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what's up guys welcome to probing Paul this is my monthly Q&A segments where you guys ask questions and I answer them all the questions I'm going to be answering from today are posted last month's video probing Paul number 13 we're now into probing tall number 14 and and they're all of my old probing polls are going all the way back into the past in history but real quick a side note right here from the beginning if you haven't noticed I got a much horizon processors I am in the works on an overclocking video on those I was planning on posting that today but it's been slightly delayed but it should be up in the next day or two let's get right into this with our first question which is posted on last month's probing fall from Kade Ramirez what should you do with old PC parts what is the best way to going about selling them I'm assuming by the second part of your question that you're intending to sell old PC parts and there are a few things that I try to do in order to make selling old PC parts more easy first off is to make sure you keep the retail box and all the accessories that's a great way to show a potential buyer that you care about the product and you were carrying enough about it to keep tabs on all that stuff so when you can sell it you say look here's not just this motherboard but also the i/o shield and any little bits and pieces that might have come with it they might need for a build even if you didn't need for it second thing would be to make sure it works to get good photos of the thing actually working and functional is a great way to ensure people that when they're buying it used that they're actually going to get a functional part offering some sort of means of retraction or return if the part does happen to be bad when the person gets it as a good way to provide a little bit more assurance as well because used PC parts that's usually the biggest concern is buying something that doesn't work and then I make sure that if you're using existing platforms like eBay eBay is a good way to do it but you do tend to lose a decent chunk of money paying the eBay Commission's and that kind of thing and then if you're using like a local service like Craigslist or something like a let go just make sure that you abide by the best practices for those as well meet in the public place make sure the person is on the legit make sure you confirm everything beforehand as far as price and that thing that kind of thing and with all that you should be able to get a good value for your parts and then also hand them on to someone who might get some better use out of them next is Alex the sniper 19 what is your opinion on the rise in gaming performance my opinion is still evolving over time but I'd say it's pretty good right now now granted right when rising 7 launched people were looking for what you could nitpick about it because that's what reviewers do they find the shortcomings of a product and they tend to focus on those so a lot of people got a little upset because there's like oh horizon 7 you shouldn't be gaming at 1080 anyway and that kind of thing but I thought it was valid as far as the criticisms go I was a little concerned about where it might go from there because in my experience there hasn't been a lot of benefit to be gained in CPU performance with games as time goes on as you might expect with something like a graphics card but it's already been shown that's some pretty significant performance boosts can be obtained we've seen it demonstrated with ashes of the singularity already with that game update specifically for Rison we've seen it with some more specific power plans have been integrated into Windows 10 that do a little bit better job there so I think the rising gaming performance is good borderline towards great which is I think where Intel would be if you're if you're lining that up with at least with their newest generation of stuff and I think the potential is only for it to get better so especially with the right and 5 launch that happened earlier this week I think there's a lot more options for people out there who wants a higher core count higher thread that drag count processor they can still be perfectly finding games hopefully we'll see some of those outlying scenarios where Rison is lagging behind in really CPU limited situations with specific games catching back up but I'd say overall it's great it's a great competitor to Intel and I'm having no problem recommending the rise and processors especially their eyes and lives that have just come out especially if you're looking for a nice bang for your buck next is Bruno Gabriel kal Bruno Gabriel Cavalcanti you maybe you're Italian in your opinion is it better to take a 1063 gig or rx4 74 playing at higher very high settings I kind of answered a question similar to this last month but I thought I'd address this one more time first off if you're getting the 1063 gig I might reconsider the 1063 I just is pretty hamstrung by the limited amount of memory that's there and you will eventually outpace it especially if you're considering upgrading to a high-resolution monitor in the future or if you're playing at high and very high settings bumpy settings up can really eat up the system memory depending on the game of course I would lean towards the 470 especially if you can get an 8 gig for 70 or just hold out for a a bit longer because there's tons of rumors about the 500 series coming out from AMD which should have an rx 580 and 570 replacements for the 470 480 and it would be interesting to see what your options are after that happens although we don't know for sure win it's actually going to happen hopefully soon though next from epic Kingdom should I sell my 1080 SC for around 450 to 500 dollars and put that money towards DT X 1080 T I purchase now my my advice would have been and sorry that this was three weeks ago but hopefully it's still relevant if you're going to do something like that if you're going to sell a high end graphics card right when the next highest end graphics card comes out you should do it right away because the view and opinion of the 1080 being the top GPU is going to slowly start to deteriorate as there's better cards and faster more performing cards above it so I'd say that do that do that more quickly if you can when the better card comes out and then this is really an enthusiast thing like you're saying I really have a very nice graphics card that it can handle just about anything you're also not telling me what your resolution you're playing at or that kind of thing is I understand I understand wanting to have the best in the fastest that's out there but yeah I guess I'll be my advice do it quickly or do it before the 1080 TI even comes out obviously that's that can't help you out right now if you hear rumors that the next card is going to come out and you have like the ability to like sell your existing card and get by with something else for a while maybe that's an option too but it's kind of hard to stay at the top of the fastest GPU game without dropping a bit of money so thank you for that question Shawn Fitz one two three four hey Paul is there a way to duplicate my 250 gig SSD onto a partition on my two terabyte hard drive as a backup there's actually quite a few ways you can do this and it's definitely a very good thing to do and actually I for quite some time would show