PC Myths you should NOT believe!

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  • We’ve all heard the myths about PCs... but can you believe them!?
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 7 тис.

  • @philipcooper8297
    @philipcooper8297 4 роки тому +18881

    I disagree, Jay. Having a liquid cooled PC in your room does look cool, therefor making the room cooler.

    • @testamnt4428
      @testamnt4428 4 роки тому +702

      And thats a fact

    • @HOkayson
      @HOkayson 4 роки тому +426

      Oh snap, you done proved him wrong!

    • @xPunkxLifex
      @xPunkxLifex 4 роки тому +327

      the room is not cooler. its KEWLER

    • @dsandoval9396
      @dsandoval9396 4 роки тому +53

      I concur.

    • @sgtxd2587
      @sgtxd2587 4 роки тому +196

      Its not cooler, it gets hotter than my non-existent girlfriend

  • @mojoneko8303
    @mojoneko8303 4 роки тому +8063

    I leave my computer on all night to vacuum up all the dust in the house.

    • @DMNKLR_official
      @DMNKLR_official 4 роки тому +94

      roflmao

    • @ExtrymGamingLTU
      @ExtrymGamingLTU 4 роки тому +323

      This hurts to read

    • @mojoneko8303
      @mojoneko8303 4 роки тому +196

      @@ExtrymGamingLTU Bwuhahaha! My computer was being bad so I'm punishing it... : )

    • @ExtrymGamingLTU
      @ExtrymGamingLTU 4 роки тому +344

      @@mojoneko8303 You really need to read up on parenting. Don't use physical harm, rather reward it when it is doing good. That will strengthen your bond and make it less afraid of you, and it will preform much better. This works with humans too

    • @demonpride1975
      @demonpride1975 4 роки тому +23

      lol that's not a myth tho, that's actually somewhat true.

  • @symir833
    @symir833 3 роки тому +1548

    "your room gets faster"
    now i can sleep at 200 fps

    • @MrJoeDone
      @MrJoeDone 3 роки тому +38

      didn´t you mean ZzZps?

    • @crusaderdoomslayer7055
      @crusaderdoomslayer7055 3 роки тому +39

      I can only sleep at 15 fps :(

    • @haqd2340
      @haqd2340 3 роки тому +39

      @@crusaderdoomslayer7055 *PATHETIC* I sleep at 6 fps on low settings 720p at 50% res scale

    • @Redslayer86
      @Redslayer86 3 роки тому +36

      Humans can't even sleep at over 60 fps so you're just wasting money bro

    • @haqd2340
      @haqd2340 3 роки тому +17

      @@Redslayer86 Rooms can get up to 360 fps

  • @KingJellyfishII
    @KingJellyfishII 3 роки тому +3248

    "people normally upgrade after 5 years"
    My 9yo computer that wasn't even very good 9 years ago: *sweats nervously*

    • @jimmynich4791
      @jimmynich4791 3 роки тому +40

      Lol my last pc is 9 years old now, I've been gaming on xbox 360 then xbox one. Just going back to pc now and ordered a new one.

    • @kubero2323
      @kubero2323 3 роки тому +26

      @@jimmynich4791 good for you man, check your parts thoroughly though, im making a new build and my ram came at thursday but it was damaged so i had to send it back lol

    • @jimmynich4791
      @jimmynich4791 3 роки тому +17

      @@kubero2323 Everything good so far. The gpu gets really hot though when gaming, the glass panel on the side is really warm then, i maybe need to add some case fans. Good to be gaming on pc again, just got to get used to keyboard and mouse again.

    • @kubero2323
      @kubero2323 3 роки тому +4

      @@jimmynich4791 Nicee. Yeah definitelly add some case fans, but check beforehand if you have available pin slots for them on the mobo or else you will need to buy an adapter and connect them through it. Dont worry getting used to kb&m just takes time so if you will play, you will definitelly get better, cheers and glhf my friend :D

    • @iftakherislam4494
      @iftakherislam4494 3 роки тому +1

      Totally relatable 😂🤣🤣

  • @negativespace261
    @negativespace261 4 роки тому +3407

    You forgot to mention the myth that LEDs dont do anything-
    Blue = more cold
    Red = higher performance
    Green = environmentally friendly

    • @l1z4rdbr34th90
      @l1z4rdbr34th90 4 роки тому +77

      I thought they keep SSDs toasty warm?

    • @negativespace261
      @negativespace261 4 роки тому +161

      @@l1z4rdbr34th90 You mean reds? Of course, there are tradeoffs to each.
      Red = more heat with the performance
      Green = worse performance
      Blue = higher power consumption
      It really seems to me like some people on here know nothing about computers, concerning, really.

    • @Mr371312
      @Mr371312 4 роки тому +68

      Woah no wonder people are into rainbow rgb never looked at it that way

    • @WilhelmProduktion
      @WilhelmProduktion 4 роки тому +4

      Yo what is pink then ?

    • @Mr371312
      @Mr371312 4 роки тому +12

      @@WilhelmProduktion then I got some bad news for you son....

  • @EhurtAfy
    @EhurtAfy 4 роки тому +3885

    My list of PC Gaming myths:
    1. It's cheap
    2. It's expensive

    • @zarmaanful
      @zarmaanful 4 роки тому +50

      TRUE!

    • @GrubKiller436
      @GrubKiller436 4 роки тому +85

      It is expensive!

    • @DrGameNwatch
      @DrGameNwatch 4 роки тому +126

      @@GrubKiller436 Debatable... Subjective

    • @bananya6020
      @bananya6020 4 роки тому +71

      1. Consoles use the same component manufacturers and general designs as PC's, so there is nothing that can make a PC have less quality than a console.
      2. You can build a console-level PC for the same cost as a console with a ryzen 3 2200g and 8gb ram from teamgroup and a cheap b350.
      wait did i just call pc components cheap and contradict myself

    • @1brownsfan296
      @1brownsfan296 4 роки тому +29

      Electroblade PC’s aren’t cheap compared to Consoles. The benefit of a console is that they can sell a powerful product at a lower cost than a PC

  • @junk186
    @junk186 3 роки тому +2409

    "Pairing an AMD CPU with an AMD GPU makes no difference"
    Shows how fast things change in the tech world.

    • @GuglielmoTaro
      @GuglielmoTaro 3 роки тому +71

      came here to say this

    • @requimics8585
      @requimics8585 3 роки тому +63

      Does all 5000 series cpu and 6000 series gpu support SAM

    • @jetlee4life5164
      @jetlee4life5164 3 роки тому +27

      @@requimics8585 yes

    • @damyr55
      @damyr55 3 роки тому +10

      Yap, I was gonna comment the same thing

    • @lukeryan463
      @lukeryan463 3 роки тому +20

      How did this change? I'm new to pc and looking to build one.

  • @krishnasampath1138
    @krishnasampath1138 3 роки тому +735

    Myth: Heat generated by PC is bad.
    Reality: The heat can be used for multiple purposes like a heater in winter, an easy way to cook ramen or popcorn, etc.

    • @eternalreign2313
      @eternalreign2313 3 роки тому +25

      When I had my PC in the basement, it did make a difference in the winter lol. Makes for a pretty good foot warmer if you got the tower down by your feet TBH.

    • @campkira
      @campkira 3 роки тому

      myth .. cold is good since cold start had issue as well... alot of hardwwre work in the certain temp...

    • @davidfrey08
      @davidfrey08 3 роки тому +21

      @@campkira myth: cold exists
      Fact: only heat exists, cold is what happens when enough heat is lost to reach a level of discomfort.

    • @mornepdg3551
      @mornepdg3551 3 роки тому +3

      Heck yeah 😂 I love it when it's winter with my pc

    • @ZzSlumberzZ
      @ZzSlumberzZ 3 роки тому +4

      That's not a bad idea. If you could reliably use the heat generated by your pc you could save some $$$ on heating equipment.

  • @racionator2668
    @racionator2668 4 роки тому +3582

    Well building a pc takes less than 30min
    Me: *trying to put the I/O shield in for past 2 hours*

    • @hikirari205
      @hikirari205 4 роки тому +90

      Me: doesn't have a fast wifi and a pc to download the windows d

    • @faisfaizal5194
      @faisfaizal5194 4 роки тому +191

      Jokes on you, I dont even have the money to buy pc parts

    • @cofiddle
      @cofiddle 4 роки тому +58

      Lol and the hdmi is still blocked by one of the clip things

    • @Qalibrated
      @Qalibrated 4 роки тому +65

      Just bought a new motherboard with built-in I/O shield. Always hated mounting the I/O shield.
      Sometimes it clicks in no problem, other times it feels like you're about to warp the whole case.
      Built-in I/O shields is a blessing, no more struggle, no more forgetting

    • @emolookinass793
      @emolookinass793 4 роки тому +13

      bruh i thought i was the only one struggling to put that shit on 😂

  • @katomiccomics202
    @katomiccomics202 4 роки тому +4509

    "Leaving your computer all night is bad for it."
    "False"
    Electricity Bill: am I a joke to you?

