**GPU Choice: Nvidia GeForce GTX 570**

When it comes to choosing a GPU, there are several options available in the market. However, for this particular question, I'm going to choose the Nvidia GeForce GTX 570. This GPU was released in 2010 and is part of the second generation of Fermi-based GPUs. The GTX 570 is a firm favorite among gamers due to its impressive performance and relatively affordable price point.

One of the key factors that led me to choose the GTX 570 was the significant improvement over its predecessor, the GeForce 480 series. The new Fermi architecture brought about substantial improvements in terms of power efficiency, clock speeds, and overall performance. Additionally, the GTX 570's design allowed for easier overclocking, making it a popular choice among enthusiasts.

The GTX 570 is also notable for being part of Nvidia's "green" lineup, which aimed to reduce power consumption and heat generation. This made it an attractive option for those looking to build a gaming PC without breaking the bank or generating excessive heat.

Another GPU that comes close to the GTX 570 in terms of performance and value is the Nvidia GeForce GTX 970. While the GTX 970 has more VRAM (3.5 GB), its higher clock speeds and better architecture make it a formidable competitor in the mid-range market. However, the GTX 570's reputation for being an overclocker's dream and its relatively lower price point give it a slight edge over the GTX 970.

**CPU Choice: Intel Core i5-2500K**

When it comes to choosing a CPU, there are several options available from both AMD and Intel. However, for this particular question, I'm going to choose the Intel Core i5-2500K. This CPU was released in 2011 and is part of the Sandy Bridge generation.

One of the key factors that led me to choose the i5-2500K was its impressive overclocking capabilities. The CPU's ability to be easily overclocked, combined with its high clock speeds, made it a popular choice among enthusiasts and overclockers. Additionally, the i5-2500K's price point at around $200-$220 made it an attractive option for those looking to build a gaming PC without breaking the bank.

The i5-2500K is also notable for being part of Intel's "Core i" lineup, which aimed to provide high-performance CPUs with lower power consumption and heat generation. This made it an attractive option for those looking to build a quiet and efficient gaming PC.

Overclocking the i5-2500K was also a key factor in its appeal. With the right cooling system and voltage adjustments, it's possible to push the CPU's clock speeds beyond 4 GHz, making it one of the most overclockable CPUs on the market at the time.

**The High Point for Intel: The Core i5-2500K**

Looking back at the history of CPUs, the Core i5-2500K stands out as a significant milestone for Intel. Released in 2011, this CPU marked the beginning of the Sandy Bridge generation and cemented Intel's position as a leader in the CPU market.

In terms of performance, the i5-2500K was an impressive CPU that offered high clock speeds and low power consumption. However, it was the overclocking capabilities that truly set it apart from its competitors. With the right cooling system and voltage adjustments, it's possible to push the CPU's clock speeds beyond 4 GHz, making it one of the most overclockable CPUs on the market at the time.

In many ways, the i5-2500K represents the high point for Intel in terms of performance and value. It was a CPU that appealed to both enthusiasts and mainstream users alike, offering impressive performance and overclocking capabilities without breaking the bank.

**Reader Responses**

Last month's video generated a lot of interest from our readers, with many sharing their plans and updates on what they've been up to. One such response came from Ty Roberts, who plans to sit down, stand up, and potentially breathe (if it fits in his budget). Congratulations to Ty on his upcoming job change!

Another reader, patriotic Oreo, shared that he's quitting his job this weekend (which would have been three weeks ago) and is getting a new job in construction. Good luck with your new venture, patriotic Oreo! We hope the new job is treating you well so far.

Finally, Ryan Holz sent us an update on what's been going on in his life. He's turning 35, has just moved into a new house in Northern California for $430,000 (a good deal!), and has a ton of plans for this year. Congratulations again to Ryan on his milestone birthday and your new home! We hope you have fun in Vegas and wish you all the best with your plans.

**Conclusion**

That's it for this month's video on what we've been up to in 2019. We hope you enjoyed reading about our experiences, plans, and updates. As always, thanks for watching and engaging with us on social media! If you have any questions or topics you'd like to discuss, feel free to reach out to us anytime.

