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Originally Posted by Joe
I agree and disagree with Jaydee's take on the industry. I know 4 people who recently water cooled their HTPC's, and home PC's to remove noise. Yes you are right that the people who use it for insane cooling levels are dwindling. The people who use it for silent computing though are going up and up.
For that reason I see reviewing cooling systems to be less a practice in .001C resolution and accuracy, 2000 samplings a second, millions of data points, to a more realistic... general testing of a systems capabilities. Yes the puritans of data will find little value in testing like that... but the people who still post and visit the site Would, and we would attract more of the mainstream readers.
Focusing on acoustics, ease of install, long term reliability, quality construction, and price (comparison against the cost of a similar air setup) I see as the way we move forward on testing this stuff. With CPU temp's gathered as good as reasonable but not wasting thousands of dollars on environmental chambers, die's, lab quality testing hardware, etc...
Let’s be serious here. PC is not what it was a year ago... and it was only the way it was because of a vocal minority of the reader base (Technical to the fringe). People just want to know what works, and see stuff in use. Giving them data they can use and evaluate purchasing decisions on.
I think this is the road map for PC coming back into the fold as a major player in the cooling market as well as a major player in the review industry in general.
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Totally agree Joe, HTPC is where it's at right now. Noise, ease of installation and reliability should be focussed on, along with a decent die sim or some other test bed. I think .1C should be more than enough accuracy for what we want to do.
During the Apogee episode I had my own test bench setup. Nothing fancy mind you, but I could tell the difference between the blocks I had tested on it, Swifty 6000, Zalman WB2, and my own blocks. Kinda lost the zeal for it though, not because I was no longer interested, but things happened yadda yadda.
Oh well, I need to look at the thread you put in your earlier post...