Sorry, the data is not coming back, let me try and explain my thoughts and decision.

I've shared what I've learned, you've had an opportunity to read through it up until yesterday, my mission of sharing what I've learned is done. I never said I would continue to publish my results in perpetuity. That costs money and frankly I'm not interested in doing that in any form. They are only tests and thoughts, tests by one person, using one particular method, and under one set of conditions. As I've heard before and agree with, there is no one perfect test that you can draw definitive conclusions from for every type of condition and I'm often wrong, and I make mistakes like everyone else. To really understand how anything performs you need a community of people willing to contribute to the cause, not any one person.

I've had to think back and dig deep to understand what it was that inspired me to spend so much time doing something that was over time lost. That core value and inspiration was nothing more than a desire for knowledge and thirst for learning. Even more specific it was the "Lack" of information and "Mystery" that made it so much fun for me. How does this perform, what happens if I do that...etc. There seemed to be much more testing interest in the forums when I first came here, there were alot of people testing and sharing of results, and "THAT" is what I enjoyed most about this place...the discussions about performance and figuring things out. So in some respects a "Lack" of information or data can be a good thing too.

Also, let's face it, performance differences between most of the parts out there is fairly small and insignificant depending on your values. So....over time I began to think perhaps my thought and mission to provide "Good Data" and help users make buying decisions was at the same time working against the incentive for other people to test.

So with that, I've decided the data itself just wasn't worth continuing to hold on to and was counterproductive in the incentives that made this hobby fun for me. There are alot of great testers in these forums and my one wish is for people to quit the bickering and post trolling and start testing and sharing of information.

Water cooling is supposed to be recreational, it's not mandatory, and it's not a perfect science. It took me a while to figure out what it was that made it fun for me, and I did what I needed to do to put the recreation back in it for me. Maybe it'll help mend some of the problems we've had in these forums too.

Money has nothing to do with it, it never has. I've always declined offers for advertising and even decline several offers to test and write for other sites. Of coarse there were many times when my wife gave me the evil eye as yet another box of parts arrived at the door, but in context it was a relatively cheap hobby. A couple of hundred bucks in testing gear and time, I can easily spend that in one family weekend. Everyone has always been very generous to me. It has never been about the money, hosting is not key to my decision, I've just simply lost interest testing and continuing to publish the data I've collected.

I just needed a break from it all and that included the website and data that's published. I can now completely relax, and I appreciate your support in that!