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excellent what's up guys welcome back to Pauls hardware this is my monthly Q&A video which I am now gonna be calling probing Paul thanks to your valuable feedback it's a title that I I don't know I'm okay with it I'm warming up to it I think a little bit at a time if you'll notice there's kind of a blue glow reflecting down here that's because I have just finished in my video on the Maximus 8 formula motherboard from Asus which is actually I don't even know if I can lift this it's actually running right now it's plugged in running I just all right let's I'll just leave that there for now anyway if you guys want to ask me questions for my monthly probing Paul Q&A video for next month for example you can post comments in this videos comments section that is where I got some of the questions for this video this is a this was last month's right here there's Kyle looking all young I also notice since it was titled boxers or briefs there were some very interesting suggested videos over on the side but anyway I got a bunch of questions from there I asked on Twitter and I got several more from there and I'm going to try to run through these fairly quickly to give you guys answers to your questions that's how this video is supposed to work anyway I'm just a representation of just one of the many requests to change the title of this series to probing Paul so thank you to everyone who suggested that and voted for that anyway the first real actual question is from tech showdown who also has a YouTube channel you should check it out he does tech reviews what do you think of tech reviewers being bought out like game reviewers and my answer to him immediately was I think that's pretty pretty despicable in particular there was drama with like machinima back in the day and that kind of thing but um it now apparently has happened with some tech reviewers as well I don't know any of any specific specific situations where it's happened but um I would say as a viewer of the content you should definitely keep your eye out for some key things one is does the person reviewing the product disclose where they got the product from yes or no I always try to say if I got a product like this motherboard here Asus sent this over you know it's just as simple as that is saying here's where I got it from and then - of course if they do say that how is their actual reaction to the product I try to do my absolute very best to remain neutral and and critical of the products that are sent over because they're sent for review I'm supposed to critique them and give appropriate feedback for people who might actually be considering that product overly glowing reviews that don't disclose where the product came from is one thing and then I'd say other reviewers so you look out for like texting syndicate as an example I'm wearing one of their shirts and Logan has discussed that many times like just not accepting review samples from anywhere just to make sure that there's no possibility of bias or that kind of thing as far as accepting money for view that's straight-up illegal I believe there are there are laws against that if you you can't like take money say here's a review of a product and say it's awesome you have to disclose where it came from that's why I think when LG sent out a lot of those big-ass 4k LED TVs that they did to the end end of last year they were very specific with all the reviewers that you have to disclose where this came from so I think that's important and I think people are getting better at it actually saying where stuff came from and that kind of thing but um thank you very much for the question and I hope that gives you an answer here's another one from Sam he says do you think AMD Polaris GPUs will match and/or beat invidious Pascal GPUs and if so would you be excited to see the competition that once was between red and green I would absolutely love to see more competition between red and green I would actually like to see more competition from AMD on the CPU side against Intel but Nvidia could use a little kick in the pants as well Radeon has been kind of hanging strong with them but you know they they're definitely not the fastest of the fast it's really too early to speculate much but I here's an article from yesterday that I thought was very interesting on this topic this is testing DirectX 12 first off there this is from Gordon hung by the way I'm PC or PC world first off they're pairing up in Nvidia and a radeon GPU he's using a 980 and a fury x and he's not trying to compare a 980 at fury x but he does run several benchmarks and these were the sort of interesting things that I thought that I noticed when I was reading this article one would be that the 980 at the 980 and the fury X did very well together the two 980 s without SLI did better than with SLI on so DirectX 12 using the 980 s independently did a better job than the nine 80s just right out of the gate and although this article doesn't necessarily indicate it quite as much a lot of the performance tests with DirectX 12 at least early tests have shown that AMD is doing quite well that compared with the power consumption demos that they were showing at CES makes me really really excited for this next generation Polaris based GPUs from AMD or from AMD's Radeon group that said I think we're probably not going to see anything really exciting until probably about June around the Computex time frame because that's what I'm expecting to see stuff come out from both sides but there's going to be tons of comparisons and all that good stuff but yes I would say I'm really hoping that they are