Stren's 2012 CPU Water Block Roundup

[stren]

yea, i meant water:ambient (air in). 3.5C is pretty nice!! as for the results of the supremecy, could it have the same love for tension that the supreme had? what tension did you test at for the paste? how much difference was there between paste and IX? i'll be the first to admit: i usually just go straight to the IX results because pressure can have so much influence on the results that my results could vary greatly from yours (sometimes as much as 5-6C) - whereas the consistency with IX is what i chose to look at first. anywho, i would still like to see the supreme results with IX (to compare both with the 380, and the supremecy). honestly, the results of the supremecy on IX were rather dissapointing. are you sure you had a good flow lol? (j/k)

On the supremacy the first run I bottomed out the thumb nuts. On the retest I did 5 turns on the screws which was the recommendation by EK.

Here's a plot showing the delta between the 5 MX2 paste runs and IX at one fixed pump setting:



It's not complete yet obviously.

I was going to do the Supreme HF and the IceForce HF next but I dropped and bent my QDC so I have to order another one

I also finally ordered a differential manometer so once I'm done with IX I'll bang out the flow/pressure aka restriction plots

Had to settle for the 475 series but it should be good enough for now