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well... I could see the posts that Bill edited out as non-productive and *gasp* they really were just personal junk

Which sounds more reasonable:
1) Intel is able to decide what is important to generate a reasonable simulation of the heat loads their CPUs generate and then produces such a product for oems to prepare for the future and do big dollar R&D.

2) Hobbiests immediately find fatal flaws in this simulation setup that have somehow passed right through all of Intel and all thermal engineers at OEMs. A $10 hunk of copper and a cartridge heater remains superior for the truly enlightened tester of coolers.

It's laughable if you have the proper perspective on it. What is really the problem here is that OMG a really cheap commercial waterblock can come close to the performance of a really expensive one for most people. Is that SO hard to believe? It happened with the MCW6000 vs Whitewaters and noone had to explode all over the forum in a frenzy of poo-flinging.

Both guys are at fault here, but the mentality that everything commercial must be bad is ridiculous imo. Or am I missing your point?