**Interview with Paul from Probing Tech**

In this episode of Probing Tech, Paul sat down to answer questions from his audience and share some insights about his life as a tech enthusiast and content creator. The conversation started off with Paul discussing how he maintains relationships with friends and colleagues in the industry. He mentioned that events such as NVIDIA or AMD conferences have helped bring people together and foster friendships over the years.

"I think what sorts of maintain those relationships has been the events that we've gone to in the past, which have typically happened you know with some regularity every three to five or six months," Paul explained. "There's some NVIDIA or AMD or Intel thing that happens that brings us to the same place and we get to hang out and talk in person of course." These events have been put on hold for a while due to last year and this year's circumstances, but Paul is looking forward to when they can happen again.

Paul also talked about how he handles keeping up with his friends and colleagues. He admitted that he's not good at reaching out as often as he should and has sometimes let relationships fall by the wayside. However, he emphasized the importance of making an effort to stay in touch, especially for those who may have gone too long without hearing from each other.

"I'm going to try to do a little bit more collaborations with more tech YouTubers," Paul said. "That's a good thing to do from time to time and I haven't done anything like that at all recently." He also encouraged his audience to reach out to friends who they may not have talked to in a while, whether it's through a phone call, text message, or social media.

Moving on to the topic of starting a YouTube channel, Paul emphasized the importance of consistency and having fun. "Having fun and not crushing yourself with high expectations is most important," he said. He noted that many people get into content creation without realizing that it takes time and effort to build an audience and sustain a channel over the long term.

"For me, producing YouTube videos has always been about trying to maintain some level of consistency that also balances my personal mental health and ability to remain engaged focused interested and for it to still feel like fun," Paul explained. "I know a lot of people are interested in becoming content creators or YouTubers or whatever but make sure that if you're starting out, that you're doing it as a fun side project rather than suddenly diving into like I'm going to invest all of my time in this and I'm going to make super awesome videos."

**Beer Break**

In a surprising turn of events, Paul revealed that he had a beer on hand for the recording session. He asked his audience if they had any favorite local brew beers or beverages, citing his personal preference for red or brown ale. However, just as he was about to open the beer, he hesitated and said, "I'm saving it for a special occasion maybe tech news who knows that'll be coming up this Sunday."

**Conclusion**

That's all for episode 60 of Probing Tech! If you have any questions or topics you'd like Paul to discuss in future episodes, leave them in the comment section below. Don't forget to check out links to stuff Paul talked about, including his store and upcoming tech news. Also, be sure to click that like button and subscribe to the channel for more content from Probing Tech.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everyone and welcome back to probing paul this is my monthly q a series where you guys ask questions and i answer them to the best of my abilities this is episode number 60 i believe and while it doesn't really get easier every time i'm at least a little bit more accustomed to what's coming down the pipeline so to speak for today's video i'm going to be answering several questions that were asked about amd's new 5000 g series of ryzen cpus with integrated graphics and a bunch of other random questions that maybe you didn't even know you wanted to know the answer to but now you'll know excellent today's video is brought to you by microcenter one of my favorite places to buy pc parts whether it's online or at one of their 25 retail stores in the us they have consistently competitive prices and an excellent selection of pc hardware and other tech goodies as well as the custom pc builder on the micro center website use it to spec out your rig and it will show you parts in stock at your nearest store while ensuring compatibility with your selections then you can pick up or have their pros assemble it for you so click the sponsor link in the description and don't forget to sign up for the free in-store gift before we get started a quick reminder that there's a playlist of probing paul's if you want to check out old ones that's linked in the description and you can even look back down this hole to back when there used to be brightness and light and joy in the world before it started to get much darker let's not dwell on that though let's get into the first question from techchimp actually this first question is a few questions asked for some responses on twitter and that's where this came from what are the chances of getting a ryzen 5000g or non-x cpu from online retailers likewise tall titan in the youtube comments asked paul for ones that really don't need a gpu for an httpc what's the latest on the ryzen 5000 series apus this was two weeks ago before the announcement that happened on the 13th this week as you can see there were several questions along the same line and this is us asking me to do an apu or igpu build like i did back in the 10 series era so i believe us