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laxman · 09-04-2006, 08:45 PM

Over the last year I have seen this site's activity come to a slow halt. Although this is not just contained to procooling but the w/c community as a whole. It seems that we as a community have reached a plateau in not only cooling efficiency but innovation. Leaving the community very little to write about or grow on. Also this lack of substantial improvement have caused C/W values of different water blocks to creep closer together. Therefore putting a heavy burden on the tester to judge which water block is “better”. This burden of proof caused many debates over testing practices and which water blocks are truly “better”. With many debates turning heated, many strong leaders of the community lessen their contributions to the community and the community shrank. Thus we are where we are now. Since we cannot change what has happened, lets try not to make those same mistakes. The largest problem faced with the community at this point should be how do we break the plateau of efficiency that we are in now. Or how do we provide quite cooling or even silent cooling without sacrificing efficiency. Or how can we make these cooling solutions smaller, lighter, or even mobile. It should not be how do we test it or which product is marginally better. Yes we have to test well but if the improvement is under 1c why should we care. Personally the former problems are what loom and hang in my mind. Therefore I would love to be the person to beat out the g7 by any reasonable margin. This mindset is what has brought me to this point. Right now I have a full scale ready test bench to test water blocks, radiators, and full systems. Not only that but in about a month I will have a full CNC mill with a bi-directional repeatability of about 5-10 micrometers (bases off daedal slides very cool stuff). So yes I am gearing up to build and test many new water cooling solutions. Right now I have 3 or 4 water blocks and some other more interesting stuff planned. This is what I am doing to help the community. So I will make this offer to anyone, give me something to test and I will test it give me something to build and I will build it. These are just my thoughts take them as such.

09-04-2006, 08:45 PM	#24
laxman Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: evanston Posts: 41	Re: Save ProCooling: Staff Wanted! Over the last year I have seen this site's activity come to a slow halt. Although this is not just contained to procooling but the w/c community as a whole. It seems that we as a community have reached a plateau in not only cooling efficiency but innovation. Leaving the community very little to write about or grow on. Also this lack of substantial improvement have caused C/W values of different water blocks to creep closer together. Therefore putting a heavy burden on the tester to judge which water block is “better”. This burden of proof caused many debates over testing practices and which water blocks are truly “better”. With many debates turning heated, many strong leaders of the community lessen their contributions to the community and the community shrank. Thus we are where we are now. Since we cannot change what has happened, lets try not to make those same mistakes. The largest problem faced with the community at this point should be how do we break the plateau of efficiency that we are in now. Or how do we provide quite cooling or even silent cooling without sacrificing efficiency. Or how can we make these cooling solutions smaller, lighter, or even mobile. It should not be how do we test it or which product is marginally better. Yes we have to test well but if the improvement is under 1c why should we care. Personally the former problems are what loom and hang in my mind. Therefore I would love to be the person to beat out the g7 by any reasonable margin. This mindset is what has brought me to this point. Right now I have a full scale ready test bench to test water blocks, radiators, and full systems. Not only that but in about a month I will have a full CNC mill with a bi-directional repeatability of about 5-10 micrometers (bases off daedal slides very cool stuff). So yes I am gearing up to build and test many new water cooling solutions. Right now I have 3 or 4 water blocks and some other more interesting stuff planned. This is what I am doing to help the community. So I will make this offer to anyone, give me something to test and I will test it give me something to build and I will build it. These are just my thoughts take them as such.