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[W1zzard]

techPowerUp! is looking for more staff. What we need are two reviewers and two newsposters.

If you think you have what it takes contact me personally via instant messenger, the details are on the Contact Us page.

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[Migons]

Just being curious: lots of submissions already?

 

[W1zzard]

quite a bunch, yes. always looking for more

 

[Marioace]

quite a bunch, yes. always looking for more

will send my info tomorrow.

 

[myPCrocks]

I sent info several days ago, any decision yet ?

 

[Marioace]

he got some people already, but is looking for more

 

[Aevum]

if you need someone in spanish XD

 

[Solaris17]

can i be part of the family......................i wish i had a family

 

[Thermopylae_480]

 

[Marioace]

if you need someone in spanish XD

i think that i could be one of them too like you. jejee

 

[Ice Czar]

If your still looking
I have some prior experience

howdy W1zzard, sent you an email

 

[wazzledoozle]

I like how mostly people with <10 posts are applying

 

[Ice Czar]

well, Ive just doubled my post count

W1zzard and I have some prior shared forum history, just not here
you can't rackup 27,000 mostly spam free posts and be a gadfly everywhere

 

[wazzledoozle]

ocfaq days?

 

[Ice Czar]

there and [H]

 

[myPCrocks]

I like how mostly people with <10 posts are applying

don't see where lack of posts has anything to do with it. I just came across this forum several weeks ago, but have been active in many more for years. Being a new member does not reflect anyones knowledge.

 

[W1zzard]

post count says not much.. you should look at the testing equipment ice czar has .. best i've seen ..

 

[Ice Czar]

well thats all BillA's fault

or at least most of it, my own delusion's of granduer kicked in at some point

 

[W1zzard]

can you post your equipment list? just for other reviewers to know what is the right equipment to get accepted without any further discussion

 

[Ice Czar]

can you post your equipment list?
just for other reviewers to know what is the right equipment to get accepted without any further discussion

you have a wicked sense of humor
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Interface
National Instruments PCI-GPIB\LP NI-488.2 and cable
National Instruments PCI-DIO-96 w\ 2m 100 pin cable
(class status: need more RS232 and GPIB cables, need PIO breakout box)


Software
LABview 7.0
MATLAB & Simulink
DegreeC AccuTRAC
Keithley Runtime Environment
Autotest APG for Windows (3.0)
(class status: need to upgrade APG and like to add CFD modeling)


Measurment Hardware
Keithley 2700 Digital Multimeter & Data Aquisition System
Keithley 7701 32 channel Differential Multiplexer Module
Keithley 7708 40 channel Diff Mux Module w/ Automatic Cold Junction Compensation
Ametek 0-1000A Digital Recording Ammeter (AC)
Fluke 2176A 10 Channel Digital Thermometer w/ RTD
Digitec HT 5810 Thermometer
2 x Digidoc5 (fan monitoring) and rheobus fan controls
(Class Status: more or less complete, need more Rheobus controls, adding another dedicated HP 34401A DMM for the UTS-325)


Sensors
10 J Type Thermocouples with shielded extention grade wire
10 T Type surface mount Thermocouples
2x 4 wire RTDs
50x Thermistors (various makes and models)
10 calibrated J type panel connectors and plugs w\ strain relief in 2 handmade sheilded quickswap modular panels
27 x IHA-25 F.W. Bell Current Sensors
EESIFLO Sonic Low Flow, Mass flowmeter (pre-production prototype, temperature immune) being fabricated
Endress+ Hauser M-Point Massflow Meter
Setra 230 Wet/Wet Differential Pressure Transducer w/3-Valve Manifold
Keithley HA5050 50 Amp Shunt Sensor
American Aerospace Controls DC Current Sensor 913B-10-B
Micro Control Technology Calibration Module
(Class Status: need more RTDs and panel connectors, PCI\PCIe & AGP riser cards for the power consumption suite, need triple point cells (Hg \ H2O \ Ga) for in-lab calibration, need to have sensors professionally calibrated and their error curves plotted)


Electronic Enclosure Airflow and Temperature Test Suite
DegreeC Cambridge AccuSense ATM-24
24 x CAFS-220 sensors
AccuTRAC Software suite


Power Supply Testing Hardware
Panasonic VP 5720A Oscilliscope (GPIB w\ digital storage)
Ithaco Lock On Amplifier
Autotest UTS-325 PSU ATE
w\ 5 x 150W programmable DC load modules (1A /uSec slew rate for transient step mode) a total of 900 Watts test capacity
2.1 KVA Programmable Variac, Differential wideband peak detector, 12 position, 4 wire switching matrix, line source measurement, load current measurement, universal timer counter and software suite.

