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I'm still amazed that people actually think that a lower flow through the WB will increase the temp by a few degrees.

Some simple math:

big heatload: 200W=200J/s
specific heat of water: 4180J/(kg*K)
low flow:2L/s
rho of water: 1kg/L

increase in temp of the water in WB will be:

dT=200/(4180*2*1)=0.0239K

So the temp will increase 0.02 degrees when it passes through the WB.

Can we now please stop thinking that the water can stay to long in the WB because it will heat up too much.

The same argment can be made for the rad.
Consider a system in equilibrium = rad dissipates the same amount of heatload as the cpu puts in.
Then the temperature difference of the water, from entrance to exit in the rad, will be the same as calculated above for the WB.

Therefore we can conclude that low or high flow doesn't produce big/small temp differences of the water in the system.
Therefore any BS about faster flow in rad makes smaller tempdiff and thus produce much better cooling is a load of crap.

any takers