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Title: Manufacturing: USB C cables, heatpipes, coolers
Post by: thmjpr on April 06, 2019, 03:58:51 am
USB C:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1Tmtd51clI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1Tmtd51clI)

Heatpipe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD-4WKwCAfE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD-4WKwCAfE)

Fans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We0RCB7oA2I (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We0RCB7oA2I)

Motherboard (pick and place some parts manual):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnAFTMaS5R0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnAFTMaS5R0)

Liquid cooler:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y16azp7Wh14 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y16azp7Wh14)

Didn't realize how little liquid is in a heatpipe (a few drops).
Title: Re: Manufacturing: USB C cables, heatpipes, coolers
Post by: soldar on April 06, 2019, 09:59:50 am
Those videos are promoting a brand and their products but are interesting and well (professionally) done, especially the narration.
Title: Re: Manufacturing: USB C cables, heatpipes, coolers
Post by: Red Squirrel on April 06, 2019, 11:18:11 am
I recently found that channel, pretty cool stuff.    He tends to have some interesting content.
Title: Re: Manufacturing: USB C cables, heatpipes, coolers
Post by: tooki on April 07, 2019, 12:54:32 pm
Those videos are promoting a brand and their products but are interesting and well (professionally) done, especially the narration.
Really!?! The narration is what I consider to be that channel's worst attribute. He often talks too fast, doesn't enunciate, has weird intonation, mumbles, and has poor pacing. And his voice is rather nasal. IMHO it's very amateurish narration.
Title: Re: Manufacturing: USB C cables, heatpipes, coolers
Post by: soldar on April 07, 2019, 01:24:26 pm
Well, I don't have any problem following along and I much prefer things moving along than a slow-paced video where the first minute feels like an eternity and I look at the bar and see there is another nineteen minutes to go. No thanks.

Those videos cover a lot of ground in very short time and I prefer them to be fast paced. If I see a video lasts an hour I am not even going to start watching it. Sorry but I have other things to do... like scratching my belly button while I stare at the ceiling. 
Title: Re: Manufacturing: USB C cables, heatpipes, coolers
Post by: tooki on April 07, 2019, 02:37:08 pm
Well, I don't have any problem following along and I much prefer things moving along than a slow-paced video where the first minute feels like an eternity and I look at the bar and see there is another nineteen minutes to go. No thanks.

Those videos cover a lot of ground in very short time and I prefer them to be fast paced. If I see a video lasts an hour I am not even going to start watching it. Sorry but I have other things to do... like scratching my belly button while I stare at the ceiling.
I'm not talking about the pace of the video, I'm talking about the pace of his speech. He's inconsistent, often talking too fast, and then slowing for emphasis at the wrong moments. It's classic amateur narrator. But the worst aspect is that he just does not enunciate — he's mumbly.

Also, I didn't say I had a problem following; I just said I don't like his narration.

Additionally, I forgot to say that the other thing he gets wrong is terminology. He just kinda wings it, throwing words around incorrectly. (For example, he called the power supply connector on the motherboard the "power pinout".)
Title: Re: Manufacturing: USB C cables, heatpipes, coolers
Post by: Siwastaja on April 07, 2019, 04:49:28 pm
amateur narrator. But the worst aspect is that he just does not enunciate — he's mumbly.

I understand what you mean - to me, he sounds like he's just a little bit drunk. Which he probably isn't, but... I get this image in my mind, someone who has taken a few beers and started to talk loudly about USB-C cables at a party where not too many are not too interested :).
Title: Re: Manufacturing: USB C cables, heatpipes, coolers
Post by: ConKbot on April 08, 2019, 10:38:12 pm
Steve sticks to "just the facts" generally in his normal videos, making being very clear about what is fact, what is conclusions drawn, and what is speculation, what is a direct quote, etc for various things. Whatever mistakes in verbiage are present in the "how its made" videos, I would suspect are just what information the translator accompanying his team gave him verbatim, so some Chinese/English language barrier there.
Coolermaster sent him on a grand tour of their supply chain, that's why it's all focused on coolermaster product's.

He definitely seems to put great effort into proper journalistic integrity when it comes to reviews and news videos. But agreed that his script reading isn't the best.
Title: Re: Manufacturing: USB C cables, heatpipes, coolers
Post by: tooki on April 08, 2019, 11:45:17 pm
Re: terminology — I find it hard to believe that he (or the Chinese) wouldn’t understand the word “connector”. In many of his videos, he’s just plain sloppy with wording, regardless of whether at a Chinese factory or not. (I mean, calling the power supply connector the “power supply pinout”, really??)