and things are looking pretty good for it so far and thank you very much for that question alright next he'll be 50 tasks hey Paul why don't you answer your comments I noticed in this video you had 99 plus replies this is just too many or laziness and and he also says much love I love your tech videos as well as Kyle's and I think actually what he is referring to here if I can jump back to my boxers or briefs video actually you know this is the wrong account that I'm logged into here but I'm on the other account which has the same picture it says 99 Plus up there I don't answer YouTube inquiries that come in it's just too much I get too many people asking me stuff from all directions so Twitter is really where I focus on as far as actual replies to people so to anyone who's ever tried to message me using the YouTube messaging system and I haven't replied I'm sorry I'm sorry that I'm not going to change what I'm doing and then switch back either okay next edward green jr asks my current keyboard is failing i'm looking for a new one were there any from CES that caught your eye he's looking for a full layout mechanical RGB model he wants a screen theme and all star jeebies aren't green I was looking at the Razer BlackWidow chroma stealth but he's not devoted to that brand there's a lot of options there's definitely a lot more options with mechanical RGB keyboards I've tried a couple from g.skill I thought they were pretty decent they're still fairly expensive although they have been surprised drops on them and the software still needed a little bit of work Corsair is definitely the go-to if you want RGB LED backlit mechanical switches they sell the most Cherry MX keyboards out of anyone so and they have a lot of different options as well so definitely check out core Sera's lineup I know coolermaster has the master keys that they were showing off at CES and that's supposed to launch sometime soon I believe so it might keep an eye out for that one as well that's going to have I think a bit more minimal design than some of the Corsair ones and that kind of thing but I really like cooler masters take on a lot of the mechanical keyboards this is a quick this is a CM storm rapid eye quickfire rapid eye which is ten keyless which which is just I don't know they're built like trucks they do a really good job if you're not a mechanical key switch aficionado then black widows switches are okay for you they use kale switches if you're used to cherries and you switch to kales you might not be as happy if you're used to Cherry's but if you're starting off with kales you'll probably be just fine so those would be my suggestions for you right there okay moving over to Twitter questions this one's actually from last week but I promised him I would reply to it and this is in the same vein as that AMD versus Nvidia question I've been trying to get your in Kyle's opinion on why you choose Intel processors over AMD for weeks and I already applied them just a little bit and it's basically roughly the same answer AMD's processors right now are all based on very old architecture bulldozer and piledriver they have made a derivative improvements and enhancements to them but here's here's where I want to give a simple answer here because really that's it's old its old and they need to make new stuff they haven't made inherently new stuff in quite some time on a CPU side but let's put it this way whenever I get AMD marketing material from the Radeon side and they're showing benchmarks with AMD Radeon graphics cards they use Intel platforms because they know that will give the best performance for their graphics card possible I'm not saying you shouldn't use AMD for gaming system because we're gaming systems which don't need a lot of CPU horsepower or might need less you can still get by with them just mine and they're still kind of viable but with the stuff they have plans coming out this year it's hard to advocate buying into that platform right now and yeah I mean it's straight from AMD themselves they know like I mean an 8350 doesn't even have native PCIe gen3 support so that's kind of missing out a little bit too anyway I hope that gives you a little bit more details there's more I could go into there like through the company some of the decision-making that they did in like 2006 to the mid 2010 s where they were like focusing on different things and switching between different CEOs and and having different goals for the company and that's always hard to like kind of keep up with yeah anyway that's probably hopefully enough explanation of that question next is a question from Dan he says where other than the US would you like to live if you could choose um Canada I would probably say Canada just because it's easy they speak English I really like the Pacific Northwest and that's even North theour than the Pacific Northwest I like big mountains I like hiking I like clean air all that good stuff I've been I've traveled other places that I might consider living but um I don't know the places I've traveled in Asia I wouldn't mind visiting for longer periods of time but it's hard to see myself living there full-time and there's definitely places in Europe that I kind of like pictures I could live there but I've never actually visit I've only been to like Italy in Europe so it's hard for me to say yes I'd move there but yeah it's a candidate is probably the easiest answer and also probably might actually happen depending on how the political situation in the US proceeds but now I don't wanna get into politics okay evil sunbro asks is a full desktop GPU in a laptop truly practical I have the 980m and it rocks at 1080 