Quote Originally Posted by MpG View Post
It would also be horribly depressing. Nothing like realizing that your $400 WC system got you less than 100Mhz over an air cooler.

Although seriously, regarding the 10*C=2% improvement, quite often, I think you run into temperature limitations (i.e. thermal throttling) before you technically hit that limit. What the water cooling also does does is give you the headroom to increase voltage/frequency, to reach the chip's limits without running into temperature walls (i.e. GTX480). And that's something that's a little harder to put into chart form.
Ahh I see, I just figure it a better unit to compare with. When I started test it was just on flow rate and found that really tends to give some false understanding because flow rate changes just didn't amount to much regarding temperature. From the little I do understand it seems a similar relation is there between temperature and overclock.

I just figure if we are all cooling for max overclock, it would be awesome to compare overclock directly.

Perhaps that's too messy, just an idea. It would at least be a good tool to understand when deciding to upgrade existing harware. Is $80 really worth 15MHZ etc.

For example, I currently have an EK supreme v1 and I thought about upgrading to an HF or other newer block. Personally, I leave a good 500Mhz cushion in my overclock, so from a performance standpoint it doesn't pencil out. Now I have to make my decision on other factors than performance...etc.