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Hey people I'm a QA tester and I need some analytics info for a game I'm currently testing. Platform: Windows Game Engine: Unreal Engine Query: Is there any tool that allows me to check if FSR is working? (FSR 2.2.2) From eyeballing it... I'm not able to make out the difference and I need something concrete to show for the bug report because anything less would be met with "it works on my system" from the Dev's end. (I do not have access to the editor build). Any tool that lets me see a difference between the levels of upscaling quantitatively would be perfect. Thanks in advance!

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I'm gonna be buying an ssd on a marketplace that is at a good price and looks fairly new, I'm planing to hand deliver the money for the drive and I want to test it on delivery to make sure everything is fine, what would be the best way to go about this? The drive is an M600 Pro LPX 2TB

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HEllo good fellas from LTT forums, i have a simple question, how does your task manager graphs look like while rendering animations in blender, is this normal?, i know i know, i need more Ram, but the thing isnt thermal throtling, my room is like 15C.

Hi all, I'm trying to figure out the pinout of my AGV750 8pin GPU connector. It's semi modular and I got it without the 8pin cable that came in the box. I've been testing every pin coming out of the PSU (Not the cable) and I can't tell which pins are the sense A and B. I jumped the PSU between pins 4 and 5 to turn it on without being in a computer (The fans are spinning and the output voltage coming from the random pins I was testing was 2.7v. I'm assuming due to the lack of a load) Is there a surefire way to tell which pins they are? Please let me know! I'm planning on figuring out the pinout and swapping the cables around so it works normally with this random cable. Please let me know your thoughts! Thank you!

Purpose: Testing fans for noise users will experience in a sound-dampening box (Yowein padding). I may cut it into two pieces so I can test intake and exhaust from appropriate locations without flipping the case around, but they'd be separated by a sound-dampened wall. So, I'm looking for a case that would be fairly representative of what most people use. I'm open to anything cheap, as long as it isn't going cut me up. Requirements: Representative of most cases (I realize that's kinda hard to do). I theorize (correct me if I'm wrong) that some sort of vertical case would be best. Since a lot of people seem to want terrarium cases (i.e. cases that increase temps), that would seem to be the way to go...? Not too large, as I don't have space to have a giant box, or too small, as I don't think that most people buy tiny cases...? Cheap No sharp edges Preferably can hold 200mm fan Must be able to hold 120mm & 140mm fans Preferably lightweight so I don't get a hernia working on it. Suggestions and discussion requested over the best choice! Once there seems to be a reasonably small number of choices, I'll put up a poll if that'll help to narrow it down. I really look forward to seeing what people come up with! I'm considering this ThermalTake Core V1.

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Hello, I'm a grad student in the US and I just saw the clock speed video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QOoQWvrQ-Y&ab_channel=LinusTechTips) and I remember a video in the past using SolidWorks. There is the free to use hydrodynamic solver called HEC-RAS (Hydrologic Engineering Center - River Analysis System) (https://www.hec.usace.army.mil/software/hec-ras/) that I use as a base for my research and the US Army Corps of Engineers who developed it put out this pdf on how to speed up run times (small models are 10-30min and large ones can take tens of hours) (https://www.hec.usace.army.mil/software/hec-ras/documentation/HEC-RAS_Computer_Performance.pdf) with "Processor speed is paramount." in bold and underlined. It goes on to explain that core count does not really affect the run times, and that RAM write speeds are also extremely important. My lab group purchased a computer with this information in mind a couple years ago and had great results, but after seeing the video I realized that this CPU only PDE solver would be a great gauge of the total performance on CPU intensive tasks that can come up in real workplace applications (including non-GPU computing coding executions). It is small and free to download (<400Mb) and currently has support for Windows and Linux* (*one update behind for Linux support) and it can run multiple instances at once to hammer any number of cores to full load (gets to ~60% use with one instance on 16 cores). If there is interest, I can easily make a zip of a project with all open-source data that will take 30-50 min to run so it can just be opened with the program and ran as is. Not sure if there is much desire for this kind of testing outside of STEM fields, but I would have loved a comparison when we were getting a local solver machine for the lab group.

Just sent my resume and such. They sent me an email asking for it about two weeks ago. College has just finshed and work was hectic that it slipped my mind... However they said 2 weeks (after first email), they would begin reviewing applicants. This mean im okay and I didnt just screw myself? Im hoping to be a testing engineer as im getting my BSME (bachelors of mechanical engineering) in May.

