Lets share: Where youre getting your knowledge?

[Memmento Mori]

Its barely a half baked idea and dont have much to chip in, but i was alway curious where the ppl are getting their iformations, what they read, follow, watch to get some informations in regards of technology, pc, IT, and all the matters we are here interested in.  And for this reason i just wanted to share and ask as well you Gents to share your information matrix if possible   And even im using this platform here as well for geting some knowledge, here is not everithing so would like to make 1 point to get inspired..  Hope the idea dont bites in to dust after soe time   

 

I know that youtube is not the perfect platform but thre are some interesting chanels to watch if your hungry for inormations and even wan tto learn something. Traditionally im folowing the "DerBauer" or "GN" but lately i just crossed this guy here:

 

https://www.youtube.com/@northwestrepair

 

 

He repairs the GPUS AMD/Nvidia and i kile the way he does it and even takes all on camera. sometimes its not that much detailed but it shows so many defects and their repair, and i have it at work as a background "noise" like a TV and i rly like to wath him to repair the GPUS  

 

Happy sharing guys  

[UltraMega]

Guru3D, TechSpot, various YouTube channels or just headlines from the new tab page on my browser, which knows what kind of news I care about. 

[schuck6566]

8 hours ago, Memmento Mori said:

Its barely a half baked idea and dont have much to chip in, but i was alway curious where the ppl are getting their iformations, what they read, follow, watch to get some informations in regards of technology, pc, IT, and all the matters we are here interested in.  And for this reason i just wanted to share and ask as well you Gents to share your information matrix if possible   And even im using this platform here as well for geting some knowledge, here is not everithing so would like to make 1 point to get inspired..  Hope the idea dont bites in to dust after soe time   

 

I know that youtube is not the perfect platform but thre are some interesting chanels to watch if your hungry for inormations and even wan tto learn something. Traditionally im folowing the "DerBauer" or "GN" but lately i just crossed this guy here:

 

https://www.youtube.com/@northwestrepair

 

 

He repairs the GPUS AMD/Nvidia and i kile the way he does it and even takes all on camera. sometimes its not that much detailed but it shows so many defects and their repair, and i have it at work as a background "noise" like a TV and i rly like to wath him to repair the GPUS  

 

Happy sharing guys  

I like his vids also,he's refreshingly open & honest. If he makes a mistake and has to fix it he shows it instead of editing the video to make himself look better.

[kaliz]

I like those vids too, there are one or two more larger repair channels on YT that do the same but this guy is the most honest imo.

Most OC info i get from hwbot submissions, hwbot discord tabs for DDR and CPU, OCN DDR forums, hwbot forum topics, zentimings discord, other overclockers. 

[Slaughtahouse]

Progress of PC knowledge...

 

Personal troubleshooting, game forums, Youtube channels, PC enthusiast forums and tech websites, professional experience, and a mix of everything in between. However, Youtube is certainly the main feed and most times than not, I just listen to it while I am working. 

 

Youtube starting from late 2000's -> NCIX's channel which was hosted by Linus ->  Hardware Canucks / LTT -> Gamers Nexus / Hardware Unboxed today. 

 

I watch other enthusiast channels from time to time, depending on what specific info I am looking for.

• Video game benchmarks? Usually Hardware Unboxed or Digital Foundry.
• Comprehensive performance reviews (hardware)? Digital Foundry, Gamers Nexus, Hardware Unboxed.
• SFF* PCs ? Machines & More.
• Case reviews? Hardware Canucks or Gamers Nexus. 
• Overclocking, undervolting, other manufacturing deep dives? Der8auer or Gamers Nexus. 

 

I'm far less into technical overclocking and more into broader industry context and good practices.

Edited July 31 by Slaughtahouse

[ENTERPRISE]

Great topic. 

 

I get my information from a multiple news sources, actually most from my Google feed. Based on my set interests and the algorithm I get a decent set of information from a varied set of sources which includes VideoCardz, Techpowerup, WCCFTech, Tweaktown, Techradar, Toms Hardware etc. 

 

So far as Youtube, I watch whatever peaks my interest but generally speaking I watch Gamers Nexus and LTT. Hardware Unboxed is also a great one. JaysTwoCentz I do not watch for information but more for entertainment, the same could be said for LTT as well. 

 

Other information I get is based on specific searches which usually lands me in other company specific forums, sometimes reddit and github.

[Snakecharmed]

Going back in time to the aughts, there was always a forum involved in terms of my active participation. I went from PCPer when I had my Athlon XP-M build to OCN when I had the Sandy Bridge build, and then of course here after the VS BS.

