Seems to make the case stronger for the series blocks, but it probably still makes sense to do testing as well to get the outputs for the setup one is using. This would seem to me like it would be especially applicable in a case like mine where I'm making my own blocks and won't have any reliable reference data to look at.
I have another question I'm wanting to ask which is somewhat off topic, so I'm starting a new thread here:
http://forums.procooling.com/vbb/sho...&threadid=7079
At least part of it is somewhat related, in that I was wondering if anyone had data about how long it would take the CPU's to overheat if a pump failed so there was no longer water circulating in a system (No pelts or extreme cooling, just normal WC to ambient setup)
Assuming I had a flow detector that would detect the failure and send a signal to the system, would there be time for a graceful shutdown (ie 'shutdown -h now') or would I be safer to have the sensor trigger a relay that killed the power and slammed the system off (and worry about any resulting data problems later...)
I know that there are many variables, but lets assume a medium to bad scenario - Athlon, stock to moderate overclock (80-100 watts?) small to medium size copper WB, some airflow, but just what you might get from 1 80mm and the PSU, not enough to significantly cool things down. The shutdown must be fast enough to prevent damage to any hardware so that you could just replace the pump and power things back up.