Well guys, I finally finished 5 runs of the Enzotech block, should have been done long ago but if you remember I got sidetracked with stepping bases Anyhow, ya'll know what the block looks like so I'm not going to do a full review at this time - I really do like this block a lot. Conversely, it does irk me a bit that this block merges the Apogee and the Fuzion. The look of the block is all Fuzion with the Enzo having a prettier top with the silverish metallic coating. It has a mid plate much like the fuzion's but it is different, it has a built in o-ring between mid and top plate at the center (inlet) barb hole. This no doubt is to eliminate wash and insure water flows the way intended.

The base it roughly the same thickness as the Apogee ~3mm or so. This of course is the revised base, the original that never made it to production was much thicker (~5mm or so). The internals of the Enzo base are oval pins, similar to the Fuzion pins but not quite. The big differences in bases between the Fuzion and Enzo is that the inside of the Fuzion is sunk in to give a BP thickness of ~1.5mm or so. The Enzo and Apogee Pins just extend up from the base with no recessed portion of the base.

The mount plates of the enzo are shaped almost identical the the GTX for Intel and have a seperate plate for AM2. Like the Fuzion the Enzo mount plates do NOT attach, they merely go over the top.

The BP finish of the Enzo block is superb, as are the others. The BIG difference in performance can no doubt be linked back to the fact that the Enzo block is FLAT as can be. The Fuzion is slightly convex as are the Apogee's when the proper o-ring is used. I know the GTX is shipping with the bowed o-ring but I'm not sure about the GT. In any case, flat bases can only do so much on an IHS CPU, this has been proven in more ways than one.

So we get to my conclusion, I love the looks of the Enzo block but it's flat base keeps performance in the realm of the Storm and the MP-05 and all the 'other' flat or non stepped blocks. You will have to forgive me, I can't for the life of me make a decent excel graph so I am posting the graph that Marci made for me along with the numbers for the Enzo block. To avoid confusion the horizontal axis is NUMBER OF MOUNTS.

DeltaT (Water to CPU) numbers for Enzo:
Mount 1 - 27.98
Mount 2 - 27.92
Mount 3 - 28.06
Mount 4 - 28.00
Mount 5 - 27.94



My testbed and methodologies: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=151781

The story behind stepped blocks: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=160566

All about bowing: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=142998

Some fun with nozzles: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=132454