Confusing graphs for water coolers

[cpuwiz]

I'm confused by the graphs for the Innovatek and Swiftech water coolers. The best Innovatek cooler runs 8 degrees cooler than the air cooler in the article, and that is at maximum power. The Innovatek is only 2-3 degrees cooler than the Swiftech. Are these differences worth getting excited about? (I'm not a water cooler expert)

Also, THG's homemade water cooler ($115 March 2001) held a Duron 750 at 24 degrees. How does it fare using the new standard test setup?

Inexpensive programmers are too expensive to have on critical projects.

 

[knowan]

I agree, they shouls have had a better explaination of the graph. At first I thought that they were showing the amount of heat TRANSFERED (or taken away) instead of the resultant core temp. Also, why did they list a dBa reader in the "other tools" section and then never mention anything about the noise?

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[cprfan]

I'm confused by the graphs for the Innovatek and Swiftech water coolers. The best Innovatek cooler runs 8 degrees cooler than the air cooler in the article, and that is at maximum power. The Innovatek is only 2-3 degrees cooler than the Swiftech. Are these differences worth getting excited about?

If the Swiftech rad had been a different one or even had a fan on it, the results would have been much better for the Swiftech kit.

I also think Swiftech's waterblock could use an improvement in the form of some ridges or other forms of fins cast into the base instead of being "flat".

 

[Guest]

Well a couple of degrees is considered a "slaughter", especially when considering one kit didn't even use a fan on a radiator. In addition no pics of the install showing they even USED the products, and no real data other than a couple of uninterpreted graphs. Is it necessary to state the company that SLAUGHTERED the other by a few degrees was a German company? are there any other conclusions that can be drawn?

laughable