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those down in the comment section below I am going to start answering questions that are derived from last month's video from that comment section starting with Darko preon here who says good job so far with you since the new egg days will positive pressure air flow uh in a case hurt my component's temperature and also any plans for the 1 million Subs Milestone I am hoping to hit a million Subs soon I'm very excited about that I don't have anything too specific planned except there is going to be a giveaway that a few vendors have already volunteered to participate with uh and then I'll hopefully be getting my 1 million Subs plaque and everything uh which I've been looking forward to for many many years since I've been in YouTube for like almost 10 years now give or take back to your actual question though when it comes to positive pressure in a case your main concern when it comes to positive or negative pressure is going to be with dust and dust buildup if you have positive pressure as long as there somewhere for the air to escape you should be okay and it shouldn't affect temperatures uh at least if you're comparing positive versus negative air flow so that's a general perspective on that uh positive is generally preferred because it will cause less buildup of dust inside your case next question from Dustin panel he says for the probe does vertical versus horizontal installation matter with an all-in-one cooler and I believe he's talking about the radiator here he's seen both but never compared the two and the man his manufacturer manual says to install his horizontally also he's following up on what people have planned for 2019 that I asked last month he says he's got a new baby girl expected midle late February congratulations Dustin uh on the new baby girl now you said you haven't seen this done but I'm actually going to link in the description three different videos one is from uh Kyle who I often work with and he did a comparison a couple years back I already got over a million views his conclusion was that yes it does matter and putting the radiator vertically in the front of the case did a little bit better for him however that's not born out in all the tests you compare side by side so there's a link to Jay's video and he did this back in 2015 as well comparing front mounted radiators to the top mounted radiator and then there's also a lonus tech tip video uh this is from 2016 that Luke did where he compared radiator fan configuration and whether or not that matters so feel free to check out those videos but I'm going to give you an answer that you're probably not going to like as much was which is that it depends on your specific scenario it also depends on what the radiator is connected to Chances Are you're talking about a CPU radiator so if you put a CPU radiator as an intake at the front of the case and the CPU has a heavy load on it that's going to get warmer and warmer over time and it's going to increase the ambient Ambient temperature of your entire case and probably increase your GPU temperatures that said if you put it at the top with h fresh air coming in from the front your GPU temperatures might be lower but your CPU temperature might be hotter it depends on what's being cooled on the software that's being run on the case itself on how many overall fans are in the case so the only real way to tell for you what the best radiator placement is is just to try them both try it in the top try it in the front see which one works better for you next question here from tyan who says hey Paul love the videos I own an evj GTX 1080 TI for the win 3 I don't wish to overclock it because it's already got a factory OC just wants to monitor it and keep it nice and cool beyond the Nvidia control panel do I recommend any other software for example Precision xoc so Tylin my initial answer would be uh you probably don't need any additional software if you're not planning on doing any more overclocking but you did mention that you want to keep an eye on temperatures and the Nvidia control panel actually doesn't do that so one thing you might want additional software for is just to keep an eye on the temperatures just to see what they're at also get an idea what they're at now so that like 6 months down the road you can look at them again and be like oh I usually run at you know 60° C on my GPU while I'm gaming and now I see it's up to 80 or so maybe I should get in there and clean the dust out if you want to monitor GPU temperatures the software I like to use is Hardware info 64 HW info 64 for that'll actually get you monitoring for a bunch of different stuff in your computer if that's too over the top you can definitely try evga's Precision xoc which is very good software and will also allow you to monitor the temperatures and adjust fan speed and stuff like that which can be fun the other cool thing that Precision xoc will allow you to do is control the RGB Lighting on your graphics card which you may or may not want control over of so those are some of the benefits you can get by going with additional software but for your purposes I'd say you mainly just want something to keep an eye on that temperature and like I said that's mainly for long-term use so you can see what you're used to running at when it's nice and clean and new and keep an eye on it and see if temperatures go up over time next up is Mr meech who wants to add storage to his PC he wants a 4 tab drive but he's noticed that two 2 tbte drives you can get for about 20 to 40 