Thread for Linus Tech Tips Video Suggestions

[darknessblade]

On 12/18/2019 at 10:38 PM, LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo said:

@AlexTheGreatish Would you be interested in making a whole PC case out of this stuff? 

 

that would be hilarious. having Linus, make it LIVE from scratch not giving ANY instructions. 

 

if James May can make a bridge out of it, Then Linus can make a PC case out of it.

 

of course having a few rules: it must contain everything a normal stock PC would contain.

so tower model, DVD drive, HDD caddy, IO shield, 

[mariushm]

9 hours ago, nathanbradley said:

hey Linus!

Please can you make a video on what

lavaliere microphone you use and what budget ones you recommend at different price points.

 

p.s. i admire your work and have always looked up to you.

I think they use Sennheiser wireless microphones... something like this:

Amazon.com: Sennheiser SK100G3-A 516-558Mhz Body Pack: Camera & Photo

Amazon.com: Sennheiser EW 112P G4 – A Omni-directional Wireless Lavalier Microphone System: Musical Instruments

EK 100 G4

 

 

 

 

[Tashijan]

Hi 

I would be very interested to see a video for machine learning benchmarks on different systems and GPUs.

I know that here usually it is: the more expensive the GPU, the better.

But it would be interesting to see a comparison similar to this:

• Decent performance for someone in a Computer Science major who will be training small newtworks during class. Stuff that can be done on a laptop.
• Performance in comparison to a one GPU gaming PC
• Comparing to a workstation
• Comparing to a professional workstation.

The idea came when i read this post on Reddit. Maybe the Lambda guys would be willing to assist in this case. 

 

Would be great, thanks. 

[Litbelb]

I would like to see a review of the samsung jg56 monitor

 

[williamcll]

How about a review for the Ryzen 5 3500X? It's priced similar to the Ryzen 5 2600 on Aliexpress but has a better clock and memory support.

[Agent Crimson]

 1) Make a Custom Laptop or an AIO i think there are a few laptop and AIO chassis which allow users to add off the shelf Mini ITX and Mini STX components

2) Rate After Sales Customer Service of Different Brands in all categories of electronics like you did when you were comparing the different system integrators that series was a huge success. Given that you already have so much hardware such support calls wont be hard either. The most looked for Brands would be Razer vs Asus vs Dell vs Hp vs Acer vs Lenovo(Thinkpad) vs some newer brands like Eluktronics. A motherboard service call roundup would also be highly looked forward to. As well as the series star Jannet.

3) Does RTX help in machine learning applications and training AIs giving it an edge over the 10 series cards. To test the results implied by Nvidia in the video linked below i quote "your neural net is trained mine is taking forever" this was followed with an object detection demo in the background (Time Stamp 0:32 - 0:37). 

 

[Dimmizer]

@LinusTech & other Staff /  Production Members?

I'm super big on the technical side of things and how things work right down to the core. I think it'd be cool if you could produce a video like you did recently with Nvidia on higher refresh rate monitors except this time try to see like what's truly better.. Higher DPI and lower ingame sensitivity or the other way around and what exactly does Polling Rate do? Does it help to have lower polling rates or higher? like I feel like it'd be cool to break this down into somewhat of an exact science and then we'll forever have the real answers as gamers and something people can look to and decide for themselves what they want more.

Break out the cameras and actually track the mouse movements on screen and you could even compare this with different refresh rate monitors? idk.. I feel like there's a lot that goes into it all and just something that'd be cool to see happen. I remember watching a video from some guy who was showing the differences between the high dpi and low sens ingame vs high sens and low dpi and the mouse movement on the screen didn't seem as smooth. I can't remember the way it went but one was smooth and the other was somewhat jagged or just looks weird when he'd zoom in and slow it down. but didn't explain WHY it was happening.

If there's already a good video explaining all of this I'm down for watching it and sorry to make this topic lol, I feel like even if I watch it the production and quality wont be very good which is why I'm asking if Linus or the team could make one

[MouthyBeat]

Using something like SaaS and comparing it to Stadia.

[Jason Bennett]

I'd like to suggest a video for home theater setups. Not just simply what to buy, but the actual setup process. What with constant audio lag, complicated lip-sync settings and just all those audio settings I know nothing about in both the TV and the sound bar. Got my dad a soundbar surround sound yesterday and a new TV today. Been running up and down trying to fix the audio settings to keep the audio in sync with the video. I'd get it fixed and then he'd change the channel and it be off again. Now for  possible unseen compatibility issues, we made sure the soundbar and TV were from the same manufacturer, Vizio.

[amdorintel]

why not an old 1970's computer making buildoff where you actually have to solder shit together

maybe get Hakko to sponsor you

[Flying Sausages]

Do Stadia review

[Kilrah]

9 hours ago, Dimmizer said:

Break out the cameras and actually track the mouse movements on screen and you could even compare this with different refresh rate monitors? idk.. I feel like there's a lot that goes into it all and just something that'd be cool to see happen. I remember watching a video from some guy who was showing the differences between the high dpi and low sens ingame vs high sens and low dpi and the mouse movement on the screen didn't seem as smooth. I can't remember the way it went but one was smooth and the other was somewhat jagged or just looks weird when he'd zoom in and slow it down. but didn't explain WHY it was happening.

