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Fun with UPS Batteries in Power Outage

This was kind of fun.

We have a behind-the-scenes video coming out soon for $5 backers, but I think we will probably publicly post that one after a week or two (on the side channel). It was just sort of fun, hence wanting to share early.

There was a major storm here today that knocked-out our power and showed no signs of early recovery. We have the Lian Li O11 Dynamic review going up tomorrow, but had to film aroll, broll, and edit it today. All of those things require power. 

Behind the Scenes: PSU Reviews, Fan Reviews

Hey everyone,

This video does some quick BTS looks at (1) organization and organized chaos, (2) upcoming PSU reviews, and (3) upcoming fan reviews.

Thanks for watching! I'm on planes all weekend or I'd write more!

Patrons Ask GN 7: Organization, Stream Benchmarks, Cats

Hi all!

Here's the new Patrons Ask GN episode with bonus questions - 

Link for email users: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el7PMeHzE-s

Also, we are rendering the next behind-the-scenes video (BTS) now, which will be available shortly for $5 backers. It looks further at Zeta's question in the above video.

I'll be at PAX East on Friday for an appearance on a discussion panel. If you're the...

Patrons Ask GN 6: Annoying Parts of the Job

Hi all,

Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrd-UslZyts

This Patreon-version of the Ask GN episode talks about annoying parts of the job, hybrid vs. full block GPU cooling, case testing with standard fan placement, thermal pad stacking efficiency, and more!

Post questions in the Discord, as always.

Thanks, all!

- Steve

GN BTS #6: Set Room Overhaul

Hi all,

First off, video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMjrL4J4tac

We're looking into completely overhauling the set room. We don't have much space in this room, and our overhaul will somewhat eat into the space we do have; however, we're planning on eliminating a few of the tripods in the room, which will give us more mobility when navigating the set.

Growing pains of business, really -- we...

Patrons Ask GN 5: Founding GN & High Voltage

Hi all,

First up, here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svYtHv_lxN0

This episode of Patrons Ask GN features additional Patreon Discord questions, including some basics about benchmarking, killing CPUs with high voltages versus high temperature, and the foundation of GN.

Enjoy!

So much testing: What We're Working On

Hi all,

Part of supporting us on Patreon means you get occasional behind-the-scenes articles or videos. This will be a short article.

This past week, I've relied pretty heavily on Patrick for primary content production. Patrick has an Elgato 4K60 review lined-up, we've also got a HAF X revisit going up tonight (once uploading/processing is done), and we have a highly detailed FFXV PC vs. Console piece that we're finalizing. All very exciting things.

For my part, I've finalized a Ra...

Patrons Ask GN 4: Driver Benchmarks, Thoughts Re: Cryptos, First PC

Hi all!

Here's the video link, first off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmwkGEUzB9Y

This is our fourth Patrons Ask GN video. We are moving the videos over to the GNSteve side channel -- mostly out of paranoia that YT might penalize the main channel for uploading content with abnormally low view count.

This one talks about general thoughts toward cryptos, driver impact on performance, RAM voltages ...

Behind-the-Scenes 5: SOC VRM Checks & 2018 Travel

Hi all!

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb1tdYjkiCM

This behind-the-scenes video gives some quick insights to our travel plans for 1H18, including Computex/PAX planning, and also just shows the process of figuring out which SOC checkpoints we need to hit for an upcoming video.

Let us know what else you want to see!

Patrons Ask GN 3: GN Stranded in China

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcBBWVaSbXI

Hi all!

This is our third installment of the Patrons Ask GN series. Please leave your questions in the GN Discord for next time!

In this episode, we talk getting stranded in China, ASUS BIOS flashing for Raven Ridge, memory training on GPUs, and SSD voltage susceptibility.

Thanks, all!

Also, our new BTS video is filmed for $5 backers. That'll g...

Patrons Ask GN 2: GTX 20 Series Impact on Mining

Link for email users: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OyyC-SE-Fs

Hi all,

This is our second "Patrons Ask GN" video! As a reminder, this operates on something of an honor system. It is unlisted and exclusive content for Patreon supporters. You have been a major help for us over the past year, and we hope that this helps offer something in return.

You can find it above. Timestamps below:

00:17 ...

