Oh, and I tried to quantify the MCW55 on my video card GPU, but lack of an adequate temperature resolution on the card prevented me from gathering results good enough for me to make any conclusive statements about it. What was evident to me though was that it was performing roughly on par with an old Hydra prototype which was assessed on my CPU testbed to be around 0.5-1.0C worse than old original all-copper White Water at ~110W heat load. Still, such results are not conclusive in any shape or fashion and I have deliberately held off making any comments about the MCW55, other than to suggest in public that it is certainly a good performer. No GPU block has ever enabled a higher GPU overclock than the old Hydra prototype and the MCW55 was certainly the closest thing I've seen yet to it. Still, the old Hydra prototype is now WW beater, let along a Storm equaller. Take that for what it's worth, which in my opinion is worth very little and such an observation should be taken with a very small grain of salt. I have next to no faith in the finality of that performance assessment of the MCW55 other than to say "it seems pretty good for GPU's".
Am presently trying to get a suitable CPU mounting bracket for the MCW55 machined up so I can quantify it directly on my CPU testbeds. One of my machinist's CNC mill's broke down though and so I have next to zero machine time available prior to Christmas.
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