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below I am going to start answering questions that are derived from last month's video from that comment section starting with dark oak River unko here who says good job so far with you since the newing days will positive pressure air flow in a case hurt my components temperature and also are any plans for the 1 million subs milestone I am hoping to hit a million subs soon I'm very excited about that I don't know anything too specific planned except there is gonna be a giveaway that a few vendors have already volunteered to participate with and then I'll hopefully be getting my 1 million subs plaque and everything which I've been looking forward to for many many years since I've been in YouTube for like almost 10 years now give or take back to your actual question though when it comes to positive pressure in a case your main concern when it comes to positive or negative pressure is gonna be with dust and dust buildup if you have positive pressure as long as there's somewhere for the air to escape you should be okay and it shouldn't affect temperatures at least if you're comparing positive versus negative air flow so that's the general perspective on that positive it's generally preferred because it will cause less to build up of dust inside your case next question from Dustin Pannell he says for the probe does vertical versus horizontal installation matter with an all-in-one cooler and I believe he's talking about the radiator here he's seen both but never compared the two and the man his manufacturer manual says to install his horizontally also he's following up on what people have planned for 2019 that I asked last month he says he's got a new baby girl expected mid to late February congratulations Dustin new baby girl you said you haven't seen this done but I'm actually going to link in the description three different videos one is from Kyle who I often work with and he did a comparison a couple years back I already got over a million views his conclusion was that yes it does matter and putting the radiator vertically in the front of the case did a little bit better for him however that's not borne out and all the tests you compare side-by-side so there's a link to Jay's video and he did this back in 2015 as well comparing front mounted radiators to the top mounted radiator and then there's also a Linus tech tip video this is from 2016 that Luke did where he compared radiator fan configuration and whether or not that matters so feel free to check out those videos but I'm going to give you an answer that you're probably not gonna like as much was which is that it depends on your specific scenario it also depends on what the radiator is connected to chances are you're talking about a CPU radiator so if you put a CPU radiator as an intake at the front of the case and the CPU has a heavy load on it that's gonna get warmer and warmer over time and it's gonna increase the ampion ambient temperature of your entire case and probably increase your GPU temperatures that's said if you put it at the top with fresh air coming in from the front your GPU temperatures might be lower but your CPU temperature might be hotter it depends on what's being cooled on the software that's being run on the case itself on how many overall fans are in the case so the only real way to tell for you what the best radiator placement is is just to try them both try it in the top try it in the front see which one works better for you next question here from Thailand who says hey if all of the videos I own an EVGA GTX 1080 Ti for the wind three I don't wish to overclock it because it's already got a factory OC just wants to monitor it and keep it nice and cool beyond the Nvidia control panel but I recommend any other software for an example precision xoc so Talyn my initial answer would be you probably don't need any additional software if you're not planning on doing any more overclocking but you did mention that you want to keep an eye on temperatures and the Nvidia control panel actually doesn't do that so one thing you might want additional software for is just to keep an eye on the temperatures just to see what they're at also get an idea what they're at now so that like six months down the road you can look at them again and be like oh I usually run it you know 60 degrees C on my GPU while I'm gaming and now I see it's up to eighty or so maybe I should get in there and clean the dust out if you want to monitor GPU temperatures software I like to use this hardware info 64 HW info 64 that'll actually get you monitoring for a bunch of different stuff in your computer if that's too over-the-top you can definitely try EVGA is precision XOC which is very good software and will also allow you to monitor to the temperatures and adjust fan speed and stuff like that which can be fun the other cool thing that precision x OC will allow you to do is control the RGB lighting on your graphics card which you may or may not want control over ups so those are some of the benefits you can get by going with additional software but for your purposes I'd say you mainly just want something to keep an eye on that temperature and like I said that's mainly for long-term use so you can see what you're used to running out when it's nice and clean and new and keep an eye on it and see if temperatures go up over time next up is mr. Meech who wants to add storage to his