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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 ou...

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)...

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 ...

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 int...

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 C...

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 revis...

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 parano...

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 ...

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 gett...

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 ...

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 on...

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 becaus...

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 th...

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 ...

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 p...

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 cover...

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 ...

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 fi...

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 ...

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 criticall...

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 doi...

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...

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 ca...

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:

2017-10-23 04:16:03 +0000 UTC View Post

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. Follo...

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, ...

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...

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 ...

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 inc...