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okay so what I've decided to do is segment this into just kind of a series of q and A's because for one I get asked quite a few questions and a lot of them were about different topics so which is great by the way because that's kind of the point here to learn about a lot of different things that I don't normally talk about on the channel but the first thing I want to cover in part 1 of this Q&A series if you will is how the channel started and how I got it to grow the way that I got it to grow because when I first started the channel I know if you've ever gone back in time back to the very first videos that I ever produced on the channel and actually I had some earlier than that that ended up deleting not long after I made the transition into PC gaming just because they were so awful and I know and looking back I should have kept those because it's it's a part of the history of the channel I don't want to say I was ashamed of them but compared to the quality of content that we have now it was night and day and I didn't want to give people that perception that our channel produced content that was that shabby I guess so the the earliest videos that you will find on the channel have to do with astronomy physics geology just all kinds of stuff that intrigued me personally and that's what kind of ties into the first question that one answer here from a dray fighter on Twitter I'm gonna post all the questions and Twitter handles right here you can check them out so at Wraith fighter asks what motivated you to start to the YouTube channel and that ties back into what I was just talking about with the early science videos that kind of stuff really did and still does intrigue me I love learning about that content some of it was stuff that I had learned in school that's another question I'll answer very soon by the way what my major is and kinds of classes I've taken but that that stuff was just interesting to me a lot of the stuff that I posted in the beginning when the channel is first created had to do with space and and the planets and physics and gravity and all that cool stuff because that was what I grew up studying believe it or not when I was in elementary school by the time I had reached the third grade I'd read every single astronomy library book there in my elementary school in fact by the fifth grade I was reading physics books I actually had those in my school in my elementary school I didn't understand three quarters of what I was reading but by the time I got into middle school and even in high school a lot of the stuff that I had just kind of absorbed like a sponge that but didn't still understand at that point eventually did make sense when I took classes that had to do with those topics in middle school in high school so I was just super intrigued and and just in all of the universe when I was really really young and that kind of curiosity is what fueled my interests and other scientific subjects I'm always been a fan of electronics I never understood how to how to actually you know craft circuit boards and do all that fancy stuff but that that kind of led to the PC part of the channel later on I was pretty big on consoles for a while and then I made the transition only about seven or eight months ago to PC I built my first PC that's actually another question I was going to answer on here sorry this is all out of order I guess I'm trying to segment these if you will so add all mighty ruin asked what were the specs of your first PC self or pre-built and that first PC that I had ever built was an Intel i3 4150 so we're talking has well I three here I had an MSI z97 gaming motherboard a 750 Ti from EVGA I had eight gigabytes and to-four gig variants of Crucial Ballistix ddr3 at 1600 megahertz and then I believe I believe I had I had taken an old power supply out of an old server computer that I had lying around at the house so it was like an 800 watt but it was a it was an old bulky gray one you know it wasn't fancy or anything and it was overkill especially for what I had at the time and then I just had an old hard drive that I had from another build of Korah that I was something we had just purchased pre-built but I took the hard drive out of that and use that as my storage device so all in all I think that build cost something like 500 bucks 450 bucks and it was decent I mean moving from consoles to pcs I expected gaming to just be you know as fluid I wasn't really all that up-to-date with powerful graphics cards and you know what was worth the money and what really wasn't and even back then I mean only seven months ago really but it seems like a little longer than that the 750ti is not something that you just want to throw into a rig that you expect the game on every day and expect good results from it's it's it's kind of like the bare minimum I would say and more recommended for games like dota maybe some light World of Warcraft and stuff like that but not the games that I was interested in playing like granteth out of five and city skylines came out soon after that was a great game actually may have been out at the time already I don't I don't know I'm not following that stuff but a lot of those games were more GPU intensive than I had originally presumed and the 750ti wasn't cutting it so you can see in this picture right here I had an MSI r7 370 from AMD that was my first graphics card upgrade and that made everything so much better huh it's not twice as powerful as a 70 Ti but it was a night and day difference in terms of what I could turn up what I you know how I was playing the game it just seemed so much more fluid and even at the time I wasn't even focused on frame rates I didn't even know what that was that kind of ties into the third question I want to answer so these are all kind of I love these because these all kind of work together mr. Alfredo Beltran at ASAP Alfredo 21 he asks what did you start when did you start building pcs when did you start getting a PC tech building them etc at a young age or recently great channel man appreciate it Alfredo so to answer your question that kind of ties into why the channel changed from a strictly science channel to a technology PC gaming channel because when I when I started the channel the intent was not to evolve into a PC channel that I mean I wasn't even into that at the time I built the PC so that I could do my edits more I guess efficiently so when I was doing my science videos I was editing anyone on an old cheap laptop and it wasn't cutting it I knew it wasn't cutting it so I said I'm gonna build a decent PC it'll be my editing rig and then I realized it's