um well like you said for 1080 and 980m is just fine but laptops are increasing the resolution you see right laptops that are like you know 1440 resolution or even 4k resolution which i think is a little bit silly just just a little bit and you do need more GPU horsepower to do that I think Nvidia kind of did it more as a statement piece to say like look how efficient our processors are we were GPUs are we were able to put one into a laptop and there's always there's always somebody who wants more power so practical maybe a little bit less so than the mobile processors but I think it makes sense with the power and the efficiency that the 980 has for them to go ahead and do that alright next is from Mark Chapman who asks what to look for wouldn't buying secondhand parts so just I can give a few quick suggestions from my experience first off you look at parts that have a longer lifespan so for me memory is definitely one of those since memory formats change in a much longer time scale so and we just switched to DDR for but ddr4 should be the standard for quite some time CPUs I find are very rarely fails however they can get outdated so I'm always on the fence about that CP buying a CPU second handy is usually a pretty safe bet though beyond that there's always the go-to components that have really long lifespan like a case or maybe a power supply a mechanical hard drive is something that I would not buy second hand because you never know how much use it's actually been put through and mechanical hard drives have a limited lifespan so I definitely not look for that last thing would be to double check who you're buying it from like you know massive eBay resellers that just get lots of like you know damaged parts and and you know sort through them and resell stuff they know what stuff's worth so you're not going to get as good of a deal buying from an individual or somebody who like you know has an old system and just wants to get rid of it that's probably where you're going to get the most bang for your buck buy in second-hand ok next up is a question from Zach who says now that's pretty much done what are your favorite or most helpful parts of your garage setup and Zach I'm I'm flattered that you think I'm almost done but I really do have quite a bit more work but I'm really happy with these shelves up here just the fact that I have some more storage that I can just like pop some stuff up there and it's really easily accessible that's really the main thing for me though is making things accessible I want like if I'm sitting here and I'm like I need this piece to do this thing and I know I have it I don't have to go to a big pile and dig through the pile I want to be able to go to like a nice little drawer or a shelf or something where I know stuff is and that's kind of been the biggest benefit for me so far it's just being more organized so I can be more efficient as I move through making videos every day next from Angelo's I like this question how many a well free trials did you use back in the day and the answer would be as many as my dad had credit cards which I think ended up being like 6 or 7 times I went through the AOL free trial because if you tried to use the same credit card after your month expired or whatever it wouldn't let you redo it but if you used a different credit card even if you had like the same IP and everything it would still let you do it so yeah I did I think I'm pretty sure I did five or six AOL free trials using different credit cards before finally like my dad or my parents were like I were just going to pay monthly subscription fee for AOL lastly from Ronan he asks what made you decide to start YouTube full-time as opposed to keeping a full-time job and YouTube on the side that is a good question there's lots of factors that went into it and I can't really delve into all of them but I would say Kyle had something to do with it because it was his idea first and he was kind of talking about it and then I was like yeah maybe I could do that too second is I really like being independent and kind of calling my own shots and being able to just have an idea for a video and go ahead and make it I also really like being able to be more critical about stuff to kind of like dig into the shadier I'm gonna call it shadier but just certain things like I could never have made my Windows 10 for $20 video working at Newegg they they would not have been happy with me about that so yeah I like the freedom and I really like the I mean this isn't something that made me do it but something after the fact was just the amount of feedback I got from people watching the channel as far as the content I was making and and and all that over the past couple years has been amazing so yeah it was all those together and then now there's two other things one would be that my subscriber rate had gotten up to a pretty it was a significant enough that I felt if I put my effort into it full time that I could make a living off of it and also my wife has a full-time job and she has health insurance and she said you know I will add you to my health insurance and you can work from home and I'm cool you know if there's any financial difficulties or whatever she was okay to help me out that so that probably more than anything was my biggest contributing factor to me saying like yes I can do this and I'm really really glad that I did so anyway that's all the questions I have for today though so guys again leave me more questions down in the comments section down below if you want to don't forget to do all the things that I usually tell you to do at 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