I also still fail to see how "better than a White Water" comments can be made though, especially since a White Water was not used in testing. It is only a hypothesis to suggest such, but it cannot be a firm statement.
Okay, fair enough. I wont say anything about the White Water in the review until I test one. I merely thought that the Cascade was the 'design-up' over the WW.
Ideally I would've like to have seen a peak overclock/over-volt test as the distributed point cooling of the Cascade provides a more uniform mechanism across the die area.
Definitely. I was unable to get any more heat out of my XP2400+. I think the blocks should be tested on a highly clocked P4 rig. I think the degrees of seperation will be much more evident, and I think the Cascade would come out on top for sure.
In any review I would also like to see CPU temp minus water temp deltas as this better factors out issues in the ambient temperature variations.
That information will be in my full review. Cascade provides dT of 8.5c at my highest test, and the DBX runs a dT of 9.6c, under ambient of about 25c.
In any test between two blocks I always like to mount them in opposition to each other (alternate between blocks) to gain some sort of sanity checking.
I ran the DBX tests after the Cascade. I had been using the Cascade in the system because I liked it, so when the new block showed up, I swapped it out. So the testing was pretty close on these.
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