The WTBA as I see it is a way to set up a test bench of sufficient quality that you can post a review online with meaningful, accurate numbers, and be able to show that they aren't pulling numbers out of their ass. And then as an extension of this, though I haven't seen it mentioned really, is then finding the cheapest way to build such a system- the cheapest products that meet the requirements, eBay auctions that have good equipment.
Someone like cathar isn't the target here. He can do quite fine with a $30 thermocouple on the back of a CPU, because a set up like that would give him good relative readings, but it would be absolutely meaningless to anyone else. The target group is someone who wants to test waterblocks and be able to post accurate meaningful numbers online. The Alliance part comes in when other people with test benches with similar standards also post- their relative numbers won't be completely meaningless, they will actually have some relevance. How much is something we're trying to figure out here.
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