Hello I couple of months ago I managed to purchase a new PC, the whole tower, this one has a RTX 3070 among other components, I'm pretty happy with it, but I want to test my "older" gpu (RTX 2060) in my new rig just to verify if my 2060 is faulty or not. I feel kind of dumb asking this but, are there any tips or things I should do before taking out my 3070 and putting in my 2060 for testing? The reason I want to test the 2060 on my new PC is because I believe my 2060 is a faulty one, I never had the chance of finding out what exactly was wrong with my previous PC, I had weird pixel colors while playing games on Ultra settings, so I thought it must have been the gpu. Thank you.

i found a very old (7-8 years) computer. I have checked the PSU with a multimeter it's working great although very old. my mobo fan spins but there is no display/keyboard/mouse but i tried connecting phone and it charges. the problem is i can't replace the cpu as i can't find it any where but with the help of multimeter i tried some tests: -ram slots are not getting any voltage(it should get 1.5v) -Northbridge capacitors(just beside the chip very small ones) are not getting any voltages from any section. -the VRM chip is getting the desired voltage. -all capacitors/components looks good. specs- msi-7592 ver 5.2 g41m-p26 kingston ddr3 ram *1 iBall iBALLZPS-281 230 Watts PSU Intel Pentium Processor E2180

Is there anywhere on the internet or anyone that I can go to where I could have software tests requested for specific use cases with certain hardware before I shove out the money on parts that I think will fit my use case? For example, a lot of my focus has shifted from gaming to primarily music, video, and photo production. Unfortunately, my 9700k can no longer keep up with the size of my projects and it struggles. I have thought about putting forth the money to upgrade to a 5800X, but I'm not sure the performance increase/decrease for the specific applications I use nor do I know if the money I'd need to shove out for a new CPU, MOBO, and CPU cooler (since I can't find the AM4 brackets and screws). If something like this doesn't exist already, someone should really hop on it. It sounds like a phenomenal service that could be provided, especially to professionals who use very specific pieces of software.

Hey guys... After about a year of watching LTT and FINALLY having a custom built PC, I decided to run Cinebench R23 to see what my PC score is... but it crashes my system EVERYTIME. No bluescreen - just freezing of the App and my OS. Can someone provide some advice? Is this normal? Am I doing something wrong? Specs can be provided if needed.

What is MemTest86 and how does it work? MemTest86 is an x86 based system memory (RAM) testing tool. Despite it's name and origin the latest free versions have compatibility with modern UEFI x64 based systems. What MemTest86 does is it uses a series of algorithms to write blocks of data to system memory then it reads those blocks back. If the data read matches what was written then the blocks pass. If the data read doesn't match what was written then an error was encountered. Under normal circumstances on a stable system no errors should be found but in the event of overclocking, hardware degradation, or DOA memory anywhere from a few to many errors can be encountered. How many errors are too many would have to be defined by how stable your computer is. If you're following this tutorial and fixing any errors you have makes your system stable again then you had too many. How do I use it? MemTest86 boots into it's own environment independent of your Operating System so you're going to need three tools: A sacrificial thumb/flash/pen drive. NOTE: All pre-existing data on this drive will be erased! MemTest86, the .ZIP of which can be downloaded from the official website: https://www.memtest86.com/ A means of writing the image file to your sacrificial drive the steps of which vary depending on your Operating System. Installing the Image File to Your Drive Running MemTest86 Connect your MemTest86 drive to the suspect computer and turn it on. Now booting to a USB drive may not be set as a higher priority than your default boot drive or be set at all. In either case you may have to enter your BIOS and manually select the USB drive to be booted first in the Boot Priority menu. Alternatively many BIOS's support a Boot Override menu via F10 or F11 at startup. Some even support boot override from within the BIOS menu itself. Once you successfully boot to the USB drive the first thing MemTest86 will do is start querying the system for information: Retrieving hardware info. Please wait... Getting CPUID info... Getting cache size... Measuring CPU/cache/mem speeds... Retrieving CPU MSR data... Getting SPD details... Getting memory controller details... Testing multiprocessor support... After this you'll be shown a splash-screen: From here to run a simple memory test wait for the timer denoted above to expire and a test will begin automatically: At this stage allow the test to run to completion. How long the test will take is proportional to how much RAM you have. The more RAM the longer you will have to wait. When the test finishes MemTest86 will bring you to a results page to show you what errors it found if any. If you do have errors there are multiple approaches to troubleshooting them. Most methods are easy but there are progressively more difficult steps if initial troubleshooting doesn't yield results. Easy Troubleshooting Steps Disable X.M.P./D.O.C.P. Re-seat the memory. Swap the memory around in their slots. Remove a stick entirely and re-test. Intermediate Troubleshooting Steps Loosening RAM timing/frequency manually. Replacing RAM entirely. Difficult Troubleshooting Steps Testing a different motherboard Testing a different PSU Testing a different CPU Closing Thoughts MemTest86 is a very powerful tool for recognizing memory errors when troubleshooting an unstable computer. It's worth keeping in your pocket if you work on systems regularly. It's also worth noting that MemTest86 and it's fork MemTest86+ may not find errors on the first pass. You may need to run it more than once before it picks something up.

