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pHaestus · 11-19-2003, 03:15 PM

I test what is sent to me; it isn't out of greed in getting new stuff but necessity. I sink enough dollars into instrumentation and operating costs (seems like I am at Home Depot buying $20 in fittings and tubing every time I mess with the setup at all). I just don't have the money to buy every block that comes out in addition to that. Not sure if it's even worth it to me to do so; free marketing for block manufacturers and I get nothing out of my investment. I would be looking at probably $300CAD to get two blocks for testing if I am to purchase a Cascade and WW from Cathar directly. I just can't justify it in my budget and neither can Cathar justify sending out a lot of review blocks with his profit margins.

I have spoken to Bruce at Cooltechnica and I think he will loan me an RBX and a DTek WW to test out eventually. He has to make money though and I would frankly feel bad if he were sending me blocks to test when the store is sold out otherwise.

I wish JoeC would put his equipment to a bit better use; he has a nice test setup but doesn't seem to be producing exactly the breadth of review I'd really like. As far as it goes though i think he's about as good as there is right now. My TBred system is nice but it's really a sort of hybrid bench/system testing unit. Still not able to directly measure CPU current which is a problem.

11-19-2003, 03:15 PM	#187
pHaestus Big Player Making Big Money Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: irc.lostgeek.com #procooling.com Posts: 4,782	I test what is sent to me; it isn't out of greed in getting new stuff but necessity. I sink enough dollars into instrumentation and operating costs (seems like I am at Home Depot buying $20 in fittings and tubing every time I mess with the setup at all). I just don't have the money to buy every block that comes out in addition to that. Not sure if it's even worth it to me to do so; free marketing for block manufacturers and I get nothing out of my investment. I would be looking at probably $300CAD to get two blocks for testing if I am to purchase a Cascade and WW from Cathar directly. I just can't justify it in my budget and neither can Cathar justify sending out a lot of review blocks with his profit margins. I have spoken to Bruce at Cooltechnica and I think he will loan me an RBX and a DTek WW to test out eventually. He has to make money though and I would frankly feel bad if he were sending me blocks to test when the store is sold out otherwise. I wish JoeC would put his equipment to a bit better use; he has a nice test setup but doesn't seem to be producing exactly the breadth of review I'd really like. As far as it goes though i think he's about as good as there is right now. My TBred system is nice but it's really a sort of hybrid bench/system testing unit. Still not able to directly measure CPU current which is a problem.