After they were done with this on display they probably had to junk all the liquid cooling parts. The sugars would start to solidify and gum up the blocks and pump.
It's colored water in a coke bottle. Coke would eat through that metal in less than a day. Leave a nail. Like one you would hammer into a board in a glass of Coke for a few days and see what is left of it. Almost any metal besides aluminum it had consistent contact with would be destroyed. The thinner the faster (and only certain types of chemically altered aluminum). Add to that, how much pressure would that build up? Even "Flat" soda still has far more nitrogen bubbles in it than water (yes, I know pure water does not have nitrogen in it), it is just imperceptable to people. Cool design, but that's all it is.
Like the drunk at school who puts brown food coloring in a water bottle that is really filled with vodka. Just bc it looks like coke does not make it coke.
"Hey, after you spray your engine down with Coke to clean it, can I use whatever is left to cool my cpu? Thanks."
Guy at the gas station. "Sorry mam, we are out of antifreeze and bottled water, but we have some 2 liters of Coke. That'll keep your car from overheating ;^) ." Good Fun!
A lot of assumptions being made here.
We don't take money to do reviews. We never have.
We take money to do advertisements, which are never labeled as reviews.
NVIDIA provided the graphics cards (and Cooler Master sent cases and coolers, ASUS sent motherboards, Intel sent CPUs, Kingston sent SSDs and RAM, Swiftech sent water cooling gear) for our editing workstations for product placement in the whole room water cooling series of videos we produced featuring this hardware extensively.
In the grand scheme of things, $6000 of graphics cards (don't imagine that's their BOM cost on them either) is a great deal for 1-2M impressions on a series of videos about using them.. but those videos were NOT a review. They were about a clearly sponsored (we said it was more than once) outrageous project.
As for sending "keeper" vs "loaner" units of hardware, yeah for many products we just don't do loaners anymore, but more than anything else this is to do with me not feeling like it's worth my time to play email tag for shipping labels and spend an hour driving to FedEX and filling out stupid international bill of landing and commercial invoice nonsense over like a $100 item that costs more to send back than to just not bother with anyway.
That and quite frankly even a negative review (for some reason) often generates a lot of sales for the manufacturer.. so as far as I'm concerned they can eat the cost of the item and I'll do whatever I want with it when we're done reviewing it - whether that's continuing to use it personally (Pebble Steel and iPhone 6 come to mind) - or re-visiting it only when we need to re-do our comparative numbers (here's a lesson on why this is necessary and we can't just re-use old numbers)
And on the subject of the Pebble and iPhone 6 - these are both items that were NOT provided by the manufacturer. One was purchased for my own use and the other was provided by a separate sponsor who makes skins for phones (dBrand), but I didn't necessarily mention this at the time because who cares? It doesn't colour my impressions of the device.
Here's an item I wasn't allowed to keep and won one of the two editor's choice awards I've ever given out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1uj6wQTu58
Here's an item was allowed to keep that I ripped apart saying it was worse across the board than the two similar products from other manufacturers that I compared it against: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O1aCNrjV64
Here's an item I was allowed to keep that I basically ripped apart on camera and sent it back anyway because it had so little value to me I didn't even want to give it to a friend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3AgcltUM9s
And I could do this all day..
You may notice that most of the items we review we are fairly positive about. There is a reason for this, and it has nothing to do with being paid to review it.
I don't generally bother to review stuff that I already know is stupid junk.
The bottom line is this. You can either trust me or not trust me. Ultimately that's your deal. My job is to do what I do, and the people who recognize it for what it is - my opinion being given to you - will follow, and the others can go find someone who maybe they think "hasn't sold out" but might just "happen to agree with them" to listen to. Enjoy.
jace888 got a reaction from Fgtfv567 in Coca Cola as a water cooling liquid replacement! WHAT??
jace888 got a reaction from Ratchetman42 in Coca Cola as a water cooling liquid replacement! WHAT??
jace888 got a reaction from Belgarathian in Coca Cola as a water cooling liquid replacement! WHAT??