bucks cheaper than a single 4 tab drive I'm assuming you're talking about mechanical storage here if you got the room in your case and you have available SATA ports what are the pros and cons of going with two drives versus one I'm going to touch on three things here when it comes to the difference one is if you have two drives you can set up raid that is if your motherboard has a raid control built into it that you can enable and raid actually is pretty useful in certain circumstances you can mirror the two drives so you get the same data on both or you can stripe the two drives with raid zero meaning it combines them both together so you only see a single 4 TB Drive in your operating system and it would probably run a little bit faster when it comes to read and right speeds if you're running raid Zero versus a single drive that said raid zero is also known as zero redundancy which means that if one of those drives dies you lose all of the data so that's not always a recommended configuration if you're talking about something thing that you want some data Integrity with that leads into my second point which is that with two drives you have two potential points of failure if you're using them both separately then that means you could have one drive die that you lose stuff on and still have the other functional drive if you're using the raid configuration then one drive will kill your entire array or if you're using raid one you can lose a drive and you'd still have all your data on the second drive but if you're talking about a simpler solution where you're not using raid and you just have two individual drives then the main functional difference is going to be that with two drives you have two separate d D to put stuff onto so you're going to need to sort your data between the two of those manually which usually isn't a big concern but beyond that it's just a matter of the extra Drive will use a little bit more power although that's mostly negligible and maybe generate a little bit more heat so hopefully all of those factors you can assess and decide whether you want to spend that extra 20 or 40 bucks on the single drive versus getting two smaller ones next question is from killer Spike 911 he says what should I use in a build for web browsing some video streaming and some light gaming any form factor on a small budget so Spike if you're not aware every month I do monthly builds usually at the beginning of the month so check out my monthly builds video for January where I cover a bunch of different system builds with parts lists from PC part picker and I go down different parts and how much they cost what you're going to want is something akin to the $600 gaming PC build that I put together which has an r3200 and rx580 but instead of buying both of those you should just spend 95 bucks on the ryzen 32200g this will get you a quad core CPU which is perfectly fine for streaming if you're talking about 1080 or 720 and it's got built-in Vega Graphics there is a 2400g that has a better graphics integrated solution but that's more like a 170 bucks and at that point I start to feel like well maybe you should just get a separate CPU and GPU like I recommend in the video for $600 but the point is that'll get you a full-size ATX system with plenty of room for expansion that handles the things you need it to do and it'll only cost you about $420 with today's prices which I think is a pretty good deal that includes 16 gigs of RAM a 240 gig SSD as well as a full size case and 600 W power supply just a few more questions to go this one from friend of the show Yota ninja he says when switching from an APU to a dedicated GPU do you need to run ddu and if you're not familiar with those acronyms Apu is just like I was talking about with the 2200g CPU and GPU in the same chip move into a GPU so now you're installing a graphics card and you need to run ddu which is display driver uninstaller which is a thirdparty app that goes into your system digs out any display driver specifically so you can get a fresh clean install if you're swapping between graphics cards now the short simple answer here is no probably not if you're running Windows 10 or even Windows 7 for that matter you should just be able to install the new graphics card load your new drivers and it'll replace the old driver stack with the new driver stack what I would do is run display driver uninstaller and then do a fresh clean install of my driver if I'm specifically moving from an AMD Apu which would be using Vega and AMD radian drivers to an Nvidia graphics card and that's just because I don't know I have a thing about moving from AMD to Nvidia one to the other back and forth I always run ddu in between just to make sure everything's playing nice with each other probably not as big of a deal if you're talking about going from an Intel integrated a graphic solution to AMD or Nvidia but I guess to me it's kind of the same thing as like a Windows installation yes you could probably do an upgrade or an in place upgrade but it's just always safest and best to do wipe it start fresh start clean so I would run ddu personally next question also from friend of the show Guido salucci he says I'd really like to see a walk through for Ren renovating your bathroom even it's if it's a vlog type video uh and he's always liked my Hardware videos and he enjoyed my uh pun of holding my in the last video which was obviously intentional now Guido this was last month so I'm guessing you probably have already seen it but just in case you didn't I did do the followup to that