Quote Originally Posted by Martinm210 View Post
BUT...thinking in terms of overall usage in the most common systems..I like the Danger Den block because of the low pressure drop. I suspect if you surveyed the market, you would find that 90% or more users will run combined CPU/GPU loops. It may not have all that surface area, but it probably has a good balance of cooling vs pressure drop. I've always been along the lines of spoiling the CPU as much as possible because it tends to be a bit more critical to cooling. By nature of the constrained slot area to work in, most GPU stock cooling systems tend to be poor in comparison to the CPU, as a result they usually run hotter and are designed to do so.
I tried to remove the subjective (underlined your text above) part of this reflection by publishing a paper here which attempts to define the issue in obective (as in "measured data") terms