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pHaestus · 10-03-2002, 03:42 PM

If you can't grasp how water inlet temperatures affect CPU cooling then perhaps an example may help.

In the daytime, it gets up to 24C in my basement. I test a waterblock at this time, and it reports a temperature of 26C for water inlet temp and 40C for CPU die temp.

In the evening, there was a cold snap and the room got down to 22C. I test a second block and learn water temperature was 24C, and the CPU die temp is 39C.

Which block performs better?

39-24 = 15
40-26 = 14

The block with the higher die temperature is actually doing a better job of bringing CPU temp to water temp.

This is not reflected in the review in question, however.

10-03-2002, 03:42 PM	#49
pHaestus Big Player Making Big Money Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: irc.lostgeek.com #procooling.com Posts: 4,782	If you can't grasp how water inlet temperatures affect CPU cooling then perhaps an example may help. In the daytime, it gets up to 24C in my basement. I test a waterblock at this time, and it reports a temperature of 26C for water inlet temp and 40C for CPU die temp. In the evening, there was a cold snap and the room got down to 22C. I test a second block and learn water temperature was 24C, and the CPU die temp is 39C. Which block performs better? 39-24 = 15 40-26 = 14 The block with the higher die temperature is actually doing a better job of bringing CPU temp to water temp. This is not reflected in the review in question, however.