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turning young gamers into compsci majors by the thousands for over a decade
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welcome to LTT lab one this has been a
dream of mine for a long time but due to a number of factors including the white
hot real estate market here in vancouver i found myself waiting and
waiting for the right time when what i should have done was just pull the
trigger ages ago regardless of the cost we're hiring a couple of writers this
time around including one for Mac Address you can apply down below
but that's not what this is the vision for this lab is pretty simple
in the time i've been doing this job tech journalism has suffered blow after
blow after blow nearly every publication
that i followed as a young enthusiast has either folded or been bought out by
a soulless corporate interest and most of the journalists who guided me through
my early years have retired or more likely moved over to the manufacturing
side where there's still money to be made that ends now the gloves are coming off
are you an expert on mobile gaming performance or displays who needs a
second day job to survive are you stuck in marketing for a major
board manufacturer and hate every minute of it do you think i can afford you
try me when i'm done every square foot of lab one is going to
be filled with engineering personnel and equipment that will take our content to
the next level starting behind this door and you're going to want to be part of
it oh look it's a luke
hey guys you probably already know that for the last four years i've been
working on floorplan.com our early access video platform that's full of
behind the scenes and video extras for our supporters what you might not know
is that more recently we've been hard at work expanding our development team to
tackle other projects not just flowplane.com like these cool browser
quizzes and games for the verified actual gamer program and our merch
message notifier for orders on ltcstore.com for our live streams we're
expanding our team even more this time we want to throw some dev muscle behind
the writing team by integrating or creating tools for automated
benchmarking processes and data collection i also want a data scientist
for some unrelated stuff so at the moment i'm only actually personally
hiring two of the 15 positions we've got listed but if we get the right
applicants who knows maybe three of you will be sitting
here after a paint job and
maybe some newsletters yeah this is this is pretty impressive
okay look we just took the session on friday okay anyway this
is where the real action is gonna be before you can really appreciate it
though you gotta hear the vision so let me lay it out
this corner at the back of the room here that's where we're gonna have our thermal and acoustic combo chamber why a
combo chamber you might ask well because it doesn't matter how cool your laptop
runs if it sounds like heli taking off and it doesn't matter how quiet it is if
the CPU is drowning in a pool of its own solder so
the plan for this is pretty simple we'll be diying it
naturally and we're going to put the indoor side of a mini split heat pump
along probably this side over here along
with some kind of smart damper that will allow the airflow to either go into the
chamber or redirect out of the chamber
with exactly as much granularity as we need to maintain an exact temperature
inside the room once that target is reached and our
loaded devices let's say desktop pc running blender have reached
equilibrium we'll hit a kill switch that'll disable the hvac and any
circulation fans that we have inside the chamber for some time period let's say
10 seconds while we take an acoustic reading assuming a large enough internal air
volume and a low enough noise floor clearly this room is uh
going to need to be treated we should be able to measure
acoustics under various conditions say at room temperature versus on a very hot
day both accurately and precisely now
the exact size and layout of the chamber is definitely subject to change but what
i know for certain is that we're going to have a station right out here
probably along this side that's going to be for recording the performance of the
device at each of our target temperatures as well since
on a modern device it's more a question of when it throttles as opposed to if it
throttles also along this wall is going to be the
gear that we need to seriously amp up our thermal testing game we already have
the manufacturing capabilities in the workshop to build super precise thermal
load generators so here we're going to use a combination of internally designed
tools and real world cpus to run through as many coolers as we can get our hands
on that is why the staffing aspect is so
important this isn't even about making videos anymore it's about cutting
through the bs in order to decide what to make videos about which means that
most of the testing that we do in here is going to be published more in the
form of white papers on a written website as opposed to
you know behind me making a big thumbnail face like
this whole space will need to be climate controlled obviously
there goes 15 grand thankfully
i've got this blank check
oh and i've got a new and improved accounting team we're looking for an accountant and a bookkeeper and we'll
have links to all the new positions in the video description now
kyle most of our audience hasn't really met you i'm an engineer for creator
warehouse i'm designing the portable battery bank slash shoe dryer thing an