    • @zavier3644
      @zavier3644 4 роки тому +173

      Bad for your wallet not the computer

    • @trey534
      @trey534 4 роки тому +50

      The thing is, it can be bad. I have witnessed it first hand. (I think this only applies to HDDS)
      Every hard disk drive has an estimated uptime life. I think it is like 3 years total, if you left your PC on for 3 years, your hard drive will most likely fail, as I have seen with one of my computers.

    • @zavier3644
      @zavier3644 4 роки тому +78

      Jack if it is constantly writing and reading

    • @User556q
      @User556q 4 роки тому +82

      @@trey534 i have a hdd from like 2012...

    • @user-mg8mb6ss2t
      @user-mg8mb6ss2t 4 роки тому +33

      I waste a shit ton of electricity every month, yet my bill is never more than $60-$80. Peanuts considering i make $1600-$2000 a month.

  • @banana_man4083
    @banana_man4083 3 роки тому +368

    me: water cools my pc
    my room: i am speed

    • @nznakzez
      @nznakzez 3 роки тому +5

      xD 😂 😂

    • @Alexus00712
      @Alexus00712 3 роки тому +4

      I always use water cooling to overclock my room speed!

    • @haqd2340
      @haqd2340 3 роки тому +1

      @@Alexus00712 bro.... u'r beyond human intelligence

  • @JJCcubes42
    @JJCcubes42 3 роки тому +1579

    Possibly the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life "Macs can't get viruses"

    • @RainyFoxUwU
      @RainyFoxUwU 3 роки тому +24

      FUCKING RIGHT THO

    • @eternalreign2313
      @eternalreign2313 3 роки тому +207

      It's probably right because who the fuck is using a mac lol? So who is going to waste their time writing a virus for one?

    • @JJCcubes42
      @JJCcubes42 3 роки тому +77

      @@eternalreign2313 sure, but that doesn't mean it can't happen

    • @gamerbreadbaker
      @gamerbreadbaker 3 роки тому

      ok who

    • @NoobGyver
      @NoobGyver 3 роки тому +71

      i mean they have a tiny bit more powerfull security but can still get hacked as much as windows pcs. Macs are overpriced and made out of pricy materials and I hate how people use a like 2015 model and say: ''mY mAc Is BeTtEr ThAn Ur REcEnTlY BuIlT sYsTeM"

  • @trappack6291
    @trappack6291 4 роки тому +1781

    "you won't experience a difference in the..."
    "Big picture" or "Long run"
    Jay: *"The long picture"*

    • @samus4799
      @samus4799 4 роки тому +71

      Panorama

    • @ciai_6199
      @ciai_6199 4 роки тому +55

      The *big* run

    • @DurableRelic
      @DurableRelic 4 роки тому +36

      The long big

    • @seant9790
      @seant9790 4 роки тому

      THAT A GUY LIKE XI IS A HERO, there's a myth. But who going to point it out.....Who's Rothgar against China?

    • @romayojr
      @romayojr 4 роки тому +4

      10:13

  • @QuickshotGaming
    @QuickshotGaming 4 роки тому +1618

    I'm immensely disappointed that water cooling doesn't break the laws of thermodynamics.

    • @foxglow6798
      @foxglow6798 4 роки тому +17

      Quickshot Gaming ikr who knows maybe someday we might be able to transfer the heat into solid matter like they do with photons

    • @Mandragara
      @Mandragara 4 роки тому +11

      Well cooler electronics have a lower resistance, so in principle they should need less power to run. Effects like power leakage are also higher at higher temperatures. So a cooler PC should certainly in principle use less power and thus be cooler.
      However in practice it just means that the part turbo's more because it's cooler.

    • @peterkiss1204
      @peterkiss1204 4 роки тому +2

      @@Mandragara In metallic parts this might be true. But in semiconductors it may have the opposite effect depending from the components.

    • @Mandragara
      @Mandragara 4 роки тому +1

      @@peterkiss1204 Didn't know higher temps could decrease power leakage. What's the physics?

    • @peterkiss1204
      @peterkiss1204 4 роки тому +2

      @@Mandragara In silicon semiconductors the junction forward voltage drops 2,5mV at every °C increase in temperature. That means a dioda @ room temperature drops 0,6V (nominal), but @125 °C it's just 0,35V.
      If your circuit draws 1 Amper trough that dioda the 0,6W loss is reduced to 0,35W due to the high temperature.

  • @tacoman2196
    @tacoman2196 3 роки тому +283

    Jay:"Watercooling does not make your room cooler"
    Me:Fine I will just watercool my room.

    • @raccjoint5358
      @raccjoint5358 3 роки тому +9

      Pool

    • @rx5736
      @rx5736 3 роки тому +1

      Fishtank

    • @rasmussenrambles8576
      @rasmussenrambles8576 2 роки тому +2

      Store the heat underground in the winter and use it later in the summer. It does work for some buildings

  • @washinours
    @washinours 3 роки тому +266

    "leaving your pc on all night is bad for it"
    3D artists going through 50h rendering sessions ; lol

    • @Shinobubu
      @Shinobubu 3 роки тому +19

      100% of datacenters sweating profusely. But Muh Uptime bro. xD

    • @IyeViking
      @IyeViking 3 роки тому +7

      I’ve been doing that on an i5 no graphics card all in one PC for a few years

    • @davidulmer9774
      @davidulmer9774 3 роки тому +11

      Got an FX 8350 that hasn't been turned off for almost 8 years that's probably reserving it's plot in the yard now.

    • @nifollas
      @nifollas 3 роки тому +1

      @@Shinobubu datacenters and servers use different ram, i don't remember the name but is to avoid corruption.

    • @Shinobubu
      @Shinobubu 3 роки тому

      @@nifollas ECC ram? I had ECC ram when I ran dual cpu's sometimes you just need ECC just so the CPU doesn't choke on its own datastreams. Error correction ram doesn't mean its more durable. it just means it handles single event incident corruptions better. They're actually slower.

  • @thethunderant9208
    @thethunderant9208 4 роки тому +816

    *water cools pc*
    Room: I am speed

  • @glenniboi4520
    @glenniboi4520 4 роки тому +1811

    Fact: I overclocked my cpu from 4 to 6 cores by adding more ram

    • @ninjapenguin2220
      @ninjapenguin2220 4 роки тому +59

      @CodyNW42 Where do you download yours from? I can only find where to download cars

    • @zengance1323
      @zengance1323 4 роки тому +25

      Stupid, just download the ram

    • @glenniboi4520
      @glenniboi4520 4 роки тому +26

      Thanks for the tips! I just downloaded 2 TB of clockspeed to my CPU.

    • @gtd1783
      @gtd1783 4 роки тому +14

      CodyNW42 what about system 69? I'm not gonna let my PC go around snitching on my Xbox.

    • @wyxelix5041
      @wyxelix5041 4 роки тому +5

      @CodyNW42 yeah i just deleted system 32 and i made another system called "system 6969" now my pc is beyond limits

  • @christophertstone
    @christophertstone 3 роки тому +35

    8:28 "Most points of failure happen when turning your computer on"
    Thermal cycling is what eventually kills most components, ie when it's heating up or cooling down. This happens most after the computer has been turned off or when turning on; and in either case you'll find out when you try to turn it on, or shortly thereafter.

    • @MrCheckout69
      @MrCheckout69 3 роки тому +2

      Yes i agree, working with computers all day. We always fear a total shutdown of a Datacenter. We know a lot of parts will fail. And you should be aware that these computers are tested more thoroughly compared to a PC part.

    • @kevingaukel4950
      @kevingaukel4950 3 роки тому +4

      I work with RF electronics that are space qualified. Thermal Cycling and Thermal Shock are part of the testing because of exactly that.

    • @smievil
      @smievil 3 роки тому

      my last computer seemed to stop working while booting some time after i got my current one.

  • @marks4982
    @marks4982 3 роки тому +54

    Alternate title "Jay talks about myths but every time he busts a new one, he starts out in a weirder position"

  • @ScallopHolden
    @ScallopHolden 4 роки тому +1805

    Myth: when you leave your cpu on overnight the government mines bitcoin with it

    • @TheMagnay
      @TheMagnay 4 роки тому +65

      the government doesn't but virus' have been known to though.

    • @osuntuyiemilos5803
      @osuntuyiemilos5803 4 роки тому +15

      Now that's a conspiracy theory😉

    • @timppaUT
      @timppaUT 4 роки тому +9

      Better that, than: More taxes! :/ I think I buy more computers that are always on to lower my taxes? :P

    • @justj9053
      @justj9053 3 роки тому +1

      How did find out about that? Yes, the government has been all kinds of things with your computer one of them is the network all the computers together to hack other countries.

