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here we are with episode 6 of address the yester series where you guys ask questions and I try to answer them as best as possible for example this first question is overclocking mspaint safe and I'm pretty sure it is your mileage may vary but one thing I do like about mspaint is that I actually use it sometimes to resize a lot of my images especially coming from Photoshop where some of these images can come out at like 15 megabytes and they come out as a PNG form and you just drop them into paint and then yuri save as a JPEG and it drops it down to like 250 kilobytes so you can then avoid some of those maximum upload limits on a lot of different sites so mspaint still it's not too bad next question we got up here is is doing surgery on a grape safe depends on the grape my friend depends on the grape next up here we have Ricki V says hey Brian I've always wondered about your comparison of us a verse ozzie prices maybe discuss that on your next check yes answers video other than that good info here I want to see car videos broom vroom so car videos I will try and release something maybe at Christmas time but in terms of Ozzie vs. USA pricing I think they're pretty similar a lot nowadays we talked about the tax structure some places in the u.s. I believe you don't have to pay taxes and then as variable tax rates which aren't actually charged on to the final price that you see sometimes then you go into the checkout and you've got to pay those extra taxes in Oz everything on pricing has to include GST if it's a new shop retailer selling a graphics card for example and I do like this law better in Australia because at least you know exactly what you're gonna pay before you check out and you can kind of gauge prices in terms of use parts you don't have to pay GST on that because obviously a lot of people are just selling stuff in their back yard but when it comes to place like Japan for example they currently have an 8 percent tax rate and I think that's moving up to like 10 percent in 2019 and the problem with Japan for example is they don't charge tax on anything until you get to the final price so they advertise all the prices without tax and so if you're a foreigner and you go over there you're like wow this stuff is so cheap and then you get slugged with 8% on the end bill and it sort of brings the tech to around the same level so in terms of Aussie vs. u.s. pricing always just convert your money 1 USD to AUD and you'll find out roughly how much that is in comparative terms because at least on face value a lot of the stuff looks cheaper in the States but when you convert it ah see pricing isn't too bad a purchase that virtually mint hpz 400 for 200 euro shipped it's the six ramp slut version and comes with six four gigabyte sticks installed storage was taken out but otherwise everything appears to be a am I'll be out of the country for a few months but I'll have a Zeon W 30 680 waiting for me when I get back and since you've made it this far did you know the z400 was available with an all-in-one CPU water cooler and it seems to be the cooling the current CPU just fine with its rather quiet system I haven't done any stress test but so far the CPU pulled a reported 144 watts and hasn't even hit the mid 50s so I actually didn't know about this water cooler thanks for sharing that with me I love sort of seeing cool stuff like that in terms of the z400 I believe those motherboards inside a locked down so you won't be able to overclock your cpu at least from as far as I know so you do want to in that case get the highest multiplier CPU you can buy and try maybe stack it up with value for money so the W 3680 is definitely a good choice and then put that water cooler on there and have happy days I have dealt with Z for hundreds in the past and usually Oh what I'll do is I'll just put a decent GPU in because the motherboards support all those different graphics cards without a secure boot or whatever and then I'll put in like an i7 960 or 950 that I have lying around that a lot of people pretty much give away and you get yourself a really good gaming PC especially on a budget next up Lucas Peugeot he says Brian I've seen a post in the internet about editing biases on old 60 series Intel chipsets so that's like the h-60 one and stuff to allow the motherboard to boot from the PCIe slot and recognize nvme SSDs could you make a video about that it'd be nice to use nvme SSDs and all the systems that don't support it natively I just watched your video is x58 still relevant 2018 and you mentioned PCIe will solve every problem that's why I'm asking that thanks and events great vids and so in terms of booting off nvme it's definitely possible on my x79 zeus board i'm using a two terabyte evo and that's the boot drive and it works absolutely flawless that's absolutely amazing but I did have to go get a hacked BIOS from a forum from someone who made that up in terms of programming the bias itself I'd have to learn how to do that and add in the nvme options it could be a little bit more difficult depending on the BIOS maker and the motherboard in question but it's definitely possible to do that just depends on how you're going to get that BIOS on that motherboard and whether it's going to work a hundred percent with no faults but in terms of breathing life back into these older chipsets definitely I think x79 at the moment for example is a real big sweet spot having no disadvantages compared to the newer architecture and still giving such good performance next up here mike lounder he's following up from the previous episode where he said the 10 series had a problem with an update that messed up the display ports it's a bios fix so I'm guessing you update the VGA bios and that may help with your problem in the previous episode where the person was having some DisplayPort issues I mentioned another suggestion which is one that I'm personally coming into a problem where the ports themselves from mining they've sort of got a little bit of rust on them so wd-40 and just keep reinserting that cable and it fixes it absolutely no problems next up here Caesar until he says how can you say your ex 79 is your main editing rig when you have other than your hardware isn't it just months ago you showed