#rotor if your were refering to me. I started looking into collecting pieces for the water block shootout and my determination is that billa's testing is flawed is based on the fact that no user will ever be able to use thier water cooled sysem in the fashion billa is testing. So we will never see the results that he is getting. The information that bill and myself discovered about the inacuracies of the temp sensors built into both the cpu's and motherboard is even worse than anyblody origianly thought. I think I still have the pdf's arround if anybody wants them from both intel and amd.
However this does not invalidate his testing. It does give us a very good source of information but the results will only be true for a system running under the exact same conditions as his testing setup. Since most if not all users will not be able to maintain or setup this type of test equipment it becomes a moot point in regular systems. There will be allot of variables which will not be the same as what billa is testing with.
Unless he can test in the varied ways in which the watercooled systems will be used his results simple will but insufficient for proper analysis. This understanding basicly drove me from water cooling for a while and I simply have not been doing any since then.
So my blocks have not had much use for a while.
I'm currently working on a referigerated system that should be able to regualte temps within the system but even with this setup how many users do you know with a water fountain in thier system?
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