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Originally Posted by Jag
Don't get me wrong.
2ºC is a improvement, no doubt.
What I meant to say is that Swiftech has the potential to do much better, and it sure made us feel this way.
At least to me, I was expecting something close in performance to the level of the waterblocks released by Cathar, nothing less, and that didn´t happened.
This "market" is not an OEM market, and any enthusiast is willing to pay a bit more to get an extra performance.
So, there's two new words: "value" and "foster scale".
You can build anything with these two, but it won't be a Ferrari.
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Everyone has the potential to do better. Things cannot happen over night. Bill hasn't even been there a year yet? and already they have this new block that IMO is a huge step in the right direction for average users and simpicity and performance. I can't think of another block that combines all 3 as well as this block. Performance is only ONE of the factors in buying a block and this one offers the best price/performance/ease of use that I have seen.
Also maybe you misunderstand Swiftech's real market. From what I understand it is the OEM market in specialty cooling. Not us enthusiests. Maybe that has changed in the last few years though. I bet they make their real money on specialty OEM cooling applications. Could be wrong though.
I don't expect ANYONE to come out with something as good as what Cathar has done with the Cascade. There just isn't alot of improvment (physically) that can be had. It just costs to much to make these kinds of blocks.