[pHaestus]

a PM sent to knipex:

As far as that thread goes, shit happens. There seem to be a lot of misinformed people on your forums though. It's fine to make tradeoffs like placing value on "ease of use" or "tidyness" and going with smaller hose. I never ran a Whitewater or RBX block in my own PC because I hate those Y connectors for example. I did this even though at the time the WW was the best available wb. I don't use a Cascade any more in my main PC because the nozzles get clogged up and it's a PITA to clean. Same deal; I value low maintenance more than that extra 1-2C I get out of the Cascade. But erroneously thinking that smaller tubing is "better" is not good. I also find it very disturbing that people would hold up German engineering to be so great and then bash the engineering principles (I guarantee you that the people at AlphaCool and Innovatek know the same math and physics I do) that make the German stuff possible. People just need to be better informed about the tradeoffs that they are making when they choose their kits. On BOTH sides of the pond actually.