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I hear what you're saying but I've been swapping back and forth between the 2 blocks for a month and don't see it. With an Iwaki MD-20RZ I get more visual flow squirting into a res (not scientific I know) and slightly better load temps from the MP-05 SP LE. Though my testing is hardly scientific...
If you blow into the inlet of the Storm and then into the inlet of the MP-05 SP LE you can easily tell the Storm is the more restrictive block... schwam, you get rid of the IHS yet?
-pickles
The only beef I have with the Iwaki is that it's not all that quiet. It's not exactly loud but you can definitely hear it.
With my other setup with 2 D5's I have to put my hand on the pumps to tell that they're running.
-pickles
I switched back and forth between a Storm and MP-05 SP LE several times in the past couple weeks on a naked 170 and can't tell any difference in performance.
-pickles
I got the OCZ sinks from DD too along with the LP block... they were easy to Dremel but for the price the thermal tape is absolutely ridiculous. I think spit would hold them on better.
-pickles
I have two D5's in series turned up all the way and mounted on rubber and once the air is gone from the loop the D5's are quieter than my WD drives.
-pickles
My PA120.3 is shrouded both sides with 6 Yate Loons and aluminum mesh fan filters on the intake fans and cheap chrome grilles on the exhaust fans. Don't know if it works better then not shrouded but I do know I'm going to have to put wheelie bars on my P180 if I hang anything else off the back...
Another vote for the Yate Loons from Jab-tech. I have 6 of them in push/pull on my PA120.3 hooked directly to 12v and can barely hear them 3 feet away and my temps are great.
-pickles
Actually... every combo of all of them in 7/04-2BTA BIOS. It's running fine on a divider with mem 2.5-3-3-7 at around 218 mhz. It's good value for the money just not the magic cheap 1:1 overclocking memory.
-pickles
I'm certainly not mad, just reporting my experience. Don't buy it *expecting* great overclocking memory as it is indeed a crapshoot. For cheap RAM at close to stock rated speeds @ 1:1 as advertised it's fine. It's also NOT supposed to be Samsung UCCC.
-pickles