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Originally Posted by Fly
Measuring water flow was far from the scope of the article for many reasons.
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Oh absolutely - someone who has never watercooled doesn't know/care. Were I editing the piece I'd have suggested either not mentioning the flow or changing the line to "...
rated at 300l/h".
You
did leave it upside down overnight to see if it would leak - IMHO a good and very-relevant-to-your-audience thing to do.
I would have also re-mounted the block at least three or four times (or maybe you did - time for me to go look at the rest of the review) to see if there was much variability (another good-for-your-audience piece of info - results stated as "try remounting if your temps seem..." or as "very easy to get the best mount right off").
Speaking of temps, how did you measure them? If you were using the temps reported by your CPU diode you mentioned that these are unreliable, right? It might have been interesting to stick a thermometer in the reserator for a bit just to get a "reality check" on CPU temps (going to be at lest a couple C over whatever water temps in the reservoir happened to be - issues of warmer water being at the top, where you'd measure and evaporative cooling when the top is off both aside)
Then there's the whole noise thing. Very hard to measure - even with an anechoic chamber. I figure anything I can't hear
at all is around 3dB (or more) lower than the ambient noise level. If your ambient gets quiet enough, the noise of blood being pumped through your ears becomes a factor... Anyway, I'd suggest "so quiet I can't hear it in a quiet room" over "complete silence".
... just an attempt at constructive criticism - feel free to ignore ...
