I see, not much here but a few other places, a good amount of people post about silent solutions, zalmans etc, and they get shot down because most people on those forums have low temps in mind and see something like the zalman as a rip off(as do I).
Im definitely not defending the zalman buyers and obsessers, they just have one of the variables that someone posted about before a little higher than most of us do.
Yeah I want lowest possible temps but noise, performance, practicality, and price all out weigh one another at some point in time.
To those who dont care about practicality that guy with those two giant radiators on a 12" diameter blower over at overclockers.com forums has extreme/highend/"pro" cooling. But to those who want something that can fit in their case that guy's solution is not even on the map.
To those who dont care about noise a 600cfm blower over pretty much anything is highend. But to zalman freaks thats like nails on a chalk board.
etc etc
Atleast in my mind high end doesnt mean absolute lowest temps all the time.
I could buy a HC and put some loud blower on it and get awesome temps. But Id rather get multiple HCs or some very large radiator and have really slow fans on it and get the same temps as one HC and a single blower. True Im not getting the the lowest temps possible as I could get more powerful fans or even a blower or two but that doesnt make my system any less "high end" than its louder counterpart.
Id say around half of the people at a lot of water cooling/highly technical forums have priorities like so:
low temps
practicality
price
noise
Just because someone holds those in a different order doesnt mean we should shit on the little guy.
I guess my def. of "procooling" is working hard and smart on something, putting a large amount of technical knowledge accumulated from communities, like this one, and getting the best solution possible.
No matter how I hold those priorities, well except price as I dont have $ to burn, my solutions will always need a lot of consulting so I always consider them high end.
just my 2c
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