asked that question before this video was posted so this is my monthly builds video for april where i went over actually four different builds that don't need graphics cards they all use igpus so check that video out if you want to see the parts lists that i went over and a correction the 3200g is a four core four thread processor but more to the point the 5000 g apus were literally just announced by amd and they're confirmed unfortunately they are oem only for now which means you would need to buy an actual full system based on one of these that's built by a system integrator rather than buying these cpu or apu and building it yourself but it does say full release later this year and this is something that for the ryzen 4000 series of apus that you can see listed on this chart here on an antec and this full article is in the description by the way you guys if you want to read up some more details but these were some nice apus but you could never really buy them directly unless you bought them from overseas or apparently in some countries they were a little bit easier to get than others but it's definitely hard to get your hands on these at least somewhat legitimately if you're in the u.s there's also a 4650g in that series that's a little bit faster than the 4600g but the main point here is these aren't just cpus but they're also graphics cards too they have integrated graphics and even though the 4000 series like the 4000g based on renoir which is 7 nanometers n2 and the 5000 series uh which is also seven nanometer but zen three only have vega eight graphics versus vega 11. uh because of the die shrink they're able to run them at higher frequencies so even though they say vega 8 and if you look at the number of compute units per apu it is less than what you got with the 2000 g and 3000 g series again because they're running at higher frequencies they are still faster so if you're considering buying a pre-built system then these should be available pretty soon or if you're just keeping your eye on them for future reference or if you're going to try to you know buy one on alibaba or something like that which you should do at your own risk but that should also be potentially something that maybe you can do if things go anything like they did with the ryzen 4000 g series but at the top you have an eight core 16 thread model on the 5700g all these models also have ge options which are going to be lower wattage uh they're lower wattage tdps so those are just going to run at lower frequencies with the same stats otherwise you can see a 3200 megahertz base clock here versus 3800 megahertz with the 5700 g then you got a 6 core 12 thread variant with the 5600g and a 4 core 8 thread variant with the 5300g so you might look at something like the 5600g and think to yourself oh a 6 core 12 thread part this is basically like a 5600x with integrated graphics kind of but not exactly and you should be aware of the variations between them you do get a higher bass frequency with the 5600g but you get a lower peak or turbo frequency at 4 400 megahertz versus 4600 of course there are no integrated graphics with the 5600 x but also bear in mind that if you want pcie 4.0 uh you need to go with the 5600x you only get pcie 3.0 connectivity with these 5000 g series apus also you get half of the l3 cache you get 16 megs of l3 versus 32 megs of l3 with the video 600x and that will affect performance depending on what type of cpu workload that you're talking about but overall the upshot is going to be that the 5600x is going to be a faster cpu with the 5600g if you're willing to give up pcie 4.0 and a bit of cache and a bit of frequency then you get the integrator graphics so you don't need to roll with a graphics card at least not at first again a similar situation with the 5700g compared to the 5800x here although they have the same base frequency here the turbo frequency is higher with the 5800x and you'll probably also find that the turbo turbo tables are going to work a little bit differently with these because with the 5700g you only have a 65 watt tdp to work with so even though the turbo frequency looks like it's just 100 megahertz lower chances are the sustained frequency that you run at under full load for example is also going to be lower on the 5700 g than the 5800x as for motherboard support you should have x570 b550 and a520 motherboards that will all support officially the 5000g series of apus and then you might have some 400 series motherboard support like b450 but that would be up to the motherboard manufacturer to provide a bios update that provides that support i guess the final question would be for the projects that i have going on which would be the build recommendations that i did at the beginning of this month does this announcement affect those at all and i would say maybe slightly because it is going to be worth it to keep an eye on the prices of these oem builds that are going to be going up for sale very soon but at the same time i typically am recommending build parts lists for people who are assembling their own computer and that's not going to be something that you're going to be able to do at least not right out of the gate with these new 5000g apus so with diy pc building in general right now we're still in a situation where i'd say particularly with graphics cards and then to a lesser extent with cpus you kind of have to build with what's available if you need to build right now so so it's a good idea if you're thinking about building to sort of keep your ear to the ground with this stuff so you know what's available what the prices are and what is actually worth buying for the money that