Quote Originally Posted by nikhsub1 View Post
And here lies my disagreement with you. It is always best to ISOLATE the part that you are testing, remove as many variables as possible. You say just the opposite, you would like testing done with all the variables in the world. This makes for bad data. Ever heard of the word 'GIGO'?
Yeah I'm familiar with the term garbage in garbage out.

I really do understand the idea behind isolated testing but I feel end users would be better served by real world testing. As it sounds that Gabe has a very elaborate lab it just doesn't sound too difficult to me to use standard water cooling gear for at least a secondary test. I would think it would even be in Gabe's interest to do so!

By standard gear in Gabe's case I mean using a mcp355, mcres, GTZ and an MCR320. I would think it would be a real selling point for him (and useful info for everyone) to run a test (in this case) with both blocks then add an MCW30 to the nb and run it again. I am betting that it would just about be a toss-up on the first test and the GTZ would slaughter the koolance block in the second. As many people like to run cpu-nb loops I would think that would be one hell of a demonstrative test in his favor and untainted.

Would that not make for a solid test for you as well?