Jaydee:
Normally I'd have some choice words for the importance of statistical significance and the central role of error bars in any honest testing. Luckily for you though there's now a waterblock testing alliance! And undoubtedly Ben will drop in soon to tell you that "it's ok there's nothing to worry about! There's plenty of room for fluff reviews and "good enough is good enough".
Hooray!
Truth is you have to be mentally off kilter to spend thousands of dollars to test $40 waterblocks. I've cobbled together an almost acceptable test rig for a few hundred, and it's a pain to use. But I enjoy going downstairs and fiddling with it and making my little at home heat transfer discoveries. It will be really satisfying to have it all come together and post a new waterbock comparison article here on Procooling. Would you honestly be satisfied if that article DIDNT include a pressure drop vs flow rate chart? Or a C/W vs flow rate comparison for all blocks? The readers of this site are sophisticated enough to deal with that I think. Now the statistics behind whether a line running through points on a graph is meaningful or complete bullshit may be a bit too much for the average reader of this site. That doesn't make it any less important a question though...
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