video I didn't want to string people along like I had been doing with the htpc video for so long uh so there it is my my bathroom it is completed it came together very nicely uh it's got cool stuff like a toilet paper roller and everything so I'll link that down in the description too uh check it out if you missed it next question from Roy Evans he says out of every PC part you've ever used which one or ones have been the best bang for your buck at their release he'd like one part for each component I'm going to do CPU and GPU just cuz I don't have that much time uh but also he followed up on 2019 he's getting a new job a new car and a new apartment and by summer a new PC build that's a real nice set of new things Roy so I wish you the best of luck in all that when it comes to your question though so for the GPU I'm going to choose the Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 this actually came out in 2010 it is is a firmy based car but is is the second generation fmy stuff which was based on 4 40 nmet which was down from I think what 50 or 52 nmet from before when I first read the question what popped into my head was the 70 series cards from Nvidia because those have been very consistent sort of middle of the road gpus that perform well and they're not terribly overpriced and the 570 I think comes to mind because it was a fall up to the 400 series the original firming cards which ran really hot they weren't very efficient and it was just sort of a Night and Day difference going from 400 series to 500 series they were much more efficient they ran much cooler you could overclock them pretty well and I think that was sort of the start of the kickoff of like the 500 series 600 series 700 series 900 series where Nvidia was really kind of kicking amd's butt a close second to this would be the GTX 970 and I know a lot of people are going to be like oh my God 3.5 gigs of vram and everything but the 970 was a really solid card for the price very overclockable especially with some of the aftermarket versions and I think both of those gpus are just gpus that a lot of people got a lot of people gamed on and a lot of people gamed on a lot and didn't have to spend you know 500 bucks plus for the CPU I'm going to go with the venerable sandybridge Core i5 2500k still available at Amazon for $280 don't don't buy it don't buy it now it's not worth the money anymore but the 2500k and the 2600k to me are the last time when I was like intel was just like dominating and not just dominating because they had good products but they were also compelling products at the prices you could get them for the 2500k you could usually get for $200 to $220 is overclocking was amazing on it you could crank up the voltage you can get so much more performance out of it if you're willing to go in and tweak and tune a few things so to me it's kind of the consumate DIY PC Product because it lets you do something yourself build your own PC and then do something with it where you're like this was totally worth it for me I was able to do something that most people can't do to get more performance and more for my money so when you talk bang for the buck 2500k still I'd say is the high point for Intel and um if intel wants to redeem themselves in the eyes of a lot of people with amd's competition over the past two or three years I think what they really need is something like the 2500k a reasonably priced CPU that overclocks well that you can get more performance out of I don't know if they're actually going to do that but um I hope they do I mean they have the competition from AMD to encourage them to do that so until if you're listening please please do another 2500k and lastly these are responses to the question I asked at the the end of last month's video which is what are you guys doing in 2019 and I just pulled up a few people who had responded like Ty Roberts whose plans to sit stand and potentially breathe if it is in the budget I understand Ty budgets are tight in 2019 but we're going to come through it stronger than ever next up is patriotic Oreos who says he's quitting his job on Sunday which would have been three weeks ago I think and he's getting a new job in construction for the new year so congratulations patriotic Oreos I hope the job quitting was satisfying and I hope the new job is treating you well so far and finally Ryan Holz here who gets the award for being the most thorough because he's got like his mother-in-laws and great grandma's birthday Ryan's turning 35 and he's got a new house in Northern California that he got for 430,000 that's a good deal uh moving in July tons of stuff planned for this year so you guys feel free to read over that thank you Ryan for sending that all in have fun in Vegas and thanks to all you guys who posted comments in last month's video and of course post comments in this month's video if you want me to answer them in February which is coming very soon thank you guys so much for watching this video this has been probing Paul episode number 32 I'll be back soon hit the thumbs up button on your way outs we'll see you guys next timeG skill's new Trident Z Royal series ddr4 RGB memory kits are made for highclass PCs with each meticulously crafted module featuring a f- length crystalline light bar at top a polished heat spreader with a luxuriant reflective gold or silver finish reminding you to appreciate the Finer Things in life like the freedom to choose from Trident Z Royal RGB kits in 16 gig to 128 gig capacities and up to ddr4 4600 MHz memory speeds if you're looking to give your