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Originally posted by Player0
I know from personally speaking with Gabe at SwiftTech that they had experimented with 'pin' like designs on the bases of their waterblocks back when they first came out with their socket line of heatsinks, but the performance was never there so they were released with flat bases. I ended up drilling divots in my base and it did improve performance on those old blocks though (MCW370 and up). I think that people were encasing heatsinks in lexan and throwing water through them long before any blocks of this design were mass produced by any watercooling company though. Of course, when you have a small copper slab, there are only so many different ways you can drill/mill it, so designer toes are going to get stepped on.
I dont want to get in to the who invented what arguement. I still say its more like the Cascade than the WhiteWater, but just because of the jetting thing. The RBX outperforms the WhiteWater though, so if there are any bits of it copied, they also improved some things.
My biggest concern is that the RBX is going to put a dent in Cathars business. I mean, they can make it cheaper, and it works close to Cascade levels. Im sure Cathar has some other ideas floating around, but theres no mistaking that watercooling is becoming big business, and patents are going to become more and more important. Was the water jet idea patented? Anyway, I hope that Cathar will continue to come up with new ideas, and not be swayed by the larger manufacturers who can really run with the idea. I know he tried to market the White Water through Dtek but... i dont know what happened there.
I dont really want to get pulled in to an almost certain flame war, so I'm pulling out 
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Just more evidence to the stack that anyone can write articles for a website.
Your results are considerably different than others and very suspect, your showing your bias just by jumping in on this thread and defending this block, you don't know the D-Tek deal with Cathar? (the white water is selling well all over the world!), you still havn't given your testing bed specs or answered other questions, your testing results are rediculous, to much of the word "about" from someone who is supposed to be a tester, etc....
Your results will automatically be dismissed. if you want to keep credibility at least try and not look biased towards the stuff you review.
Will be interested to see the results of this block by ligitimate testers. Yeah I know, good luck there.....