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Damn, sexy black MCW-6000. I want one.

How does it perform http://www.cooling-masters.com/forum...ns/whistle.gif ?

Good partnership for Swiftech..

probably like a swiftech kit...? :)

lol
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Dollar general has black paint for $1.50.

Wow shit, You can buy paint? Thanks mate.

Yeh but seriously what I mean is it looks sexier in black, swifty should have done it themselves.

I see Corsair got it right this time around. Too bad many enthusiasts already know about Swiftech. :)

Great product name. :rolleyes:

Bill, is there any disadvantage to spray painting the MCW-6002?

I dont see why there would be, its just cosmetic

so this is why the hydrocool was binned

the Hydrocool never even had a chance after Hocp modded it

disadvantages to painting ?
might get scratched ? fingerprints ?

our inhibition is regarding the visual inspection - what to do if NO defects are permitted ?
and be assured that many customers insist on perfection

How does Swiftech sees itself after this (large OEM supplier?), and how strategically do you position the Swiftech branded products against this (also Swiftech) offerings seeing that there aren't any differences?

price?
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this is a technical/bling forum
do not expect marketing info from me, ever
you fellows are, of course, free to speculate to your hearts' content

Isn't bling just a "negative" word for marketing?
After all, marketing even with a good product has a big role on sales, decisive perhaps, be it by praising technical values or commercial ("mundane"?) ones.

No speculating intended, ( I understand the position you're in), though certain trends seem to be developing.

no, in English 'bling' is a product attribute or characteristic
marketing is a part of the sales activity (preceeds it actually, and selling is a subset)

bling and marketing are not the same thing
Personally i see bling as cheesy ugly 'style' ; gold chains, big rims on crap cars... style that isnt stylish

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bling

Bling is 'flashiness' for the sake of it - in product form, form over function, or in worst cases form instead of function. Bling is most certainly a negative word; personally I wouldnt use bling on asethetic qualities of some products, but would on others.

Example - Thermaltake aquarious 3 is certainly bling bling; watercooling for the sake of it; attempts to look good but looks like something out of a childrens action cartoon ;)

By the way, found this LINK dated from 8th September 2004, already noticing the moves between Corsair, Delphi and Swiftech, concerning this watercooling kit.

Quoting:
"Corsair were showing off their DDR2 solution running on a ASUS board. It was a simple show of their Pro modules. However, it was interesting to hear that their Hydrocool watercooling solution is now EOL (end of life), this is due to Delphi who were building the blocks for them are now doing the blocks for the new Dual CPU Apple G5 system.

We knew this would happen since Corsair are relatively small in the 'cooling' industry and Delphi wanted to capture the large OEM deals. Apple just happened to be the first.

Corsair are working with Swiftech to develop the next watercooling solution, they will have the RadBox, and CPU block from them. They will have an internal system and also an external system which will take a little longer.

The pump which they will be adopting is from LAING who we know for a fact are a big partner of Swiftech.

We see this as a positive move, we like Corsair products and Swiftech have been in the watercooling industry a long time."

and if a searsh is done for "stev" many facinating things appear
an interesting fellow, their WCing guru
and appareatly the designated Delphi 'forums' rep

The answer could be surmised by analyzing who make each component in the respective kits. One might determine that....

ok, lets see
Coolingworks res, Coolingworks sleeves, do I sense a trend ?

Becoming more and more bling .
Not discouraged by you

Why Corsair 240pins and Swiftech 281?

Les
are we becoming, or is our awareness increasing ?
"Not discouraged by you", a tad unclear
should I have a 'role' ?

the serious consideration of bling is being forced upon me by the success of products having such as their principal characteristic, and even more compelling is the preference for bling at the specific expense of performance

there are indeed 281 pins, no idea on the other

lots of forums are viewing the Corsair kit with depreciation, what should be remembered is that Corsair has vastly greater market 'reach' than Swiftech - they should do rather well as the performance is better than the Exos and such

In reverse order;
Choose your own role.- circumstances sometimes divert.
Awareness - number of variables identified increase - dilution of understanding may increase.

....Pump, rad, push fits, tubing. My point was less about my company's particular products and more about OEM in general but thanks for the ToH. Corsair has a kit that is remarkably like Swiftys kit but the reality is that they can buy most of the major components directly from Original Equipment Manufacturers.:dome:

Swifty is an OEM now...

Not many companies make and market their waterblocks themselves nowadays, Dangerden, Swiftech, Alphacool, just about everyone distributes their blocks to other companies for resale. I can almost guarentee most of swiftech's sales are to resellers and very little of their production actually gets shipped out to end users from their website.

No longer is this a mom-and-pop business, it is called the watercooling industry for a reason.

Killernoodle, are you lecturing the guy who’s company makes the OEM bay reservoir that everyone uses right now.

Swifty is an OEM of water blocks, however, to be fair one would have to categorize the sale of kits as a strictly wholesale activity since some parts come from other OEMs.

This is not a slight to Swiftech. I have always been a big fan of their kits.

I wonder what that makes the car mfgrs ?
not OEM because their cars have parts made by others ?
your definition needs more subtlety

what of the comparative testing upon which the conponents' selection was based ?
what about modification of the purchased parts ?
in this specific instance I think your definition is way off

http://www.ascent.co.nz/mn-product-spec.asp?pid=226002

Ive found it, one of the best examples of bling! completely, utterly pointless.
(and of course, Tt's magical lack of sound - "Noise:21dBA")

(yes, this is OT)

"Swifty is an OEM of water blocks, however, to be fair one would have to categorize the sale of kits as a strictly wholesale activity since some parts come from other OEMs."

Thats broad - most waterblock makers probably dont make their own barbs etc, under your definition they're wholesalers...

"the serious consideration of bling is being forced upon me by the success of products having such as their principal characteristic, and even more compelling is the preference for bling at the specific expense of performance"

I guess it depends on the product - i for one, would lose a (very) small amount of performance for ease of use + function (but not bling) - people that want more will either go from scratch and make their own, or modify something to suit (see mcp350 recent mods?)

Of course, I'll take style with extra performance, but not over it.