Ok, excuse this noob and my lack of knowledge. I've never had any schooling in engineering or such, but can't testing be done without super/semi accurate (high dollar) test benches. Seems to me that if you start with a known starting point (baseline) and compare the results to that, that should be accurate enough. Let me try to explain further. Say you start with a test bench (your own computer) and hook-up a Maze3. You test with say 10 remounts and average your test temps together. This would be the baseline. You then hook-up, remount and test your w/b to be tested in the same fashion and then compare the results to the Maze3. Do actual numbers really matter? Or the numbers of how much lower/higher your w/b is compared to the Maze3. Surely most w/bs will run in an average range and wouldn't the m/b temps (either under cpu or diode) be close enough in that range to make comparitive readings? And even though other testers may have different pumps, rads, hose size, etc., still wouldn't the results be fairly accurate enough? The only variable that would be a snag in this methology is different users using different pumps and rads. But can't even this be overcome by a formula of some sort? Surely some of these young mad scientists to be could come up with this.
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