    • @Tate525
      @Tate525 3 роки тому +1

      🤣🤣🤣

  • @teaser6089
    @teaser6089 4 роки тому +1081

    ' Water cooling willl make your room go faster'
    Jay - 2019

    • @adwaidskumar848
      @adwaidskumar848 4 роки тому +1

      More than that 'Quote" what made me laugh was the "Jay - 2019" 😂 😂

    • @thatoneasian2370
      @thatoneasian2370 4 роки тому +19

      Micah van Everdingen it’s true, I water cooled my pc and my room was too fast and ran away. Now my house is missing a room😢

    • @adwaidskumar848
      @adwaidskumar848 4 роки тому

      @@thatoneasian2370 😂 😂

    • @teaser6089
      @teaser6089 4 роки тому

      @@thatoneasian2370 Aw I feel for ya man

    • @BigBahss
      @BigBahss 4 роки тому +5

      Don't do kids, drugs.

  • @anjayl
    @anjayl 3 роки тому +19

    Important note on SSDs : always try to get twice the capacity that you need!
    I saw extended tests about it. And to roughly sum it up, an 90% loaded SSD will "deteriorate" at least twice faster than an half loaded one.
    It is due to the constant effort a heavily loaded has to do in order to constantly rearrange files.

    • @BUCCIMAIN
      @BUCCIMAIN 2 роки тому +5

      Well I'm fucked, my SSD is 250gb and has been almost full for like two years.

  • @crumbly8255
    @crumbly8255 3 роки тому +110

    Jay: PC myths that you shouldn't believe.
    *next scene* Jay: *starts talking about a case*
    me: oh, i shouldn't believe that.

  • @The_DevTato
    @The_DevTato 4 роки тому +988

    i play rdr2 on pc max settings so I can cook ramen with my water cooler.

    • @santyclause8034
      @santyclause8034 4 роки тому +87

      I did that with my laptop playing wow. Now I can sculpt the polymer case to any shape I want when it runs.

    • @popphoenixh
      @popphoenixh 4 роки тому +7

      @@santyclause8034 lol

    • @capt.dunhappy236
      @capt.dunhappy236 4 роки тому +2

      @@santyclause8034 XDD same happened to me when i tried raiding on LEGION expansion !!!

    • @mojoneko8303
      @mojoneko8303 4 роки тому +5

      I pulled the air cooler off my 8370 Bulldozer cpu and replaced it with the hotdog cooker I had strapped to the exhaust on my snow machine. 😁

    • @haseenabadshah5381
      @haseenabadshah5381 3 роки тому

      690 likes lmao

  • @maaax1173
    @maaax1173 4 роки тому +1226

    I overclocked my psu now I have 3.3 ram sticks with -(0.7)^3gb in total, 5.2 cores each, all that with quadriple multithreading

    • @williammiller3277
      @williammiller3277 4 роки тому +31

      But how many threads!?!?!?!?

    • @maaax1173
      @maaax1173 4 роки тому +61

      William Miller 16.5 , it has triple Multithreading

    • @joeykeilholz925
      @joeykeilholz925 4 роки тому +59

      You should consider adding a 10 Gbps Ethernet connection via add-in card to download the round-uppable RAM module and CPU infinity brick. Always attempt to obtain an integer-based system. The CPU can get indecisive around the 5.5 and 6.5 cores mark. You can try therapy and other forms of consistency training; however, being supportive may prevent any problems because it believes in you (and you believe in it). They are always watching. Remain kind and you won't have to invest in the high end Ethernet card.

    • @harleyme3163
      @harleyme3163 4 роки тому +1

      lol overclock a psu (power suply unit) uh.... right lol

    • @xxoan.1613
      @xxoan.1613 4 роки тому +14

      it just hurts to read that

  • @imsmoother9435
    @imsmoother9435 3 роки тому +224

    “Ram doesnt matter”
    My 64gb:😭

    • @69bruh
      @69bruh 3 роки тому +54

      *OUR* 64GB

    • @Adrian-by2yr
      @Adrian-by2yr 3 роки тому +23

      @@69bruh communist?

    • @69bruh
      @69bruh 3 роки тому +34

      @@Adrian-by2yr yeah ofc why wouldn’t I be

    • @divyavyas9003
      @divyavyas9003 3 роки тому +15

      Nice unintentional flex.

    • @hellothere_24
      @hellothere_24 3 роки тому +21

      @@69bruh our 64gb will work well with the new game "Sex with Stalin"

  • @ebolarnator1794
    @ebolarnator1794 3 роки тому +25

    I lost it when he "became" a talking house plant 😂

  • @KyleReynaert
    @KyleReynaert 4 роки тому +277

    I know this isn't a "set" but i really like the lighting, the camera, framing, plant and boxes in the background for talking head videos.

    • @the_hamrat
      @the_hamrat 4 роки тому

      I was thinking exactly the same thing

    • @criznittle968
      @criznittle968 4 роки тому

      I had precisely the same exact thought, with 100% accuracy - minus the plant/boxes/framing/lighting

  • @dukeofworcestershire7042
    @dukeofworcestershire7042 4 роки тому +257

    "Today we're talking about PC myths you shouldn't believe:
    The new Pure Base 500 from be quiet! brings enthusiasts more of what they want at a price that they can afford."
    That's some terrific ad integration right there

  • @chad8767
    @chad8767 3 роки тому +169

    "After 8 years your computer is no longer relevant"
    uh...my last PC lasted that long and handled most new games, not AAA titles, but pretty much everything I wanted to play.

    • @emiliamercier4452
      @emiliamercier4452 3 роки тому +21

      then you obviously aren't playing games that need overclocking, therefore making the initial argument pointless

    • @chad8767
      @chad8767 3 роки тому +24

      @@emiliamercier4452 it's pretty rare that you would NEED to overclock on a new system, yes later in the computers lifetime you may need to but not initially. Games are quite behind the curve of technology, they are still trying to get the hang of using multiple core properly.

    • @RainyFoxUwU
      @RainyFoxUwU 3 роки тому +2

      Then it clearly wasn't a cheaper system you dingus, big wooooooosh

    • @fishyc43sar
      @fishyc43sar 3 роки тому +3

      @@chad8767 Games now can use upto 8 Cores already (see:MSFS2020).
      And yes, games officially benefit out of OCing, cuz most games usually like a higher clock speed (assuming that you don't have a CPU with severely bad IPC, like the FX, which is not comparable even at 8GHz). So basically overclocking a CPU can give you a nice boost in Gaming performance (higher FPS).

    • @aberinox
      @aberinox 3 роки тому +1

      Well an overclocked gtx680 can handle most games on 1080p 60fps at at least medium settings. I mean ok, the gpu vents make the sound of a jet aircraft but it stays under 80°C 😂

  • @quantum3280
    @quantum3280 3 роки тому +12

    The reason pc parts fail or “die” when you just turn it on is based in physics. It’s the same as when a lightbulb (non led) blows up when you turn it up. The power going through it is too high right when you turn it on, and as the lightbulb (pc parts) heat up a bit, the resistance rises making it safer.
    Hope this helps!

  • @Barnacules
    @Barnacules 4 роки тому +479

    Data recovery isn’t possible with an SSD that has had every bit overwritten with a 0 because it doesn’t hold a magnetic charge but rather a switched state. The previous switched state remains unknown.
    However if you have magnetic media (spinning disk) even a low level format doesn’t guarantee data can’t be recovered. However random writes over every sector with random charges in alternating patterns can still make it pretty impossible to recover the data but this requires special tools and will impact the life span of the disk sometimes dramatically.
    So don’t destroy your SSD drives, just write 0’s to every sector and sell away 👍🏻
    Hope this was helpful 🙏

    • @Mildly_Amused
      @Mildly_Amused 4 роки тому +7

      When you run the command prompt as administrator and use the built in windows cypher command it works well for both SSDs and traditional hard drives to write over everything. Its slow, but its easy to write over everything multiple times. Its excessive for an SSD, but if I'm selling a drive I want to be absolutely sure nobody can get any of my personal or financial information.

    • @abedfo88
      @abedfo88 4 роки тому +33

      I once managed to accidentally format my porn HD, I recovered most of it using a free recovery tool. Bonanza.

    • @CAOSWOLFIII
      @CAOSWOLFIII 4 роки тому +4

      @@abedfo88 i have found if you add data to the hard drive n question ,the data you can pull up with those programs decreases i filled up a 3 terabyte with the same video over and over again twice and could longer retrieve the original data much to my chagrin as i accidentally dropped the hard drive transferred all the original data to.

    • @Bjotte
      @Bjotte 4 роки тому +17

      As most SSD have write balancing in the firmware just writing 0's to it will not properly erase data since it might not write to the whole SSD. Thats why most SSD's support the ATA secure erase command instead. Unless stated by the drive erase tool that it uses this function it should not be used to erase SSD's if data sanitation is the goal.

