Quote Originally Posted by leo_bsb View Post
When I said "question" I meant the question users were doing regarding your topic result.
The main discussion at the forums was that XSPC tops were prone to failure due to some bad design.
People argued that it happened more with XSPC tops due to the market share.

Sorry again if I don't understand your topic but I do understand mine: We will have some pretty raw estimates on market share (don't care about fail or no fail) and it is very useful number to compare to a poll with all DDC failures. Statistically it won't matter if a particular pump was under stress and failed because of it. This could happen with any brand.
OK, let's try this.

Lets say 10 ppl build their systems at the same time with near identical loops, XSPC res top > MCP355 > PA120.3 > EK Supreme HF > res, the only thing different is the fittings (which aren't going to have a great impact on flow rate) so their flow rates are all within a few mL of each other. Now lets say that 3 weeks in, 3 of those ppl have their pumps die but the others all still go strong for their rated lifespan. I want to find out why those 3 died. It couldn't be the flow rate (which is my leading suspect ATM) within the loop because 7 other pumps didn't die, so it has to be something else causing the deaths. It could be a bad batch of MOSFETs, or the shape of the volute in the top is off, or it could be that the PSU was providing to much power...the variables are actually mind staggering.

I need complete loop data for both my poll and yours to be able to make any use of the numbers in the poll itself, the poll is nothing more than a quick tally counter and is useless on it's own.