Test Report: XSPC RX120

[skinnee]

Thanks for the kind words and feedback everyone, I truly appreciate the feedback and will try to incorporate it into further tests and reviews.

Very thorough and good review!

how confident is the extrapolation below 1000 rpms (in the last graph, heat dissipation)?

I wouldn't look too much into it

As Vapor said...it is a trendline and above or below the actual plotted data points are forecasts/predictions based on the data being plotted. It is probably close, but as to a confidence factor I could not say. I've been trying to find a way in Excel to calculate confidence factor like I can in other Statistical Analysis apps, but I have not found a method to do so yet.

Excellent review. Thank you for taking the time to do this and I see you are using Martin's format, which is a very nice layout.

Yeah, as I wrote in the Methodology/Specification section, Martin set the standard on the format and methods. Until I find something that doesn't work or could be improved, Martin's standard is the one I plan on following.

Wasn't expecting anything less from Paul - I would also liek to add that tthat was a prototype rad - the real deal had further improvements made!

Paul mentioned that, I am trying to find out what exactly was tweaked.

Do you mean the fin wasn't solid for the whole depth of the rad, but had slits in it? My MCR320 is like that.

The fins have small little slits in them, just the PA's and MCR's I have. But what I was trying to say (poorly I might add) was that for each tube there is a dedicated set of fins. There are three rows tubes for the depth of the rad and 3 rows of fins, one per row of tubes. The MCR series has a single row of tubes and the PA has two rows of tubes and I do not remember seeing two rows of fins for the PA. Does that help clarify?

I'll try to get a pic that shows what I mean.