest in it so I might uses video editing because that's something where you need a ton of storage readily available that can quickly pull off with your permanent storage and drop into the memory or whatever now there are some SSDs that are nvme and m2 that are coming down in price of bits the SSD 600 P series from Intel is definitely one of those however this one has pretty significantly reduced performance when you compare it to the the much faster ones like the sequester right here 560 megabits megabytes per second reads are pretty fast 1775 but again not quite up there with like the Samsung 960 s and that kind of thing however I mean you can still get this and it will be faster than a typical SATA Drive but yeah for your money getting a few SATA drives and rating them together could be an option although then you deal with the possibility of drive failure but yes we're now we got to kind of keep watching those nvme drives they're still kind of a premium product and they cost a lot of money but hopefully the pricing will come down soon federico trenton what do you think about used hardware what components are fine even when pre-owned and what to avoid buying used and I believe this is the last question yes it is all right so it doesn't that is a good question I might do a separate video on this as well but let me run down the parts first off and I'll say what I think is good and what is not okay first off CPU CPUs are good good part to buy used as long as they're confirmed to work because CPUs very rarely fail and they typically don't suffer from performance degradation if you can ask if the CPU you're buying used has been overclocked and particularly if it's been run at a high voltage for a while that would be the one caveat where I would say don't buy it if it's been like overclock for the past three years running it 1.5 volts or something like that CPU cooler yeah you can you can buy those used I think just make sure you know they're cleaned off and everything that doesn't apply to liquid coolers though I wouldn't do that the pump will fail eventually motherboards next that's hit or miss you can't have individual parts of a motherboard that fails so that would be a warning sign like if you buy use motherboard and they set it up and it works and I go everything's fine then you go to connect your network and like the NIC is dead or something like that that would suck so I've kind of 50/50 on buying used motherboards memory is usually okay again it's confirmed work memory does go bad eventually over time but typically if it's working it's working and will last for a very long period of time storage I would say no hard drives and SSDs you typically don't know how much they've been used and again they will die eventually so unless you can get like a snapshot of the smart readout from the drive so you can know exactly I company how many bytes have been written to it and that kind of thing typically I would not recommend buying storage secondhand a graphics card I would say it's probably okay again as long as it's cleaned and not like completely caked with dust and that kind of thing case is probably okay again as long as it's been cleaned out cases have a very long lifespan power supply as well as long as it's a decent power supply if it's 80 plus rated and it's from a reputable manufacturer they should have a very long lifespan and again philosoph cleaned and not caked with dust and hasn't been used by a smoker that kind of thing and I think that's just about all the parts beyond that I guess monitors monitors again are hit or miss if they're very old the backlight can start to go out on them and get dimmer and the colors can not be as vibrant so again I'm kind of 50/50 on that and then peripherals like keyboards and mice I would say probably not because they tend to get a lot of use and get gunky and worn out and stuff so that's a nice thing to get new and plus you know you you interact with them so there's a lot more debris and detritus that might kind of get get up in there so yeah peripherals I'd say you know buy those new if you have the option not going to do it for this month's episode of probing Paul guys I hope you've enjoyed it leave me thumbs up if you did have because I love your feedback and every time people have thumbs up it makes me smile and I get a warm fuzzy feeling inside also of course if you have questions for me for next month leave them in the comment section down below I will be browsing through those probably today and then also probably again when I set it for next month's probing Paul thanks again for watching and we'll see an extent