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pHaestus
02-01-2004, 09:58 PM
Let's see if I can muster some marketing and hype:

It's like the Super Bowl of waterblock reviews! Witness titans of liquid cooling performance battle it out! Sunday Sunday Sunday!

Hmm that really isn't doing it for me as well as I'd hoped. How about we try again:

Thanks to Cooltechnica, nikhsub1, and Cathar for supplying a few of the most popular high performance waterblocks for testing. Thanks to our readers for being patient. Hope that you can find something useful in the results.

Dangerden RBX, DTek Whitewater, and Little River Cascade waterblock reviews HERE! (http://www.procooling.com/reviews/html/waterblock_comparison-_rbx_whi.php)
jaydee
02-01-2004, 10:02 PM
Well done. And done without a "Preview" or a "and they just happen to be on sale here" phrase. :D
Les
02-01-2004, 10:08 PM
Interesting. Still perusing the scatter.
I assume "Performance of the flow test is adjusted to the average value ..." is performed by addition/subtraction and not by muliplication ?
Hoping data for the, possibly more exciting, "CPU Heat Efficacy" work will be posted.
pHaestus
02-01-2004, 10:14 PM
still trying to figure out wtf is going on with those data sets Les. Data is consistent from block to block (at 1.00 GPM all blocks have roughly the same delta T across wb) but the calculated W is NOT static (and seems high). Don't know what to do with results quite frankly.
Les
02-01-2004, 10:23 PM
still trying to figure out wtf is going on with those data sets Les. Data is consistent from block to block (at 1.00 GPM all blocks have roughly the same delta T across wb) but the calculated W is NOT static (and seems high). Don't know what to do with results quite frankly.

Post and be damned.
The results may be real, I have not seen any conflicting evidence.
In fact have seen no other evidence.
pHaestus
02-02-2004, 09:12 AM
I'll start a new worklog thread this evening. A fair amount of data collected in the course of wb testing...
MMZ_TimeLord
02-02-2004, 02:26 PM
Your review has been featured in todays BluesNews!!! :p :dome: :D ;)

Under "Hardware Reviews" at the bottom...

"WaterBlock Comparison on ProCooling (http://www.procooling.com/reviews/html/waterblock_comparison-_rbx_whi.php) "
pauldenton
02-02-2004, 07:32 PM
Your review has been featured in todays BluesNews!!! :p :dome: :D ;)

Under "Hardware Reviews" at the bottom...

"WaterBlock Comparison on ProCooling (http://www.procooling.com/reviews/html/waterblock_comparison-_rbx_whi.php) "
also on amdmb.com
pHaestus
02-02-2004, 08:33 PM
Les check my worklog. Decided to save you some effort and just upload a .xls :)
Blackeagle
02-03-2004, 10:24 AM
pH,

I really enjoyed the article, a very good read. The last graph is great, very easy for anyone to see the differances, no matter how new they may be to water cooling.
KnightElite
02-05-2004, 10:19 AM
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=28185

The designer of the RBX is discussing your review in this thread. Thought you might be interested.
pHaestus
02-05-2004, 10:34 AM
I replied over there KE.
BillA
02-05-2004, 11:31 AM
interesting to observe the nay-saying re mounting 'issues'

the benchmark should be NOT what an expert can achieve, but rather what a 'typical' user will experience,
I concur with pHaestus' observation (and yes, I have mounted the RBX multiple times)

simple mechanics; the smaller the pedestal, the longer the 'arm' to the attachment point, the easier to have an unbalanced load

AND there is another 'issue', the IHS is designed to have a uniformly applied load of 60 to 90 lbf across the entire IHS,
so what is the effect of applying this load across only a portion of 2 sides only ?
nothing good