Announcing "Patrons Ask GN" for All Patreon Supporters

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC9lrhgBfsc

All Patreon tiers will be able to see our new "Patrons Ask GN" series. This series will be filmed almost at a 1:1 ratio with our public Ask GN series. There are only a few instances where we'd skip it -- like if we're traveling, for instance; otherwise, you can expect one of these episodes for each Ask GN. These will be viewable only to Patreon backers, but wil...

Patrons Only: Ask GN After Hours!

Hey, Patreon backers!

I am excited to update you on our continued efforts to improve the value for our Patreon supporters. We looked around at most of the Patreon creators in our space, and ultimately realized that we'd like to offer more intrinsic value for supporting. As part of this, and because of your financial support, we are now adding a special "Ask GN: After Hours" segment. We will film one of these after each Ask GN. It will be a roll-over of extra questions (things that didn't make ...

Cool stuff we're working on - February, 2018

We got knocked off-schedule with CES this year, but the show was a resounding success for our group. We're already in planning stages for Computex, and will be in attendance as we have been for the past two years.

Anyway, right now is largely the season when we plan travel for the first half of the year. Aside from that, there's the usual tax work, convention travel, and overhaul of methodology. It's about the longest busy period of the year for us, despite no major launches.

The lack of...

GN BTS #4: Piecemeal Render Rig (Multi-GPU) for Blender

Hey everyone!

For our $5 and up backers -- though this video will later push public to the main channel -- we wanted to share a behind-the-scenes update to the render machine we built for Andrew. This updates a PC build we posted not long ago, which used piecemeal componentry to assemble our main video editor a high-end production PC. The quick video shows some benchmark charts and performance metrics, but also just talks about the  process in general.

2018-02-03 06:43:02 +0000 UTC View Post

What's Coming Up: RAM Investigation, Xbox vs. PC

Hi backers,

Those of you in the Discord already have an idea of what's coming up, but in case you missed it, here's a recap of this week's major content pieces:

- We just finished working on a RAM pricing research report that dives into five years of data to look at cyclic trends in memory price, along with major factors contributing to memory price increases of late. This will help establish a baseline of understanding for why RAM has shot up in price recently, and when/if we can expect...

GN Behind-the-Scenes #3! Things cut in half at CES

Hi all!

This BTS #3 video is one of the ones that'll go public on the GNSteve channel eventually, but you're getting way earlier access to it. The video shows some behind-the-scenes stuff that we saw at CES 2018 -- things that won't make it into any/many of our videos, as it's outside of our coverage scope, but still really cool technology. We've got some robots, automation, self-driving cars, audio gear, and lots of things cut in half, which is always educational.

2018-01-19 06:35:57 +0000 UTC View Post

CES is Crazy

As always, every year for at least five years, we're at CES for the new product launches. We anticipate more still at Computex -- companies like Noctua only attend Computex -- but there's a decent amount to see at this year's US-based trade show.

We've seen your tweets and posts about the various products you'd like us to look at. One that we haven't yet gotten to is the Cooler Master H500P reduxes -- something we're hoping to see. Interestingly, CM actually did not tell us about them, so we'l...

GN BTS #2: Shunt Shorting, TV Repair, Xmas Gifts

Hi all!

This is our first GN Behind-the-Scenes episode that is going out exclusively to $5 backers. We may end up pushing it public at a later date, but not anytime immediately. 

I think I've started to find a format that works well for these. The current plan, if there is one, is to film mini-projects/vlogs while working. This will allow me to piece together longer vlogs, but without doing it all at once. My plan is to film parts of projects during the week, then compile it all. 2017-12-27 09:00:35 +0000 UTC View Post

New for $5 Backers: Behind-the-Scenes Videos

Hi all,

We are sharing this first behind-the-scenes video to all Patreon supporters. We have recently received a lot of interest in behind-the-scenes videos. I'm excited to take this task and start giving a better inside look at GN, and I feel like the Patreon backers deserve it -- especially now that you've helped us grow so much. Pre-emptively: sorry, shot this vertically. I don't do cell phone videos, and didn't even think about it. Will get that right next time!

