Better cooler deemed inferior

[Rose Redfoxx]

So, the job was to replace the CPU cooler and CPU. So what the customer has is a Cyrorig H7, which is running at 49CFM and I tried to put in an Arctic Freezer 33 Esports Edition which runs at 80CFM. Clearly the Arctic is better, it flows more air and cools better, but it was deemed 'inferior' and I couldn't use it, had to go buy another Cryorig H7 before it would let me complete the repair.

[Turbo]

Part ranking is currently determined solely by price, so if a component is cheaper than the customer's previous cooler, it is considered inferior, regardless of airflow.

[Rose Redfoxx]

That's crazy. O.o So the bug would be that the Arctic Freezer 33 Esports Edition is priced too low?

[Metallos]

The CFM (m³/h is the correct unit for airflow!) is only interesting if you compare the same heatsinks with different fans. A cooler with less m³/h and bigger (or fins made of copper instead of aluminium) heatsink can be superior to one with higher m³/h.

[Turbo]

Originally posted by BelGarion:

That's crazy. O.o So the bug would be that the Arctic Freezer 33 Esports Edition is priced too low?

I would say the bug is that they rank parts based off of price at all. What they should have done is compiled real world data and built a relative parts ranking reference based off of said data and then used that reference to generate parts' performance asset values.

[Rose Redfoxx]

Originally posted by Turbo:

I would say the bug is that they rank parts based off of price at all. What they should have done is compiled real world data and built a relative parts ranking reference based off of said data and then used that reference to generate parts' performance asset values.

Yeah. just because something costs more doesn't mean it's better.