I should hope so, the Swiftech Compact costs more than twice as much!
I respect your opinion - but the rest of your post isn't describing the approach we took with the H50. You're describing a great product - one that would outperform the H50, but would be much, much more expensive.
We've partnered with Swiftech before on products - the Corsair COOL, for example. We've also produced external cooling solutions like the Nautilus 500.
In reality - the number of people who spend more than $100 on CPU cooling is very small, and most of them are going to build their own liquid cooling loop.
From a sales perspective - there just aren't enough customers to justify the development costs. That doesn't mean that we won't do it - it just means it's harder to make money if we decide to do that.
Thanks for your comments - you've really brought the opposing viewpoint out and showed that there are some people out there that the H50 isn't designed for. We knew that to begin with -
we never wanted to compete with the Swiftech unit, but instead were trying to compete against high-end aircooling.
So yeah, you can buy a TRUE and lap it, do the washer mod, get some decent fans and you'll outperform the H50 in a high-airflow case. But for most people - they'd rather buy something off the shelf and have it work right out of the box.
We're not trying to be the best CPU cooler in the world - just the best one for ~$70.
PS - if you want to see it pitted against an IFX-14, check here:
http://www.informaticaeasy.net...s-ifx-14.html?start=10
It's in Italian but the graphs are easily understood. We're very competitive with the IFX-14.
