bigdawginva: Personally I like the fact that they don't pick or endorse a specific product. It lends credibility to testing and or their view about a cooling subject, (wb's, pumps, rads, etc). Maybe it's just my engineering side coming out wanting to find my own solution to this very complex problem. BillA's articles help out a great deal, but to do what your asking he would have to test every wb known. And even then he could only give you which wb did what during the test. WC is such a complex issue it would be VERY, VERY difficult and very time consuming to create a matrix type chart. The real benefit I get out of his articles is he puts some numbers on parts that the manuf. don't.
If I was able to get detailed specs on wb's, and rad's, things like pressure drop at a given flow rate, C/W info, etc. It would be relatively easy to pick out complementary pieces to fit into a system. It's the lack of information given and the interdependency that makes the question so complex.
The only thing WC'ing gets like this is pumps. The manuf's give you the detailed specs (for the most part). But without the rest this info only helps in relation to other pumps, and really won't tell you if a certain pump will actually perform in your 'system' any better or not.
I don't want to trash the IDEA, that's great, I'd love to see someone do a matrix. I just don't think it will happen any time soon the way you would like. And if some one does do one the first thing I'll do is try to corroborate the info somehow, but with very few doing really subjective testing that will be hard to do.
OK, OK, I guess I woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. I normally just keep my opinions to myself, but there's mine.
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