Gotta be careful though Joe: radiate and side mounted compunurses and C/W tables all originated from this same exact line of reasoning.
I think that you let the readers come to realizations at their own speed. I remember when I saw your "CPU back" measurements complete with dremel on the socket and epoxied thermocouple that I really realized how much hotter my TBird was than I suspected. So I soon did the same thing (with thermistor since I had a spare flat one). That wasn't a popular stance (as you mentioned), but it has to feel good to have AMD correlate diode to cpu back temps in technical documents later.
There are tons of untested ideas and theories relating to water cooling that require careful precision testing to really expose. The same questions pop up often on forums relating to system design and component choice (all forums are full of them), and there are plenty of responses but not much data and often the answers are hearsay or popular opinion more than anything else. The community needs testers who are interested and have equipment up to the task of proving (or more often disproving) some ideas. Thermodynamics isn't always particularly intuitive (especially to those with a non-technical background) and even though my background is decent the application and terminology are all different and still have a substantial learning curve. The need for reproducible numbers at acceptable uncertainty levels goes far beyond reviewing blocks I guess is my point.
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