In
this thread at procooling (here)
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Originally Posted by Cathar
Well, they do have the WCP testbed, Europe's most trusted test bench, telling them that the "German" low-flow blocks outperform any "USA" block. As far as they're concerned the USA have it all wrong, because the WCP testbed tells them so. Many of them are probably thinking why doesn't the "US" take the hint, and indeed judging from various comments in various forums, this is exactly what they do think.
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My only experience with watercoolplanet (WCP) was to have found a spreadsheet of pump performance (simple flow rates for various pumps through the same length and ID tubing - done for several IDs, 6, 8, and 10mm, I think).
Someone responded that their WB ratings were questionable, they looked way off to me, and so I thought I'd found an "off brand" watercooling site and gave it no more thought.
However, from Cathar's (and others') comments, it looks as though their WB testing methodologies are important to how WBs in Europe are being designed.
Has anyone actually figured out
what their methodology is? Any chance of pointing me to where they state what it is (if they do)? I tried to find this for a while, but my German language skills are basically nonexistant.
My
guess is that they are simply testing as some
absurdly low flow (like less than what a 1046 will deliver through 3/8" ID lines and a heater core style radiator) and this is biasing their results.
Apologies for having put this question into a separate thread, but if WCP really is that important to Euro-watercoolers' world-view, I thought that maybe it'd be appropriate to have the info in a thread by itself where at least a few of these folks might stumble into it - leading to either their enlightenment, or to their posting something that will help
my enlightenment
Thanks!
Bob