it's currently costing speaking of which uh here's a follow-up question from josh really enjoying your videos lately thank you very much josh question for the next probing paul what makes a good balanced parts list and what are some tips you have for choosing parts at a certain budget so josh here again i point you back towards my monthly builds parts list because here's where i do my best of sort of keeping myer to the ground for what's available and what you can buy at a certain price my first two builds are amd apu builds that cost 533 dollars and 733 dollars respectively but i am including like the 4650g here which you can currently buy on alibaba for 260 dollars that said you're probably going to need to wait like a month for it to arrive because it ships from overseas you might also keep an eye out for buying this domestically but chances are you'd have to buy on ebay and everywhere i looked there they were 300 to 350 so i just decided let's go for the budget cost and buy it from alibaba wait i've been saying alibaba i meant to say aliexpress but uh you get the point for me though right now what makes a balanced parts list is keeping your eye on the two main most expensive parts in the list which is going to be your cpu and then potentially your graphics card although graphics cards are absurdly overpriced right now so that's why i've been leaving them out recently probably focusing your budget on those two parts with an emphasis on the graphics card if you're building a gaming pc in particular and maybe a little bit more emphasis on the cpu and getting a higher core count uh maybe eight cores or more rather than six cores if you're planning to actually work with your cpu or if you're planning to like game and stream at the same time if you're gonna do something that puts a heavy load on the cpu then you probably want to spend a little bit more money on your cpu beyond that balancing everything else out and not spending too much money on other things i think is what makes a balanced build like you don't need to spend three or four hundred dollars on a motherboard at all for a mainstream system probably 150 to 200 bucks is all you need to spend and keep in mind that pc parts are very much commodities and the prices can fluctuate they can go up and down sometimes there's a shortage of a certain component that causes suddenly ram prices to go up or power supplies to be in limited availability but apart from telling you to watch my monthly builds videos every month or you like constantly checking on a daily or weekly basis yourself i would say pc part picker is a great resource to check just so you can cross compare like how much ssds are selling for on a price per gigabyte basis for example and then my final bit of advice would be to understand which parts are actually going to impact the performance of your computer and that would typically be again the cpu and the graphics card and then other things that might be effectively keeping your computer cool versus more aesthetic additions like rgb lighting or making sure everything is perfectly color matched or getting that like super blingy version of a 3060 ti that costs 150 or 200 more than the base model version rather than just upgrading to a 30-70 for example that's also a way that people will spend more money without necessarily getting a lot more performance those are my suggestions though so i hope that helps you out to some degree let's move on to our next question which is from arvind baller uh what would you choose oh this is a good question to get a free supply of whatever pc component you need for the rest of your life or your dogs can talk choose paul and thanks for another awesome probing session i enjoyed this question because it was different and because i actually had to think about it for a second at first i was like oh well of course you know the long-term joy and connection i would have with my dogs being able to talk is what i should go for but then i thought well if i got a free supply of whatever pc component i would need for the rest of my life obviously right now the choice would be graphics cards and i was like oh i could get a bunch of graphics cards and i could make amazing profits and sell them and i could suddenly be rich and be able to buy as many talking dogs as i wanted to but then i realized no paul that would be selfish that would be a selfish choice and the way i should look at this is what if i could solve the gpu shortage crisis that's going on right now all by myself if i had an unlimited free supply of this wouldn't it be worth the sacrifice for me to give up that chance at actually talking to hiro or nori and hearing the wonderful things they have to say in order for me to supply the world with as many graphics cards as might be necessary and i think that's what i would do if for one it makes me seem like a really good person and for two uh you know the dogs i feel like we communicate you know we i you just you guys who have pets or dogs probably know how it goes you just need to look at your pet in the eyes and you know there's a communication that happens there without the need to actually speak so that means graphics cards are obviously the better choice hero can you lie down please hero can you lie down no don't go that way don't go that way please don't go that way hero can you please lie down here boy can you lie down here boy lie down please and so we move to our next question patrick trospak trospak trustbock what are your thoughts about wow burning crusade the wow burning crusade classic coming to fruition so i'll be perfectly honest i played a little bit of wow classic when it while classic