Well, I'm only human. I get just as pissy as everyone else when I start getting rubbed the wrong way. If you find some of my remarks to be unproffesional and defensive, it's only because of being assulted on here.
When you take into account that his testing setup was an Abit in socket thermistor and a digidoc, that he mounted blocks 2 times, and that he generally has disdain for bench testing then I stand corrected JayDee.
The Abit sensor has been isolated with silicone and neorprene to limit external temperature stimuli, the digidoc was calibrated with a Fluke DMM with a probe attatchment, and none of the blocks in the review have only been mounted 2 times. As I continue my testing, I am revisiting the blocks, and each block has been mounted 3-4 times, with nearly no deviation in performance between mountings. The Swifty and RBX will be mounted more than half-a-dozen times when I am done. And I have no disdain for professional bench testing. I have nothing but respect for those results and the people willing to take the time to be so thorough. But Im not trying to compete with that, and I am doing the best I can with the tools at hand, and Ive never claimed that my my results are 100% gospel. Simply a rough guide for others to compare performance by.
The review is probably of little real use to anyone (well blocks performing within 1-2 C of one another with a 10C error bar).
There's a spread of about 8c degrees between the different blocks. Yeah, I do wish that I had more input wattage to test on. But the reality is, waterblocks on an Athlon do actually perform very similar to each other. Yes, on a P4 the results could be different, but that wasnt in the scope of my test. I would like to see the ranges a little higher, but I still see value in my testing. I dont beleive the error is anywhere near 10c. Within two degrees dT max, if something went very wrong. But my results are very consistant and im sure they are reproducable.
Regarding the PM quote, Im not familiar with the incident, but its not beyond the bounds of possibilit. Its all up on LN.com somewhere, since we don't delete posts. Like on any other site, sometimes people get in to debates, sometimes people leave. I dont think that if I 'drove' someone away that I was the only guilty party. I have my bad days just like everyone, and hell, I might have even been wrong in that case. I admit my mistakes and I try to learn from them. But there are always two sides to every story. The guy was probably being a jerk anyway.
Actually, I don't see people, who post here to learn, getting bashed. What gets people bashed is presuming to teach without knowing the subject.
I dont recall trying to teach here. I just posted some of my results because the RBX topic came up here. If my testing doesnt meet the standards some of you might have, then just ignore them I guess. All I ever commented on was that the RBX has near Cascade performance, and i think other comparisons will show that. I still think the Cascade is better though, especially on P4 systems where the differences will be more apparant.
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