 

For industry news, AnandTech and Tom's Hardware were the OG news sites for me. There were also a few others I kept in the periphery when it came to hardware reviews, like Guru3D and TechPowerUp. I also browsed the OCN news section before the VS XenForo fiasco. Nowadays it's VideoCardz and Tom's when I care to look up the news, but usually, GamersNexus news recap videos serve as my entry point in my YouTube subscriptions, which I then use to branch off to Hardware Unboxed, der8auer, and JayzTwoCents. I can't watch LTT anymore after Linus's antics and LMG's various acts of bad business buffoonery in recent years. GN also led me to Louis Rossmann, whose advocacy for right-to-repair and right-to-own have been sobering for staying on top of underhanded anti-consumer trends in the industry.

 

I ended up reading a bunch of Reddit threads for information when I was dealing with the coil whine issues on this motherboard last year, but I don't care much for the community of any subreddits. There's an absence of critical thinking skills throughout that site. All I can say about the discourse there is at least it's not the Wccftech comments section.

[Kaz]

I'm glad this topic came up.  I recently stumbled across UFD Tech.  They do computer focused news.  I thought some others might enjoy it too, but I didn't want to start a new topic about it.

 

https://m.youtube.com/@UFDTech

 

I like David Bombal.  He's infosec focused, which I have an interest in.  He tries to teach and give exposure to people / things that are available.  He's how I learned about Py4E.com to learn python.  He has a mix of hands on demonstrations, and interviews with people in the industry.

 

https://m.youtube.com/@davidbombal

 

For sheer entertainment value, Jack Rhysider's Dark Net Diaries are great.  They are podcasts that are a bit long, but his journalism and chosen stories are excellent.  I've listened to all of them (except the latest that I haven't gotten to yet.)

 

https://m.youtube.com/@JackRhysider

 

Other then that, I keep an eye on Google news and a couple other news sources. 

 

I've taken some online classes from a local community college like Redhat Network Admin, Security+ and Network+.  I also paid for a course from David Bombal / Chris Greer (who seems to be an ex-NSA hacker) on wireshark.

 

If money wasn't a concern to me I'd have a computer science degree, simply because I find it interesting. 

[J7SC_Orion]

...several places, including this...

 

 

[neurotix]

Try watching "8-Bit Guy" on YouTube. His focus is mainly on the Commodore 64 and similar 80s computers, but he fixes a lot of them and also does "retrobrite" on them (hair bleach and water in a tub and soak a pc case or whatever in that outside in the sun to get rid of yellowing). Try and find his videos including soldering, I think he did extensive soldering on a Macintosh SE as well as a Mac LC III.

 

I pretty much learned to solder just by watching that guy, but just enough to fix old game systems, he doesn't really do SMD soldering.

 

Louis Rossman is another great one, he mostly repairs Macs but he does do SMD soldering, as well as reworking on CPUs or GPUs.

 

For general PC knowledge, and up to date stuff, GN is a very good source though personally after a while how fast Steve talks gets kind of annoying to me. Certainly they are better than Linus or Jay though.

 

I also attended tech school twice but only for one semester each time, then I dropped out. I did get a 4.0 both times but the classes were braindead easy. I have a Cisco certification in PC repair from the last time I went.

 

Coursera is another great option if you've never heard of it, you can finish the courses at your own speed and generally they are supposed to be a month long but you can do them in a week if you focus on them 8 hours a day. They will give you a certificate at the end you can attach to your resume. Here's a link.

 

https://www.coursera.org/learn/network-security

 

Other than that, look into PC repair best practices and things to do in order to diagnose a failed machine if it happens to you.

 

For example, I have fried two PSUs by folding on my 4090 24/7 in Linux. The first was because of very bad practice on my part, fiance pointed it out to me more than once and I ignored her, well I fried that power supply because I didn't listen.

 

More recently, about two months ago I woke up and checked my rig, I had left it folding overnight but it was off. Power button did nothing. I/O shield RGB lighting and RAM lighting was on, but it didn't boot or even turn on and spin fans. We thought maybe a cable came loose and was causing a short and needed reseating. So we went through every cable connection point in the system while trying to power it on, but nothing worked. Then someone in discord recommended hooking up another power supply, just the 24-pin and CPU EPS 8-pins and see if it would boot. We did that and it booted right up, so we figured out it had a bad PSU. No cables were damaged or melted.

 

Learn all the common diagnostic tricks, like booting with 1 stick of memory, etc. Deductive reasoning goes very far here.

Edited August 16 by neurotix