Stopping Computer Companies from Lying Asia's PC Test Equipment Megafactory
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Date: 2023-02-20
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cdburner5911
I absolutely love looking behind the curtain at how these things are tested. This is the kind of thing I got into engineering for. Every time you do a review and show off a new type of testing, or new methodology, I absolutely love it. The CPU contact force testing was a special favorite of mine, along with the 12v connector testing.
Inspired in part by these types of videos, and GN acquiring a fan tester, I decided to try my hand at making a water cooling radiator tester. Using some old components I had around, I was able to create a prototype that was, in my opinion, pretty successful. It was no where near as professional as these machines, but I learned quite a lot from the first revision, and some day I would love to make another revision and do some real testing.
Thank you for doing these tours and showing us how its done.
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I absolutely love looking behind the curtain at how these things are tested. This is the kind of thing I got into engineering for. Every time you do a review and show off a new type of testing, or new methodology, I absolutely love it. The CPU contact force testing was a special favorite of mine, along with the 12v connector testing.
Inspired in part by these types of videos, and GN acquiring a fan tester, I decided to try my hand at making a water cooling radiator tester. Using some old components I had around, I was able to create a prototype that was, in my opinion, pretty successful. It was no where near as professional as these machines, but I learned quite a lot from the first revision, and some day I would love to make another revision and do some real testing.
Thank you for doing these tours and showing us how its done.
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Administrator
This is what this industry needs. Thank you. I will always support pro-customer/consumer objective testing of products. You're a hero.
If you guys didn't know, we (the hifi community of AudioScienceReview) also changed the whole industry by measuring hifi gear. It works. Now JDS Labs and Schiit Audio are making good measuring products to compete with the better Chinese audio products that have measured better for years, and now everybody knows.
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This is what this industry needs. Thank you. I will always support pro-customer/consumer objective testing of products. You're a hero.
If you guys didn't know, we (the hifi community of AudioScienceReview) also changed the whole industry by measuring hifi gear. It works. Now JDS Labs and Schiit Audio are making good measuring products to compete with the better Chinese audio products that have measured better for years, and now everybody knows.
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Rex
Love this. It looks so 1950's si-fi TV. Suddenly the manster in the rubber alien suit comes around the corner and grabs Steve! Oh, no! It demands Steve buys the Gigabyte exploding PSU, or be chambered in the lavatory vaporizer! Arrrrgh!! I'm glad they have these test facilities. I'm even glad guys like you, Linus, J2cents and Tech Yes City check and double check the computer component industry without provocation! Keep up the good work!
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Love this. It looks so 1950's si-fi TV. Suddenly the manster in the rubber alien suit comes around the corner and grabs Steve! Oh, no! It demands Steve buys the Gigabyte exploding PSU, or be chambered in the lavatory vaporizer! Arrrrgh!! I'm glad they have these test facilities. I'm even glad guys like you, Linus, J2cents and Tech Yes City check and double check the computer component industry without provocation! Keep up the good work!
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Michael
Somewhere I may still have the photos I took of the computers half covered in snow at a research station near McMurdo station (Antarctica). Running Windows NT(!) This was 20 years ago and they'd been running for years before that. Just humming away. Also of a Beowulf cluster for the neutrino and muon detectors at the South Pole at nearly 3,000m (>9,000 ft) altitude. That's why you need to have test labs like this.
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Somewhere I may still have the photos I took of the computers half covered in snow at a research station near McMurdo station (Antarctica). Running Windows NT(!) This was 20 years ago and they'd been running for years before that. Just humming away. Also of a Beowulf cluster for the neutrino and muon detectors at the South Pole at nearly 3,000m (>9,000 ft) altitude. That's why you need to have test labs like this.
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Jon
5:20 this is how PC coolers SHOULD be rated. instead of running benchmarks where there are dozens of different things that can change the outcome having a simple heater core, plug the cooler on it, and find out how much energy the cooler can dissipate per unit of time before it gets overwhelmed. No subjectivity, its repeatable, you get hard numbers that are easier to compare for a cost per performance output.
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5:20 this is how PC coolers SHOULD be rated. instead of running benchmarks where there are dozens of different things that can change the outcome having a simple heater core, plug the cooler on it, and find out how much energy the cooler can dissipate per unit of time before it gets overwhelmed. No subjectivity, its repeatable, you get hard numbers that are easier to compare for a cost per performance output.
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Ultimate
Please, please, please find a way to test real life WiFi router coverage. Lately all brands focus on speed but not signal strength. You get super speeds 2 meters away, but almost nothing when there is even a single brick wall between the router and the receiving device. Old and slower routers seem to be way more powerful in terms of real coverage.