(Class Status:The Autotest UTS-325 is a completely integrated automatic test system,
The test suite includes: AC Line Current, AC Inrush, DC Line Current, DC Inrush, DC Line Step, Efficiency, Vout Setpoint, Voltage, Frequency, Sequencing,
Rise/Fall Time, Time Interval, Over/Under Shoot, Regulation Line, Regulation Line Frequency, Regulation Load, Cross Regulation, Regulation 2 Corner, Regulation 4 Corner,
Regulation Dynamic, Dynamic Transient Response, Noise & Ripple, OverLoad Constant Current, OverLoad Constant Voltage, OverLoad Short Circuit, Short Circuit Recovery
and Over Voltage Protection tests. Need to upgrade the EPROM and software.


Sound Testing Hardware
Bruel & Kjaer 2203 Sound Level Meter with 1613 Octave Filter Set
Bruel & Kjaer 4131 condenser microphone
Manfrotto Tripod Adapter
(Class Staus: need to build sound chamber)


Environmental Test Chamber Control & Measurement
PCon Multiloop PID control software
National Instruments PCI-DIO-96 w\ 2m 100 pin cable (listed above)
Omega CN77342-C2 Autotune PID Temperature Controller RS232
Rotronic HC321A Humidity & Temperature dewpoint Computer w\ Hygrometer
Kikusui PIA3200 GPIB Power Supply Control
Aquafine SP-1 UV Water Treatment Unit
100' 3\8" Anaconda Sealtite Isolated Ground Conduit
Aluminum Insulated Refrigerator door
3 Air conditioners
various blowers, pumps, insulation, sheet metal, metal stock, hardware, lumber and plumbing...Had
(Class Status: need solid state relays, power supplies, UV replacement bulb,
incremental improvements will be made as time allows and need dictates, increasing cooling capacity ect.
Phase2 of the chamber calls for tight humdity and temperature control based on Saturation Thermodynamics)


Infrastructure
2 computers for DAQ and Control w\ 2U rackmount Cases
Dual Opteron Workstation for MATLAB\CFD Modeling (244's\K8W\FX3000\4GB)
2 pair Heavy Duty Rackrails (had others)
Bud Industries Rackmount 30U Enclosure
5 surge proctetors
Olympus E20N
Lowel Tota halogen lights
Manfrotto 3251 heavy duty tripod and 3047 head
Welch Duo-Seal High Vacuum Pump Model 1400
CONDOR Linear DC Power Supply 5V@12A ±15V@3A 12V-15VDC
(Class Status: need centralized Online UPS approx 5KVA perferably Liebert, third computer for UTS-325,
fabricate vacumm chamber for thermal isolation, fabricate Calorimetry Tank)

and that isn't a fully itemized list

 

[zekrahminator]

...I suddenly feel like I don't have much chance of getting the job

 

[zekrahminator]

just for laughs, I'll post my test equipment
Power supply testing equipment-
Does the computer turn on? Is it quiet? Are the rails stable? If you answered yes to all three questions, your PSU gets a techpowerup reccomendation if I were to be elected to staff

Airflow testing equipment-
Overclock results and maybe how far away I can feel the breeze

FPS testing equipment-
Fraps!!!

General testing equipment-
My 2 systems
My Magic screwdriver
A 5.1 Megapixel camera
Some wirestrippers

Video card testing equipment-

ATItool, Fraps, Halo, um...Magic screwdriver?

RAM testing- "hey I wonder how high I can OC my system NOW..."

CD-ROM testing- Quiet factor and the Nero drivespeed tools that came with my video cards lol

HD testing- Aida32 might have an HD benchmarker...