highclass system build the Royal Treatment click the sponsor Link in the description below excellent what's up guys welcome back to Paul's Hardware this is probing Paul episode number 32 this is my monthly Q&A I answer Tech questions random questions whatever you guys happen to ask and I always start out by looking at past probing Pauls that's it's history right there that's a long portal looking into the past which is very meaningful but if you guys have any questions for next month feel free to leave those down in the comment section below I am going to start answering questions that are derived from last month's video from that comment section starting with Darko preon here who says good job so far with you since the new egg days will positive pressure air flow uh in a case hurt my component's temperature and also any plans for the 1 million Subs Milestone I am hoping to hit a million Subs soon I'm very excited about that I don't have anything too specific planned except there is going to be a giveaway that a few vendors have already volunteered to participate with uh and then I'll hopefully be getting my 1 million Subs plaque and everything uh which I've been looking forward to for many many years since I've been in YouTube for like almost 10 years now give or take back to your actual question though when it comes to positive pressure in a case your main concern when it comes to positive or negative pressure is going to be with dust and dust buildup if you have positive pressure as long as there somewhere for the air to escape you should be okay and it shouldn't affect temperatures uh at least if you're comparing positive versus negative air flow so that's a general perspective on that uh positive is generally preferred because it will cause less buildup of dust inside your case next question from Dustin panel he says for the probe does vertical versus horizontal installation matter with an all-in-one cooler and I believe he's talking about the radiator here he's seen both but never compared the two and the man his manufacturer manual says to install his horizontally also he's following up on what people have planned for 2019 that I asked last month he says he's got a new baby girl expected midle late February congratulations Dustin uh on the new baby girl now you said you haven't seen this done but I'm actually going to link in the description three different videos one is from uh Kyle who I often work with and he did a comparison a couple years back I already got over a million views his conclusion was that yes it does matter and putting the radiator vertically in the front of the case did a little bit better for him however that's not born out in all the tests you compare side by side so there's a link to Jay's video and he did this back in 2015 as well comparing front mounted radiators to the top mounted radiator and then there's also a lonus tech tip video uh this is from 2016 that Luke did where he compared radiator fan configuration and whether or not that matters so feel free to check out those videos but I'm going to give you an answer that you're probably not going to like as much was which is that it depends on your specific scenario it also depends on what the radiator is connected to Chances Are you're talking about a CPU radiator so if you put a CPU radiator as an intake at the front of the case and the CPU has a heavy load on it that's going to get warmer and warmer over time and it's going to increase the ambient Ambient temperature of your entire case and probably increase your GPU temperatures that said if you put it at the top with h fresh air coming in from the front your GPU temperatures might be lower but your CPU temperature might be hotter it depends on what's being cooled on the software that's being run on the case itself on how many overall fans are in the case so the only real way to tell for you what the best radiator placement is is just to try them both try it in the top try it in the front see which one works better for you next question here from tyan who says hey Paul love the videos I own an evj GTX 1080 TI for the win 3 I don't wish to overclock it because it's already got a factory OC just wants to monitor it and keep it nice and cool beyond the Nvidia control panel do I recommend any other software for example Precision xoc so Tylin my initial answer would be uh you probably don't need any additional software if you're not planning on doing any more overclocking but you did mention that you want to keep an eye on temperatures and the Nvidia control panel actually doesn't do that so one thing you might want additional software for is just to keep an eye on the temperatures just to see what they're at also get an idea what they're at now so that like 6 months down the road you can look at them again and be like oh I usually run at you know 60° C on my GPU while I'm gaming and now I see it's up to 80 or so maybe I should get in there and clean the dust out if you want to monitor GPU temperatures the software I like to use is Hardware info 64 HW info 64 for that'll actually get you monitoring for a bunch of different stuff in your computer if that's too over the top you can definitely try evga's Precision xoc which is very good software and will also allow you to monitor the temperatures and adjust fan speed and stuff like that which can be fun the other cool thing that Precision xoc will allow you to do is control the RGB Lighting on your graphics card which you may or may not want control over of so those are some of the benefits you can get by going with