AHOC test equipment vs hardware purchasing decisions
Added 2022-09-21 01:27:17 +0000 UTCSo Rigol is now starting to sell these: https://www.rigolna.com/products/digital-oscilloscopes/hdo1000/
The 100MHz bandwidth (intel docs recommend measuring Vcore regulation at 100MHz bandwidth) version is pretty much perfect for the voltage regulation measurements that I do since it has more than 1mv of resolution at the voltage levels I'm measuring and it has a HDMI output that I should be able to just feed into my capture card which would eliminate having to mess around with a webcam pointed at the screen of my "unlocked" Rigol DS1054Z (the USB software for it is worse than using the webcam to record the screen). However as you can see the 100MHz bandwidth version starts at $999 and in the UK it's probably gonna cost even more than that. In order to buy this thing I won't be able to make any big HW purchases for like 2-3 months. So no new motherboards/CPUs/GPUs/RAM.
Mind you an 8bit scope with HDMI output is about half the price. A 14bit scope without the HDMI output is about the same price but I really don't need a 14bit ADC and the webcam is really annoying.
This would mainly delay things like my plans to buy a 7600X or 13600KF/13700KF.
Considering how bad the viewership of most of my oscilloscope requiring content is I'm not sure this is worth it from a youtube/views perspective. However I personally would quite like a better scope to use for videos that no one watches.
YT poll link: https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxBg5lBvDzxj4H2-jXuKwqFhXcBELQcE7T
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Voted for the scope on my part. While I am aware that the more technical videos do not work as well in terms of views and impact, I find them much more interesting. I mean, we will be (sadly) flooded with new CPUs information in all the "big" tech channels, even with very minor overclocks in some of them, and it is quite hard for a small channel to compete with their massive visibility, but the other content is not available elsewere.
Ignacio Barrio
2022-09-23 09:58:30 +0000 UTCWow 12 bits for US$999 is impressive, although upon a quick read of the spec sheet I see they don't actually specify an ENOB so either way probably wait for some good reviews that cover it as I have a hard time believing it will be as good as a US$10,000 14-bit scope. (still way better than an 8-bit)
WizardTim
2022-09-21 09:21:19 +0000 UTC
