In terms of impingement, one thing left to try that may offer small benefits. Possible very-small room for improvements with the Storm design. They're on my mind, but the cost of doing such things weighs heavily simply due to the small size of the tools required. I am starting to reach the limits of what's possible on a practically machinable level. So yeah - still some more small gains (<0.5C for scenario below) - but how to make it cheaply?
If (and it is definitely an if) the theory I'm working with holds up, then for a 100W 10x10mm square heat source and a copper base-plate, then I can't see more than ~2.5C left to gain in that scenario practically over a G4, and no more than ~2.0C over a copper G5. Investigating higher thermal conductivity materials starts to become a more practical way to make things better.
Theoretically one could gain yet a further 3C, but such gains come with severe insurmountable physical impracticalities attached (i.e. fantasies of a "perfect" waterblock).
I've said it before, at this stage am pushing up against a theoretical hyperbolic slope to improve performance yet further.
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