Test report Apogee GTZ vs. Koolance 350 vs. HeatKiller 3.0

[gabe]

Glad you like your GTZ.

Of course most realize that this particular test was suited towards the strengths of the GTZ over other blocks, as demonstrated by other tests that show different results. For example if you put greater flow against the 350, and (as stated previously) put it in a single CPU loop, then the results would be quite different. Of course we won't see a manufacturer conducted test that is that unbiased, which is why it's good we have other tests to refer to that are more... applicable to real world implementations.

You could not be more wrong

1/this particular test was simply conducted on the bench I have. it wasn't intended to favor one block or another;
2/ this particular test intention was clearly stated in my introductory paragraph: use an extreme setup similar (which doesn't mean identical) to that of the extreme guys on XS.
3/ the gpu was there because I was also interested in recording GPU temps for unrelated tests, and I opted to keep it in the loop because of 4/
4/ presence of the GPU affects overall flow, and overall temps, but this has very little effect on the differential temps between blocks, and I honestly do not believe that it would affect their ranking.. much more serious issues do that: see below.


The real bomb, I dropped here: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...5&postcount=11, but no one seems to have noticed, or decided to discuss it -at least between members, since I stated that I wouldn't.