Too simple for a video other than maybe a TQ, and no point getting the cameras out for that. Lower DPI and increasing sensitivity = mouse gives out coarse steps and the game amplifies them, so lower movement resolution/precision, so you rather want the opposite. Increasing polling rate = mouse reports movements more frequently, so smoother, less laggy and more precise movements.

[Nexblitzer]

The Alonne Cloud Ramdisk 101, it's an interesting piece of technology, and i would love to know more about it!

Some other suggestions.

AMD RYZEN PRO desktop/laptop series of processors, very few videos exist even mentioning the use of these processors, so a gold mine for channel views maybe?

Nvidia Quadro RTX 4000/8000 GPUs, same story no info on YouTube concerning real world and synthetic benchmark performance.

FPGA chips and how one may program, or use them. One such company you COULD maybe get a sample from is called XILINX, they specialise in server based applications, and aren't really based on consumerism, but that wouldn't be much of an issue for your channel XD.

That's all folks!!

Regards Nex!

[Kilrah]

5 minutes ago, Nexblitzer said:

The Alonne Cloud Ramdisk 101, it's an interesting piece of technology, and i would love to know more about it!

You might want to watch this, similar product, just a bit older:

 

Both are discontinued anyway.

[mariushm]

54 minutes ago, Nexblitzer said:

The Alonne Cloud Ramdisk 101, it's an interesting piece of technology, and i would love to know more about it!

Some other suggestions.

They did ram drives.

SSDs are faster these days, than those RAM drives... and cheaper.

 

54 minutes ago, Nexblitzer said:

AMD RYZEN PRO desktop/laptop series of processors, very few videos exist even mentioning the use of these processors, so a gold mine for channel views maybe?

They're regular AMD Ryzen processors with longer warranty and official ECC memory support, as far as I know. Nothing special and different than regular Ryzens.

 

Would be cool if LTT would review some of the industrial  / embedded Ryzens like

ASRock Industrial > IMB-V1000

ASRock Industrial > IMB-R1000

ASRock Industrial > IMB-A1000

 

or motherboards that can be powered from a single 12v/ 19v barrel jack connector.

 

54 minutes ago, Nexblitzer said:

FPGA chips and how one may program, or use them.

One such company you COULD maybe get a sample from is called XILINX, they specialise in server based applications, and aren't really based on consumerism, but that wouldn't be much of an issue for your channel XD.

Too complicated (and niche) for LTT main viewer base. Also Xilinx is not the easiest for new users, and there's other brands which may be more aproachable.

There's plenty of tutorials on Youtube if someone is interested into these.

A LTT viewer will be more interested in Arduino , Raspberry pi, or microcontrollers... as long as you don't confuse them with complicated command line stuff, compilations and crap like that.

 

[Nexblitzer]

2 hours ago, Kilrah said:

You might want to watch this, similar product, just a bit older:

 

Both are discontinued anyway.

Actually there pretty different for eachother, and yes there similar, but its worth talking about because you can actually boot from this drive, as it's own special drive

[Nexblitzer]

1 hour ago, mariushm said:

They did ram drives.

SSDs are faster these days, than those RAM drives... and cheaper.

 

They're regular AMD Ryzen processors with longer warranty and official ECC memory support, as far as I know. Nothing special and different than regular Ryzens.

 

Would be cool if LTT would review some of the industrial  / embedded Ryzens like

ASRock Industrial > IMB-V1000

ASRock Industrial > IMB-R1000

ASRock Industrial > IMB-A1000

 

or motherboards that can be powered from a single 12v/ 19v barrel jack connector.

 

Too complicated (and niche) for LTT main viewer base. Also Xilinx is not the easiest for new users, and there's other brands which may be more aproachable.

There's plenty of tutorials on Youtube if someone is interested into these.

A LTT viewer will be more interested in Arduino , Raspberry pi, or microcontrollers... as long as you don't confuse them with complicated command line stuff, compilations and crap like that.

 

 

SSD's are EVERYTHING these days, it seem like people talk about nothing but them, bringing something new to the reviewing content side of things, would be interesting, same shit just gets boring. And price? i don't think LTT is that concerned bout price. You gotta see the creative aspect of what is out there you know

 

The ASrock industrial series would be interesting, but no one would buys those because there embedded and those ITX boards don't have as many features. And the adaptability is not there, also they are significantly downgraded as embedded chips as well, with lower clock frequencies (depending on the chip and board) and are badly binned, they would also presumably have a rather low quality IHS.

 

Also normal RYZEN chips have had ECC ram support from the beginning of there debut. And those PRO chips ARE in fact quite interesting, they have quite a new features that can be explored, and considering that LTT, doesn't just make consumer based content, it would be beneficial to people running small businesses, as well as people like myself, which entirely why i asked in the first place.

 

Also, FPGA's aren't THAT difficult to learn, i didn't mean like a legit series of Chiplet programming, i meant just like a run down of what they can do and there full potential.

