Informal test results CPU 350 vs Apogee GTZ

[skinnee]

Yep, I hear that. With the right bench and set up it's all one piece. You can pick it up, move anywhere you want when you're testing and put it away when done. That's actaully the bench I'm building now for a new round of CPU block testing. Although mine will serve as a cruncher when not testing, it can be moved up to my office when I want to run a test on something, and moved downstairs to the WCG team farm when not

andyc

Don't say that...we don't want my wife to read your post and try to invade the room I have. My bench/lab is a 10'x14' room in my basement which is temperature controlled on a different zone from the other rooms in the basement. I am installing countertops around the whole room to give me more sufarce area for test fixtures and concurrent tests. My area for taking photos spills over into the basement living room because the two light tents I have are larger than I can fit in the lab.

But seriously, don't say that, she might be looking over my shoulder. And don't tell her testing isn't expensive either, she'll want her paws on my stashed testing funds.

I think what most of us miss will be his unbiased testing. There are very few "straightshooters" on these boards when it comes to testing. Quite frankly, I won't trust anyone other than Nikhsub1, Petra, Martin (in that order), when it comes to testing. Too many people have their own "preferences" on these boards when it comes towards testing. It may not be apparent, but by reading their posts, you can notice the bias.

It's not easy to do these tests. I appreciate anyone that does them. However, it'll take time and a lot of unbiased testing before many of us will elevate a tester's results to command the respect of the three I mentioned above. I think that's why so many of us miss the testing that the three above do. Losing one of those three is a big loss to the community. =P

Hopefully Skinnee can adopt a similar methodology and have a similar unbiased approach.

I understand you do not know me from a hill of beans, so I respect your right to withhold judgement on me as a tester, my test reports and any biases you feel I might bring to the table. This might be a wasted attempt, but I will say it none the less...I am completely independent from any vendor, manufacturer or organization. I do not have any sponsorships or hidden agenda. What I am looking to accomplish in testing is to give back more than what I have received from the community and other testers like Martin. I am a firm beleiver in Karma, and this is my way of keeping things right.

If I have or show any sort of bias towards one particular company, my credibility as a tester and valued source of information is over. All of that hard work, time and effort is lost because I chose to have a bias in my testing. That is not to say I don't make predictions before I sit down for a test run, that is part of science in forming a hypothesis. A ritual in my testing is going back over the captured data and analyzing why my hypothesis was correct or incorrect. The biggest thing for me is learning, I always want to be learning something or I get bored.

I fully document my test equipment and methodology, I have nothing to hide or reason to withhold information. If there is ever a piece of data people want to see, I will gladly present that information. If community members want additional tests run, I do everything I can to facilitate those tests. I leaned heavily on Martin as I was dipping my toes into the test pool, and he kindly mentored me, answered goof ball questions and provided me with some critical tools to be able to test properly. If I test with a bias or favortism to a certain company, I throw away all of his time, effort and earned respect and more importantly lose the respect of the LC community.

I rambling here...but I would be glad to continue this conversation if needed.

I look forward to earning your respect and the respect of the Liquid Cooling community by my tests and my honesty.

you guys know skinnee read this thread and went OH BANANAS!!!

u guys are scaring all our testers.

Gabe and Stephans tests are professional lab grade tests. They have an environmental chamber, water chillers, the works. I am actually quite envious of the setup, and what they have for testing is what I am striving to have in my lab. Yes, I have rotameters, check valves, pumps, temperature sensors, large reservoirs and so on, but I can guarantee the test area used by Gabe and Stephan is first class, mine would be more like business class compared to first class. I do have most of the professional equipment, so coach didn't seem right. There is at least one community members here on XS who has been to my home several times and been in the lab while I was performing tests.

Reading some of the posts in this thread really made me worried that I am investing all of this time and fistfuls of money just for people of this community to ignore the test reports, time, learning and effort that goes into testing a particular piece of gear. I do see the independent tester and real world tests as a valuable and vital piece to the Liquid Cooling community, if I did not, I never would have taken on this endeavour.

The tests I and other community testers perform on the parts we purchase, vendor/manufacturer supplied and community member supplied samples are all fueled by what you the community wants tested and whats to see the performance results of, I would have never tested D5 tops had there not been the interest of the community.

I truly hope that the Liquid Cooling community still sees a place for and values indepedent testers. If there is anything we need more of, it would be more people testing and learning the right steps to take in performing tests with the equipment you have. With that comes the sharing of knowledge and information gained through the process. We are already doing this on a regular basis by recommending parts and debating products.

Sorry for getting a bit long winded here, I tend to stay out of the heated discussion and just be a witness. I like to stand back and take in anything I can from the discussions rather than stick my two cents in the middle of them. However, I was reading so many mixed messages I felt I had to post for some clarification.