sort of relaunched and one of the things i thought to myself at the time was though this is pretty cool but uh i have i'm so short on time now but the one thing that i did feel like might actually pull me back into it is the burning crusade a burning crusade classic version because honestly this is kind of my golden age of playing world of warcraft this is the trailer by the way i'll link that in the description and i hope blizzard doesn't doesn't claim my video for it but whatever i i wanted to watch this so so there it is now i started playing world of warcraft and got up to about level 50 by the time the burning crusade expansion launched originally like back in 2006 or whenever that was and then inverting crusade i actually like did a little bit of raiding i rated cara i didn't do any of the like the crazy high level reads or anything except for much later on after they became a little bit easier i never beat illidan or anything like that so you know that's that's something that i guess could still be on my life to do list but i totally see why the world of warcraft classic has has been so popular and has maintained popularity because of uh nostalgia and because it's just fun for a lot of people and for myself and my wife um you know it it goes back to a time when we're still dating and uh that was one of the things that was like the best thing ever was the fact that my new girlfriend at the time introduced me to world of warcraft that like i didn't i didn't tell her to play it she told me to play it so i guess to answer your question uh yes i'm totally interested but i'm also like i have no idea how i will make time for that because we got a two-year-old and all of the other stuff that we have to do on a regular basis because my wife works full-time and i basically work full-time so maybe i'll have to figure out streaming or something like that and get into some sort of schedule i don't know i don't want to make any promises but i'm interested very interested speaking of an awkward segue jc has the next question asking hey paul we know you're friends with kyle but how are your relations with other tech youtubers yes i am friends with kyle and for anyone who has asked because i have been asked a few times like hey paul when are you and kyle gonna bring back awesome hardware or whatever that's not currently planned at all right now but i did want to assure you guys that kyle and i have still been hanging out because we're friends so like every couple weeks we've been getting together just chilling having some beers it's been good times and no we're not interested in streaming that at all but to answer your question the other tech youtubers who i typically work with i'll be perfectly honest i have not done a good job at uh keeping up with those relationships so uh like i'm i'm friends with jay and i'm friends with steve and you know i would even say i'm friends with linus but i think what sort of maintains those relationships has been the events that we've gone to in the past which have typically happened you know with some regularity every three to five or six months there's some nvidia or amd or intel thing that happens that brings us to the same place and we get to hang out and talk in person of course events were pretty much put on hold for the duration of last year and up through this year and we're looking forward to when they can happen again but we don't know when that's actually going to be an option again so i'm looking forward to when it is and i guess what i would say is i am not good with keeping up with a lot of my friends i i don't do that i don't reach out as often as i should so that's part of the reason i answered your question if you guys have friends who you haven't talked to in a long time or you feel like oh man i need to catch up with this person give them a call or a text or reach out in some way and try to keep in touch and i'm going to try to do the same and i'll also try to do a little bit more collaborations with more tech youtubers because that's a good thing to do from time to time and i haven't done anything like that at all recently next question from beardly andrew hey andrew what should you focus on more when starting a youtube channel consistency or content i actually already responded to andrew and this was from my twitter question that i asked people earlier today i think having fun and not crushing yourself with high expectations is most important and that's that's like for me so just to clarify here for me producing youtube videos has always been about trying to maintain some level of consistency that also balances i guess my personal mental health health or my ability to remain engaged focused interested and for it to still feel like fun so so i know a lot of people are interested in becoming content creators or youtubers or whatever but make sure that if you're starting out that you're doing it as a fun side project rather than suddenly diving into like i'm going to invest all of my time in this and i'm going to make super awesome videos like it's good to make awesome videos but if you suddenly pour all of your energy into it even if you make awesome videos but you don't have the following i feel like it's really easy to burn out quickly because you're not going to get the uptake of views on that content that you're maybe expecting it takes a really long time and a lot of consistency to build an audience and to build a subscriber base on youtube so making sure that you're having fun with it means that you're going to want to keep coming back and doing it over and over again and it might take a lot of that before you actually build up the momentum to the