Quote Originally Posted by Nickel020 View Post
Thanks for explaining, makes sense now! But I still don't know how I these values translate into real-wold performance.



How do you go about estimating this?

You can estimate the real world flow rates with my estimator. What that means in terms of temperature is more difficult, generally there isn't much more than about .5C gain from 1GPM to 1.5GPM on something like the D-Tek Fuzion and then it's about .2C from 1.5 to 2.0 GPM, so we're talking pretty small here. That's why I try to just recommend keeping your flow rate above 1 GPM and don't worry about it much, shoot for 1.5GPM to leave some reserves for more restriction later.

Thermal testing rads is something I havn't done yet, but I'm working on it...hope to give it a try soon.