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nightfire:

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--- Quote from: TheAmmoniacal on September 17, 2022, 08:46:47 pm ---For someone who spent >$100,000 for an ATX power supply tester I wish they would get better soldering and reflow equipment.. and some low-melt solder.. I don't know if they do this on purpose for the entertainment or because they want to use "accessible" gear.

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That was precisely where I was going with this. The power supply tester thing was another cringe, boasting about how it was a better more modern setup than the power supply manufacturers'. I was left on that occasion with the impression of all the gear, no idea. I have a lot more trust in what Gamers Nexus is doing on that front, and has been doing for some time.


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Well, as previously stated (and being the consensus of this thread so far) LTT is doing a lot for show. To be honest, he probably understood what this targeted audience is, and how to please it.
If you want to be a big shot in youtube and elsewhere, you have to be able to rack up numbers of people watching your stuff, and then you can get the additional money with sponsorships, product placement etc.
So he has to cater for the masses, which mostly are half-knowledgeable and need some perk for viewing "THIS" channel, otherwise they hop on the next video with a flick of the finger.

And in this regard, some super-duper highend equipment lots of serious EEs would wish they had access to, is one key to do so- give the audience the impression that you are that cool guy that has better stuff than parts of the industry- most of the audience also do not want to have some detailed report of a power supply including ripple statistics- they do want to have some show, want to have the impression that some cool guy might eventually discover some lie or wrong promises, and want to see that their favorite brand of PSU is declared a "winner" of some sort of tests.
Tests, that in this regard only LTT or a few select labs can do because of the fancy trophy equipment present.

simple selling psychology- nothing else. I myself have experienced this in different regards, and in german there is a saying: "Der Wurm muss dem Fisch schmecken, nicht dem Angler" (The worm has to be tasteful to the fish, not the fisherman)

tooki:

--- Quote from: nightfire on September 18, 2022, 04:57:22 pm ---… and in german there is a saying: "Der Wurm muss dem Fisch schmecken, nicht dem Angler" (The worm has to be tasteful to the fish, not the fisherman)

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Oh, I like that saying! :D

P.S., you mean “tasty” (lecker), not “tasteful” (gediegen).

coppice:

--- Quote from: Howardlong on September 17, 2022, 11:24:12 pm ---
--- Quote from: TheAmmoniacal on September 17, 2022, 08:46:47 pm ---For someone who spent >$100,000 for an ATX power supply tester I wish they would get better soldering and reflow equipment.. and some low-melt solder.. I don't know if they do this on purpose for the entertainment or because they want to use "accessible" gear.

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That was precisely where I was going with this. The power supply tester thing was another cringe, boasting about how it was a better more modern setup than the power supply manufacturers'.

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The Chroma gear they bought is really popular with the power supply makers in East Asia. When they say the stuff they bought is better, they probably just have the latest models. These aren't things you replace very often, so there is a lot of old stuff still giving perfectly good service in the labs.

Howardlong:

--- Quote from: coppice on September 18, 2022, 08:24:30 pm ---
--- Quote from: Howardlong on September 17, 2022, 11:24:12 pm ---
--- Quote from: TheAmmoniacal on September 17, 2022, 08:46:47 pm ---For someone who spent >$100,000 for an ATX power supply tester I wish they would get better soldering and reflow equipment.. and some low-melt solder.. I don't know if they do this on purpose for the entertainment or because they want to use "accessible" gear.

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That was precisely where I was going with this. The power supply tester thing was another cringe, boasting about how it was a better more modern setup than the power supply manufacturers'.

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The Chroma gear they bought is really popular with the power supply makers in East Asia. When they say the stuff they bought is better, they probably just have the latest models. These aren't things you replace very often, so there is a lot of old stuff still giving perfectly good service in the labs.

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I don't disagree. ISTBC, but I thought he said in that video that it was specced up by an acquaintance who works for one of the PC supply OEMs.

janoc:
Well, Linus is the guy who was repairing things by "reflowing" them with a hot air gun from a hardware store, among other things.

Until certain Louis Rossmann took him to task over this, in a fairly viral expletive-laden rant video. It ended up by Linus actually visiting Louis, conceding he had no clue what he was doing there (kudos for that) and that replacing/fixing a BGA chip is a taaad more tricky than what his "guide" with the heatgun suggested.

He has (waay) more money than actual technical knowledge/skill, sadly. As said by others, it is a pure clickbaity entertainment produced professionally with a large crew and budget, aimed straight at "gamers" who don't know better and who are the target group for his sponsors. He is a very good businessman milking that particular "influencer marketing" cash cow, though.

What Linus produces is a stream of stuff to keep Youtube algorithm happy, nothing more. He actually admitted some time ago that he had some major personal issues because it is a very stressful job after a while - finding material to film, produce the footage, get it edited, published, etc. Plus all the paperwork, sponsors and so on. And this a week after week because bills and salaries have to be paid.

He runs a fairly sizeable media production company (https://linusmediagroup.com/our-team - almost 60 people!) to produce the content for his channels (he has several + podcasts, etc.) - and in every episode he is personally involved. I wouldn't want a "life" like that.

If you want actually meaningful technical content, go elsewhere.

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