point where you can sustain it as a part-time job or even a full-time job and the final question here from red from the random category any favorite local brew beer or alcoholic beverage and i bring this up because i actually have one on hand here to show if i've ever asked t paul what kind of beer do you want i usually say get me a red or brown ale because that's usually i like that's usually what i'm happy with brown ale i feel like i'm particularly fond of and that also applies to brown porter and this is a brown porter that i have been enjoying recently this is from mammoth brewing company so it's somewhat local it's more of a norcal thing than a socal thing we were on a little trip up to that region recently and uh came back with a big brown porter the double nut brown which also has a pretty cool name double nut brown from mammoth brewing company a brown porter and quite tasty i'm not going to open it right now i'm saving it for a special occasion maybe tech news who knows that'll be coming up this sunday that is going to wrap it up for episode 60 of probing paul though and again if you guys have questions for me to answer in the next episode leave them in the comment section down below also links to stuff i talked about is down there as well as time stamps and oh links to my store if you want to buy a shirt or a mug or a pint glass or like a fancy bottle opener like this one that's also now available in sets along with my imperial pet glasses and the bamboo coasters you can go to paul's hardware dot net also if you want to click the like button on this video or subscribe to my channel you're totally welcome to do that too thank you guys so much once again for watching and we'll see you in the next video youhello everyone and welcome back to probing paul this is my monthly q a series where you guys ask questions and i answer them to the best of my abilities this is episode number 60 i believe and while it doesn't really get easier every time i'm at least a little bit more accustomed to what's coming down the pipeline so to speak for today's video i'm going to be answering several questions that were asked about amd's new 5000 g series of ryzen cpus with integrated graphics and a bunch of other random questions that maybe you didn't even know you wanted to know the answer to but now you'll know excellent today's video is brought to you by microcenter one of my favorite places to buy pc parts whether it's online or at one of their 25 retail stores in the us they have consistently competitive prices and an excellent selection of pc hardware and other tech goodies as well as the custom pc builder on the micro center website use it to spec out your rig and it will show you parts in stock at your nearest store while ensuring compatibility with your selections then you can pick up or have their pros assemble it for you so click the sponsor link in the description and don't forget to sign up for the free in-store gift before we get started a quick reminder that there's a playlist of probing paul's if you want to check out old ones that's linked in the description and you can even look back down this hole to back when there used to be brightness and light and joy in the world before it started to get much darker let's not dwell on that though let's get into the first question from techchimp actually this first question is a few questions asked for some responses on twitter and that's where this came from what are the chances of getting a ryzen 5000g or non-x cpu from online retailers likewise tall titan in the youtube comments asked paul for ones that really don't need a gpu for an httpc what's the latest on the ryzen 5000 series apus this was two weeks ago before the announcement that happened on the 13th this week as you can see there were several questions along the same line and this is us asking me to do an apu or igpu build like i did back in the 10 series era so i believe us asked that question before this video was posted so this is my monthly builds video for april where i went over actually four different builds that don't need graphics cards they all use igpus so check that video out if you want to see the parts lists that i went over and a correction the 3200g is a four core four thread processor but more to the point the 5000 g apus were literally just announced by amd and they're confirmed unfortunately they are oem only for now which means you would need to buy an actual full system based on one of these that's built by a system integrator rather than buying these cpu or apu and building it yourself but it does say full release later this year and this is something that for the ryzen 4000 series of apus that you can see listed on this chart here on an antec and this full article is in the description by the way you guys if you want to read up some more details but these were some nice apus but you could never really buy them directly unless you bought them from overseas or apparently in some countries they were a little bit easier to get than others but it's definitely hard to get your hands on these at least somewhat legitimately if you're in the u.s there's also a 4650g in that series that's a little bit faster than the 4600g but the main point here is these aren't just cpus but they're also graphics cards too they have integrated graphics and even though the 4000 series like the 4000g based on renoir which is 7 nanometers n2 and the 5000 series uh which is also seven nanometer but zen three only have vega eight graphics versus vega 11. uh because of the die shrink they're able to run them at higher frequencies so even though they say vega 8 and if you look at the number of compute