Liquid Flow Restriction

I use a Xylem D5 pump with a standalone reservoir with the pump being powered through a direct SATA connection from a PSU used only for watercooling components and not part of the test system. The pump is controlled by an Aquacomputer Aquaero 6 XT in PWM mode. There is a calibrated in-line flow meter and Dwyer 490 Series 1 wet-wet manometer to measure the pressure drop of the component being tested. Every component is connected to the manometer by the way of soft tubing, compression fittings, and two T-fittings that have been accounted for when it comes to the liquid flow restriction in the loop.


This is a separate roundup for CPU blocks being tested on the LGA 1700 platform, thus I have chosen to have only new blocks here that have not been covered before. This also allows all these blocks to have pricing including various logistics and material costs so that I can generate performance per dollar charts again. Apologies then to other manufacturers from before but, to be fair, I don't have your LGA 1700 versions either. The one entry here that is not specifically supporting LGA 1700 is the EK-Quantum Velocity² for LGA 1200 as marked above. When it comes to the EK-Quantum Magnitude, I will note here that the different inserts (Intel vs. AMD) and jet plate (thickness as well as parallel vs. curved options) means this is not a result universal to all the EK-Quantum Magnitude blocks. There is also the non-tangible effect of plating the microfins on this version compared to the copper-only cold plate which should have slightly larger microchannels. Despite all this, all the EK blocks fare quite well here and I would classify the EK-Quantum Magnitude LGA 1700 block as a low restriction CPU block accordingly.