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Originally posted by WAJ_UK
Accurate testing certainly is important for development but I see Ewans point on questioning whether it is relevant to the people who buy the products. A large part of how a water block performs is due to how the user mounts it as a poor installation could make a good performing water block perform badly. Surely the mounting system is an area than can be improved upon. People don't seem to put as much effort into designing how the wb will mount as they do to the design of the heatsink within the block. I think that a consistent, easy mounting method that anyone can use and get reasonable results from will be quite a significant step in the design of water blocks.
sorry for going a bit off topic i'spose it should really be in the wb design forum
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Unfortuantly there are only so many ways to mount a water block. Through the holes or with a clip. Mounting advancments will have to be done on the mobo.CPU manufactures side not block designers. We just have to work with what they give us.
Also if you mount the block wrong chances are the effect will be less if the block is a better performer. Without knowing what is good and what is bad the consumer has no clue. With the recent reviews I have seen the consumer is less informed AFTER reading the review than before. Such as the recent liquid ninja review.
If your looking for convenience you can forget the dart board method I proposed and just drop the names in a hat and blindly pick one out. That will take less effort and be just as good as the reviews as of late.
IMO of course.