videos of two thousand nine hundred thread rippers eighth and ninth gen Intel's current second gen rising stuff maybe just like really old systems but would you rather prefer the modern and capable hardware to what you currently have right now so this is a question I knew I was gonna get asked a sooner or later and it relates to a few different things the first being the passion of the channel and as I said written the travel video put that up here if you haven't seen it already everything I do on this channel just relates to what I love doing and hopefully you guys enjoy watching the content too and part of that x79 thing is that I'd love use price-performance it's just a big passion of mine extracting the most out of the older stuff and showing that you really don't have to upgrade and waste money on your hardware but at the same time I do like testing out all the newer stuff and seeing how it compares to the older stuff as well not to mention the companies they want their products reviewed and they know that I'm more than capable of reviewing those products whether it be giving it fancy shiny b-roll and then overclocking it and also giving them feedback on their products behind the scenes I do kind of beta test especially for motherboard companies if there's problems before they release their motherboards I do let them know hey fix this fix that before it comes to market these are some really cool things that go on with the new parts as well and I guess in when it really comes down to it they both need each other the new parts market will always keep the used price performance in check and also the user performance will always keep the new parts in check so honestly it's just a really cool trade-off one that just is so balanced and I love being at the forefront of that and also showing people how to get those really good deals that stuff it does really excite me but also as well there's something else and that is the ddr3 the low-caste latencies I do believe it just makes your system just that little bit snappier if everything else is considered and so that's something we're going to be looking at soon with thousand FPS camera testing the x79 versus the 99 hundred K versus the 2700 X Jarrod's Tex says I say is Zeus the same way I spoke to someone who works there and they noticed they pronounced it the same no regrets Jared's tech I love you right now next up Deon Ellis says I like this set is this the couch in the corner RGB background lights look nice yes it is the couch in the corner and just we thought we'd do a little bit of a different setup where we don't have to rely on the condenser mica are causing some little hissing and stuff like that Plus yeah if you guys like it we'll continue recording on this set here next up the outsider of paradise says hey tech why don't you just go to the e-waste they're dumping iSeries computers with ram nowadays very good question i've tried in the past especially on the Gold Coast I've tried going around to different tips and it's sad because they've got computers sitting there like sometimes more than 10 computers sitting there and it really frustrates me because apparently there's this law now where you can't take those computers and it's just like wow I mean people can use those computers especially people who don't have money like younger teens and stuff who have time on their hands could go pick those things up and sort of just I guess try and make a really cheap gaming PC so it really sucks the laws at the moment especially on in Queensland surrounding a waste and it being able to pick up those computers from the scrap yard I don't know what other countries and their laws are like I've definitely heard some people in the US have been getting some really good deals at a waste centers because some of those centers will actually resell the parts at really low prices so I'm looking forward to finding a place that does sort of do reselling I have had some people email me from interstate saying that they've got parts and they could wholesale them to me and stuff like that but in terms of me doing videos locally maybe if I can get some special license or something that definitely be something I'd look into next up Chuck's zeal says can't wait for the water cooling vids bud been flipping pcs for years myself and as you can guess I tend to lean more to previous gen pots in turn you can find really good water cooling gear secondhand for the older PC part so I've finally water-cooled all but two of my builds with top notch gear from ek a danger den Barrow to name a few and Barrow is actually a really interesting company they're on Aliexpress and they sort of do I guess high-end water cooling parts but without all those fancy brand names associated with them so I'm definitely looking into getting some Barrow parts but that's RAM vrm CPUs GPUs and HD DS no colored fluid just deionized water with fazer based corrosion inhibitor and PT new fireside and it's happy years not really any maintenance needed before the upgrade time and it's cool and quiet at max OC so great value thanks for sharing that tip I mean a lot of people have problems with custom water cooling gear and that they have to flush it out and clean it every so often so I'm guessing a lot of people who actually just want to extract value for money out of water cooling will definitely take that into consideration I have to say that I'm really liking the way AMD is going with their new Zen and Navi series of chips so it might be a new system for the first time ever soon keep up the great content buddy that take a break if you need it we like the honest upbeat vibes and stay healthy thank you very much and as for Rison yes I am looking forward to the next seven nanometer chips just as much as anyone else is whether they're going to be the 16 cores or 12 cores I honestly think they're gonna be 12 cores I don't think we're ready for 16 cores just yet and this as I said in that previous video I did I just think it's too much too soon from AMD I mean what are they gonna do after that they're not just gonna put all their cards out on the table when they don't need to so I think a 12 core part if they release that it would be so awesome I'd personally probably changed my main rig over to it as well that's how much I'm looking