If you want completely objective reviews with scientifically supportable results, you're going to have to pay for them.
Pay, Big $$$..
The closest you can come for general stuff is something like Consumer Reports.
and even they dont give the kind of results people expect here. The target market for things like water coolers and passive cooling systems is tiny compared to the thing CU reviews, like cars, washing machine and toasters.
So , you're going to have to deal with positive bias on free review sites. Set your expectations accordingly and cross check across multiple reviews to see if the results correlate.
As far as the Zalman case goes:
It's an interesting design exercise, it's not for the general PC owner, it's not for the overclocker. You're not going get bragging points for haveing the coolest die temperatures with it. You will be able to say you have the quietest PC,
although Mac Cube and G5 owners may challenge you on that. A preview is just that.. I dont expect real test results, just a few pictures of where things stand at this point.
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