hi guys new pc builder here. i have a rog strix mobo b550-i, pure power 11 psu, trident z ram, samsung m.2, inwin sirius loop fans etc. i dont have a cpu or gpu as of yet saving for both. but i want to "test" the mobo and fans and make sure they light up and work. but after i install and wire everything and power on nothing happens. is this even possible without a cpu or gpu on this mobo? i dont know why, but i was under the impression that you didn't need those to power on the mobo for testing purposes. thanks in advance. i appreciate the time anyone takes to answer this for me. happy new year.

I finally decided to ugrade from my HP Envy Dv6. I landed on the Lenovo Legion 7i Slim. Since the order went in Lenovo has "Announced" the AMD version in coming soon section of their website. I'm wondering what sort of benchmarks or tests I should be running it through when it shows up. I am to make sure I'm getting good value. I am open to waiting longer for another laptop but I'm hoping this might be the one. I'm thinking of getting a Xbox game pass trail to run some AAA games. I'll run Cinebench, The blender test for sure. I'm going to try some sort of battery test. But this will be my first time doing this sort of thing. So I was hoping someone on here would have some ideas as to things I should definitely do and not miss. Side questions. Whould you should intel and TB3 or AMD and just USBC 3.2 Gen 2? Thanks in advance!

Hi Community, I am new here, I wrote this software for different use's I may have. Any comments about the Cartoon affect on linus? Any comments, opinions, advice, and criticism is greatly appreciated. Cheers, Sean

Hello guys! Im new to the forum here so please don't roast me too hard! I really love the engineering efforts behind the keyboard robot topic and hoped to contribute from my Mech eng XP in designing automated equipment & test systems for OEM car makers. Keep in mind these are merely my observations and may make a few mistakes. (Im terrible at explaining this with text) Keyboards are a big deal on which I happily invest a lot of money personally, so I hope my notes below may be helpful - or not. From my perspective of the current system - Scenario 1 The current Z-Axis orientation of the robot cannot accurately emulate human inputs since force F is applied only in the Z-Axis only. While one may argue angular forces can be achieved by rotation about the wrist (Axis 6), servos used for this payload class cannot accelerate fast enough to emulate the speed of a key press. Even if one manages to accelerate to this speed, inertial forces of the robot arm will affect force measurements for key actuation. Actual emulation of finger inputs - Scenario 2 For scenario 2, we use an articulating end-effector attached to the robot system with a skin-like contact pad. The reasoning behind this because finger placement is rarely in the Z-Axis, and occurs with a arc-like motion. If you can imagine force acting in an angle would produce a reactionary forces in directions Rx & Ry. Rx will produce moment Mr which causes friction force inside the switch better emulating a human input. Furthermore, the X-Position on the keycap varies off center, and contributes to friction forces causing wear. Accurately emulating force R may require calibration of skin friction coefficient vs keycaps prior to tests, and so the end-effector will need a rubber pad on the end. It would be a good idea to use a standardised test jig with a fixed weight to measure this. The friction coefficient will also vary with perspiration and oils from Cheeto fingers. I can already imagine this will be an interesting challenge to model reliably on a scientific level... All of us know regular typing differs significantly compared to pawning noobs on COD. For the difference in force profiles, velocity and acceleration would need to be obtained through measuring on/off times during regular/gaming use - but Im sure they have this covered already. While 3D laser scanning is robust for location, I would advise setting a hard X|Y datum on the table to home the robot and act as a repeatable alignment tool for keyboard position. This will enabling faster setup times. I would also suggest bolting the keyboards down as well. Finally, This is probably covered already, but it may be a cool idea to calibrate pressing positions on keycaps using a UV heatmap. In any case, Im open to what you guys think and if this makes sense?

