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I don't know why I've been watching a lot of Mythbusters lately on Discovery Channel.

And Man, do I love that show.

I figured you know what?

There's a lot of myths out there regarding PCs, and we've done a video like this in the past, but we've got new subscribers we've got every single month.

There's new people to the PC genre when it comes to building the first computers, buying it, getting into this sort of stuff.

So this kind of content is always relevant.

And to be honest, the myths are always kind of changing a little bit, too, with the times.

So we're gonna get this off in no particular order.

But these are things that you often we hear people say, but they don't really know what it is that they're saying So rather than have people be super confused by hearing these things and believe them to try and give you some fax regarding some false myths, sorta started off here with me being a water cooling channel, talking about something water cooling.

And that is that since water cold PC is run so much cooler, that means your room won't get his hot.

That's a big bowl of malarkey because you have a bigger if it stopped face palming back there because they were much better and more efficient.

Transfer of heat out of the component into the atmosphere via water and a radiator.

What you'll find is that your room can often get hotter and faster.

Well, the room does get faster.

It gets harder, faster, But I'm trying to say, Look, they might have heat.

This coming out of the components is the same amount of heat and TDP generated is the same.

The difference is how efficient.

See how efficient it's making it from that piece to the atmosphere, which is the error inside of the space of which was responsible for cooling your components.

So don't think that water cooling your PC is gonna make it run cooler.

What will?

It won't make a rumor in Colorado.

And as the room temperature goes up, believe it, not your PC temp comes back up with it.

So work on ventilating your gaming space as much as your PC.

Now a lot of people tend to think that if you take an AMG GPU and you parent with an A M D.

C p you that you're gonna get better performance.

That's not true.

The fact of the matter is, as long as your GP is not being bottlenecks by a CPU, that's too slow.

Weatherby, Intel or Andy your GP is gonna perform to the potential, which it can perform when a lot of people are typically confusing is the idea of game development and subroutines where either AMG engineers are in video.

Engineers will dump a much a bunch of money into the development of a game toe leverage their particular technologies, whether it be something specific to Andy or something specific to India.

And then what happens is as those particular GP is a recognized by the game.

They run a whole different set of routines, then the competitors.

So that's why you're gonna probably see a bigger variance and performance between the game title than the CPU itself.

In fact, you might see a lot more MD logos on games moving in the future because of next gen consoles and with the rise in popularity of the rise and see you.

So that myth may end up changing in the future to where games just run better on Andy.

Now, this next one's one that tends to make my head hurt just a little bit.

That's the idea that installing more RAM will make your PC faster.

That myth is entirely false because we all know you have to download more RAM for your PC to be faster now, as long as PCs have been around, it's something you've inevitably heard at least once, and that is, if your computer's running slow, you need more memory.

Well, that's 1/2 truth, because depending on what your PC is doing and whether or not it's RAM Limited will determine whether or not adding more RAM will actually make it faster.

So as long as you have enough RAM for the task you're performing on your PC, adding more will do absolutely nothing for your system.

Now this next one's one that a lot of people tend to forget about when selling their computer.

And that is, well, if I just format my hard drive, but on my date is gone and nobody can look at my stuff, that's not true.

In fact, the only way to get rid of every bit of data or byte of data whatever you wanna call it is too absolutely destroy the hard drive.

That is why many government hard drives and very sensitive hard drives that come out of sensitive locations and companies and firms usually will send them off to companies that will completely destroy them and then send the drive back to the company.

Sometimes it's fun just to take, like a 30 ought six and just shoot one name, and then they could still sometimes get some data off of it.

Now This is one that I have personally had people say to me on this channel, and that is why you putting such a big power supply on they're putting a bigger power supply on your computer's gonna damage it because the computer can't use all that power or it's pushing more power than the parts can use.

That's don't even need to say that that one's false power supplies don't push power computer parts of draw power.

There's a maximum draw available based on the power supply that you use now, the reason why I use bigger power supplies and people often think that I need.

For instance, I'll run 1000 watt power supply on a single graphics card.

Nominal CPU system that's not running a ton of hard drives is because of efficiency.

Kurt, It's ah pretty common if you look at the efficiency curve of a power supply that it's most efficient between 50 and 70% utilization of its Max power output.

So to keep things as efficient as cool as possible with my power supplies, I tend to oversize them.

Sometimes it's a waste of money, but I'm not hurting anything, So this next one is one that's only kind of been around for the last couple of years when it comes to I know things becoming a little bit more normalized with PC Tech and that is that solid state drives don't live as long as hard drives.

Well, Phil actually said that one's plausible.