PC he wants a four terabyte drive but he's noticed that two two terabyte drives you can get for about twenty to forty bucks cheaper than a single four terabyte drive I'm assuming you're talking about mechanical storage here if you got the room in your case and you have available SATA ports what are the pros and cons of going with two drives versus one I'm going to touch on three things here when it comes to the difference one is if you have two drives you can set up raid that is if your motherboard has a RAID controller built into it that you can enable and raid actually it's pretty useful in certain circumstances you can mirror the two drive so you get the same data on both or you can stripe the two drives with raid zero meaning it combines them both together so you only see a single four terabyte drive in your operating system and it would probably run a little bit faster when it comes to read and write speeds if you're running raid 0 vs. a single drive that said raid 0 is also known as zero redundancy which means that if one of those drives dies you lose all of the data so that's not always a recommended configuration if you're talking about something that you want some data integrity with that leads into my second point which is that with two drives you have two potential points of failure if you're using them both separately then that means you could have one drive die that the loose stuff on and still have the other functional drive if you're using the raid configuration then one drive will kill your entire array or if you're using raid 1 you can lose a drive and you'd still have all your data on the second drive but if you're talking about a simpler solution where you're not using raid and you just have two individual drives then the main functional difference is going to be that with two drives you have two separate drives to put stuff on to so you're going to need to start your data between the two of those manually which usually isn't a big concern but beyond that it's just a matter of the extra drive will use a little bit our power although that's mostly negligible and maybe generate a little bit more heat so hopefully all of those factors you can assess and decide whether you want to spend that extra 20 or 40 bucks on the single drive versus getting to smaller ones next question is from killer spike 9-1-1 he says what should I use in a build for web browsing some video streaming and some light gaming any form factor on a small budget so spike if you're not aware every month I do monthly builds usually at the beginning of the month so check out my monthly builds video for January where I cover a bunch of different system builds with parts lists from PC part picker and I go down different parts and how much they cost what you're gonna want is something akin to the six hundred dollar gaming PC build that I put together which has an r3 1200 and rx 580 but instead of buying both of those you should just spend ninety five bucks on the rise in 320 200 G this will get you a quad-core CPU which is perfectly fine for streaming if you're talking about 1080 or 720 and it's got built in Vega graphics there is a 2400 G that has a better graphics integrated solution but that's more like a hundred and seventy bucks and at that point I start to feel like well maybe you should just get a separate CPU and GPU like I recommend in the video for $600 but the point is I'll get you a full sized ATX system with plenty of room for expansion that handles the things you need it to do and it'll only cost you about 420 dollars with today's prices which i think is a pretty good deal that includes 16 gigs of ram a 240 gig SSD as well as a full size case and 600 watt power supply just a few more questions ago this one from a friend of the show yo to ninja he says when switching from an APU to a dedicated GPU do you need to run ddu and if you're not familiar with those acronyms apu is just like as talked about with the 2200 g cpu and GPU and the same chip move into a GPU so now you're installing a graphics card and do you need to run ddu which is display driver uninstaller which is a third-party app that goes into your system digs out any display drivers specifically so you can get a fresh clean install if you're swapping between graphics cards the short simple answer here is no probably not if you're running Windows 10 or even Windows 7 for that matter you should just be able to install the new graphics card load your new drivers and it'll replace the old driver stack with a new driver stack what I would do is run display driver uninstaller and then do a fresh clean install of my drivers if I'm specifically moving from an AMD APU which should be using vague and AMD Radeon drivers to an Nvidia graphics card and that's just because I don't know I have a thing about moving from AMD to Nvidia one to the other back and forth I always run ddu in between just to make sure everything's playing nice with each other probably not as big of a deal if you're talking about going from an Intel integrated graphics solution to AMD or Nvidia but yes to me it's kind of the same thing as like a Windows installation yes you could probably do an upgrade or an in-place upgrade but it's just always safest and best to do wipe it start fresh start clean so I would run D to you personally next question also from friend of the show we dos L do cheat he says I'd really like to see a walkthrough for Renan renovating your bathroom even if it's a vlog type video and he's always liked my hardware videos and he enjoyed my pun of holding my in the last video which was obviously intentional now Guido this was last month so I'm guessing you probably have already seen it but just in case you didn't I did do the follow up to that video I didn't want to string people along like I had been doing with the HT PC video for so long so there it is my bathroom it is completed it came together very nicely it's got cool stuff like a toilet paper roller and everything so I'll link that down in the description to check it out if you missed it next question from Roy Evans he says out of every PC part you've ever used which one or ones have been the best bang for your buck if they're release he'd like one part for each component I'm gonna do CPU and GPU just because I don't know that much time but also he followed up on 2019 he's getting a new job a new car and a new apartment and by summer a new PC built that's a real nice set of new things Roy so I wish you the best of luck and all that when it comes to your question though so for the GPU I'm gonna choose the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 this actually came out in 2010 it is a Fermi based card but is is the second generation of Fermi stuff which was based on 40 40 nanometer which was down from I think what 50 or 52 nanometer from before when I first heard the question what popped into my head was the 70 series cards from Nvidia because those have been very consistent sort of middle-of-the-road GPUs that perform well and they're not terribly overpriced and the 570 I think comes to mind because it was a follow up to the 400 series the original Fermi cards which ran really hot so they weren't very efficient and it was just sort of a night and day difference going from 400 series to 500 series they were much more efficient they ran much cooler you could overclock them pretty well and I think that was sort of the start of the kickoff of like the 500 series 600 series 700 series 900 series where Nvidia was really kind of kicking AMD's but a close second to this would be the GTX 970 and I know a lot of people are gonna be like oh my god 3.5 gigs of VRAM and everything but the 970 was a really solid card for the price very overclockable especially with some of the aftermarket versions and I think both of those GPUs are just GPUs that a lot of people got a lot of people gaming on and a lot of people gaming on a lot and didn't have to spend you know 500 bucks plus for the CPU I'm gonna go with the venerable Sandy Bridge Core i5 2500 k still available at Amazon for two hundred and eighty dollars don't don't buy it don't buy it now it's not worth the money anymore but the 2500 K and the 2600 K to me or the last time when I was like Intel was just like dominating and not just dominating because they had good products but they were also compelling products at the prices you could get them for the 2500 K you could usually get for 200 to 220 issue dollars overclocking was amazing on it you could crank up the voltage you could get so much more performance out of it if you're willing to go in and tweak and tune a few things so to me it's kind of the consummate DIY PC product because it lets you do something yourself build your own PC and then do something with it where you're like this is totally worth it for me I was able to do something that most people can't do to get more performance and more for my money so when you talk bang for the buck 2500 k still I'd say is the high points for Intel and if Intel wants to redeem themselves in the eyes of a lot of people with AMD's competition over the past two or three years I think what they really need is something like the 2500 K we priced CPU that overclocked swell you can get more performance out of I don't know if they're actually gonna do that but I hope they do I mean they have the competition from AMD to encourage them to do that so until if you're listening please please do another 2500 K and lastly these are responses to the question I asked at the end of last month's video wishes what are you guys doing in 2019 and I just pulled up a few people who had responded like ty Roberts whose plans to sit stand and potentially breathe if it is in the budget I understand ty a budget through Titan 2019 but we're gonna come through it stronger than ever next up is patriotic Oreos who says he's quitting his job on Sunday which would have been three weeks ago I think and he's getting a new job in construction for the new year so congratulations patriotic Oreos I hope the job quitting was satisfying and I hope the new job is treating you well so far and finally Ryan hulls here who gets the award for being the most thorough because he's got like his mother-in-law's and great grandma's birthday rants turning 35 and he's got a new house in Northern California they got four 430-thousand that that's a good deal moving in July tons of stuff planned for this year so you guys feel free to read over that Thank You Ryan for sending that all in have fun in Vegas and thanks to all you guys who posted comments in last month's video and of course post comments in this month's video if you want me to answer them in February which is coming very soon thank you guys so much watching this video this has been probing Paul episode number 32 I'll be back soon hit thumbs up button on your way outs we'll see you guys next time