From being a regular bit-tech reader, this leaves me with a bit of a sour taste in my mouth really; I always respected what you did Pug, but now I'm finding that respect waning away, which is a real shame.
The biggest question is, what is 'acceptable'? what is 'adequate'? people around here are after that last degree of cooling, those last 20mhz of overclock... where do you draw the line? 2 degrees at the head output of pHaetus's test bed? 5? where?
Dammit Cathar, after reading the 'big bad germans' I had you pictured as Mr Burns for the whole of that post