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DragonsDream · 12-14-2002, 06:28 PM

I am a new member here and very new to water cooling. After reading the thread here and what I could at [H]’s website, I wanted to give a new guy option. The idea of water cooling isn’t new to me, I know people have done it for years, and I’ve just now gotten around to trying it myself. When I first started hunting around for information, I could be described like many [H] members. I wanted some one to tell me what block is best. I went around looking for products that got good reviews. After reading more reviews than I can count, I notice that one website would give a good review of a product, where another would give a poor review of the same product. This always sets off bells with me and makes me question why. It seems that the target audience for [H]’s website is the person that wants some body to tell them what products to buy. Anybody can slap a water block, pump and rad into a system and it’s going to work (a general statement) but more than likely won’t provide the best cooling it can. This is where people like BillA come in that give all this numbers and tech data that confuses the [H] members or a lot of people for that matter. That kind of information is for the people that want to know “why” this water block performs better in one setup and not another. It is for people that want to find what rad, what block and what flow rate is going to give the best cooling. It isn’t for the people that just want to be able to say I got water inside my computer. It’s now 4 months later, and I’m still learning a lot every day. The banning that has gone on over at [H] doesn’t surprise me. I have found with many forums on many web sites, there is this attitude among people that they are the one and only person. Many are not willing to answer questions, will flame or even ban if some body questions what they say. I’ve been in several forums where “n00bs” as they call them don’t seem to be welcome because many of them ask too many questions and a lot of times, I’ve seen where they already new more than the person answering the question which has lead to flaming or banning. Just my two cents, I now return you to your normal thread reading.

12-14-2002, 06:28 PM	#166
DragonsDream Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: North Carolina Posts: 13	I am a new member here and very new to water cooling. After reading the thread here and what I could at [H]’s website, I wanted to give a new guy option. The idea of water cooling isn’t new to me, I know people have done it for years, and I’ve just now gotten around to trying it myself. When I first started hunting around for information, I could be described like many [H] members. I wanted some one to tell me what block is best. I went around looking for products that got good reviews. After reading more reviews than I can count, I notice that one website would give a good review of a product, where another would give a poor review of the same product. This always sets off bells with me and makes me question why. It seems that the target audience for [H]’s website is the person that wants some body to tell them what products to buy. Anybody can slap a water block, pump and rad into a system and it’s going to work (a general statement) but more than likely won’t provide the best cooling it can. This is where people like BillA come in that give all this numbers and tech data that confuses the [H] members or a lot of people for that matter. That kind of information is for the people that want to know “why” this water block performs better in one setup and not another. It is for people that want to find what rad, what block and what flow rate is going to give the best cooling. It isn’t for the people that just want to be able to say I got water inside my computer. It’s now 4 months later, and I’m still learning a lot every day. The banning that has gone on over at [H] doesn’t surprise me. I have found with many forums on many web sites, there is this attitude among people that they are the one and only person. Many are not willing to answer questions, will flame or even ban if some body questions what they say. I’ve been in several forums where “n00bs” as they call them don’t seem to be welcome because many of them ask too many questions and a lot of times, I’ve seen where they already new more than the person answering the question which has lead to flaming or banning. Just my two cents, I now return you to your normal thread reading. __________________ Now I wish I would have keep my TRS-80.