units per apu it is less than what you got with the 2000 g and 3000 g series again because they're running at higher frequencies they are still faster so if you're considering buying a pre-built system then these should be available pretty soon or if you're just keeping your eye on them for future reference or if you're going to try to you know buy one on alibaba or something like that which you should do at your own risk but that should also be potentially something that maybe you can do if things go anything like they did with the ryzen 4000 g series but at the top you have an eight core 16 thread model on the 5700g all these models also have ge options which are going to be lower wattage uh they're lower wattage tdps so those are just going to run at lower frequencies with the same stats otherwise you can see a 3200 megahertz base clock here versus 3800 megahertz with the 5700 g then you got a 6 core 12 thread variant with the 5600g and a 4 core 8 thread variant with the 5300g so you might look at something like the 5600g and think to yourself oh a 6 core 12 thread part this is basically like a 5600x with integrated graphics kind of but not exactly and you should be aware of the variations between them you do get a higher bass frequency with the 5600g but you get a lower peak or turbo frequency at 4 400 megahertz versus 4600 of course there are no integrated graphics with the 5600 x but also bear in mind that if you want pcie 4.0 uh you need to go with the 5600x you only get pcie 3.0 connectivity with these 5000 g series apus also you get half of the l3 cache you get 16 megs of l3 versus 32 megs of l3 with the video 600x and that will affect performance depending on what type of cpu workload that you're talking about but overall the upshot is going to be that the 5600x is going to be a faster cpu with the 5600g if you're willing to give up pcie 4.0 and a bit of cache and a bit of frequency then you get the integrator graphics so you don't need to roll with a graphics card at least not at first again a similar situation with the 5700g compared to the 5800x here although they have the same base frequency here the turbo frequency is higher with the 5800x and you'll probably also find that the turbo turbo tables are going to work a little bit differently with these because with the 5700g you only have a 65 watt tdp to work with so even though the turbo frequency looks like it's just 100 megahertz lower chances are the sustained frequency that you run at under full load for example is also going to be lower on the 5700 g than the 5800x as for motherboard support you should have x570 b550 and a520 motherboards that will all support officially the 5000g series of apus and then you might have some 400 series motherboard support like b450 but that would be up to the motherboard manufacturer to provide a bios update that provides that support i guess the final question would be for the projects that i have going on which would be the build recommendations that i did at the beginning of this month does this announcement affect those at all and i would say maybe slightly because it is going to be worth it to keep an eye on the prices of these oem builds that are going to be going up for sale very soon but at the same time i typically am recommending build parts lists for people who are assembling their own computer and that's not going to be something that you're going to be able to do at least not right out of the gate with these new 5000g apus so with diy pc building in general right now we're still in a situation where i'd say particularly with graphics cards and then to a lesser extent with cpus you kind of have to build with what's available if you need to build right now so so it's a good idea if you're thinking about building to sort of keep your ear to the ground with this stuff so you know what's available what the prices are and what is actually worth buying for the money that it's currently costing speaking of which uh here's a follow-up question from josh really enjoying your videos lately thank you very much josh question for the next probing paul what makes a good balanced parts list and what are some tips you have for choosing parts at a certain budget so josh here again i point you back towards my monthly builds parts list because here's where i do my best of sort of keeping myer to the ground for what's available and what you can buy at a certain price my first two builds are amd apu builds that cost 533 dollars and 733 dollars respectively but i am including like the 4650g here which you can currently buy on alibaba for 260 dollars that said you're probably going to need to wait like a month for it to arrive because it ships from overseas you might also keep an eye out for buying this domestically but chances are you'd have to buy on ebay and everywhere i looked there they were 300 to 350 so i just decided let's go for the budget cost and buy it from alibaba wait i've been saying alibaba i meant to say aliexpress but uh you get the point for me though right now what makes a balanced parts list is keeping your eye on the two main most expensive parts in the list which is going to be your cpu and then potentially your graphics card although graphics cards are absurdly overpriced right now so that's why i've been leaving them out recently probably focusing your budget on those two parts with an emphasis on the graphics card if you're building a gaming pc in particular and maybe a little bit more emphasis on the cpu and getting a higher core count uh maybe eight cores or more rather than six cores if you're planning to actually work with your cpu or if you're planning to like game and