hmmm
shall we cut to the chase ?

I do hope a bunch of you have some serious stroke with the mfgrs to get them to come up with data for their products
(or have it done 'for' them)

perhaps this 'calculator' would be an incentive in and of itself ?

I'm hopeful that the calculator could be popular enough to result in pressure on mfgs to submit products for testing.

My impression from observing the chatter at Overclockers, is that your Waterblock Bench Testing Results article has greatly reduced the frequency with which Maze3's are recommended. My best guess is that a (decently lapped) Maze3 is very similar in performance to a TC-4, but without hard data, few will stand up for it.

I think the availability of the calculator will greatly improve understanding of the relevance of the data, and will result in sales going to products where people can gauge performance before purchase.

Of course, a certain critical mass of accurate models will be necessary before the simulator will become popular enough to have an impact. Aside from rads, I think enough 'modellable' data has been published to reach critical mass.

FWIW, I sent off email to Hardware Labs, suggesting they send their products to you for testing. Others wanting to do the same can email them here:

info@hwlabs.com

What "chase" shall we "cut too"?