Quote Originally Posted by bluehaze View Post
I'm not missing the point LOL I'm the one that was making the point remember? The point was thermostats are used to regulate flow in the automotive industry and via regulating that flow are able to increase or decrease temperatures. Doesn't matter how or why the thermostat works...the point is altering the flow changes the temperatures as you yourself are admitting by trying to explain it to me

Perhaps the same premise is not noticeable with watercooling a computer because the temps are miniscule by comparison but the point remains the same if regulating flow rate through a car radiator changes temps then same can be said for regulating flow through a computer radiator albeit evidently on a much more miniscule scale. <- And that was the answer to the question I was asking, it's not worth it because adjusting flow rates is not going to make much if any difference be it increasing or decreasing flow.

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Your whole theory only works if you believe more flow ≠ better cooling, but doesn't that go against one of the basic equations in the study of Thermodynamics?

Q=MC(DELTA T)

Q Being rate of heat transfer
M being Mass flow rate
C being Specific heat of water (constant)
Delta T Being the difference between fluid temp out and fluid temp in

Based on this equation if you increase mass flow you will also increase the rate of heat transfer since C (specific heat) is constant.

Quote Originally Posted by bluehaze View Post
Doesn't matter how or why the thermostat works...the point is altering the flow changes the temperatures as you yourself are admitting by trying to explain it to me
But it does matter. Yes a thermostat alters flow (that's common sense and not what i was ever arguing). You, however, are making the argument that thermostats are used to increase the systems ability to cool by decreasing flow. This is simply not the case. The thermostat is simply there to Force the system to operate around a predetermined temperature. This is evident in cases where your thermostat gets stuck open. People who have had this happen to them can probably attest to the fact that their car took forever to get to operating temperature or never got there at all.