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but um let's just get right into it shall we the first question here is from that guy shared and I believe this is from right sure what's up right here hey Paul who is your favorite tech youtuber very good question I should have thought about the answer before I read that that question but all right I like the youtubers who are doing the real serious in-depth testing and analytical work out there right now so gamers Nexus I think stands out there to me they've got a lot of flack from people but I think it's because they they Steven and the career over that takes a very critical look at anything that they get coming in so oftentimes they point out stuff critiques that maybe aren't always caught they also do very extensive testing so that's pretty cool definitely more extensive than I do over here although based on some of the stuff they've done has encouraged me to improve some of my own techniques over time beyond that I would say hard Hardware unboxed has been doing an insane amount of really good testing of a lot of the recent launches of CPUs and GPUs that have come out so Steve from Hardware unboxed and and career over there is doing a fantastic job as well and I feel like again I should have thought more about this I saw the questions like oh that's a good question I'll pop it and I just should have done more like some more small techie to youtubers out there okay gave it a little thought and Andrew from tech team GB I like I've seen quite a few of his videos and I met him at Computex this year and he's a really nice guy so if you want a smaller Channel just wanted to point out a smaller channel out there to tech Team GB this his channel I'll post a link to that in the description next question though from Tim Murphy what's the most expensive thing you have broken another really good question that I thought about and I was like oh there's got to be some good answers at the Eck I couldn't think of anything that was like supremely substantial that I've actually just gone out and broken I don't know I don't know if I'm just lucky or not as clumsy or what like I'm definitely not like super coordinated or anything like that like I never played sports growing up or that kind of thing so I do have a couple examples of things that I have that are broken that I maybe have broken one way or another this one I've discussed a little bit this is one of my original 2gh fours and I broke the HDMI out on it that's actually a micro HDMI out which is not very sturdy behind this little tab here and I smashed a couple the pins down in there via constant plugging Andry plugging of it this camera is still perfectly functional as a camera however I can't do HDMI out on it which limits some of my use of it although I still haven't been using it so that's probably not the best example a broken thing that I have is this AMD Athlon FX 62 at Athol on 64 FX 62 which back in the day cost about $1000 and this CPU is now broken or at least it was last time I tried it which was probably over five years ago now so I trust that it probably is still broken and it is a thing that was expensive at the time it is a very very drool-worthy product too so I'm glad I still have that kind of curious now that I've brought that up I should like plug it back in and see if for some reason it's come back to life or something because it's not like it has busted pins or anything it was just non-functional anyway sorry if I don't have better answers for that if you guys have ever seen me break something in a past video or like back in that new way in the new ignition and I'll point it out next month alright next from Shaker Hobgoblin hey Paul loved the videos I've recently built my first computer it's a rise in seven 1,700 with the GTX 10 atti coming from an AMD a6 6300 and an OEM GT 705 so he had a pretty nice upgrade here from that cpu in that GPU 2 to the rise in 7 1700 and a 1080 Ti his question is what's the biggest hardware jump or biggest upgrade that I've ever had this also got me thinking back to the past and upgrades I've done in everything I couldn't come up with a good GPU answer for this because I've upgraded my GPUs pretty regularly I went from a 7800 GTX to a GTX 260 core 216 so I believe I had to weigh GTX 460 s at some point and then after that was when I started working at new AG more and I wish I would I would swap see GPUs out all the time so it's harder to say yeah I had this specific graphics card for specific period time but to give you a better answer Pentium 4 I had a Prescott based Pentium 4 and a socket 478 which looked very similar to this one right here in fact it might have been like this exact model I don't remember the exact model off the top of my head here but I used that up until 2004 2005 jump from that to an Athlon 64 3200 Plus which was my first dual-core processor this was a 67 watt TDP dual core AMD this is this is again back in that time frame when AMD was kind of kicking kicking Intel's butt and although this was an early dual-core it still wasn't that cheap I think when I got it it's it would be the green line here and I think when I got it it was right around the $200 price so yeah not terrible for a dual core and then I jumped from that a couple years later in 2008 timeframe to an i7 920 and this was my first enthusiast platform you know I had to get on the Intel enthusiast platform when it was available so I'm actually gonna used LGA 1366 motherboard and that allowed me to invest the 300 to 320 dollars in the i7 920 and that got me up to a quad core with hyper threading and that was my processor for quite some time so that's kind of my my remembrance of my CPU upgrades in the mid to late 2000s and I think those were those stand out to me is like I was stoked each of those times that I made those upgrades and I used those systems for a couple of years each at least so that's pretty good there next question is from Joe tippet and this is a long question I'm not going to read the whole thing but it's there on the screen if you guys want to but basically he's thinking about a system upgrade he wants to maybe upgrade to Rison right now he has a Xeon e3 1231 v3 which is a quad core and it's a he's got a gigabyte z97 MX gaming 5 so his current system isn't all that old although it is a Xeon and he's got 4 by 4 gigs of course ever engines Pro 24 100 megahertz memory so he's got a pretty decent system right now and he's just saying like he's been itching to upgrade is it worth it to upgrade to Rison especially since he's been looking at our threes now just to make long story short here my advice to you Joe directly would be I wouldn't upgrade from this your Xeon e3 1231 V 3 2 horizon 3 because you'd be going from a quad core to a quad core and honestly I haven't looked at direct comparisons with the xeon 83 but you're not gonna even see much of a single core performance difference between those i would say only upgrade if you're ready to drop the cash on a6 core or an 8 core on that platform until then just hold out because things aren't gonna get more expensive probably unless you're talking about memory they're probably gonna get less expensive when it comes to motherboards so yeah I wouldn't side grade over to another quad core on the rise in platform but you are correct that there is an upgrade path for socket am 4 and AMD has promised to keep supporting it with CPUs through 2020 so that's a couple years still to go maybe a little more a little more than two years so