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Originally posted by airspirit
I like the instant calculus in my head thingy. I think that is where much of the confusion is coming from here. The more efficient the block is, the more heat that will be transferred to the water rather than dumped through other means (air, board, etc). That is the meaning of that graph. If you dump a larger percentage of the identical heat load into the water (see above), the water will be warmer. Though the radiator will work more efficiently because of the larger dT, it will NOT cool the water to below the temp of the lower heat input. Therefore, you will have warmer water. Not a big difference, but a difference nonetheless.
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That's true, but you're going on about it as if the best performing blocks fare better because they have a greater secondary heat loss, and that's just not the case.