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Originally Posted by lolito_fr
It seems you're a little blinkered into thinking that flow is all  |
Not at all. But flow rates are far from meaningless as you seem to want to suggest.
My point, and this is the last I'll try to help you understand it, is this.
Nexxos performance is very good, but at the cost of a very high pressure drop.
Little River SS Cascade, G4 & G5
ALL offer lower pressure drop & at the same time giving equal (SS Cascade) or better temps (G4 & G5)! !
A further example.
A Nexxos installed into a system of pump + rad + Nexxos had a flow rate for the loop of 1.4 gpm. Swap out the Nexxos for the SS Cascade & flow increases to 2.2gpm due to lower resistence of the SS Cascade. With the SS Cascade you have a 50%+ increase in system flow vs the Nexxos, yet both give the same CPU temps. Not something you can ignore.
A Fusion GPU block is added into the same loop with the SS Cascade & the GPU card is max overclocked to XXX speed. Now exchange the SS Cascade for the Nexxos, still leaving the Fusion in the loop. But with the large reduction in flow due to the higher resistence of the Nexxos you now must reduce the GPU cards overclock by XX% to avoid the card artifacting, lock ups ect.
Pressure drop & flow rate interest me in this case as all 4 of these CPU blocks are within less than 1C in performance. So the point of interest in the Nexxos, along with it's low temps, is in the pressure drop. These are all clear facts of the testing data shown up to this point. With such close temps, pressure drop is another way of comparing the Nexxos to other blocks.