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Mac
10-07-03, 01:20 PM
In the article at overclockers.com that ranks all the heatsink and watercooling kits, it gives a rating of C/W. According to the article, the best watercooling kit offers a C/W. of .22. While the best heatsink (slk900 w/tornado) also offers a C/W of .22 in the same test. So does this mean that the slk900 w/ vantec tornado will perform just as good as one of the best watercooling kits? just doesn't seem right. I must be looking into it wrong?!
brennan77
10-07-03, 01:36 PM
Originally posted by Mac
In the article at overclockers.com that ranks all the heatsink and watercooling kits, it gives a rating of C/W. According to the article, the best watercooling kit offers a C/W. of .22. While the best heatsink (slk900 w/tornado) also offers a C/W of .22 in the same test. So does this mean that the slk900 w/ vantec tornado will perform just as good as one of the best watercooling kits? just doesn't seem right. I must be looking into it wrong?!

Nah, you are correct. It's hard to get much more efficient without extreme measures.
UberBlue
10-07-03, 01:40 PM
Have you ever heard a tornado fan, I mean hovercraft?
deathman20
10-07-03, 01:48 PM
U mean vacuum, blower, new toy, noise contraption, totally deaf, best fan you could get if you wanted cooling :D
I.M.O.G.
10-07-03, 01:48 PM
In one of the articles about the SLK series, it is mentioned that the heatsink virtually eliminates the performance gap between water and air - the noticeable difference is in noise.

Now if one were to test a DIY kit with Cathar's latest creation and other top of the line components, you would likely see water having an edge. All of the commercial kits have atleast little imperfections that could be improved upon.

brennan77: You said it's hard to get much more efficient without extreme measures? I wouldn't say that really, because you'd have to establish what standards of efficiency you are referring to. A tornado fan on a heatsink to get the same temps as watercooling could be considered inefficient. At the same time, constructing an entire watercooling kit just to get the same temps you can get with a heatsink and a fan could also be considered inefficient.

Perhaps you were really considering performance and not efficiency.