I would say hold out until you can afford that 6 core of the 8 core to give yourself a little bit more of a like yes I upgraded feeling especially if you're looking at the pure CPU performance there but thank you though Joe and next question is from Papa doom and this question has been asked before so I thought I'd answer it again just really quickly because people ask me pretty frequently but Papa Dumas hey Paul my question is how you earn money I mean what do you do except YouTube or do I only do YouTube the answer is right now I only do YouTube and I've only been doing YouTube for about the past 3 years now give or take I started doing YouTube independently on my own when my channel had about was between 80,000 ninety thousand subscribers right now I am creeping up very ever so slowly on the 700,000 subscriber mark and it's definitely a difficult thing to do to make a living out of making YouTube videos unless you can do it consistently you have to have the passion to be able to keep coming back to it time time after time so you need to have some sort of topic or subject matter that you're enthusiastic about but I wouldn't recommend starting a YouTube channel and saying this is gonna be my job started as a hobby first do it for a while and then if you enjoy it and if you feel continue to feel passionate about it even if you're not making that much money then maybe it's something you can keep investing your time into to the point where you can earn enough money my money though comes from four basic locations location one is if you watch a YouTube video on YouTube and you get a pre-roll ad beforehand or YouTube bread alternatively either way those little bits revenue to go YouTube get shared with me and I get some money there so if you do want to whitelist my YouTube channel that's much obliged but hey if you don't then don't worry about it because I also integrate ads there's probably an ad at the beginning of this video I try to make them very short keep them about 20 seconds or so so if you're watching on the YouTube app you can DoubleTap let's skip it pretty quickly try game shorten to the point those I coordinate directly with vendors such as like gigabytes or Coolermaster that kind of thing I also have a store where you can purchase stuff that store is linked in the video's description I don't make a ton of money from the store we're not huge in a merchandising but it's a little bit so I'm stuff like this awesome hardware shirt that I'm wearing right now is available there as well as oh yeah look I can advertise look I also have bottle openers now so store is another way and then last way is going to be affiliate revenues so if I talk about a product such as you know a new motherboard or CPU or whatever and I say this is available at Amazon and I put in Amazon link in the description to it that code that was an affiliate link and so if you go to Amazon and then you end up buying that product or anything else for that matter I think within the next week or so then I might get a cut of that as well depending on the product that you purchase so those are my four main means of income and thankfully I also have a wife who works full-time who provides me or who adds me to her health insurance and that's how I get health insurance as well and that has a pretty reasonable means of us getting by paying our bills and making sure that the mortgage payments go through so there you go a quick rundown of how I makes the monies on the youtubes let's move on to Nolan Flynn can I replace the central heating in my house before in Vegas 64 liquid cooled overclocked graphics cards Nolan yes you probably can it might not be the best most cost-effective solution since Vegas 64 cards tend to be fairly overpriced right now they've come down a little bit but they're still fairly overpriced and and since they're made to do stuff besides just producing heat granted I have your questions probably not that serious but I'm answering it seriously I don't care over on PC Gamer there's an article linked in the description about a company in France we talked about this on our live show a few weeks ago they are building computers that are going to be used for servers cloud computing systems but also they're gonna function as home and office he heaters anyway I don't want to go too far into this but the articles linked in the description so they have an actual somewhat feasible means of taking a useful thing like a computer that also happens to generate heat putting it somewhere where that heat generation can put the heat to good use I guess anyway let's move up all right Waleed Shah has the next question this is more of a comment or pointing out of a thing or a follow up from something I've talked about in the previous video when we talk about Windows 10 licenses he's pointing out that if you change Hardware with Windows 10 it is possible to swap your hardware and still maintain your Windows 10 license he links to a Windows central article on doing that I have included that link in this video's description as well and basically the solution is to set to connect your Windows 10 license with your Microsoft account which is a total valid way of doing this it's not something that I've advocated very much or even shown how to do before because basically you're taking your license and instead of attaching it to your hardware you're attaching it to yourself personally and you can take that license and go to some other completely random Windows 10 computer and still be able to sign in I'm sorry that Microsoft account still be able to sign in with the Microsoft account what that does is one requires you to have a Microsoft account too it also means that Microsoft can track you around with you're doing and everything which you may or may not be okay with hey Google does a lot so maybe you're absolutely fine with that the way that I like to activate Windows 10 though is to activate it to the system not using the Microsoft accounts when you do that it takes whatever key that you get it burns that key that Keys gone it creates a new unique key that's specifically tied to your hardware your motherboard as far as I can tell and the testing I've done and then that key is now attached to that Hardware forever which means if you were to go and wipe Windows off of that take that Hardware and have a completely new say SSD or something and install Windows Windows 10 onto it again you should just it should just activate it should recognize the hardware know that they already have an activated key in their database attached to that hardware and then it should just work again that's happened to me and with at least three different systems that I've done this with before and I guess to come back to the original question yes it is a valid solution to do a Microsoft account attached Windows 10 license and then you can have that and you can use it yourself and it's a valid way of doing it it's just not something that I've done very much before so that's why I've mainly advocated the old-school method of tying the key to your hybrid but yeah nothing wrong with that either and that is all the questions I have for today so guys I hope you have enjoyed this has been probing Paul episode number 20 hit the thumbs up button if you enjoyed it and I am gonna get back to work on my cleaning have you guys notice it's kind of clean done some cleaning and stuff lately stoked on that anyway I'm gonna get back to work thank you guys so much for watching we'll see you guys next time