RGB housewares item that is currently under wraps and i also took over alex's
early development on the screwdriver i'm a big i'm not reading that no you
have to i'm a big nerd excellent so then
tell me what would you put along this wall i
actually think it would be really cool if we had a thermal camera set up for
time-lapse capture so we could see the heat soak into a cooler it could
actually tell us the efficiency of the heat pipes for example
as for other things truthfully it's anything that can be
objectively measured it's just a question of equipment budget and time
man i'd love to test stuff like pci express signal integrity or we could
look at the performance of vrms on like
every budget motherboard so we could figure out not just who's cheaping out
but like does it matter right we did a video recently looking at a whole bunch
of different motherboards and found that the performance differences were actually quite significant from one
board to the next i mean is that something that you could conceive of us
being able to test here absolutely i mean what about power supplies for sure
power supplies are one of the most important parts of a system if that goes
it could take other things with it but it's not just whether it goes or not
like could we meaningfully evaluate them so we could tell people okay at 99 this is
the best one yeah like there's stuff like efficiency how much power you
putting in versus how much you gain out is the voltages stable are you getting
12 volts where you need 12 volts how much is that going to cost me could be
more than 15 grand cool
on the subject of power i think this would be a great place to
set up for something like a test bench for phone thermal throttling and
charging rates and stuff like that not every thermal test needs acoustic
measurements and it'd be nice to have a second smaller thermal chamber maybe
over on this side where we could evaluate things like phone performance
degradation over time while gaming man the software guys are going to have
their work cut out for them like in my perfect world i'm imagining that we just
put the phone in there we run a 3dmark benchmark right we use machine vision to
take the results log them obviously we capture an image every time
for safety then we use a robotic hand to run the benchmark again right away we
detect when the performance bottoms out then we run five more for
safety and then it turns on a light on the outside of
the chamber to say it's done i mean
can it be done whatever you say Linus absolutely i mean
you're paying for it let's go this way
i think displays are one of the areas of technology that we can do a way better
job of evaluating with just a little bit of gear and know-how i mean pretty much
everything about them can be objectively measured with high speed cameras and
easily available devices like input latency testers and colorimeters or
spectrophotometers and i would imagine something like that would go here
oh obviously i'm not going to let steve be the only tech media with a fan tester
by the way i've been jealous of corsairs for many years so i guess we could put
that i don't know here or something or maybe we'll just leave fans to gamers
nexus hard call i guess it depends what our priorities end up being i want to
hear from you guys what you want to see us take to the next level speaking next
level let's head to the next level upstairs it's time to talk about how
we're gonna pay for all of this as i already mentioned not all of the
new positions are LTT Labs one of the biggest growth areas for our business
right now is in merch so that's right
you guys are gonna pay for it you guys paid for all this by buying
beanies desk pads water bottles hoodies you guys are funding you're already
doing it the biggest reinvestment into our content that we have ever made and
we are going to need more so if you or someone you know is in the fashion
industry or if you're an engineer who's more interested in product development
rather than product evaluation check out the link below we've got those positions
as well as a product manager to handle ordering and logistics to add to the
creator warehouse team as for this space um
i know neither what it was intended for before
see these weird power outlets that are up along the ceiling brandon sup super
weird bunch of the floor as well nor do i know what i'm going to put in here
later it could be another sound treated room but maybe this time for evaluating
sound bars or home theater speakers and projectors it could be a small lab for
testing active noise cancellation or
headphone frequency response curves or battery life claims or touch mean input
responsiveness it's hard to say the only thing i know for sure right now is that
you guys are still here watching this video which means that you're as excited
about this new direction as i am and maybe you want to get involved so feel
free to put your hat in the ring but don't be disappointed if we don't take
you this time around we're looking for industry professionals and it is not
going to be easy to get into the lab but don't be discouraged because we actually
have even more positions available that i haven't mentioned yet so make sure you
check out the jobs page on linusmediagroup.com so you can be part
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blast from the past why don't you go check out our first studio tour back
when we were still working out of a house in langley it's a
bit of a contrast wow back then i would have given
anything for this as our main studio let alone as a dedicated lab