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Originally Posted by BRiT
Dave/Cathar/Anyone of influence... What you must do now is clear. Get busy on convincing Swiftech they need such a pump!  |
Well, it's a bit of a chicken and the egg scenario at this level.
The water-cooling market isn't really large enough for a
single water-cooling manufacturer to justify the investment, but the global enthusiast water-cooling market is plenty large enough (>50K units easily) to justify getting such a pump manufactured.
So therein lies the rub. A single manufacturer has trouble justifying getting the pump made on the basis of their own level of market share. A pump manufacturer can easily justify it on the basis of the global market size, but that pump manufacturer needs to understand and believe the size of the market that they'd be both selling into, and also creating for themselves by providing the pump. It's also somewhat of an "If you build it, they will certainly come" scenario. If such a pump were made, then additional market option avenues would likely also open up for it, just because it exists.
The european waterblock manufacturers are screaming out for a small, quiet and high pressure pump as suits their philosophy, just as the USA makers also desire something that's powerful and of sufficient flow rate capacity and efficiency. Such a pump model as described bridges all worlds, but sadly it's left in the hands of pump manufacturers who either really don't care a great deal about computer water-cooling market-place to realise that, or don't fully understand the water-cooling market-place, even though the market-place size and demands easily justifies it.
I mean, we're talking about making a pump that pretty much is what the single answer would be almost world-wide when people ask "What pump do I choose for my system?"