like you know what building a PC it's actually pretty fun and so I ended up selling that rig and I built my second PC with the FX 6300 up there that was my second CPU I ever owned and I built that on the asus 970 m58 97 motherboard I'm surprised I even remember that and the same 8 gigabytes of RAM I bought a solid-state drive this time around and then I think I bought an r9 380 that's what I had and actually that build is on the channel you can click it it Worth's which sides gonna be on I think it's on this side yeah you can click it right here I think and maybe it's backwards it's like reflective I'm looking at myself in the camera I don't know which way it's gonna be but you click the card and that card will take you to my second ever PC build and while there aren't as many views on that video as there are on some of the more recent videos of the channel that video was what made me realize that there was a huge demand for PC gaming and just technology content on YouTube and I said well you know if I'm gonna make this channel a success if I'm you know if I want to see how far I can really push the envelope and make this channel grow I needed to make content that people want to see because people the time weren't really interested in my science stuff I know I wasn't being found on YouTube very easily just because my stuff was so it was so specific you know like I was I was explaining movies and I was talking about tectonic plate boundaries and stuff like people don't just go onto YouTube and search for that stuff they might for class but it's not something they're just gonna want to be interested in most of the time especially when compared to something like PC gaming so I basically made the transition into PC building and technology as a result of the substantial growth the channel experienced after that first video I realized that a lot of people wanted to see pcs being built they wanted all the tech porn they wanted to see you know what worked well with what what didn't work well with what I said you know this is it's basically like exercising the scientific method with computers and on top of that I'm an engineering majors then it works out even better by the way that someone else asked that question they asked what my major was I'm sorry I'm trying to do this all in one shoot so I'll have to edit very much because I might get these out quickly so that I can answer as many questions as possible ok I can't fight it but I know it's been asked several times in some of the videos I've uploaded and I haven't answered those questions because they've all been the same what is your specialty in engineering I haven't answered because I wanted to save them for this video so while my major field of study is engineering my I guess concentration is petroleum which means that I deal with oil so we basically extract oil from the ground is a simple way of putting it there's a lot more that goes into that obviously so I take classes like transport phenomena phase behavior thermodynamics statics mechanics basically a mechanical engineering degree to an extent and then we hit a point in which we branch away from then I'd say mechanical engineers are encompass of a wider array of careers whereas ours is very concentrated so when I graduate I expect as if unless I I don't know start making huge sums of money on YouTube which has yet to happen I expected I'll be working on an oil platform somewhere offshore or maybe in an oil rig onshore it just depends on on who ends up hiring me but that is what I will be doing I expect next year after I graduate and that's that's my that's my actual degree that I'm working for is a petroleum engineering degree I'm also minoring in geology and pre-mba so I want to get my pre-mba very where my MBA on my premia I won't get my MBA very soon so the pre MBA takes away those prereqs that I would normally have to take if I'm not a business major which I'm not so that's something else I hope to to have under my under my belt under mine in my belt under my belt I hope to have that eventually as well I'm probably right after I graduate if I can't find a job when I get up kisses oil right now it's it's a little sketchy so I want to end this video with the one more question and I love this question because it's pretty much it's open-ended so at the trixie she asks what is your main goal concerning YouTube and that my friends is to learn and that's why at the end of every video I say thanks for learning with this because 99% of the time I'm the one filming I'm always the one in the shot I'm always the one editing I'm always the one typing the scripts and I'm always the one researching but I actually like that because it gets me involved too I have to learn these things in order to be able to convey them in a way that's understandable for all of you because that's that's why you subscribe to this channel you subscribe to learn and I appreciate that you can't put a price tag on someone's dry motivation to learn and that's what I hope that this channel continues to do is is accelerate those curiosities you have four topics in the tech industry and PC gaming industry and then hopefully eventually we'll make a study transition into just science again in general things that that are interesting that many people don't talk about or necessarily know about that I'll make a personal goal of mine to learn about as best I can to be able to then share with all of you because knowledge is priceless again you can't put a price tag on these things it's it's something that you either have or you don't have and for those of you who have it thank you for supporting this channel I hope you stick by me I hope that this channel continues to grow because I I really do love what I do they I mean I'm a full time college student this isn't something that I do to make money off of I'm not making a lot of money off of it when I graduate I expect that I'll be working in the field as a petroleum engineer I don't expect I'll be doing YouTube full-time unless something miraculous happens between now and then next year so I want to thank each and every one of you again for for your support for watching this video as far into it as you have and for sticking by me because this channel would not be where it is today without all of you we've grown in seven months we've grown from one subscriber my own other YouTube account that I subscribe to this one for just make myself feel special to 80,000 nearly subscribers as of July 24th that that blows me away and it's because of all of you in all of your interest to learn again priceless this is science studio folks stay tuned for part 2 thanks for learning with us you