stream at the same time if you're gonna do something that puts a heavy load on the cpu then you probably want to spend a little bit more money on your cpu beyond that balancing everything else out and not spending too much money on other things i think is what makes a balanced build like you don't need to spend three or four hundred dollars on a motherboard at all for a mainstream system probably 150 to 200 bucks is all you need to spend and keep in mind that pc parts are very much commodities and the prices can fluctuate they can go up and down sometimes there's a shortage of a certain component that causes suddenly ram prices to go up or power supplies to be in limited availability but apart from telling you to watch my monthly builds videos every month or you like constantly checking on a daily or weekly basis yourself i would say pc part picker is a great resource to check just so you can cross compare like how much ssds are selling for on a price per gigabyte basis for example and then my final bit of advice would be to understand which parts are actually going to impact the performance of your computer and that would typically be again the cpu and the graphics card and then other things that might be effectively keeping your computer cool versus more aesthetic additions like rgb lighting or making sure everything is perfectly color matched or getting that like super blingy version of a 3060 ti that costs 150 or 200 more than the base model version rather than just upgrading to a 30-70 for example that's also a way that people will spend more money without necessarily getting a lot more performance those are my suggestions though so i hope that helps you out to some degree let's move on to our next question which is from arvind baller uh what would you choose oh this is a good question to get a free supply of whatever pc component you need for the rest of your life or your dogs can talk choose paul and thanks for another awesome probing session i enjoyed this question because it was different and because i actually had to think about it for a second at first i was like oh well of course you know the long-term joy and connection i would have with my dogs being able to talk is what i should go for but then i thought well if i got a free supply of whatever pc component i would need for the rest of my life obviously right now the choice would be graphics cards and i was like oh i could get a bunch of graphics cards and i could make amazing profits and sell them and i could suddenly be rich and be able to buy as many talking dogs as i wanted to but then i realized no paul that would be selfish that would be a selfish choice and the way i should look at this is what if i could solve the gpu shortage crisis that's going on right now all by myself if i had an unlimited free supply of this wouldn't it be worth the sacrifice for me to give up that chance at actually talking to hiro or nori and hearing the wonderful things they have to say in order for me to supply the world with as many graphics cards as might be necessary and i think that's what i would do if for one it makes me seem like a really good person and for two uh you know the dogs i feel like we communicate you know we i you just you guys who have pets or dogs probably know how it goes you just need to look at your pet in the eyes and you know there's a communication that happens there without the need to actually speak so that means graphics cards are obviously the better choice hero can you lie down please hero can you lie down no don't go that way don't go that way please don't go that way hero can you please lie down here boy can you lie down here boy lie down please and so we move to our next question patrick trospak trospak trustbock what are your thoughts about wow burning crusade the wow burning crusade classic coming to fruition so i'll be perfectly honest i played a little bit of wow classic when it while classic sort of relaunched and one of the things i thought to myself at the time was though this is pretty cool but uh i have i'm so short on time now but the one thing that i did feel like might actually pull me back into it is the burning crusade a burning crusade classic version because honestly this is kind of my golden age of playing world of warcraft this is the trailer by the way i'll link that in the description and i hope blizzard doesn't doesn't claim my video for it but whatever i i wanted to watch this so so there it is now i started playing world of warcraft and got up to about level 50 by the time the burning crusade expansion launched originally like back in 2006 or whenever that was and then inverting crusade i actually like did a little bit of raiding i rated cara i didn't do any of the like the crazy high level reads or anything except for much later on after they became a little bit easier i never beat illidan or anything like that so you know that's that's something that i guess could still be on my life to do list but i totally see why the world of warcraft classic has has been so popular and has maintained popularity because of uh nostalgia and because it's just fun for a lot of people and for myself and my wife um you know it it goes back to a time when we're still dating and uh that was one of the things that was like the best thing ever was the fact that my new girlfriend at the time introduced me to world of warcraft that like i didn't i didn't tell her to play it she told me to play it so i guess to answer your question uh yes i'm totally interested but i'm also like i have no idea how i will make time for that because we got a two-year-old and all of the other stuff that we have to do on a regular