Monitor testing- Any ghosts? dead pixels? crazy colors? no? GOOD! Editors choice!

As you can see w1zzard, I am highly qualified

 

[Ice Czar]

equipment lists aren't everything

I have a specialty or two, inside those I'm pretty confident at what I'm doing
and I adopted and researched those areas because others had passed them over or there was room for improvement
if only in how well you can communicate them
but for instance I'm not a gamer, and I haven't done a lot of overclocking
you don't OC workstations or NAS without unpleasant results
(if you can at all)

Id imagine that if you take your magic screwdriver and a confirmed head turning overclock
that can easily offset such a list, but "some discussion" would be required

Look where Femme Takken (Tweakers.net) and Storage Review are
they ponied up the $$$ to buy Intel's IPEAK SPT and develop usable metrics for it
(that was easily a thousand dollar investment plus time)
SR did it first and started to compile an individual drive database,
(actually they incrementally got there with lesser benchmarks to start)
so Takken went ahead and started to concentrate on RAID cards\arrays
they compliment each other,
but its is an example of where the most definitive information that can be derived
has led to being "authoritative"

and that Id imagine is what W1zzard wants

that doesn't necessarily mean you have to have an expensive test suite
but rather that your an effective communicator that can translate a complicated topic for the masses
and that will go the extra mile in an attempt to be authoritative
which can mean that the most powerful tools in your equipment list are your brain and search engine

 

[Marioace]

wow with that equipment there's too few chances to be part of the team.

 

[Ice Czar]

my focus is very specialized
I wont be reviewing all sorts of equipment:

mobos, HDD. opticals, software, video cards, periphreals, memory, CPUs ect.

Im strictly PSU\power consumption and integrated thermal solutions
its an "energy" test lab those other components are part of those systems, but Im not proposing doing mobo reviews, I will throw a given config together and benchmark its power and heat profile, information W1zzard can build a database around and other reviewers employ as well, much like Xbit's current power consumption testing has been cited in other reviews (either attributed or not)


when the flowbench is online as is the rest, I'll be especially suited to looking at the thermal performance of a given case and component config, thats not the same as assessing its overclockability or gaming performance at all, Im almost totally unqualified to do something like that.

These are automated suites, and the objective partly is to create services that other reviewers can access for a reasonable fee, that enables me to gain wide access to components to build a data base, I could likely profile power consumption of several mobos a day after I have a basic sysprep OS to work from. If I got a thermal camera the same strategy would apply. For runs in the test chamber with thermocouple placements or on the flow bench thats a review Im doing, for PSU reviews the same Im doing the review. But the more reviewers ship me a HDD or a mobo\CPU or Videocard to do a power assessment of the bigger the database is. Id love to do the same thing with thermal images.

I might negotiate access to the board\CPU they are shipping to me for a power measurement, so I can do a thermal review of my own with it as part of a given config. Or add a particular Videocard into a config for a test run.

These are independent suites and Im very likely to be able to run some of them concurrently.

Reviews are useful in momentarilly highlighting a given product and as a vehicle to educate the consumer.
But databases of comparative quantified data will have far longer utility value and be accessed far more often than any given review.
Why do you think W1zzard has his database's?
Definative Guides to an extent are the same way.
Im stll linking Radified's Ghost Guide some 5 years after I first read it.
Im linking amdmb's General Heat Transfer Guide 4 years after it was written.
Ive linked the PC Guide more times than I can count.

Reviews eventually get forgotten or are eclipsed by the next greatest thing
databases and guides that are kept relavent arent


what I really have as a major objective is to create a modern replacement for Takaman's PSU Calculator
(which has gone offline)
which will breakout by rail for the applicable PSU specs the vast majority of components out there.

If you look at what Oleg Artamonov is currently doing
he has created a software tool and database of PSUs where you can compare load regulation for a given crossload and its compliance to a given PSU spec for evey PSU he has reviewed

http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/other/psu-roundup/CLView-xbit.zip (viewer)
http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/other/psu-roundup/cl.zip a given reviews database addendum

the perfect compliment to that is a database of what any given config will draw as an average and maximum crossload

and id be tempted to give Oleg my test results to add to his for PSU crossloads if they agreee