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Originally Posted by pHaestus
Then that falls upon me to set up the competition doesn't it?
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I'll put my two cents in I guess. If I were the tester here, I would get a top of the line BIX-2 for the radiator. They are popular enough in Europe and the States, I think that would be fine for the rad. For the pump, probably something like the MCP650. Swiftech sells'em here. But its a German pump to begin with, sounds fair.
That gets the pump/radiator components out of the way, and both the examples I cited above are ubiquitous in both Euro low flow and US high flow setups. Then, you would need waterblocks. Three for each school. Take your pic from the ones you already have for the high-flowers. But for the low-flowers you've got one: that Innovatek Rev 3. Probably a NexXxos and, gee something else I guess!
Then, perform you're normal testing methodology, but run ALL the blocks in both low flow and high flow situations. For each config, you would just swap the hoses and fittings on the circuit components between I don't know, 12mm for the high flowers and 8mm for the low flowers. The only other thing I would change would be the fans on the rad. The low-flowers love "quiet" vs. performance. So, the low flowers get nice, but low CFM Papst fans. The high flowers get Sunon 120x38's or something appropriately high flow and noisey.
The advantage of that approach is it gets the radiator-pump question out of the way and keeps that situation equal. All the blocks are tested in all conditions. I would laugh my ass off if a Cascade for instance got better numbers than a Innovatek XX Flow in the low flow for instance. But perhaps the opposite would be true. Also, the deltas for each block in each config can be displayed, showing how much of an improvement high flow gives for low flow, even with the German blocks.
The big drawback is to truly test it Phaestus style, you have to mount each block ten times. That would be a horrendous amount of busy-work for a six block test. Works out to 120 mounts with both configs!