So much testing: What We're Working On (Patreon)

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 revisit going up tonight (once uploading/processing is done), and we have a highly detailed FFXV PC vs. Console piece that we're finalizing. All very exciting things.

For my part, I've finalized a Raven Ridge gaming benchmark, due up on Saturday night, an Ask GN + Patrons Ask GN video, and we're planning a few deeper content pieces for next week. The biggest thing (that we can talk about) right now is a planned stream. We'll likely talk about this more soon. As you all may know, Linus and team have posted a TimeSpy Extreme result to HWBOT that knocked our top 10 score down. We figured a friendly media rivalry would be fun for everyone, so we gave Buildzoid a call and started strategizing on our counter to LTT's OC score. It's all in good fun for all parties. We're looking at streaming early next week, probably. I am presently waiting on a motherboard replacement, as our X299 DARK has a dead channel. EVGA has overnighted a board so that we can get this stream underway ASAP.

It should be a fun one. We're doing a full coverage block on the Titan V (likely the first majorly public coverage of this product), a decent CLC on the 7980XE, and pushing for big clocks. Our previous scoring was limited by having just two channels on the X299 board, something that we can now remedy. 

We're really looking forward to the stream. Some pretesting and memory binning will happen off camera, as that's very boring and would literally just be four hours of rebooting, blue screening, and changing numbers. Once we have memory timings figured out, we'll do the rest live.

Oh, and separately, we'll soon be talking about a new thermal testing methodology. We've engineered an even better one than our previous thermal testing for CPUs, and we're excited to begin rolling it out. We've finally found a good way to stabilize power cycling, which can throw a wrench in results for unwitting reviewers. Even witting reviewers have to cull bad data regularly. This will streamline testing significantly.

Anyway, for the immediate future, look for a HAF X revisit, an Elgato 4K60 review, FFXV console/PC comparison, and definitely look for our livestream. We don't have a date or time yet.

- Steve