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Originally Posted by nightic
The conflict lies in quite why these quiet(er) systems are not being designed around a high-flow model.
Taking into account the assumed/measured performance advantage (re: maximizing cooling) of the US-type systems, surely a slightly compromised system can be made which is quieter/as quiet as the German-type whilst still maintaining said increased cooling ability.
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I think that may probably best be answered by looking at the demographic make-up of the forum members at Futuremark. Aside from the all-English language barrier, Futuremark probably has one of the widest international-based demographic in terms of forum user-base.
Futuremark is also the center around which revolves much posturing for members to achieve the most out of their system. XtremeSystems.org is another such place, but arguably with a more English-centric demographic.
What is apparant though at either forum is that the guys who are pushing their water-cooling systems to the limit, where the phrase "adequate" takes a distant second-place to "performance", it's easily seen that plenty of people have moved from the German style of doing things to the more "brute-force" US-style.
Really it's all about where you place the bar when you define "adequate".
For some of us, we're concerned with eking out every last ounce of cooling potential that water has to offer, whether or not that means that we're just chasing down the last 2-4C of cooling performance that's on offer.