Stren's 2012 CPU Water Block Roundup

[stren]

Just one funny thing @ overclock.net
I wrote there:

Like you maybe noticed his thread has been closed because
Stren is not able or dont want to pay to overclock.net for his thread.

He had a lot of work with this and i am very interested that he has the possibility to continue his tests and publish the results here.

For that reason i ask you to make a small donation to overclock.net.

I would like to give 5$ to overclock.net for that.

If overclock.net accepts we need Paypal information.

If you are also willing to make a donation please write here.

Btw. Why all my posts get deleted without a comment ? This is a seriously offer.

Hey Six

Thanks for the offer. It wasn't about the money for me as much as the principle of the thing and the exclusivity issue. Spotswood (and some members also) even offered to pay for the whole fee himself to keep the thread alive. I could afford to pay $29 this time, but what about for the next review and the one after that? Would I end up paying hundred's every year to OCN or begging people/companies to donate just because one forum got greedy?

Bear in mind I already payed them $29 out of my own pocket to post my sponsored build log. Even after I told the mods that spotswood offered to fund the review they made it clear that they couldn't accept the money because the review was cross-posted to different forums. Not only did they want money but they wanted exclusivity. I couldn't post this review on my own website or [H] or XS. In return for this I got nothing back. No front page promotion, nor a special sponsored review sub-forum. Not surprisingly this is the first time they tried to tax a review and the whole policy seems ill thought out.

So there you have it. OCN wants reviewers to pay them to do reviews and they want to own your content. It's a good business model I suppose if there weren't other forums out there who are more reasonable. However it gives me more reason to build a better website and become more independent.

Here's some updated results with Indigo Xtreme:

Since last time I ran the Apogee HD, the Raystorm and the Raystorm Full Copper. The CPU380 and the MIPS IceForce are next in line:





I also plotted the MX2 results relative to the IX results. I'm trying to show how good the mount/bow is relative to a "perfect" mount reflected by IX. I thought this was an interesting way to look at the data: