Quote Originally Posted by T_Flight View Post
Guys ease up. I discussed this with somebody who is highly respected here. I am not gonna drag his name into this, but he has told me that mounting theser things can be tricky. Some of them have springs that excert so much pressure you could crack a board, and I believe him. Others cxan be tioghtened down all the way, but have less pressure and mnay people are left to mod springs or hard mount. Hard mounting takes ***experience***. After disicussing it I wouldn't try it. Maybe down the road I would, but it would only happen after I had some experience. I would flip out if i busted a 400 dollar motherboard.

Other things that can happen is uneven pressure, and this has been discussed here in articles written by many respected watercoolers in this forum. Movieman just wrote that Vapor also wrote an article about this.

That was not a shot at the competition. It's a fact. To get the best temps you want an even repeatable mount. I didn't read anything into that. I'm glad Gabe posted that, becasue there are alot of people getting into watercooling. I am one of them. I want all the info I can get. It is greatly appreciated.
It's all well and good. You have to take extra care when mounting stuff, that's always true.

I take exception to the numbers pulled out of nowhere and the whole "my product is the only safe product" message that was couched in what was otherwise a good warning to the community.

I work with stats every day and it's unreal how people pull numbers out of their behinds with no grounding in reality.