additional software but for your purposes I'd say you mainly just want something to keep an eye on that temperature and like I said that's mainly for long-term use so you can see what you're used to running at when it's nice and clean and new and keep an eye on it and see if temperatures go up over time next up is Mr meech who wants to add storage to his PC he wants a 4 tab drive but he's noticed that two 2 tbte drives you can get for about 20 to 40 bucks cheaper than a single 4 tab drive I'm assuming you're talking about mechanical storage here if you got the room in your case and you have available SATA ports what are the pros and cons of going with two drives versus one I'm going to touch on three things here when it comes to the difference one is if you have two drives you can set up raid that is if your motherboard has a raid control built into it that you can enable and raid actually is pretty useful in certain circumstances you can mirror the two drives so you get the same data on both or you can stripe the two drives with raid zero meaning it combines them both together so you only see a single 4 TB Drive in your operating system and it would probably run a little bit faster when it comes to read and right speeds if you're running raid Zero versus a single drive that said raid zero is also known as zero redundancy which means that if one of those drives dies you lose all of the data so that's not always a recommended configuration if you're talking about something thing that you want some data Integrity with that leads into my second point which is that with two drives you have two potential points of failure if you're using them both separately then that means you could have one drive die that you lose stuff on and still have the other functional drive if you're using the raid configuration then one drive will kill your entire array or if you're using raid one you can lose a drive and you'd still have all your data on the second drive but if you're talking about a simpler solution where you're not using raid and you just have two individual drives then the main functional difference is going to be that with two drives you have two separate d D to put stuff onto so you're going to need to sort your data between the two of those manually which usually isn't a big concern but beyond that it's just a matter of the extra Drive will use a little bit more power although that's mostly negligible and maybe generate a little bit more heat so hopefully all of those factors you can assess and decide whether you want to spend that extra 20 or 40 bucks on the single drive versus getting two smaller ones next question is from killer Spike 911 he says what should I use in a build for web browsing some video streaming and some light gaming any form factor on a small budget so Spike if you're not aware every month I do monthly builds usually at the beginning of the month so check out my monthly builds video for January where I cover a bunch of different system builds with parts lists from PC part picker and I go down different parts and how much they cost what you're going to want is something akin to the $600 gaming PC build that I put together which has an r3200 and rx580 but instead of buying both of those you should just spend 95 bucks on the ryzen 32200g this will get you a quad core CPU which is perfectly fine for streaming if you're talking about 1080 or 720 and it's got built-in Vega Graphics there is a 2400g that has a better graphics integrated solution but that's more like a 170 bucks and at that point I start to feel like well maybe you should just get a separate CPU and GPU like I recommend in the video for $600 but the point is that'll get you a full-size ATX system with plenty of room for expansion that handles the things you need it to do and it'll only cost you about $420 with today's prices which I think is a pretty good deal that includes 16 gigs of RAM a 240 gig SSD as well as a full size case and 600 W power supply just a few more questions to go this one from friend of the show Yota ninja he says when switching from an APU to a dedicated GPU do you need to run ddu and if you're not familiar with those acronyms Apu is just like I was talking about with the 2200g CPU and GPU in the same chip move into a GPU so now you're installing a graphics card and you need to run ddu which is display driver uninstaller which is a thirdparty app that goes into your system digs out any display driver specifically so you can get a fresh clean install if you're swapping between graphics cards now the short simple answer here is no probably not if you're running Windows 10 or even Windows 7 for that matter you should just be able to install the new graphics card load your new drivers and it'll replace the old driver stack with the new driver stack what I would do is run display driver uninstaller and then do a fresh clean install of my driver if I'm specifically moving from an AMD Apu which would be using Vega and AMD radian drivers to an Nvidia graphics card and that's just because I don't know I have a thing about moving from AMD to Nvidia one to the other back and forth I always run ddu in between just to make sure everything's playing nice with each other probably not as big of a deal if you're talking about going from an Intel integrated a graphic solution to AMD or Nvidia but I guess to me it's kind of the same thing as like a Windows installation yes you could probably do an upgrade or an in place upgrade but it's just always safest and best to do wipe it start fresh start clean so I would run ddu