[Review] Round 2: EK Supreme HF

[jayhall0315]

Someone cant do math correctly. I have read several reviews of the Apogee XT and three reviews of the EK Supreme HF (Vapor's, the German showdown with like 20 blocks and Pure OC) and all show the Apogee XT as being more restrictive than the Apogee GTZ. However, go to Swiftech's Apogee XT page and they show the XT as being less restrictive than the GTZ. With that dichotomy, clearly someone has no math skils or they are simply fudging the numbers. Here is what I get with the following loop:

Swiftech Micro-Res -> 8 inches of 1/2 ID Clearflex -> MCP 655 set at Power 5 -> 18 inches of 1/2 ID Clearflex -> Thermochill 120.2 -> 10 inches of 1/2 ID Clearflex -> CPU block under consideration on a i7 920 at 4.2@ 1.5 V under full load -> 10 inches " " back to Micro-Res

(I take the best of 5 mounts (out of 10) for each of the four blocks, all as close to 150 Newtons as I can guesstimate based on spring constants)

Apogee XT (stock config) - 58.17 deg C and 1.45 GPM
EK Supreme HF with Plate #4 - 58.81 C and 1.56 GPM
EK Supreme HF with Plate #1 - 58.58 C and 1.43 GPM
Apogee GTZ (stock config) - 60.34 C and 1.42 GPM

These results do not agree with some of the other stuff out there I know, but there it is. I dont honestly believe some of these folks are doing the reviews they claim to do. Basically, Swiftech saying that the XT is less restrictive than the GTZ is true. I am no Swiftech (or any other company's) fanboy, it is just that the Apogee XT performs better.