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Originally Posted by Pug
If a conclusion is reached as to what we are allowed to submit to this site for review in the meantime, please have a representative of Pro-Cooling contact me to give me the official position of the site itself on this.
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I have a novel thought. Rather than letting us biased US-centric approached people decide for you, how about you let the Europeans decide?
Without telling them why you're doing it, put up a number of polls on a few European forum sites asking things like:
What tubing size would you prefer in your system? (4mmID/6mmOD, 6mmID/8mm OD, 8mmID/10mmOD, 10mmID/12mm OD, 12mmID/16mm OD)?
Which pump would you rather have in your system? (Low powered pump - up to 5W (Eheim 1046 or equivalent), Fair powered pump - up to 10W (Eheim 1048 or equivalent), Moderate powered pump - up to 25W (Eheim 1250 or equivalent), strong pump (up to 40W - Danner Mag 3), very strong pump - (over 40W - Iwaki etc)?
What radiator size would you rather use for your water-cooling setup? (1 x 80mm, 2 x 80mm, 1 x 120mm, 2 x 120mm, 120x240mm, over 120x240mm)?
What fans would you rather put on your radiator? (Effectively Silent - up to 25dBA, Very Quiet - up to 30dBA, Quiet - up to 35dBA, somewhat noisy - up to 40dBA, noisy - up 45dBA, very noisy - over 45dBA)?
Gather the results, and then assemble the kit that meets the majority European user's desires.
Then how about someone here does the same for the USA audience, and does the same thing, by assembling a USA kit based around what the USA audience what.
The kit assemblers can then pick and match what they believe is the best of the components from their respective markets that meet and suit the audience voted criteria, and then put those systems head to head. The waterblock that gets used is left to the discretion of the kit builder that best suits the rest of the kit.
Now wouldn't that be a truer indication of the USA vs European way of doing things, by first getting a true indication of what each audience wants?
Now the purpose of doing this in a number of different European forums is that I believe that certain countries in Europe will have different opinions. I reckon that the UK will be more high-power focused than Germany, and this will when allow us all to better classify which country's approach that we really are testing here.