forward to it but in terms of AMD they've definitely had a great year for 2018 with their CPUs GPUs is an absolute mess I've been speaking to people behind the scenes and the GPU market honestly the cryptocurrency mining it's even worse than I thought it was and I thought it was really bad so that's how bad cryptocurrency with the GPUs has messed up the market at the moment rage against the toy machine says what are your thoughts on Walmart's new overpowered line of gaming PC's I'm not planning to buy one or anything I'm just curious as to what your opinion on them I call them overpriced my sentiments exactly I've been taking a look at what bit wet and gamers Nexus have been doing with these things and they just look like they're complete garbage for the money yeah skimping out like 8700 on a h3 10 I mean it's a little bit too much like at least put a B 360 motherboard in there please people deserve that if they're getting an 8700 so there's just you look at that you just like damn I would not recommend this to anyone the case looks like it's absolute garbage so for the money they're charging I do expect a lot better and since it's Walmart I'm sure they could get some real good economies of scale deals going and give people some really good value so it's just shame to see them go down that route and say hey if you want a gaming PC with fancy lights and an 8700 and a GTX or r-tx gravis card we've got you covered except they don't have you covered and they're preying on those people that really I guess just walk into Walmart and don't have a whole lot of time they're on their smartphone they're like oh this might be a decent deal when it's actually not a decent deal at all yes definitely overpriced next up few years behind says on the topic of Zeon's on I'll Express you can find an e3 1280 v1 476 USD and a P 67 motherboard for $65 III 1280 is four cores eight thread sandy and has clocked to three point six gigs on all cores out of the box with p67 chipset you can set the maximum 39 multiplier to all cores and it will give you 3.9 gigahertz and then you can set bus speed a few megahertz higher to say 105 and it will give you 4.1 on pure performance 11 56 Zeon's are better but 4.1 easy overclock on sandy just makes me happy that's actually a really good tip thanks for that few years behind because yeah if you can get a four gigahertz overclock I guess on a non overclockable CPU just by a few tweaks then that's really good value for money I love it when you can find those motherboards with a particular BIOS that allows you to hit that max multiplier speed I know for instance in the past when I've had a Xeon I think it was the e3 1230 V to the underappreciated there was a be 85 pro gamer motherboard and you could set the max multiplier as well only on one BIOS so it's definitely cool what you can do with a motherboard and Xeon combo in terms of extracting performance next up Farnley he says could you make a bill with a core i7 4720 HQ compare it to the normal 4770 I found it on turbo I'll expressive China for $90 it has modded 2 years of the normal mode over like be 85 I think Linus already did a video on that one it's the isn't that the laptop CPU it looks pretty cool like I definitely want to get that testing done for you guys but there's just so much on the plate at the moment so maybe next year if we've got some time we'll take a look at that for you guys but in terms of what it is and sort of like the practicality of it for the normal person it is gonna be one of those more real niche things next up grow Tacoma he says I love my gaming PC but I edit videos for my job and fun fun for YouTube and I use a Mac I edit with Final Cut Pro After Effects and Premiere and never get crashes just wish I could do tinkering on my imax hardware speaking of Premiere Pro and crashing it's it's so crazy I mean it just seems like every time Adobe released an update there's some weird thing that'll crash for instance we can force Adobe to crash if we are set in for instance a constant power on the audio and drop that all the way to zero and we can just replicate this easy and bang Adobe crashes so definitely if you're using Premiere Pro do me a favor go to the autosave settings and set it to at least two minutes you'll thank me later next up rebel without a clue says could you look at om x58 next seven nine boards as sometimes those deals pop up and the cooling and BRM is in question along with the overclock ability would be interested due to you working on om machines a fair bit we've actually got an X 79 board that's come in this is called the running and as always I just check this stuff out you check the feedback and there's one Russian guy in there going hard is like yep this board is the one to get a 5 16 50 v 2 and then you get that 2 4 point 2 gigahertz with some ECC registered memory this could be the new meta for those people who want a 6 core 12 thread and living internationally and can't get access to Rison for example I'm definitely looking at this combo at the moment and stay tuned because it might be that REM board is sort of the better of the boards there I did take a look at the one and board for the X 79 I thought that was madessa to get on x79 to get that board because it just didn't make any sense this one on the other hand actually does have quad channel memory next up are J games he says I got a question I have an Intel 9 ATX and EVGA classified x58 motherboard what would I gain from upping to one of the new six core rise in CPUs as to what I have now and that's a really good question in itself but it depends on what you're doing if you've overclocked this CPU and you've got a gtx 1070 for example and all you do is play games i'd say there's absolutely no reason to upgrade at all but if you're doing things like Adobe Premiere Pro the Rison 5 a 2600 when you do overclock it you will get some gains plus you'll get some better power efficiency so whether you need the productivity out of Rison or whether you just need to keep it for gaming then overclocked for gaming it'll perform pretty similar to a Verizon 520 600 even in 2018 if you want to check out more between these two CPUs in terms of gaming I'll put a link up here for you guys but also of course the rosin new series has USB front out and all those fancy features