It's clear you avoided watching or reading any links I've posted as you did not address a single one as a point or counterpoint instead solely relying on your hypotheticals. You've done nothing to expand your knowledge base.
Every reviewer or test that doesn't conform to your narrow view has a lot to answer for in your head.
I hope you end up with a 9900k one day. Will be fun to see the mental gymnastics.
I'm not wasting time viewing vidoe review almost exclusively done by talking heads doing tests with no scientific foundaton.
Your hypotheticals are the problem here, not mine. I've repeatedly posted supporting data and links showing my claims that top tier air cools as well as CLCs and even AIOs excetp for Swiftech X3 which is only a couple degrees / db quieter.
Like I said before,
"You go from a Dark Rock 4 (which is far from being one of best air coolers) mounted in a case that was quite possibly not supplying DR4 wiht air within 5c of room ambient to a CLC and make outlandish claims of how much better your new CLC is. If you live near me you can bring your sytem over and we could set it up with good airflow and top tier cooler and see what it will or will not do. But I doubt you want to know the truth."
As I said above, if you bring your system to south Devon for a day we can run accurate comparison testing.
But instead of answering what I post (even though you quote it) you go off on another tangent with no supporting data that is done accurately .. like monitoring/recording air temp into cooler/radiator and CPU temp at same time to give accurate delta temp of how each cooler is perfoming and testing using equal noise levels and airflow temps for both air cooler and CLC.
just think that is the temps on an open air test bench. The D15 would be worse in a case. He can't handle any result that shows an AIO being cooler, cheaper and quieter than an air cooler.
D15 will only be worse if case airflow is not setup properly. I've repeatedly said AIOs like Swiftech X3 and other older models edge out top tier air by a couple degrees / db.
Serveral members here are not interested in truth but pushing their unfounded belief that CLCs are better than air cooling, and reality has proven time and again they are not .. and thats not even considering how much more CLCs cost or that they will not last near as long as air cooling.