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How do you know its peaked? how long do you leave it before you diside its at its highest? The resorator would be very sensitve to this point. It could take a very long time to get to its equlibrium tempreture due to the large res capacity. If you diside its maxed out before it is then its going to scew results in its favor.

also i assume you controled airflow over the resorator somehow? its going to make a differance having it neer a fan or for that matter in direct sunlight?

Yes indeed, the ambient temp and airflow within the room will obviously make for a difference to passively cooled kits than actively cooled radiators.

Our test lab does have air conditioning but it would be pretty silly for us to add extra fans to the Reserator when the whole point is that its a passive system designed for low noise. Each time we tested the Reserator it was left overnight (CPU fully loaded) to make sure the temp really had maxed out.

I'd like to make a special note that you might want to consider multiple mounting attempts, as I have seen significant variations due to the mounting of the waterblock.

All in all a great response. I'd actually be interested in reading more of your reviews. Too bad you are all the way in the UK.

Thanks for the comments. Well, you could get an international subscription, we do already have small numbers of subscribers in Canada and the US already.

Originally Posted by jaydee116

I see the mag cover in the pdf says Agust 2004. So why did you guys use an older version of the Swiftech kit instead of the new one? Pretty damn hard to compare kits if one of the kits contains older gear than what is sold today (August 2004). Should have either left it out or waited untill you got a new kit?

Because we wanted to review what was available in the market at the time, the kit was sourced from a retailer and was the most up to date Swiftech kit they had at the time. Remember this review was carried out over 4 weeks ago now.