you'd get from newer chipsets see of course that may be a factor as well in terms of upgrading if you need those new features next up shampoo time says address the yes question think you may have answered this before but do you do any local fan meet ups ups public events store promos lands risky I know with Internet crazies huh yeah yeah it's funny yeah we do we were kind of going to have a barbecue a while ago it's just I've honestly just been super busy it's been it's just too much but I guess in ways when I think about that I will be making a fan meeting probably after Christmas maybe an end of January that'd be great just all meet up on the Gold Coast have a barbecue have some drinks talk to you guys so I'll definitely see what I can do in terms of that and in terms of just the busyness itself I guess the way I look at it it's like hey I've sort of worked on YouTube for so long it's been actually and you guys as well I've been so loyal to me that I don't want to let you down now things are starting to go pretty well so I was like I'm just gonna put my foot to the floor on the accelerator and just keep the awesome content coming for you guys so if you've got suggestions - be sure to drop a comment below next up god of sand says I bought a black reference design ZOTAC GTX 1070 it has a weird problem on my main rig where neither the motherboard on Windows will detect the GPU however have my late uncle's PC and it works absolutely fine on that machine the only conclusion I can come to is that something is wrong with the motherboard itself any suggestions and yes it is the motherboard and it's to do with secure boot problems I definitely have come into a lot of these headaches with OEM boards like HP's and Dells for instance and they just won't support in video graphics cards to boot but if you can get into the boss with a for instance an old AMD card which I find usually works on any single motherboard then you can go into the secure boot options and try and play around with those settings and then change that and then try and put your gtx 1070 back in and then see if it boots up if it doesn't have that option then unfortunately you're generally Sol so yeah get another motherboard if that's the case next time people got quasi song he says great and awesome content as always I have a question for the next yes episode I have quite a lot of headphones I'm weird I like to keep them and not weird at all man that's I guess you just may be an audiophile they consists of audio technica ath m20 a venturi audition Logitech G 433 Razer Electra and so on but I'm wondering if buying and spending money on an amp will be a good idea many of them saying an imp will help us to get the best out of these headphones just wondering if they'll make any difference for the headphones I have in terms of the headphones you currently have they do look like they're sort of mid-range more budget orientated options depends on what you're using at the moment if you're using them with a motherboard with good onboard audio for example then you unfortunately won't get much of a difference now generally amps where they make the biggest difference especially a DAC am combo is when you've got higher-end headphones that are harder to drive for instance although dynamics but of course they will make a little bit of a difference and if you see yourself definitely stepping it up in terms of better headphones in the future than getting a DAC amp solution now that's a good one is always an investment for the future especially if you like listening to music it's always a trade-off I guess with anything like we've got pcs for example match a good GPU with a good power supply good CPU match a budget GPU with the budget power supply and a budget CPU I guess that's like the tiers of PC parts you've got the tiers of audio where you want to match all your good gear and not have one really bad link in the chain next I'd be a line of truth ministries he says I love the channel and your style very personable I recently switched from Mac and built my own PC and your channel has been a great blessing my family and I spent a year in Australia and your accent brings back good vibes blessings a lot of truth ministries thank you so much for this comment it's the reason why I love doing YouTube is just reading comments like these I hope you have a Merry Christmas and all the best next up five falcon says could you please do some more dual socket or quad socket intel xeon AMD operatin or epic videos actually I'm not too keen on doing dual socket or even quad socket videos because in the past I've used a dual socket Z onboard as my main PC for quite a while and its perks were that of course it was great maximum performance especially for the money but the negatives were that there was noticeable latency over a single overclock CPU and so that's why I went back to a single socket solution because of those issues plus there was other issues where games wouldn't work properly some of the time and the FPS was actually lower compared to that too of a single CPU variant of the same CPUs in dual socket mode so in terms of me doing future content with dual sockets I don't really believe in it and I don't think the majority of single and desktop users especially power users that need to get a lot of things done at once would benefit from a dual socket CPU solution next time gray wolf Chow says another great video always gravity reform you hope that thumb is healing well yeah it is healing well I guess there's this really weird bump of scar tissue and it's actually really annoying to try and use my thumb like I used it before I cut it so if you guys have any good tips and tricks that work well for reducing that scar tissue then I'd love reading your comments on that next up shower med says hey Brian peter baelish mustache and goatee how's that for an idea we can always give it a go thanks and that about wraps up this episode of address the yes I hope you guys enjoyed it if you did then be sure to hit that like button of course if you have any questions that need to be answered in depth then be sure to drop a comment in the comment section below so I love reading thoughts and opinions as always also if you want to grab yourself some 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