Originally Posted by
Thasp
This thread makes me feel much better.
I have an aquaextreme mp-05 pro and I was looking to see if there was anything new that'd blow it out of the water(no pun intended) for an upcoming i7 system.
Unlike air cooling where I see tons of 8c differences in reviews, among over a dozen blocks for the most part it's 3c differences, tops.. sometimes 1c.
It's good to know I don't have to go nuts with this.
I feel bad for wanting to buy a new block vs lapping this one(I'm not sure if my CPU is retarded or the nasty base is what causes the 8c difference among cores @ load OC'd), but with the price of a good condition block... I don't feel too bad at all.
I keep my radiator outside, it's so cold that 55c or 56.5c at load with the q6600 @ 1.65v won't make any difference to me.
Thanks for doing this.