He is not even using an 1048, it is an 1046. anyway, i think innovatek is shoving some money towards him, the only stuff he ever talks about is innovatek and koolance.
if overclockers.com is a good reference, they state the innovatek to have a c/w rating of 0.23; koolance 0.29. i calculated my cpu xp1500 at 1615 to radiate 77.01 watts at 1.8V, ambient is 21°, cpu temp is 32° that gave me an c/w of approx 14 (fans at full speed that is). so i don't think these kits are for anything more than scared people (i understand, we're talking bout a lot of money down the drain if u screw up)
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what would make my respect for tomshardware return is a watercooling roundup of DD, swiftech, cuplex,... blocks on different tubing. a nice radiator and pump roundup would also be appreciated. i can figure that that would mean loads of work for em review boys, but i guess it would interest ppl alot more than c 20 , 20 page review of motherboards or ti4200 that all score in a 1% range of eachother (with tolerance errors that means jack shit)
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