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Originally Posted by Orkan
Difference in temps between the apogee and storm on my rig when I removed the IHS were on the order of 5c.
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Which is consistent with Robotech's results.
The end result of IHS-bound CPU waterblock testing will be reverting to the use of old, coarse, clunky and cheap to make maze/channel/pin designs, purely because no one will be able to tell the difference.
I posit that we're already seeing the beginning of the end of true water-cooling technology advances. Why? Nobody can tell the difference any more on IHS CPU's, so why bother making anything truly better if no one can tell? Stick most any combination of waterblocks, old or new, on an IHS capped CPU testbed, and 10 different people will eventually say "everything is within 1C or so of the average of everything else - why bother?".
Numb and dumb. Enthusiasts lose. Mass market wins. Game over. Back to click'n'drool boredom for all of us.