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Originally Posted by Marci
Sorry but that's bollocks. You're talking about the cutting edge of the benchmarking crowd where OC's don't have to be sustainable other than to run the single bench in question. Radically different crowd.
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No, they overclock. The above ambient crowd overclocks. There is also the phase change below ambient crowd who also overclocks (at sustained periods). The above ambient crowd is the bottom of the barrel so to speak, with the least performance gains and the least investment.
So I ask, what is the point of benchtesting to this crowd at this point (other than it being a hobby). There are physical limitations. For those enthuseists who wish to make the next leap in performance the obvious road is a reliable phase change system.
In that context this block by Swiftech appears to be overdesigned with far too much investment in getting data to use to market it. Now we see in fact that their own investment has turned against them and the very data they used to market it is the flak they are recieving. Nobody in their right minds will ever attempt this path in waterblock marketing to the bottom of the barrel again.