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Originally Posted by Brians256
Here's my goal:
the design of a cooling system that will give me the most performance (how fast it does my tasks) while being reliable, affordable, and quiet.
Any of those goals that is missed will give me a failed system. I use air in one system because I had not the time or money (at that moment) to put a better watercooling system into it.
The idea that we are (homogenously) not interested in designing a cooling system is not accurate. There is a limit to which we can go on optimizing single components for performance, and I believe we are at that limit right now.
Tests are easiest when done for isolated components for easily measured criteria, such as AMD64 die temp given same system and only changing the waterblock. That does not guarantee it is generating data that is desired, as pH will readily admit. That is one of the reasons, I believe he is interested in doing system tests. That is in addition to the fact that doing the same test over and over again gets boring.  |
You are not designing a cooling solution though. Just slapping together some parts so and so says works good together. Designing a cooling solution is from paper to production IMO. There is no one here that I know of that is doing such. Not sure what BillA is doing now though if anything it is commercial. That is the only reason for such testing.
As for the article reviewers are simply NOT going to do that Bill. They are not going to spend what they have in their pocket. And the very few that do will simply be wasting their time. By the time they get the bench working a new CPU will come out and they will have to do it all over again.
None of the testing done today or this year will be relevant to Presler style CPU's. That is why I say design another useless test bench because it will be just that.
If you got the cash to continue to change your bench and always be a year or 2 behind current CPU design then have at it. pH is already behind the times with his 939 system.
Also Bill you claim to be an enthusiast but and enthusiast of what? Testing? No commercial intrests? Then what was Lothar rambling on about in that thread he started?