So the reason why Phil says that this one's considered plausible is because, yes, as I just said, there is a finite amount of read rights available to an SST before it starts to degrade.

That's just the way NAND works.

Hard drives, on the other hand, are also much more fragile.

They're not very friendly with magnets.

Another way you could destroy data like we were talking about earlier.

They're also not very friendly When it comes to shock by shock.

I don't mean like electricity.

I mean sudden impacts and things like that.

It is a platter that is spinning with a What's the needle called the needle thing?

It's got a point you do, hickey.

That basically reads the data off the platter.

Yeah, the head.

So SST, although much more durable do have a limited amount of life span.

Are you gonna reach that lifespan probably not.

Now, this next one here, look at Linus Tech tips actually disproved already, and that is that having too many cables or bad cable management inside your system will decrease its airflow and therefore overheat your system.

That's not true.

In fact, what testing is constantly shown is that Aaron equals air out and that unless you have complete solid blockages, the round cables, even though they're all clustered together, is no more restrictive than trying to blow air through a bush.

It's kind of like you're not moving enough air for it to make a difference, and as long as you have airflow, the P C will stay nice and cool.

What's more important, actually, is the balance of the airflow, though, whether or not you have positive pressure, negative pressure or neutral pressure.

And at the risk of sounding like a Linus Tech tip, Shield actually did a really great one year exploration all piece where they tested that theory.

And they compared all the difference of dust buildup in three systems that ran in those convicts for a solid year.

In a dusty warehouse, you guys can go and find a link on your own I mean, let's face, I don't put leaks down below.

I always forget.

Now this next one is one where it's kind of got multi parts to it, and that is that leaving your computer on all night is bad for it.

You see, it really kind of depends on how much memory have kind of coming on way back to that memory thing where there's something on your computer called a page file, that is, every time it goes to sleep or hibernates, it has to store everything your computer was doing in an easy to access files so that when it wakes up again, it can load everything back and that all gets stored in RAM.

In fact, we should probably do a peace one day on how to modify your page file how big or small it is.

But the myth is also stating that by leaving your computer on all night air all day is actually better for it.

Well, that's not always the case kind of time back to some of these other myths.

If you have inadequate cooling and it's sitting there hot all night, you could be causing some degradation or just general slow down to where we come back to it in the morning and try and do your general tests.

Well, it's nice and slow because of the fact that it's overheating.

I've also found that turn your computer off at night is just generally good for it, because why leave your computer on all night wasting energy doing nothing?

There's no reason for it.

At least put your computer to sleep or hybrid eight if you're gonna be going leaving it on all night.

But I also found that most often the points of failure in the computer tend to happen when you power it on.

Turning on the computer, for some reason seems to be the trigger for some components to die.

Whether or not the whatever the reason is behind that, I'm not sure, but recommended leaving your computer on was recommended to turn your computer off when you're not using it because of the environment and for this last myth over clocking your computer can reduce its life span.

Wait a minute.

Something feels weird.

That myth is actually sort of true.

Okay, here's what happens when you over clocked your parts.

You're obviously running it outside of its manufacturer, Lee specified perimeters, whether be more voltage or faster corps or both.

The life span of a CPU in the manufacturing process of silicon today has become so good that a CPU that would last 10 plus years at factory settings, when over clock to its maximum performance and max stability might shave 10 15% off of its life span, making it now in eight and 1/2 to a nine year long processor, making it last long enough to definitely be no longer relevant to modern tech, but not to the point where you're probably going to kill it.

What tends to kill processors is too much voltage.

So I say it's sort of 1/2 truth because you have to be smart about the way you over clock it.

But at the same time, you have to be realistic on what you want to get out of your computer.

Are Max over?

Clocks that we run around here are not the max over clocked achievable by their processors, but the max stable over clock that we're comfortable pushing it at?

Let's face it, most people upgrade their systems that around the five year mark and if you could have had a CPU run 10 years, and now it's running eight at maximum over HK lockable performance You really didn't change anything in the long picture of the lung, the big picture When it comes to things, what you might notice over time is a slight degradation of the silicon, which means what is achievable today might not be achievable in a year or two.

Both Phil and I have experienced peces to where we've over clocked them to the point where, after a year or two, we've had to drop them maybe 100 megahertz and add another 50 million volts of voltage to get stable once again.

But the fact is, we're still running over clock outside of the specified perimeters, and they're not dead.

In fact, I'm only killed one processor in the life span of this channel in seven years, and that was actually a name the FX processor, which was kind of not the most over clocking friendly in terms of long term use.

But that's kind of besides the point.

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Thanks for watching guys, and as always, we'll see you in the next one.

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