    • @prunn
      @prunn 4 роки тому +3

      use DBAN, it overwrites everything on the drive multiple times so data can't be recovered.

  • @aliabdallah102
    @aliabdallah102 4 роки тому +279

    Jay's braincell 1: the long run
    Braincell 2: the big picture
    Mouth: the long picture

  • @Subieghost
    @Subieghost 3 роки тому +18

    "Your room gets hotter, and faster"
    My room: ÑÝÖÖÖÖÖ

  • @NepSpoon
    @NepSpoon 3 роки тому +177

    “Having an AMD CPU and GPU will not make your performance better”
    *laughs in Ryzen 5000 and RX 6000*

    • @damyr55
      @damyr55 3 роки тому +13

      Yap. To be fair, the first thing he said in this video was, that technology changes all the time.

    • @BrucyJuicy
      @BrucyJuicy 3 роки тому +5

      Nope not more in 1-2 moths when Nvidia Release resizable Bar too

    • @benhostetler6312
      @benhostetler6312 3 роки тому

      *laughs in intel supporting resizable bar*

  • @sysghost
    @sysghost 4 роки тому +479

    Myth: Adding tons of RGB lights will make the computer a lot cooler.
    Well... sorta true... but... not that kind of cooler.

    • @williammiller3277
      @williammiller3277 4 роки тому +10

      Not the other kind either.

    • @note5btw
      @note5btw 4 роки тому +1

      Lloyd Wilhelm that’s a joke right?

    • @TheRealSlimShady509
      @TheRealSlimShady509 4 роки тому +2

      Lloyd Wilhelm because people dont want to type stuff they don’t have to? RGB lights are basically a type of LED

    • @sysghost
      @sysghost 4 роки тому +5

      @@LWilhelm1948 Often, when it comes to computers and electronics, some abbreviations are so well used in the industry the abbreviation itself is the designation one use to describe the item in question, Other abbreviations are: PSU, GPU, CPU, RAM, HDD, SDD ... The list goes on. RGB is simply part of that, and not just to the computer world but as well in the electronics world.
      Going around mentioning these types of lights for the full name would be silly: "Red Green Blue Light Emitting Diodes"

    • @sysghost
      @sysghost 4 роки тому +1

      @@LWilhelm1948 I see. Good that you're informing us about this.
      But to respond to your "I don"t get why people can't spell things out instead using abbreviations."
      I simply tell as it is:
      Majority of the world already know these abbreviations as if they are the words themselves. Anyone even slightly into electronics will understand what these abbreviations mean. There is no need (except for some very special and very rare cases) to use the full context of these abbreviations.
      If you're interested in this topic, make notes. You'll find lots of abbreviations thrown around.
      People will not start to spell things out just because there are very few people who demand it.
      Then, there's the other kind of abbreviations used in generic conversation. Especially in written chats such as Facebook, Twitter and other social media. These can be: LOL, CBA, WTF, IIRC etc... Ther I agree with you. And I usually avoid these unless the group I'm chatting with already are well versed in them.
      But the industry type of abbreviations is well established for a professional market. That will not change, and should not.

  • @aaronnelson7702
    @aaronnelson7702 4 роки тому +65

    #1 myth
    Wait till next year when prices drop.
    Friends told me that for 15 years, finally I just started buying parts. Took a year, but it turned out great. Now I have mine finished and they are still waiting for prices to drop.

    • @eternalreign2313
      @eternalreign2313 3 роки тому +2

      I'm in that boat now. I got people telling me to wait a few more months. Black Friday deals, RTX 30 series, Ryzen Zen 3 ... it's all going to make previous gen stuff much cheaper lol. I researched the previous gen and prices didn't really drop that much. There's always a lag, and I'm not waiting 6 months just so I can go through this dance again.

    • @aaronnelson7702
      @aaronnelson7702 3 роки тому +5

      @@eternalreign2313 just remember the hard fact of life that the minute you buy it, it's outdated. So save up and buy the best you can afford at that time and don't look back.

    • @arit1784
      @arit1784 3 роки тому +2

      @@aaronnelson7702 thanks for that comment. I just bought parts for a new PC after quite a long time of waiting while everyone told me to wait MORE and I can finally have my peace of mind

    • @dragonicbladex7574
      @dragonicbladex7574 3 роки тому +1

      Well, generally it's bad to buy high end parts close to the release of new parts, be it gpus, cpus, etc. Since you wont really get your money's worth out of it and soon most of that will be down the drain all of a sudden. I think that's what they meant? For example with what just happened to the used 2080ti market lol, RIP people who bought a 2080ti at full price a month or two ago.

    • @nznakzez
      @nznakzez 3 роки тому +1

      Just waiting for Black Friday here. RTX 30 release was AMAZING. Black Friday comes and i aint listening to any1 who tells me to wait.

  • @emyuniverse
    @emyuniverse 3 роки тому +11

    0:34 I was watching this video right after hearing Grant's death to forget the sadness I felt after hearing that. But then you mentioned Myth Busters. RIP Grant Imahara

  • @Jupeee
    @Jupeee 3 роки тому +253

    "You wont get better performance when you pair an AMD cpu and gpu"
    That didn't age very well

    • @divyavyas9003
      @divyavyas9003 3 роки тому +1

      Yep

    • @TMRick1
      @TMRick1 3 роки тому +7

      *smart memory access intensifies*

    • @lilspooky6041
      @lilspooky6041 3 роки тому +20

      @@TMRick1 It’s actually not that big of a deal, you don’t get much performance out of it, kinda disappointed at the Radeon 6000s, still prefer a RTX 3000.

    • @Faknontobis
      @Faknontobis 3 роки тому +12

      @@lilspooky6041 also nvidia is aparrently working on an equivalent working with amd and intel cpus

    • @hmm7458
      @hmm7458 3 роки тому +3

      actually after looking at some 3rd party benchmark it doesn't make much of a diff.. maybe will see something with 6xxx seried

  • @Sotha42
    @Sotha42 4 роки тому +411

    Shutting down your PC overnight helps against Windows doing it when it feels like it

    • @LoneBlade5
      @LoneBlade5 4 роки тому +45

      I hate windows 10 so much

    • @doufmech4323
      @doufmech4323 4 роки тому +15

      @@LoneBlade5 then use Linux.

    • @zsurvivalist7996
      @zsurvivalist7996 4 роки тому +11

      @@doufmech4323 Linux needs more work too

    • @doufmech4323
      @doufmech4323 4 роки тому +2

      @@zsurvivalist7996 anthying specific?

    • @Rasmos
      @Rasmos 4 роки тому +6

      Yeah, but if you leave it on all night, it'll just update on its own when you are asleep. That's what mine does, at least.

  • @pietercoetzee6235
    @pietercoetzee6235 4 роки тому +399

    Jay: " i am downloading more ram for my brain so i can talk faster"
    Brain: " Error , System overheating"

    • @jamesbilger
      @jamesbilger 4 роки тому +2

      should water cool it.

    • @alcyonedevelopments7398
      @alcyonedevelopments7398 4 роки тому +3

      More RAM for the brain = even more digressions! Not that i would mind... :D

    • @brandonarmes9074
      @brandonarmes9074 4 роки тому +2

      Stop running your Brainpower with Chrome. =p

    • @2cafn8d42
      @2cafn8d42 4 роки тому +2

      @@jamesbilger This specific application is already water-cooled with a 24/7 run time temp is typically 98.6F... I suggest Liguid nitrogen injections to assist the current water-cooling method.

    • @jamesbilger
      @jamesbilger 4 роки тому +1

      @@2cafn8d42 honestly he probably just needs high static pressure fans to get some real airflow over the radiator, liquid nitrogen couldn't hurt though. might even get some overclocking done. also, this is now my pitch for the next #ripgn

  • @painsme2
    @painsme2 3 роки тому +2

    As a industrial electrician the initial draw on most components at the time of energizing is slightly higher before setteling into normal standard draw/ operation. So over time components are a lot like engines as that most of the wear and tear so to say happens at start up when nothing major wrong happens during normal operation like extreme heat. I hope no ones CPU/GPU is making any weird knocking sounds lol. Cheers!

  • @dandiaz19934
    @dandiaz19934 3 роки тому

    All the different shots KILLED me! Subscribed!!

  • @ethankaulana
    @ethankaulana 4 роки тому +314

    Place the PSU on the isolating pads, so the case doesn’t short circuit the PSU...
    #theverge

    • @kyleforgeard4148
      @kyleforgeard4148 4 роки тому +13

      I thought those pads were there to reduce vibration noise im dumb thanks for the post

    • @builder396
      @builder396 4 роки тому +4

      @@kyleforgeard4148 Dont PSUs have casings around them that dont run electricity? If those pads are for electrical insulation that doesnt make much sense.