people to do it using this this is the backup and restore Windows 7 functions so it's available in Windows 7 to the elbow and Windows 8 to the elbow in Windows 10 although in Windows 10 it's label-less backup and restore Windows 7 here you can do a couple different things the one that I like to do is create a system image you can do this right after you install your operating system get all your drivers installed get whatever basic programs you want onto there and then the system image utility will let you take an image of your existing operating system drive your SSD and back it up to an attached mechanical drive or something like that that'll make an instantaneous snapshot of your I can't my this is this is blocked my shortcut keys from working here we go I'll make an instantaneous snapshot of your operating system in the state that it is and then you can use the Windows 10 installer or Windows 7 installer boot off of it load that snapshot and then overwrite your SSD and then you kind of be back to where you started now if you're looking for something that's more Ida rated a turret 'iv that sort of does backups as you go so you can like be like I want to roll back to like a backup from a week ago that also exists in here you can set up a backup drive you can tell how frequently you want to backup and everything I don't think I've set one up on here yet but again it'll allow you to choose your mechanical drive or whatever to backup to you can also save to a network drive and that will actually do snapshots as you go along that you can kind of roll back to so those are the functions that are built into Windows beyond that I would suggest if you want to pay some money for something get a Cronus because that's been the software that I've had the best experience with as far as just working not having to do anything funky and then if you want to get a little bit dirtier your hands a little bit dirty or maybe consider like Clonezilla which I believe is open source and free but it's definitely a little bit tougher on the learning curve to sort of set up and use next question here from Rick bud Zac he said wait is that a Tamra 90 millimeter F 2.8 Mac or Lin sitting there yes as it is right here this is my macro lens so anytime I need like it's super close-up on something I use this one it's a very nice little lens I think it wasn't too expensive I think it was only like three or four hundred bucks which isn't terribly expensive when it comes to nicer decent lenses it's very large like when you when you actually focus it gets it extends quite a bit but any any time you've seen me do videos like processes like the Rison processors that just launched and I have those close-up shots with the very shallow depth of field and bokeh going on and stuff like that that's what this lens and a lot it's an EF mount lens and I use it with the meta bones adapter for my gh4 and it's a great option if I need to get super super close-up on something I'm really glad that I got it Nick Roth asks what do you do with your completed monthly builds when you're done benchmarking the neck when you ask this I had not yet posted this video which is what happens to men with PPC builds which is sort of an answer to your question although this one was honestly also partially just like a light mini documentary of our trip to Vegas where we shot guns and did other things as well so it was a little random but it was fun and at the end of this video I delivered all or at least like like like 4/7 of the parts from that to Jennifer who has been helping me out on my channel and is also a good old friend of mine so um basically I try to find uses for them I guess would be the the final question to that often I'll take them apart set the parts aside and use those parts and future builds and that kind of thing if I can find a good home for it I'll definitely try to do that and then sometimes I do end up selling parts here and there but often I just don't have time to do that so I end up with parts piling up which is I know not a terrible problem to have but I'm working on other solutions for it so I guess that's sort of an answer for you I try to find friends who need them and hand them down or whatever sometimes I do some sales sometimes I just keep the stuff around here and then sometimes of course the parts that are sent over I need to return back to the vendor just kind of depends on the situation how many marketing samples they have in that kind of thing a couple more questions here from cyber Tonto 72 I have a PCI Express 2 motherboard PCIe gen 2 looking to get a new graphics card with PCI Express gen3 will that card work a short answer here is yes PCIe gen3 is backwards compatible the PC a Gen 2 you're going to lose about half the bandwidth with Gen 2 versus Gen 3 so like a PC a Gen 2 by 16 interface says gosh I'm going to forget these numbers here's the actual chart on Wikipedia you get with 3.0 you have a transfer rate of 8 Giga transfers per second so by 16 gives you something close to 16 gigabytes per second which is roughly double the a bytes per second that you get with PCI Express Gen 2 now does that matter no in by-and-large no yes gen 3 is a little bit faster when it's actually tested it's like a couple percentage points maybe faster so you'll get a little slightly better performance with Gen 3 but you can still work with Gen 2 my opinion you probably be suffering from more of a cpu bottleneck if you have a motherboard that actually goes back and is only Gen 2 compliant you must be on maybe Sandy Bridge or something like that but you'll still be just fine for now so I would say go ahead get your graphics card do that upgrade and then you know just keep an eye on your performance and then plan to eventually upgrade the rest of your system in the meantime because if you're on Gen 2 your motherboard and processor starting to get a bit out of feet Daniels Anson has a question on the topic of poop looking because that's one of the last questions I answered in the last video which way did you try the paper roll inwards or outwards I would do I don't want you mean but I think outwards the the the rolls here the flap should be hanging on this side and here on this side and that is because I don't have cats I will give it to anyone who asked cats put it on the inside it keeps them from doing the claw thing as I've never experienced that myself but I've heard that's the thing outwards it's just it makes more sense it's easier to get at and and you don't have to like reach underneath like you know possibly injure yourself doing something like that I think so that's what I go for finally Arcadia's zero our key our Cadis zero said we can hear his dog breathing yes here was snoring and the last episode of probing Paul fortunately he is still over there snoozing but he has not been snoring this time so got around that but guys that's all the time I have for today for probing Paul so thank you so much for watching this video and of course if you have questions for me for next month please post them in the comment section down below I'm going to wrap this up and then we get it right back to benchmarking and overclocking rise in 5 so I have a video on that coming very soon and of course if you want to hit the thumbs up button and like the video or leave me any other comments you have please feel free to do that as well thank you so much for watching and we'll see you next time