2017-12-15 04:01:15 +0000 UTC View Post

How Patreon's Changes Hurt Creators (& You)

Patreon is a significant leg of support for our business. Our viewers, readers, fans, and supporters know that we’re not afraid to challenge product manufacturers on poor designs, and that means sometimes leaning on generous viewer contributions to fund our efforts. This means of support critically enables us to remain headstrong in our journalistic efforts, and avoid invasive advertisements and fully sponsored content.

We also still believe that, even with the new changes, Patreon is the be...

Coming up: Noctua 200mm Fans

Hey all,

We're working on reviewing the Noctua 200mm fans! Separately, we just got a wind tunnel in and working, and should soon be able to do CFM calculations on fans. This will help us in our upcoming fan reviews. The 200mm units, unfortunately, won't fit on the wind tunnel, but we are still doing thermal + LPM (Linear feet per minute) tests on the Noctua 200s, primarily benchmarking them against the Cooler Master 200mm fans from the H500P. Rather than test with an open bench of some sort, w...

Publication Schedule for This Week

Hi all!

Thanks again for your ongoing support. It is making it much easier to expand our operation here. We are currently working on clearing out some space for a new fan testing apparatus -- I'm very excited to get some fan tests online! We will be able to test CFM, LFM, noise, noise-RPM response, and more.

In the meantime, I figured you all might enjoy a heads-up to our publication plans for the next few days. We are working on publishing the following items:

- Ask GN #63

-...

Brewing Some Competition

Hi, all!

We have been working hard at some new benchmarking tools. Over the past few months, we've developed another data type for graphing that will accompany (or partly replace) 1%/0.1% low metrics, which should be interesting to eventually unveil -- that unveil will likely be in December. We can't talk about much yet, but the new approach should help resolve some long-standing desires to get even more granular data for GPU/CPU benchmarks. As more YouTubers have adopted our method of 1%/0.1%...

Access Discord Here (for new backers)

Hi all,

I see that we've picked-up a few new backers over the past month. For those who haven't yet found how to link Discord to Patreon, we would recommend checking this post:

https://patreon.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/212052266-How-do-I-get-my-Discord-Rewards-

If you are still having trouble joining Discord after following these steps, leave a commen...

Lots of Case Testing

There's a lot of case testing & reviews coming up and, as Patreon backers, you're privy to that information.

We've got the Thermaltake View 71 in the pipe right now. Its testing is finalized, Andrew finalized the broll, and Patrick is finalizing the script. That'll have a review shortly. Following this, we expect to review the Cooler Master Cosmos C700P (the giant case that we basically already reviewed here 2017-09-29 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Patreon Sneak Peek: Upcoming LinusTechTips Appearances

It's no secret that I recently flew out to the LMG offices, as evidenced by an impromptu appearance on the WAN show with Linus, Luke, and co-guests Justine (of iJustine) and "Keys" of NCIXTechTips. The video embedded in this post is the WAN show; I appear around 20:00 to discuss Coffee Lake rumors, Ice Lake, and other industry topics.

Linus spoiled at the beginning of the broadcast that LMG brought Justine, Keys, and me out to the offices to be guest judges on Tech Showdown. This series has be...

What Do You Want More Coverage Of in September?

We have PAX this weekend. After we return from PAX, what kind of coverage would you like to see more of?

We've been working nonstop over the past few months to iterate and follow-up on product launches. 20-hour days are not uncommon, but the outcome has been tremendous -- we've learned a lot about how to improve our coverage. Please leave a comment if your interests are not represented in the below.

Rearchitecting Testing for 2H17

Hi all,

Wanted to run a Patreon-only update!

We tend to build a new test plan once per year for each set of devices. The test plan covers data organization (a big, unseen element of what goes on behind the scenes), custom software development, test automation where possible, and determining which software is used for which products.

We have been on our current CPU testing suite for nearly a year now, so it's getting to about the point where we want to update. An update will allow u...

Vega Undervoltage by Patreon Request

We just posted our Vega: FE undervoltage testing, which was a request in our Patreon Discord chat (thanks to Streetguru and others present for bouncing around ideas on that one).

The results are interesting: We were able to improve performance something like ~7-10% in various applications when increasing power target by +50% and reducing voltage by 110mv, netting a +15W power draw and +7-10% performance uplift -- not a bad trade!

Mostly, it was just a fun test to do and somewhat eye-open...