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the truth is i am not happy with the current state of Linus tech tips

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to be clear my team's amazing and we've basically perfected our gateway drug

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formula it's that taste of hardcore tech that goes down smooth and has been

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turning young gamers into compsci majors by the thousands for over a decade

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the good news is that all changes today i'm about to show you my plan to

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welcome to LTT lab one this has been a

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dream of mine for a long time but due to a number of factors including the white

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hot real estate market here in vancouver i found myself waiting and

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waiting for the right time when what i should have done was just pull the

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trigger ages ago regardless of the cost we're hiring a couple of writers this

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time around including one for Mac Address you can apply down below

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but that's not what this is the vision for this lab is pretty simple

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in the time i've been doing this job tech journalism has suffered blow after

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blow after blow nearly every publication

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that i followed as a young enthusiast has either folded or been bought out by

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a soulless corporate interest and most of the journalists who guided me through

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my early years have retired or more likely moved over to the manufacturing

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side where there's still money to be made that ends now the gloves are coming off

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are you an expert on mobile gaming performance or displays who needs a

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second day job to survive are you stuck in marketing for a major

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board manufacturer and hate every minute of it do you think i can afford you

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try me when i'm done every square foot of lab one is going to

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be filled with engineering personnel and equipment that will take our content to

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the next level starting behind this door and you're going to want to be part of

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it oh look it's a luke

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hey guys you probably already know that for the last four years i've been

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working on floorplan.com our early access video platform that's full of

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behind the scenes and video extras for our supporters what you might not know

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is that more recently we've been hard at work expanding our development team to

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tackle other projects not just flowplane.com like these cool browser

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quizzes and games for the verified actual gamer program and our merch

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message notifier for orders on ltcstore.com for our live streams we're

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expanding our team even more this time we want to throw some dev muscle behind

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the writing team by integrating or creating tools for automated

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benchmarking processes and data collection i also want a data scientist

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for some unrelated stuff so at the moment i'm only actually personally

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hiring two of the 15 positions we've got listed but if we get the right

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applicants who knows maybe three of you will be sitting

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here after a paint job and

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maybe some newsletters yeah this is this is pretty impressive

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okay look we just took the session on friday okay anyway this

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is where the real action is gonna be before you can really appreciate it

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though you gotta hear the vision so let me lay it out

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this corner at the back of the room here that's where we're gonna have our thermal and acoustic combo chamber why a

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combo chamber you might ask well because it doesn't matter how cool your laptop

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runs if it sounds like heli taking off and it doesn't matter how quiet it is if

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the CPU is drowning in a pool of its own solder so

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the plan for this is pretty simple we'll be diying it

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naturally and we're going to put the indoor side of a mini split heat pump

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along probably this side over here along

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with some kind of smart damper that will allow the airflow to either go into the

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chamber or redirect out of the chamber

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with exactly as much granularity as we need to maintain an exact temperature

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inside the room once that target is reached and our

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loaded devices let's say desktop pc running blender have reached

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equilibrium we'll hit a kill switch that'll disable the hvac and any

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circulation fans that we have inside the chamber for some time period let's say

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10 seconds while we take an acoustic reading assuming a large enough internal air

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volume and a low enough noise floor clearly this room is uh

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going to need to be treated we should be able to measure

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acoustics under various conditions say at room temperature versus on a very hot

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day both accurately and precisely now

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the exact size and layout of the chamber is definitely subject to change but what

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i know for certain is that we're going to have a station right out here

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probably along this side that's going to be for recording the performance of the

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device at each of our target temperatures as well since

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on a modern device it's more a question of when it throttles as opposed to if it

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throttles also along this wall is going to be the

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gear that we need to seriously amp up our thermal testing game we already have

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the manufacturing capabilities in the workshop to build super precise thermal

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load generators so here we're going to use a combination of internally designed

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tools and real world cpus to run through as many coolers as we can get our hands

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on that is why the staffing aspect is so

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important this isn't even about making videos anymore it's about cutting

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through the bs in order to decide what to make videos about which means that

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most of the testing that we do in here is going to be published more in the

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form of white papers on a written website as opposed to

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you know behind me making a big thumbnail face like

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this whole space will need to be climate controlled obviously

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there goes 15 grand thankfully

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i've got this blank check

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oh and i've got a new and improved accounting team we're looking for an accountant and a bookkeeper and we'll

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have links to all the new positions in the video description now

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kyle most of our audience hasn't really met you i'm an engineer for creator

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warehouse i'm designing the portable battery bank slash shoe dryer thing an

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RGB housewares item that is currently under wraps and i also took over alex's

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early development on the screwdriver i'm a big i'm not reading that no you

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have to i'm a big nerd excellent so then

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tell me what would you put along this wall i

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actually think it would be really cool if we had a thermal camera set up for

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time-lapse capture so we could see the heat soak into a cooler it could

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actually tell us the efficiency of the heat pipes for example

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as for other things truthfully it's anything that can be

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objectively measured it's just a question of equipment budget and time

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man i'd love to test stuff like pci express signal integrity or we could

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look at the performance of vrms on like

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every budget motherboard so we could figure out not just who's cheaping out

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but like does it matter right we did a video recently looking at a whole bunch

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of different motherboards and found that the performance differences were actually quite significant from one

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board to the next i mean is that something that you could conceive of us

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being able to test here absolutely i mean what about power supplies for sure

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power supplies are one of the most important parts of a system if that goes

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it could take other things with it but it's not just whether it goes or not

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like could we meaningfully evaluate them so we could tell people okay at 99 this is

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the best one yeah like there's stuff like efficiency how much power you

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putting in versus how much you gain out is the voltages stable are you getting

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12 volts where you need 12 volts how much is that going to cost me could be

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more than 15 grand cool

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on the subject of power i think this would be a great place to

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set up for something like a test bench for phone thermal throttling and

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charging rates and stuff like that not every thermal test needs acoustic

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measurements and it'd be nice to have a second smaller thermal chamber maybe

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over on this side where we could evaluate things like phone performance

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degradation over time while gaming man the software guys are going to have

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their work cut out for them like in my perfect world i'm imagining that we just

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put the phone in there we run a 3dmark benchmark right we use machine vision to

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take the results log them obviously we capture an image every time

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for safety then we use a robotic hand to run the benchmark again right away we

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detect when the performance bottoms out then we run five more for

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safety and then it turns on a light on the outside of

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the chamber to say it's done i mean

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can it be done whatever you say Linus absolutely i mean

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you're paying for it let's go this way

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i think displays are one of the areas of technology that we can do a way better

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job of evaluating with just a little bit of gear and know-how i mean pretty much

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everything about them can be objectively measured with high speed cameras and

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easily available devices like input latency testers and colorimeters or

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spectrophotometers and i would imagine something like that would go here

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oh obviously i'm not going to let steve be the only tech media with a fan tester

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by the way i've been jealous of corsairs for many years so i guess we could put

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that i don't know here or something or maybe we'll just leave fans to gamers

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nexus hard call i guess it depends what our priorities end up being i want to

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hear from you guys what you want to see us take to the next level speaking next

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level let's head to the next level upstairs it's time to talk about how

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we're gonna pay for all of this as i already mentioned not all of the

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new positions are LTT Labs one of the biggest growth areas for our business

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right now is in merch so that's right

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you guys are gonna pay for it you guys paid for all this by buying

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beanies desk pads water bottles hoodies you guys are funding you're already

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doing it the biggest reinvestment into our content that we have ever made and

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we are going to need more so if you or someone you know is in the fashion

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industry or if you're an engineer who's more interested in product development

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rather than product evaluation check out the link below we've got those positions

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as well as a product manager to handle ordering and logistics to add to the

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creator warehouse team as for this space um

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i know neither what it was intended for before

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see these weird power outlets that are up along the ceiling brandon sup super

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weird bunch of the floor as well nor do i know what i'm going to put in here

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later it could be another sound treated room but maybe this time for evaluating

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sound bars or home theater speakers and projectors it could be a small lab for

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testing active noise cancellation or

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headphone frequency response curves or battery life claims or touch mean input

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responsiveness it's hard to say the only thing i know for sure right now is that

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you guys are still here watching this video which means that you're as excited

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about this new direction as i am and maybe you want to get involved so feel

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free to put your hat in the ring but don't be disappointed if we don't take

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you this time around we're looking for industry professionals and it is not

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going to be easy to get into the lab but don't be discouraged because we actually

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have even more positions available that i haven't mentioned yet so make sure you

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check out the jobs page on linusmediagroup.com so you can be part

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10 off with code Linus tech tips if you guys enjoyed this video maybe you want a

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blast from the past why don't you go check out our first studio tour back

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when we were still working out of a house in langley it's a

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bit of a contrast wow back then i would have given

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anything for this as our main studio let alone as a dedicated lab