    • @alwise8634
      @alwise8634 4 роки тому +43

      @@builder396 r/wooosh

    • @kazumikota470
      @kazumikota470 4 роки тому +2

      ITS THE VERGE PC BUILD HAHA

    • @qwer55555555
      @qwer55555555 4 роки тому

      some cheapo PSUs have a cases that will toss your finger if you have very old, 2 wire electrical installation in your home (without PE wire) and grab PSU with one hand and with second you will touch your home's heating radiator or whatnot.
      Same with older magnesium laptops that do the very same thing (like old dell c400 )

  • @rolithesecond
    @rolithesecond 4 роки тому +649

    "Turn your PC off - for the environment"
    "Everyone come to Camaro Con"

    • @wolfshanze5980
      @wolfshanze5980 4 роки тому +39

      Jay's next video: "Myths about global warming"

    • @dadjake
      @dadjake 4 роки тому +28

      Love that response. A computer or two won't have much of an impact, neither will a camaro, or 100. A cruise ship or two though... Pheew

    • @VuHien2011
      @VuHien2011 4 роки тому +10

      @@wolfshanze5980 Except that is NOT a myth...

    • @VuHien2011
      @VuHien2011 4 роки тому +17

      @@dadjake no matter what, why leaving a computer running all night for nothing? electricity is not free and producing it is not free either. And any component has a life expectancy. Why reaching it earlier by leaving the computer running for nothing? not to mention dust.

    • @dadjake
      @dadjake 4 роки тому +8

      @@VuHien2011 Absolutely true. I turn my pc off at night, simply because I live in a small dorm, and the RGB is too bright oterwise (I'm being serious, yeah.). And I also don't want to go through more GPUs or CPUs than I have to. I stress those components enough already when letting them render things during the day.

  • @casmx7300
    @casmx7300 3 роки тому +8

    2:16 AMD CPU paired with an AMD GPU, now with Rage Mode, that statement didn't age well. (granted Rage Mode barely adds any performance atm but it is now a thing).

  • @SArthur221
    @SArthur221 3 роки тому +1

    7:41 the page file is stored on storage media, not RAM.
    The OS kernel allocates memory to programs in chunks that are known as "pages". In windows, a page file is a file on your drive that gets used when the system has allocated all of its physical memory (all your RAM), yet programs need more pages, so your OS will move some pages out of physical into the page file stash.
    It also gets used when you hibernate your computer, where the whole contents of your RAM get saved to the page file to be loaded on wake.

  • @M00NM0NEY
    @M00NM0NEY 4 роки тому +258

    PC Myth: "The more you buy, the more you save"

    • @markm0000
      @markm0000 4 роки тому +16

      A $1,500 computer today will last about as long as a $700 computer. In 7 years the technology will have advanced so far that you basically need to replace every component to play new games or install Firefox.

    • @tanmaypanadi1414
      @tanmaypanadi1414 4 роки тому +2

      I was about to put that you beat me to it

    • @phatcyclist
      @phatcyclist 4 роки тому +4

      @@markm0000 Maybe today with both Intel and AMD trading blows, time will tell. Someone running a 3930k now is still having a decent experience with daily computing and even some games, it's roughly equivalent in total to a 9400 according to PassMark. Spending a bunch back then netted you a bunch in the long run. If you dropped $900 on a 3930k back in 2011, you really would just be getting to a point where your gaming performance was starting to suffer.

    • @KainArkanos
      @KainArkanos 4 роки тому +14

      @@markm0000 Completely false. Even the 2600k from 2011 is still relevant today and can still be used to max out settings in games as long as your GPU is up to the task. Your PSU? Unless it dies, it's going to run just fine for 10+ years and still do the same thing it did the day you bought it. Ultimately, the evolution of PCs is at its slowest point ever, there are no massive gains anymore unless they do a massive technology change, which already hasn't happened in 8 years so I don't see it massively changing for another few. Until developers for any piece of software ever get the hell off their ass and actually make use of all these cores we are starting to get, CPUs really won't have much of a change for a long time coming.

    • @emmanuelgoldstein3682
      @emmanuelgoldstein3682 4 роки тому +2

      @Bitter Clinger Honestly if you popped a 1060 or something in it you'd still have a pretty decent 1080p gaming machine.

  • @kevinleblanc6502
    @kevinleblanc6502 4 роки тому +298

    "Today we're looking at myths you shouldn't believe"
    Ad rolls in

    • @billey30
      @billey30 4 роки тому

      There are many free and easy ways to not have ANY ad's on UA-cam, without have premium UA-cam or whatever it's called. Aside from the ones that they verbally speak obviously lol. Google how to block ads in UA-cam for free. It's very easy...

    • @zachyd120
      @zachyd120 4 роки тому +4

      Billey Holloway he was talking about the verbal one lol

    • @firstbits650
      @firstbits650 4 роки тому

      @@billey30 i already have done this in the past, but my morality.... Well...

    • @jordandesigns5797
      @jordandesigns5797 4 роки тому

      Billey Holloway download brave browser to eliminate every.single.ad EVER

    • @TheDyingScotsman
      @TheDyingScotsman 4 роки тому

      You watch ads?

  • @Expertspecter
    @Expertspecter 2 роки тому +2

    At the best buy i worked at, we had a space in the auto bay that was the Hard Drive Disposal area. I had so many fin times coming up with ways to break them. My head told me if it didn't sound like a shaker... It wasn't good enough.

  • @gkv1786
    @gkv1786 2 роки тому +2

    "Hotter... AND FASTER!!!" Damnit, Jay, I was excited there for a second

  • @joshruth6369
    @joshruth6369 4 роки тому +499

    When I get rid of hard drives I act like I’m Joker and the hard drive is Jason Todd.

  • @BassWaves88
    @BassWaves88 4 роки тому +158

    PC Myth: Your dad is coming back with smokes and a laptop.

    • @MrGts92
      @MrGts92 4 роки тому +1

      Lmao.... damnnnnnnnn!

    • @scottmetcalfe4366
      @scottmetcalfe4366 4 роки тому

      He never came back.....

    • @Blox117
      @Blox117 4 роки тому +2

      lol jokes on you my dad is dead! hahha

    • @Mildly_Amused
      @Mildly_Amused 4 роки тому

      These days its "Your dad is coming back with vape juice and a laptop."

    • @myaccount__7269
      @myaccount__7269 4 роки тому

      Depends on the dads skin color...

  • @balderdasq8987
    @balderdasq8987 3 роки тому +7

    4:35 My mouth starts foaming every time I hear someone say this.

    • @groovy1552
      @groovy1552 3 роки тому

      Holy fuck I can't stop laughing at this for whatever reason

  • @cyberceel
    @cyberceel 3 роки тому +33

    "Pairing an amd cpu and gpu does not increase performance"
    *Smart Access Memory has entered the chat*

    • @__1960
      @__1960 3 роки тому +2

      Hi Sam

    • @Helliwiki
      @Helliwiki 3 роки тому

      @@__1960 crap too late to comment sam

  • @JohnnyLyft
    @JohnnyLyft 4 роки тому +175

    I remember when adding more RAM did make my computer faster.
    Back When having 512mb or 1gb (single channel mode) and then doubling it to 1gb or up to 4gb actually did speed common tasks up by a lot in Dual channel mode.

    • @breadbuttrjam1604
      @breadbuttrjam1604 3 роки тому +2

      Did you get a ssd tho?

    • @Bob5mith
      @Bob5mith 3 роки тому +1

      I had some success dedicating a flash drive for the page file, many years ago. I extended the usefulness of another aging computer with an SSD dedicated to the page file, not quite as many years ago.

    • @verigone2677
      @verigone2677 3 роки тому +2

      I still own a working 8088 ... 1 MB is the max ram in that thing, but I already fried that and had to go back to 640k...and yes...it is a potato

    • @EwanMarshall
      @EwanMarshall 3 роки тому +1

      Yeah, each channel is parrallel access (as in both channels can be accessed at once), and the OS and CPU can utilize that.

    • @sirensatnight4463
      @sirensatnight4463 3 роки тому

      Adding more RAM does still speed up computers. A 4gb PC boots up and responds slower than an 8gb PC. A 16gb PC is much faster. This fact hasn't changed at all. Yes, it helps immensely if you clone your old spinning hard drive over to an SSD, but having a new SSD AND more RAM will make your average PC speed up tremendously. RAM plus SSD equals productivity and much more instant gratification. More RAM is always better.

  • @t0mn8r35
    @t0mn8r35 4 роки тому +53

    I know the reason why components fail when you turn them on and off from a study done by IBM in the late 70's. Yes, I am an old nerd. When power cycling electronic parts they shrink and expand according to temperatures. This causes micro fractures. Leaving them at the same temps prevents this.

    • @alesrozman
      @alesrozman 4 роки тому +9

      I think this is why you can sometimes fix a graphics card by baking it in the oven. At specific temperature the material will melt a bit and seal the microfractures.

    • @MDKPopin
      @MDKPopin 4 роки тому +3

      "Leaving them at the same temps prevents this.". Leaving them on helps keep them more thermally stable and significantly reduces this, It doesn't prevent it :) Also more specifically the electronic parts aren't the problem, the conductors (e.g. the traces in a PCB) are. Those micro fractures will eventually break and function like a switch that has failed open. I'm not THAT old, however, I know the study you are referring to and have read through it in the past.

    • @Spasgasmic
      @Spasgasmic 4 роки тому +6

      this is exactly what I came here to say. Different materials have different rates of cooling and different melting points. Even if you never reach the melting point (hopefully lol) nor have materials that have vastly different cooling rates, they will at absolutely minimum, have different thermal expansion capacities and tolerances. This all leads to the materials dissimilating after prolonged and continuous heating and cooling. Even if the metals don't separate, they will create areas where they are more or less conductive.
      So leaving your computer on has a purpose and turning your computer off has a purpose. It depends on the age of the hardware and the current condition of the materials involved... AKA, could go either way and you probably can't tell by sight.
      This isn't even getting into the the specific components in the different products that have different tolerances and time frames for power fluctuation. Thats a whole other story with no real answer to the issue in general and would require exact specifics of your system.
      So no, myth not busted.

    • @ughhhmcrbinch5583
      @ughhhmcrbinch5583 3 роки тому

      Spasgasmic in what situation would you need to turn your computer off?

    • @eternalreign2313
      @eternalreign2313 3 роки тому

      @@ughhhmcrbinch5583 When it's really old and prone to freezing up lol. So I turn mine off anytime I gotta be away for an extended period of time.

  • @freetolook3727
    @freetolook3727 3 роки тому

    Funny story about myth turning on/off vs leaving it on. When I worked IT for New York State, we had some NT4 servers that had to be moved. These servers had been running non-stop for 7 years with no issues. Afterwards, we tried to restart them and they wouldn't turn on and run.

  • @Chad_Thundernuts
    @Chad_Thundernuts 2 роки тому +3

    Me: **Gets water to air cooler**
    My room: "I'm fast as f*ck, boi!"

  • @irj8998
    @irj8998 4 роки тому +180

    I remember when I was new to building Pcs. I tried buying a psu for my build and the Best Buy employee told me that my parts would blow up if I went with a high wattage psu

    • @cuteface88
      @cuteface88 4 роки тому +37

      MicroCenter >>>>>>>>>> Best Buy

    • @akshaygaming1869
      @akshaygaming1869 3 роки тому +20

      Fu*k that employee

    • @ghouldrago360
      @ghouldrago360 3 роки тому +6

      If that psu was a generic one he might be true

    • @nznakzez
      @nznakzez 3 роки тому +6

      Best Buy in a nutshell right here everyone 10/10

    • @fishyc43sar
      @fishyc43sar 3 роки тому +11

      @@ArcticZombie Fun Fact: The Guy was the builder at The Verge.

  • @topdamagewizard
    @topdamagewizard 4 роки тому +241

    "HDD are fragile"
    WTF are you doing with your HDD? Mine just sits in a case.

    • @neetishyadav8553
      @neetishyadav8553 4 роки тому +12

      it can go bad if you turn your case sideways and run it and many people use external hdd

    • @GuilhermeMaia100
      @GuilhermeMaia100 4 роки тому +4

      When you go clean your PC you have to be cautious with it.

    • @hiddenknowledge2012
      @hiddenknowledge2012 4 роки тому +17

      @@neetishyadav8553 Doesn't affect it sideways. HDD's are made to mount vertically or horizontal. I currently have a HDD that is electrical taped to the inside of my build at an angle and it's been running perfectly for about 8 years.

    • @DoomsdayR3sistance
      @DoomsdayR3sistance 4 роки тому +6

      @@neetishyadav8553 what are you even on about? Tilting an HDD isn't going to cause damage, unless you're moving it while it (the drive) is running in which case you shouldn't move it in any fashion. shocks can cause misalignment which damages the platter and thus loses data and disk sectors, reducing the overall lifespan of the device.

    • @blakeboschetti2726
      @blakeboschetti2726 4 роки тому +6

      Laptops??

  • @MikeBehrensWX
    @MikeBehrensWX 3 роки тому

    4:36 I thought this for years because I was upgrading an HP pre-built when I was a teen, before the age of tech-tube, and a HP customer service rep basically told me this.

  • @r_EndEl
    @r_EndEl 3 роки тому

    Awesome video and ty for all the info

  • @gambitgaming4573
    @gambitgaming4573 4 роки тому +53

    I just built my first PC last week. I spent the last year researching and looking into pcs and finally built one.

  • @forgottenfox3857
    @forgottenfox3857 4 роки тому +216

    Myth: Jay says to come see him on the dyno on Saturday
    Cold hard truth: THE VIDEO UPLOADED SUNDAY NIGHT!

  • @irishvodkaa8990
    @irishvodkaa8990 2 роки тому +1

    3:54 regarding the hard drives, my dad used to work for a place that had sensitive hard drives that had to be destroyed. My dad talked them into instead of paying to get them destroyed, every few months he would bring them home and I would get to destroy them with a sledgehammer, pickaxe, or ax. He even recorded it as proof and I did it for years because I was allowed to destroy something that needed to be destroyed and when I asked why he said it's the only way to guarantee they have no data left. He even made sure I destroyed each disk. I obviously enjoyed it.

  • @PemaMendez990
    @PemaMendez990 3 роки тому +2

    8:46 you are absolutely right, I had a PC build for the longest that worked... but I couldn't turn it off, if I did on booting back on it would fail until it miraculously started up again through trial and error. So I learned to keep it on forever, not even sleep because it wouldn't come out of it, I just turned off the screens at night. My record was six months without turning it off 😂Of course I restarted it regularly and everything but if I kept it off more than a few minutes it would be a nightmare to make it work again. It wasn't even like the pc was dying slowly, it worked flawlessly when on, last game I played on it was The Wicher 3 on medium to high settings from start to finish without any issues.

  • @JioLLLL
    @JioLLLL 3 роки тому +968

    It's ok UA-cam, I already built the PC, you can stop recommending me these videos now :D

  • @atma-media
    @atma-media 4 роки тому +191

    "only killed one chip ever. thats an old amd fx cpu."
    watching this video on a 4 year old, overclocked 8350.
    Sweating Intensifies.

    • @jamieleeper8215
      @jamieleeper8215 4 роки тому

      Same haha

    • @z1mt0n1x2
      @z1mt0n1x2 4 роки тому +8

      Dunno how old my 6350 is but its older than 4 and have been set to 4.5ghz since I bought it... Still doing good but I should prolly get a new one soon.
      What saves lifespan is taking good care of its temperature, my 6350 survived through a Noctua cooler, an H60, and now a Cryorig somethingsomething.

    • @d2factotum
      @d2factotum 4 роки тому +1

      I did once have a CPU that started to die...it was a Core 2 Duo E4300 (stock clock 1.8GHz) which I'd run at 2.7GHz for years. Then it suddenly went unstable and I had to drop back to 2.4GHz. Within a couple of weeks I'd had to clock it right back to stock. Don't know if the degradation would have continued because I replaced the CPU and motherboard at that point.

    • @alexatkin
      @alexatkin 4 роки тому +6

      @@d2factotum The thing with that is it could equally have been the motherboard capacitors wearing out so unable to supply a stable voltage, unless you tried on another board.
      In my 25 years or so of building PCs, its ALWAYS been the motherboards that die, not the CPU.

    • @packlord2192
      @packlord2192 4 роки тому +1

      You should really upgrade, it performs about the same in games when overclocked as an older Pentium does. ua-cam.com/video/LTIra6waYKE/v-deo.html

  • @yoyofargo
    @yoyofargo 3 роки тому +1

    1:45 Components undervolt and underclock themselves. When that happens, they will be dumping less energy into the room. It's not the same. Water cooling your components allows more heat to get dumped into the air because they won't thermal throttle as fast.

  • @justsomeperson5110
    @justsomeperson5110 3 роки тому +1

    I miss my old Northwood C. Not only was it overclocked, but it was UNDERvolted at the same time. Stable, fast, cool, it was the best CPU that I ever overclocked.

  • @carkindozin
    @carkindozin 4 роки тому +372

    My favorite Myth is that intel is the only way to go and amd is just for budget builds

    • @leumgui
      @leumgui 4 роки тому +75

      that was true a few years back, but now it's definitely not true

    • @kf160k160
      @kf160k160 4 роки тому +18

      @@leumgui That would be depend. AMD is smart that a single price, try to able tackle every usage type at slightly above average performance. Intel moves doesn't give sweet spot for user, you either get all the way performance or all the way budget.

    • @Augurk6
      @Augurk6 4 роки тому +5

      @@Trainmaster909 1 day later XD

    • @StroalOutdoors
      @StroalOutdoors 4 роки тому +10

      @@Trainmaster909 They are still 14nm. There is no die shrink. The gains will be small, I doubt it will be enough to make any real difference. Sure, maybe a 2% fps difference, but then you also have Zen 3 coming, and if we're conservative it might give us +5% gain, but since it's a new architecture, I wouldn't be surprised if we have another 15%. If that happens, Intel loses out the gate.

    • @Darkfreestyler
      @Darkfreestyler 4 роки тому +5

      From what I see, it isn't a myth anymore but some still don't wanna give up on Intel because of that old mindset despite knowing that it is outdated.

  • @Grahamc22
    @Grahamc22 4 роки тому +647

    Myth: The Verge makes *any* decent content

    • @kenshiromilesvt.7037
      @kenshiromilesvt.7037 4 роки тому +3

      Myth Busted
      NOT

    • @nateg452
      @nateg452 4 роки тому +22

      @@kenshiromilesvt.7037 It's "myth confirmed" you pleb.

    • @cinnabarsonar2072
      @cinnabarsonar2072 4 роки тому +6

      Didn't even have a good quality swiss army knife.

    • @seanthompson6720
      @seanthompson6720 4 роки тому +16

      @@nateg452 the myth is the verge makes good content, so "Myth Busted" is correct, the NOT he added is confusing though

    • @vicsrealms
      @vicsrealms 4 роки тому +1

      That one PC build video was well worth a laugh.

  • @danielwells1734
    @danielwells1734 3 роки тому

    Jay is right about the overclock "myth". Many years ago I improperly OC'd a Q6600, but forgot to set the correct voltage. The poor thing had 1.6v flowing through it, which I guess is the CPU counterpart to brain-damage. I've learned since then.

  • @2XS
    @2XS 3 роки тому +5

    Jay, you forgot one myth: "Every RGB light brings 1 more FPS!"

    • @Alucard-gt1zf
      @Alucard-gt1zf 2 роки тому

      Because that's not a myth

    • @2XS
      @2XS 2 роки тому

      @@Alucard-gt1zf so you are telling me I could have saved about 2,000$ for my RTX 3090 and should have only bought RGB lights worth about 500$ to get the same 400 FPS in Minecraft? ;)

  • @Shahzad-Khan
    @Shahzad-Khan 4 роки тому +229

    Myth: RGB does not enhance performance.

    • @benjaminbong9214
      @benjaminbong9214 4 роки тому +34

      That's actually untrue, the University of Harvard Berkeley conducted a 2 year PC user test on RGB performance. There were 10 PC's being tested, 5 with RGB and 5 without. The results have actually shown that the PC's with RGB actually performed up to 20% across the board, testing performance and overall system quality after 2 years.

    • @Kaiberus
      @Kaiberus 4 роки тому +24

      false, cars with flame stickers also go faster :D

    • @Shahzad-Khan
      @Shahzad-Khan 4 роки тому +2

      benis wow! This is groundbreaking research has compelled me to to agree with my initial belief that RGB enchanted performance

    • @lordeggo
      @lordeggo 4 роки тому +8

      "Enchanted" performance? I need to get me some of that.

    • @CossackHD
      @CossackHD 4 роки тому +2

      Truth: too much RGB will reduce performance. Nvidia GPUs have limit for total board power, so blazing bright colors on thicc RGB will draw a few watts that could have been used for GPU core.
      There is a meme SSD from a respectable manufacturer that draws like 5W on the RGB. The SSD overheats and throttles to oblivion.

  • @xSeRosiSx
    @xSeRosiSx 4 роки тому +155

    Representing Mythbusters.
    I still miss Jamie, Adam, Kari, Tory, and Grant.
    Well, Adam is still around at least. But it's not the same.

    • @MRdeLaat
      @MRdeLaat 4 роки тому +11

      only adam and jamie, the rest was forgetable.

    • @xSeRosiSx
      @xSeRosiSx 4 роки тому +5

      @@thiccpug8040 Kari and Tory were there in the very beginning but didn't have their own segments until the second season, I believe.
      Then the build team got canned 2 or 3 seasons before Discovery, in their infinite wisdom, canceled the show.
      Then Discovery had the audacity to try and bring Mythbusters back as some sort of reality show, which turned to shit, and now they're trying a "for kids" version.
      Honestly if they wanted to bring Mythbusters back they should just hire the original crew back and slowly hand the torch over to a new cast.

    • @mashrien
      @mashrien 4 роки тому +3

      I miss Adam, Jamie, Tori, SCOTTY and Grant.
      Kari can eat shit, hate that "I'll show up every day until Jamie gives me a job" trollop. "I want more money or I'm not doing another season." A/J: "We're restructuring and downsizing, we can't afford more without hurting production staff.." Kari: "Or else." A/J: "I'm sorry, we'll have to restructure and let you three go."
      Because a hundred grand+ PER-EPISODE wasn't enough for her. Grant and Tori were fine with even taking a cut to stay on the show. Not the red-head "I copy everything the guys say" self-appointed nerd-queen.

    • @apocalypseap
      @apocalypseap 4 роки тому +3

      @@MRdeLaat Grant puking is way more entertaining than Adam puking lol

    • @nationalmaverick
      @nationalmaverick 4 роки тому +1

      IMO Adam Savages solo career is better the his Mythbusters content.

  • @Reiners_Eulenspiegel
    @Reiners_Eulenspiegel 3 роки тому

    A personal statement to overclocking "damage": I had an MSI GPU and did a litttle overclocking (without changing the voltage) with MSI Afterburner on an overclocking friendly Motherboard from ASUS. After that, the motherboard (as far as i could localize the sound) did some annoying coil whining, even after reset the GPU to normal clock. But it stopped after i changed the GPU.
    So i prefer to not start overclocking before i start to think about changing my components to better ones.

  • @jeremiah._.hamman9255
    @jeremiah._.hamman9255 3 роки тому +2

    4:01 When I was in AFJROTC and we had to send Air Force PCs back to the base they came from, rather than sending the Hard drives to a company to destroy they just told us to smash them with a hammer before returning the systems to them. A kid in my unit apparently got a U.S. Air Force system confused with a school system and accidentally smashed a school district hard drive rather than the one from the Air Force system. Lets just say we didn't let him live it down considering the Air Force systems had a big sticker on the corner that said Property of the United States Air Force on them with a huge Hap Arnold symbol AKA the Air Force logo right above it.

  • @StefanEtienneTheVerrgeRep
    @StefanEtienneTheVerrgeRep 4 роки тому +21

    Some other myths.
    1. Static electricity can damage PC parts.
    - true, not only can static damage parts, but it can cause them to instantaneously explode.
    2. Using too much thermal paste is bad.
    - FALSE, there is NO SUCH thing as too much thermal paste. In fact, you should dip your CPU in thermal paste for at least 2 hours before installation.
    3. Tying up loose cables in nice and neat.
    - True and False, though visually it is appealing, cables generate heat, and placing them all together creates more heat. Let your cables ventilate and have them splayed all over the place.
    4. Tweezers and Zip Ties are not the same thing.
    - Regional true or false, its like "POP" and "SODA". In the North and Midwest, its called "POP", in certain parts like East Coast or in HeeHaw states, they say "SODA" in reality, they are the same thing, just like Tweezers and Zip Ties. Cept in HeeHaw, they also call EVERYTHING Coke, Orange Coke, Lemon Coke, Cherry Coke, instead of say... Sprite, or something. Going to New YAWK, and asking for "POP" only to have city bumpkin look at me and say "POP??...... POP....CORN?"
    Yes Jackie...I'm talking about you.
    5. The more RAM the better
    - Depends, More RAM is better, but the human eye can't even see more than 24GB of RAM so any more than that is useless.
    6. Screwing in with confidence will result in better benchmarks.
    - True, but make sure you're not GRANNY SHIFTING, not DOUBLE CLUTCHING like you SHOULD. You're lucky that 100 shot of mhz didn't blow the WELDS OFF YOUR MOTHERBOARD.

    • @DarkZeeds
      @DarkZeeds 4 роки тому +1

      Stefan Etienne The Verrge Representative i’m dead lmao

  • @Pawer8
    @Pawer8 4 роки тому +129

    Answer to 1: Friking thermodynamics!!
    Thats not a pc myth thats a failed education system lmao

    • @wyterabitt2149
      @wyterabitt2149 4 роки тому +2

      I can see where it is coming from, you have a substantially greater amount to heat up and then hold that heat for any period. And it is water on top of that. But once the entire process is up and running longer term it doesn't make sense.

