1. I tried it a couple times before I crushed my cpu.
2. Yes I'm trying less flow but I don't have another cpu here to test with yet. I found a good german pump that carries a 2 year warranty and is dc. They are sending me a demo unit so I can test it out. On my system I also tried a 80gph fountain pump that gave the exact same temps as the ehiem I was using before. I have been watching the watts that these small pumps produce and I have been trying to stick to the one with the smallest wattage output. In this way less heat is introduced into the system to begin with. The rio pumps by comparison put out almost twice the watts. This is probably why the rios heat the water a couple degrees warmer than the ehiem.
3. The cpu I was using was an overclocked duron. They are known to be harder to cool because of thier smaller surface area. Maybe if increased the thikness on the bottom of the block it may help to spread the heat better at least for the duron. Shortly after this I crushed it so I was unable to run a second round of tests to confirm this. Also the arctic stuff does seem to give a few degree better temps after a few days.
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