As near as I can tell it's 3C better than my Cyclone 5. Buying a new motherboard that reads the on-die diode to test it out properly.
With the Maze 3, I could only hold my CPU stable to 1980MHz. With the Cyclone 5, to 2024MHz, and now 2035MHz with this block. All those overclocks are the best results from multiple mountings of the blocks.
How much better than the Maze 3? Not sure exactly. Guessing around 5C at these levels (~2.0GHz/2.2v).
Now I know those figures/differences seem rather large and perhaps hard to believe, so like I said I'm off to get a new motherboard to verify.
The observed temperature difference however does align itself with the theoretical values that I calculated on my thermal simulator, so I'm fairly confident that they're correct.
The base-plate is not too thin at all.
Judging from reading some of the threads here about water-block design, I figure this design may challenge some commonly held precepts.
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