basis because my wife works full-time and i basically work full-time so maybe i'll have to figure out streaming or something like that and get into some sort of schedule i don't know i don't want to make any promises but i'm interested very interested speaking of an awkward segue jc has the next question asking hey paul we know you're friends with kyle but how are your relations with other tech youtubers yes i am friends with kyle and for anyone who has asked because i have been asked a few times like hey paul when are you and kyle gonna bring back awesome hardware or whatever that's not currently planned at all right now but i did want to assure you guys that kyle and i have still been hanging out because we're friends so like every couple weeks we've been getting together just chilling having some beers it's been good times and no we're not interested in streaming that at all but to answer your question the other tech youtubers who i typically work with i'll be perfectly honest i have not done a good job at uh keeping up with those relationships so uh like i'm i'm friends with jay and i'm friends with steve and you know i would even say i'm friends with linus but i think what sort of maintains those relationships has been the events that we've gone to in the past which have typically happened you know with some regularity every three to five or six months there's some nvidia or amd or intel thing that happens that brings us to the same place and we get to hang out and talk in person of course events were pretty much put on hold for the duration of last year and up through this year and we're looking forward to when they can happen again but we don't know when that's actually going to be an option again so i'm looking forward to when it is and i guess what i would say is i am not good with keeping up with a lot of my friends i i don't do that i don't reach out as often as i should so that's part of the reason i answered your question if you guys have friends who you haven't talked to in a long time or you feel like oh man i need to catch up with this person give them a call or a text or reach out in some way and try to keep in touch and i'm going to try to do the same and i'll also try to do a little bit more collaborations with more tech youtubers because that's a good thing to do from time to time and i haven't done anything like that at all recently next question from beardly andrew hey andrew what should you focus on more when starting a youtube channel consistency or content i actually already responded to andrew and this was from my twitter question that i asked people earlier today i think having fun and not crushing yourself with high expectations is most important and that's that's like for me so just to clarify here for me producing youtube videos has always been about trying to maintain some level of consistency that also balances i guess my personal mental health health or my ability to remain engaged focused interested and for it to still feel like fun so so i know a lot of people are interested in becoming content creators or youtubers or whatever but make sure that if you're starting out that you're doing it as a fun side project rather than suddenly diving into like i'm going to invest all of my time in this and i'm going to make super awesome videos like it's good to make awesome videos but if you suddenly pour all of your energy into it even if you make awesome videos but you don't have the following i feel like it's really easy to burn out quickly because you're not going to get the uptake of views on that content that you're maybe expecting it takes a really long time and a lot of consistency to build an audience and to build a subscriber base on youtube so making sure that you're having fun with it means that you're going to want to keep coming back and doing it over and over again and it might take a lot of that before you actually build up the momentum to the point where you can sustain it as a part-time job or even a full-time job and the final question here from red from the random category any favorite local brew beer or alcoholic beverage and i bring this up because i actually have one on hand here to show if i've ever asked t paul what kind of beer do you want i usually say get me a red or brown ale because that's usually i like that's usually what i'm happy with brown ale i feel like i'm particularly fond of and that also applies to brown porter and this is a brown porter that i have been enjoying recently this is from mammoth brewing company so it's somewhat local it's more of a norcal thing than a socal thing we were on a little trip up to that region recently and uh came back with a big brown porter the double nut brown which also has a pretty cool name double nut brown from mammoth brewing company a brown porter and quite tasty i'm not going to open it right now i'm saving it for a special occasion maybe tech news who knows that'll be coming up this sunday that is going to wrap it up for episode 60 of probing paul though and again if you guys have questions for me to answer in the next episode leave them in the comment section down below also links to stuff i talked about is down there as well as time stamps and oh links to my store if you want to buy a shirt or a mug or a pint glass or like a fancy bottle opener like this one that's also now available in sets along with my imperial pet glasses and the bamboo coasters you can go to paul's hardware dot net also if you want to click the like button on this video or subscribe to my channel you're totally welcome to do that too thank you guys so much once again for watching and we'll see you in the next video you\n"