personally next question also from friend of the show Guido salucci he says I'd really like to see a walk through for Ren renovating your bathroom even it's if it's a vlog type video uh and he's always liked my Hardware videos and he enjoyed my uh pun of holding my in the last video which was obviously intentional now Guido this was last month so I'm guessing you probably have already seen it but just in case you didn't I did do the followup to that video I didn't want to string people along like I had been doing with the htpc video for so long uh so there it is my my bathroom it is completed it came together very nicely uh it's got cool stuff like a toilet paper roller and everything so I'll link that down in the description too uh check it out if you missed it next question from Roy Evans he says out of every PC part you've ever used which one or ones have been the best bang for your buck at their release he'd like one part for each component I'm going to do CPU and GPU just cuz I don't have that much time uh but also he followed up on 2019 he's getting a new job a new car and a new apartment and by summer a new PC build that's a real nice set of new things Roy so I wish you the best of luck in all that when it comes to your question though so for the GPU I'm going to choose the Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 this actually came out in 2010 it is is a firmy based car but is is the second generation fmy stuff which was based on 4 40 nmet which was down from I think what 50 or 52 nmet from before when I first read the question what popped into my head was the 70 series cards from Nvidia because those have been very consistent sort of middle of the road gpus that perform well and they're not terribly overpriced and the 570 I think comes to mind because it was a fall up to the 400 series the original firming cards which ran really hot they weren't very efficient and it was just sort of a Night and Day difference going from 400 series to 500 series they were much more efficient they ran much cooler you could overclock them pretty well and I think that was sort of the start of the kickoff of like the 500 series 600 series 700 series 900 series where Nvidia was really kind of kicking amd's butt a close second to this would be the GTX 970 and I know a lot of people are going to be like oh my God 3.5 gigs of vram and everything but the 970 was a really solid card for the price very overclockable especially with some of the aftermarket versions and I think both of those gpus are just gpus that a lot of people got a lot of people gamed on and a lot of people gamed on a lot and didn't have to spend you know 500 bucks plus for the CPU I'm going to go with the venerable sandybridge Core i5 2500k still available at Amazon for $280 don't don't buy it don't buy it now it's not worth the money anymore but the 2500k and the 2600k to me are the last time when I was like intel was just like dominating and not just dominating because they had good products but they were also compelling products at the prices you could get them for the 2500k you could usually get for $200 to $220 is overclocking was amazing on it you could crank up the voltage you can get so much more performance out of it if you're willing to go in and tweak and tune a few things so to me it's kind of the consumate DIY PC Product because it lets you do something yourself build your own PC and then do something with it where you're like this was totally worth it for me I was able to do something that most people can't do to get more performance and more for my money so when you talk bang for the buck 2500k still I'd say is the high point for Intel and um if intel wants to redeem themselves in the eyes of a lot of people with amd's competition over the past two or three years I think what they really need is something like the 2500k a reasonably priced CPU that overclocks well that you can get more performance out of I don't know if they're actually going to do that but um I hope they do I mean they have the competition from AMD to encourage them to do that so until if you're listening please please do another 2500k and lastly these are responses to the question I asked at the the end of last month's video which is what are you guys doing in 2019 and I just pulled up a few people who had responded like Ty Roberts whose plans to sit stand and potentially breathe if it is in the budget I understand Ty budgets are tight in 2019 but we're going to come through it stronger than ever next up is patriotic Oreos who says he's quitting his job on Sunday which would have been three weeks ago I think and he's getting a new job in construction for the new year so congratulations patriotic Oreos I hope the job quitting was satisfying and I hope the new job is treating you well so far and finally Ryan Holz here who gets the award for being the most thorough because he's got like his mother-in-laws and great grandma's birthday Ryan's turning 35 and he's got a new house in Northern California that he got for 430,000 that's a good deal uh moving in July tons of stuff planned for this year so you guys feel free to read over that thank you Ryan for sending that all in have fun in Vegas and thanks to all you guys who posted comments in last month's video and of course post comments in this month's video if you want me to answer them in February which is coming very soon thank you guys so much for watching this video this has been probing Paul episode number 32 I'll be back soon hit the thumbs up button on your way outs we'll see you guys next time\n"