    • @Blei1986
      @Blei1986 4 роки тому +3

      it's not even related to education.
      it's simple logic.

    • @Pawer8
      @Pawer8 4 роки тому +4

      Ppl are not being taught to think by themselves

    • @TheUltimateBlooper
      @TheUltimateBlooper 4 роки тому +1

      It is funny how people can't comprehend that, say, a 100W of heat into the room will come into that room no matter what radiator they use :D

    • @Pawer8
      @Pawer8 4 роки тому +4

      @@Blei1986 its important to teach how to think logically. And how to think in general. Same reason why flatearthers are a thing

  • @narra3687
    @narra3687 3 роки тому

    True, I overclock my I7-2700i and had it since late 2015 and always had them running 80-90% usage and still works till this day.

  • @nomisukeindustries
    @nomisukeindustries 3 роки тому

    So weird to come back to this video over a year later and see a plug for the case that you literally built in yesterday.

  • @dp2259
    @dp2259 4 роки тому +38

    2:15 Metal Jayz Solid 2: -cents

    • @mihan2d
      @mihan2d 4 роки тому

      Severely underrated.

  • @soju69jinro
    @soju69jinro 4 роки тому +54

    PC Myth: Windows Defender is bad, always use third party software

    • @Shahzad-Khan
      @Shahzad-Khan 4 роки тому +4

      Defender runs in the background and is known to cause performance inconsistencies when gaming. As an antivirus, it is pretty good.

    • @MirelRC
      @MirelRC 4 роки тому +1

      I don't know, I am still using Kaspersky.

    • @yulfine1688
      @yulfine1688 4 роки тому +10

      @@Shahzad-Khan so does most if not all antivirus or their real name as malware because that is how they actually function. Still though windows defender is very well made and protects most uneducated monkeys from causing damage at its standard settings. If you are really worried you can bump it up however its really only as safe as the user..which is why Linux can be the most safe and then the least safe OS to exist currently because it's really all down to the user in control. windows and mac os while better normally have the same faults its as good as its users. Once the user basically accepts anything random or was trustworthy or whatever well that makes it all pointless.

    • @02091992able
      @02091992able 4 роки тому +8

      @@Shahzad-Khan Doesn't seem to slow mine down any. What does cause lag when I online game is the fact that my internet provider sucks donkey dong and won't replace any landlines in my area that have been around for 50+ years been broken in 3 dozen spots spliced back together and struck by lightning a dozen times over those years the last was just 2 weeks ago. I would not be surprised if some of it is held together with duct tape at this point, they are some seriously cheap bastards.

    • @kramnull8962
      @kramnull8962 4 роки тому +2

      @@02091992able Try running Cinebench and you will get a score change. Just like with the Nvidia control panel and the AMD control panel. Not that Cinebench is a good benchmarking tool, just saying...
      You want to talk about cheap, we had a land line that used the 2' tall green boxes from the 70's. I'd say that about 2000 or so a guy in a Nova ran over the box, it was smashed into the earth almost flat. The technician came out a couple days later and bent it into slightly a box again and half made a teepee out of it over the guts. It stayed that way for 15 or so more years... I guess the 2 customers never complained.

  • @mitchellreece7086
    @mitchellreece7086 3 роки тому

    Loved Jay in this video lol, why did I find this so funny hahah

  • @devkishan5879
    @devkishan5879 3 роки тому

    Very useful brother !!!! Thanks

  • @zahar027
    @zahar027 4 роки тому +143

    "your eyes can only see 24 fps!!"

    • @DragonNexus
      @DragonNexus 4 роки тому +34

      That stems from a misunderstanding of a fact.
      The human eye needs to see images displayed at 24FPS in order to stop perceiving them as still images in sequence and start perceiving them as fluid motion. Anything higher than 24FPs is fine, we just need *at least* that in order for it to look like motion and not a slide show.

    • @hououinkymeowma2381
      @hououinkymeowma2381 4 роки тому +30

      If you can't see a difference between 30 fps and 60 fps you should see an optometrist

    • @tomast9034
      @tomast9034 4 роки тому +7

      + you dont need 5.1 or more for 2 ears....:D

    • @biteme263
      @biteme263 4 роки тому +1

      I think most people don't believe that anymore. I think what it boils down to is what looks better to a specific person. I think video looks better at 24 fps, especially if that is what the director wanted it to look like. And to me I don't like the way video games look above 60 fps. The reaction time might be better but it just doesn't look right to me. And I am not good enough at video games for reaction time to matter lol. I am way more concerned with fps matching the refresh rate. I cannot stand screen tear.

    • @txspeck
      @txspeck 4 роки тому

      Paul Mohr variable refresh rate monitor

  • @crookim
    @crookim 4 роки тому +35

    PC myth: once you build one, you'll never build another one.....

    • @markm0000
      @markm0000 4 роки тому +1

      I built a single beefcake P3 desktop around ‘99 and I still got it. Since then I’ve only had laptops and the occasional custom build for a friend.

    • @lilcatfriend4575
      @lilcatfriend4575 4 роки тому +4

      @@markm0000 yeah that's not useful for any games made after 2005 :/

    • @markm0000
      @markm0000 4 роки тому

      Lil Cat Friend Last upgrade was a 6600GT so it’s good for most DX9 games up to ‘12. Anything older than ‘03 works fine with hacks.

    • @MegaPepsimax
      @MegaPepsimax 4 роки тому

      True, I built my first custom PC build, costing just over £1000 ($1200), it was annoying and I was afraid of getting something wrong, my last 2 rebuilds have been done by a professional

    • @handendaer
      @handendaer 4 роки тому

      yea most likely true if ur dumb af

  • @duncandonuts5268
    @duncandonuts5268 3 роки тому +3

    1:22 I was gonna say, my PC is pretty much the only thing that keeps my room warm lmao

  • @zamraqayum
    @zamraqayum 2 роки тому

    Been subbed for years and have even seen Jay's vids recommended at all

  • @alchemist889
    @alchemist889 4 роки тому +25

    I've also heard that hard drives in particular tend to break when they spin up as you turn them on.

  • @sorrynotsorry8224
    @sorrynotsorry8224 4 роки тому +18

    Myth: Just because a component costs more, does not mean it's better.

    • @Kalvinjj
      @Kalvinjj 4 роки тому +1

      but... but my Apple monitor stand!!!
      No, that meme will never die

  • @cliffordgallagher4531
    @cliffordgallagher4531 3 роки тому

    Had to Sub! Just built my First Gaming PC for my youngest. Your videos were Soo Helpful for a Newby!

  • @sylberk8843
    @sylberk8843 3 роки тому

    @JayzTwoCents - idea for a build. you talked about heating up the room, how about a build when the cpu and gpu are watercooled but the heatexchanger is extended to like another place ( outside .. ) so the pc does a better job at not eating up the room.

  • @alehksaj6635
    @alehksaj6635 4 роки тому +34

    I like coming to Jay for these kinds of things

    • @handendaer
      @handendaer 4 роки тому

      bet u watch mythbusters too, just to get lied to. they're idiots on an show purely made for entertainment. their studies they often do are just as good and precise as if chat made em.

  • @productivitygod7887
    @productivitygod7887 4 роки тому +237

    1:23 "Since my watercooled PCs run so much cooler, my room won't get as hot"
    2:17 "AMD GPUs perform better with AMD CPUs"
    3:16 "Adding more RAM makes your computer faster"
    3:49 "Formatting a drive removes all traces of data"
    4:34 "Using too high wattage of a PSU can damage your system"
    5:23 "SSDs dont live as long as HDDs"
    6:23 "Too many cables in a system can negatively affect airflow"
    7:21 "Leaving your computer on overnight is bad for the hardware"
    8:48 "Overclocking your computer can reduce it's lifespan"
    *You're welcome*

    • @itsmanor9838
      @itsmanor9838 4 роки тому +3

      -spuma commenting, hoping jay pins this comment

    • @JackTyler
      @JackTyler 4 роки тому +4

      The hero we all needed

    • @surajmistry7078
      @surajmistry7078 4 роки тому

      Bless you kind sir

    • @fmt_piggy
      @fmt_piggy 4 роки тому

      -spuma the amd one is that true I have a pc with intel cpu and amd gpu

    • @CR055H41RZ
      @CR055H41RZ 4 роки тому +3

      forgot 8:48 "Overclocking your computer can reduce it's lifespan"

  • @Ultimexx
    @Ultimexx 3 роки тому

    you could write on top of the "marked as deleted" data on the HDD, then it won't be recoverable because different bits will be written on top of the old ones, effectively replacing them.

  • @Gillambryce
    @Gillambryce Рік тому

    Jay, sensitive hard drives are often reused after complete write sequences on every bit on every platter either all on 0, all 1, random, or any combination multiple times to demagnetize those bits. I am unaware of any way to recover solid state data.