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Originally posted by unregistered
what's the point of a fancy wb used with a cheap pump ?
just match that pump with a 'good enough' wb and save the money for a window
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If said wb costs $55 USD and the performance is still better than anything else commercial with a $60 pump, and better again with a high-performance pump, then this makes it a very valid point to do so.
If you want to sell blocks you don't want to be asking people to buy $500 pumps, or attempt to scrounge a cheap one off Ebay, just to make the block perform. If a design is optimised for high pressure pumps but sucks with low pressure pumps, no-one will buy it. If a design straddles the two extremes and offers near optimal performance but with a low pressure pump, but is still able to scale its performance up with a high pressure pump and still perform just 0.5C worse than a high-pressure focussed block, then that's a fair compromise.
More people buy BMW M3's than Ferrari Spiders, 'cos people are happy to pay 1/4 the price for a car that performs 90% as well but is far more practical in the real world.
At least, that's how I view it.