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Please, please, please find a way to test real life WiFi router coverage. Lately all brands focus on speed but not signal strength. You get super speeds 2 meters away, but almost nothing when there is even a single brick wall between the router and the receiving device. Old and slower routers seem to be way more powerful in terms of real coverage.
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Eric
You all are some of the only guys doing serious tech journalism right now. Constantly putting out unbiased reviews of almost every major prebuilt and pc component that gets released to show us the best ways to spend our money. Then you go above everyone else to get us inside peeks into how all of these parts come to be. Thanks for all your hard work!
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You all are some of the only guys doing serious tech journalism right now. Constantly putting out unbiased reviews of almost every major prebuilt and pc component that gets released to show us the best ways to spend our money. Then you go above everyone else to get us inside peeks into how all of these parts come to be. Thanks for all your hard work!
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ptitjo42
That X-Ray machine is basically like a CT scan at the hospital. You rotate the stage instead of the machine, but the image treatment afterwards uses the same math (which goes way above my head). It's not easy to get right in terms of resolution, x-ray contrast, etc. The amount of cool stuff you can do with those machines is amazing though.
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That X-Ray machine is basically like a CT scan at the hospital. You rotate the stage instead of the machine, but the image treatment afterwards uses the same math (which goes way above my head). It's not easy to get right in terms of resolution, x-ray contrast, etc. The amount of cool stuff you can do with those machines is amazing though.
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lagrangemechanics
There are some interesting words of wisdom scattered around the lab.
2:45, the sign next to the wind tunnel says something like, Comet hit Earth, instant annihilation .
9:45, the sign underneath the blurred out Mona Lisa says, your fundamental understanding (lit background information) determines what you see .
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There are some interesting words of wisdom scattered around the lab.
2:45, the sign next to the wind tunnel says something like, Comet hit Earth, instant annihilation .
9:45, the sign underneath the blurred out Mona Lisa says, your fundamental understanding (lit background information) determines what you see .
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Chris
Hey! I work in aerospace and write test software to control stuff like this! It s cool seeing another company s testing womb.
Any idea what sorts of hardware they were using for data acquisition?
EDIt:
Oh at 10:55 I saw either a lab view or cvi graph indicator on the gui so it s prob NI hardware. Cool!
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Hey! I work in aerospace and write test software to control stuff like this! It s cool seeing another company s testing womb.
Any idea what sorts of hardware they were using for data acquisition?
EDIt:
Oh at 10:55 I saw either a lab view or cvi graph indicator on the gui so it s prob NI hardware. Cool!
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Steve
saw on neowin that pcpartpicker tested some nvme drives [Samsung, Seagate, Hynix, Kingston NVMe SSDs may be suffering up to 53% performance loss] testing sequential read performance degradation each unit took over 140 minutes to test between formatting, writing files, letting pc to cool, repeat
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saw on neowin that pcpartpicker tested some nvme drives [Samsung, Seagate, Hynix, Kingston NVMe SSDs may be suffering up to 53% performance loss] testing sequential read performance degradation each unit took over 140 minutes to test between formatting, writing files, letting pc to cool, repeat
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Phlogistan
THANKS STEVE!
You and the crew are presenting amazing information again for our education and enjoyment.
THIS is why I am a proud supporter of your efforts.
I encourage everyone who can to join your patreon so that you guys can continue to bring us this fantastic subject matter.
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THANKS STEVE!
You and the crew are presenting amazing information again for our education and enjoyment.
THIS is why I am a proud supporter of your efforts.
I encourage everyone who can to join your patreon so that you guys can continue to bring us this fantastic subject matter.
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K6-3dfx
I'm extremely surprised how hands-on they let you be with all the testing setups.
Steve was certainly excited going over each one considering that most of the time I was like: Steve, please take a breath you're about to pass out explaining all this so quickly. XD
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I'm extremely surprised how hands-on they let you be with all the testing setups.
Steve was certainly excited going over each one considering that most of the time I was like: Steve, please take a breath you're about to pass out explaining all this so quickly. XD
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Adam
I didn't think I'd ever watch a half hour video about computer testing equipment... but here we are. That was all pretty impressive. I'd love to know how the owner got started and how long it took him to achieve this level of testing breadth.
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I didn't think I'd ever watch a half hour video about computer testing equipment... but here we are. That was all pretty impressive. I'd love to know how the owner got started and how long it took him to achieve this level of testing breadth.
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