Hey there I have a lga 1200 Intel stock cooler and I was wondering if I could fit it into a lga 1155 motherboard I'm currently really broke, just trying to make anything work

My Testing Equipment: While I'm not a professional technician I do have an assortment of tools for testing and what not. A lot of them are probably bad for this and that reason but I've had no trouble with them. So here's a list of the things that I have in my repair bag; An old laptop, Dell Inspiron 1501, running ether Ubuntu or Windows 10 depending on what mood I'm in. A thirmaltake PSU tester. Basic yes but very functional. A post card for PCI that works on some motherboards, the manual lists BIOS that it's compatible with but UEFI confuses it for some reason. Multi-bit magnetic ratchet screwdriver. Assorted USB3 drives. Red Tape has a windows10 install image but would usually be windows7, looking at getting more than one on at a time. If I figure out how then I will write up an entry on it. The red USB with no tape is my software USB. Everything from drivers to office2013. Finally the blue USB, smallest at 16GB this is my UBCD drive. UBCD being a great image for recovery, testing and repair. I use it for just about everything. It even comes with a virus scanner. USB2 Wi-Fi adapter with drivers on the Red USB. Useful when someone W-Fi stops working, this will determin weather it's the WAP or device. I've used this a lot with friends, friends of friends and family laptops. Colored pens and a tape, just because these are handy when I have to measure cases and desks. Micro USB charger for my phone and a laptop charger. (not visible) Whats Next?: Still updating Blogs daily and checking for comments. Expecting to have big updates on the Smokey Attempts:The Red Mod blog ether this weekend or early next week. Thank You :)

I searched about this a lot but surprisingly the coverage is little to none on this one. I am primarily interested in the differences for Non-FPS game and also general workflow. I can 90Hz apart from 60 Hz. Was wondering if that is the case with 90Hz vs 144Hz as well and what might be exactly the sweet spot.

Hello! I'm running an RTX 3070 and want to overclock my Intel 9900k. I've been using a 550w PSU from be quiet! I used to run a 5 ghz overclock, but after updating BIOS for Windows 11, I lost my overclock settings. I'm upgrading to the be quiet! Darkpower 12 1000w PSU. My goal is a 5 ghz overclock again, but I don't know what voltage to aim for. My questions are: What voltage should I start testing with? What is the lowest voltage I should aim for? Also how should I go about testing whether my overclock is stable or not?

i dont know if im posting in the right place, but i seem to have a serious issue and i cant even find what it is. the card in question is a RTX 2080 msi duke 8gb. it all started with artifacts in discord. one day i opened my discord as always and it was like this: pretty recent, i didnt have any problems with anything else but my discord was like this. i searched for it and i found that some ppl had the same issue. and it might eb from discord. i the restarted my computer and it was all gone. after 2-3 hours again i opened my discord and it was just like this, i got worried and opened furrmark and did 2 half an hour stress tests, one on 1080P one on 2k. note that these started with dips in fps as in instead of 150 normal average they gave like stutters about 20-40 fps. i do experience this in games too like elden ring but i thought its just loading stuff in the Vram and thats why its happening because after a short while it goes away in game, the same as during test. during the furrmark tests there were zero artifacts. my windows defender found a PUABundler:Win32/FusionCore in install core "threat" so i thought its maybe from that. i removed those, updated my driver and everything went normal. today this happened again on youtube too, so i thought yeah something is wrong. this is not just discord. i searched an searched, the artifacts im looking at are not similar to render artifacts and someone mentioned its because of gpu sag, my card is a 3 fan model so i thought yeah that is definitely it. i put a thick piece of foam as support, i also DDU ed my whole driver and reinstalled it. and everything was normal again. but performance hits hit me playing elden ring and i thought maybe some of my Vram is having problems not all of it. i used gpumemtest which said everything is ok, used furrmark rog edition which has an artifact scanner and again everything was fine. i used 2008 video memory stress test, which said my memory was only 3 gigabytes (it seems to be the software cap) and i used memtestG80 which has a ton of errors, every 128Mib block tests from iteration 3 every random block has a lot of errors for example: Random blocks: 301806 errors (31 ms).(memtest apparently isnt compatible with gddr5 or later) note* these cards the 2080 series had a bunch of bad memory at some point, because of bad chip issues or something i dont remember correctly but steve had a video on them. please tell me this is not a scrap card, im not ready to buy a gpu at all... if there is any way that i can stress test my Vram like rammap for system memory, please tell me. any help or nudge in the right direction is very much appreciated. i am indeed very scared. thank you in advance for all the help!

Hello Linus it's me. Can you do a video on if having 1 blower style card and 1 open-air in a setup helps deal with the heating issue of crossfire or even sli? Thanks. I want to get 2 rx 480 8gb version and I want to see if it may help with my setup. Thanks Linus team.