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Originally Posted by EnJoY
"Swiftech fine-tuned the design to yield slightly better performance than the original in terms of thermal and flow resistance."
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Copied from my response at OC Forums:
"It's been almost 12 months since the original design was laid down and subsequently tested. Been able to make a few little improvements here and there in that time to tweak it out to be better flow-per-flow right across the entire flow range, and with a slightly lower pressure drop to boot.
On the performance per hydraulic power graph, which IMO is the single best indicator of a design's performance & efficiency, it is almost uniformally about 3% better (i.e. 3% lower temps) with any given pump."
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I thought the G5 was a "fine tuned" G4, guess I was wrong. I'll be interested in seeing a comparison between Swifty's Storm and Cathar's Storm.
Today 02:17 PM
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The "Storm" design is a set of geometrically scalable design parameters where the further you scale it the higher the performance and the higher complexity and cost to manufacture.
The G5 is a 5th level scaling of the reference design parameters, and a G4 is a 4th level scaling. They are two distinct block designs drawn from the same design reference.
The G5 was also done in silver just to give it a little extra performance edge.
The Storm reference design has evolved and been refined over the last 12 months to accomodate the improvements that both Swiftech and I have wrought/discovered.