That review is a pretty large improvement in legibility over L3D's earlier works. It's really criminal to let him be both author and editor though; he is pretty clearly unable to succinctly say anything. The thermodynamics primer is a classic example. It's technically correct, not of any real relevance, and exists purely to make madshrimps readers think that our friend L3D is an expert. Are we to assume that, from his primer, he has now added the plume of "thermodynamics master" to his chapeau? Perhaps not:
"The NexXxos XP was designed for optimal performance in a "low-flow" environment"
Contrary to what people often visualize, the idea that a wb can perform optimally at low flow rates is balderdash. Increasing flow increases water velocity. Increased water velocity will increase disorder (turbulence) and decrease boundary layer thickness at the block/water interface. These increases improve transfer of heat (via forced convective cooling) between the coolant and the block.
Furthermore the NexXxoS XP is highly flow rate dependent (as you can see in the graph I posted) so I don't even know where L3D is coming from. Just parroting back something he read somewhere I guess. Or he perhaps figured the strategy of "always disagree with Procooling writers" approach had been working so well in the past that he should stick with it.
Even still it's a lot better than his previous body of work. I still think that a multipage wb review is silly, though.
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