 

 

[mariushm]

1 hour ago, Nexblitzer said:

 

SSD's are EVERYTHING these days, it seem like people talk about nothing but them, bringing something new to the reviewing content side of things, would be interesting, same shit just gets boring. And price? i don't think LTT is that concerned bout price. You gotta see the creative aspect of what is out there you know

 

There's other things besides SSDs  (SLC, MLC, TLC, QLC) ... there's Optane which they covered.

There's other memory types FRAM, FeRAM , MRAM, ReRAM, other types of memory besides NAND

 

GlobalFoundries Teams Up with Singapore University for ReRAM Project : https://www.anandtech.com/show/15034/globalfoundries-teams-up-with-singapore-university-for-reram-project

Western Digital to Use 3D ReRAM as Storage Class Memory for Special-Purpose SSDs : https://www.anandtech.com/show/10562/western-digital-to-use-3d-reram-as-storage-class-memory-for-specialpurpose-ssds

 

MRAM stuff: https://www.anandtech.com/SearchResults?q=mram

Samsung Ships First Commercial Embedded MRAM (eMRAM) Product : https://www.anandtech.com/SearchResults?q=mram

Everspin Begins Production of 1Gb STT-MRAM: https://www.anandtech.com/show/14580/everspin-begins-production-of-1gb-sttmram

 

There's stuff like hyper memory cube and other 3d memory concepts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_Memory_Cube

 

RAM drives were done and nothing new : just a FPGA with a memory controller and a softcore (maybe) which emulates a SATA device.

 

 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, Nexblitzer said:

 

 

The ASrock industrial series would be interesting, but no one would buys those because there embedded and those ITX boards don't have as many features. And the adaptability is not there, also they are significantly downgraded as embedded chips as well, with lower clock frequencies (depending on the chip and board) and are badly binned, they would also presumably have a rather low quality IHS.

They in fact may be better binned chips, running at lower power because they have to be used in industrial environments where the temperature ranges can be larger (think for example behind an advertising billboard full of leds which produce heat or in the middle of the day during summer, or middle of the night in winter somewhere)

Those boards are interesting because they often contain LVDS or other connectors which allow you to connect directly to a lcd panel, they have multiple video outputs and some nice features (mini pcie , m.2 connectors, usb connectors on the board or sd card controllers on board (to plug a usb / sd card and boot an os without having to use a SSD/HDD)

1 hour ago, Nexblitzer said:

 

Also normal RYZEN chips have had ECC ram support from the beginning of there debut. And those PRO chips ARE in fact quite interesting, they have quite a new features that can be explored, and considering that LTT, doesn't just make consumer based content, it would be beneficial to people running small businesses, as well as people like myself, which entirely why i asked in the first place.

I'm aware of ECC being supported, but don't really think they have a lot of features that can be "explored" which would matter for the major audience of LTT. Doubt there's many features in fact probably just some stuff that would help businesses and network administrators to manage computers in offices.

 

 

[DopplerEffect]

Recommendation for a $hit Manufacturers Say video: The mClassic!

It claims to be an aftermarket plug and play in-line graphics processor for consoles, that provides " Better Graphics. Better Pixels. Better Gameplay." and allows console gamers to get a new graphics card for $99! It was funded by an Indigogo campaign.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mclassic-the-first-plug-play-graphics-processor#/

https://www.marseilleinc.com/mclassic/

[Mugilan The Ironman]

I want @LinusTech and his team to build a SUPER COMPUTER,............................

[turgsh01]

After watching this video: 

 

 

I'm now curious... I know CPUs are far more powerful than they ever were... but onboard audio does still technically require CPU to work. So my question is, and this might be a video idea worth considering, would having a discrete sound card improve CPU performance by a factor of more than like 1%? Because if so, then it might still be worth buying one since you can just carry over the sound card from computer to computer (it's not like they're being improved much anymore).

[Yogi_DaBear221]

I'd recommend a video on best game controllers for the PC. Like the best ones for feel, aesthetics, controls of course, extras like extra buttons and stuff, then compare them to using just a regular Xbox One or PS4 controller when it comes to latency, responsiveness, and anything else they can think of. 

[Kilrah]

39 minutes ago, turgsh01 said:

So my question is, and this might be a video idea worth considering, would having a discrete sound card improve CPU performance by a factor of more than like 1%?

No. Sound calculations are super small and easy by today's standards. Not even 0.1%.

[Nuklearfire]

How about a video like the our wifes Build a PC one of the Fans of the Channel Build a PC and the Winner can take his PC home

[GeoHandle]

Recently watched the sound card video, so how about a video comparing no sound card vs low end sound card vs high end sound card in different situations (gaming, movies, music etc), and if they have any effect on performance in game (both in terms of fps and how well you play).

Also since it's so cold right now, a cold themed pc (not christmas, just cold). By this I mean stuff people could build and actually regularly run, so not Liquid Nitrogen or a separate chiller, but off the shell components or maybe a modded case or something. The goal would be to get the pc temps to as low as possible (so delidding CPU, best thermal paste, loads of radiators or beefy air cooler etc).