jmke:
I posted this as a defense of the procooling forums over at truextreme. Perhaps our regulars will refine or elaborate on some of my comments but I believe it speaks for us as a whole:
"The procooling forums has the overall attitude that it does for two primary reasons. First of all, there are a LOT of people there with technical degrees (a lot of practicing engineers and a few Ph.D research scientists though they do not advertise as such). Surprisingly, these people are not particularly welcome at most other cooling/overclocking bbses. Consider the way most forums work: someone with decades of experience in the application of thermodynamics to engineering problems gets chastized or banned for not agreeing with some 15 year old kid's analysis of heat transfer. The prevailing attitude is in this thread too: "too many thermo majors" (btw I dont believe thermodynamics IS a major at the university level).
The second reason for Procooling's prevailing attitude is the "expert status" that is implied by posting a review on the web for thousands to read. Presumably you are posting this review from a standpoint of knowing what the hell you are talking about. For this reason I don't typically review video cards or CPUs or HDDs or other computer hardware that I'm not really qualified to evaluate in detail. When you e-mail out poorly conducted tests to the world at large for them to post at news, then don't get upset when people point out issues. Learn from your mistakes or not; life is full of choices.
I look at the comments on web reviews at Procooling as being comparable to the peer review process that takes place when you try to get something published in a journal or magazine. Procooling's members are, after all, the peers of all other water cooling enthusiasts."
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