Swiftech Storm CPU Block worth replacing?

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Title says it all are there more modern CPU water blocks that will give more effective cooling in a series loop?
Pumps a D5 so has the power to makes this jet type block work.
 
Are there charts to back that up?
My storms giving me load temps of 50'c under load on a g3258
5-10 degrees lower than that would be impressive!
 
Given how old the Storm is there's no direct comparison with current waterblocks, but:-

http://www.legitreviews.com/swiftech-apogee-gt-cpu-water-block-review_457/3

Apogee GT was 2-3degC better

http://www.techpowerup.com/27145/swiftech-introduces-the-apogee-gtx-cpu-water-block.html

Apogee GTX was ~1degC better than the GT

http://www.bjorn3d.com/2008/11/swiftech-apogee-gtz/

The GTZ is better than the GTX by 2degC

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1524206

The GTZ is bettered by the Koolance 370i by 3degC

http://www.pureoverclock.com/Review-detail/koolance-cpu-380i-waterblock/7/

The 380i is much the same as the 370i

http://thermalbench.com/2015/01/07/ek-supremacy-evo-cpu-waterblock/6/

The 380i is then beaten by the EK Supremacy Evo by 1-2degC

Coming out with a total diffence of about 10degC - but, most of these tests will have been done using the big CPUs of their day, overclocked. Since the G3258 is lower power, ie less heat, then you'll see nearer 5degC improvement I suspect. Is reducing your CPU 5degC worth it? Won't allow you to overclock anymore I suspect (certainly not another 100MHz anyway) so is it worth it to you?

If I was overclocking a big CPU like an Intel octo core then it will be, because the Storm was designed for direct die cooling of small CPUs, a 1/4 of the cooling area of modern multicores - it would be completely overwhelmed, whilst modern blocks cool over a much larger area.
 
Decisions Decisions which block to go for.

XSPC Raystorm or Heatkiller or EK Supremacy Evo

i7 4790 is on its way so that's what has to be cooled.
 
EK waterblock arrived today, what an awesome thing, the weight of it and the mounting system I think just shrieks quality. Looking forward to seeing if it performs as good as it looks.
 
Wow! Big temp drop circa 8 degrees but my GPU is now 5 warmer no doubt due to getting warmer water off the CPU !
Time to go two loops off the res me thinks.
 
Its now been folding at 4.4G at 1.16v core for 24 hours and the cpu temps are 57-62'c and he GPU also folding is 53'c so that plus 5'c on the GPU and a worst case single core CPU drop of 5 degrees but my hottest core at 62'c is about where the coolest of the four cores was under the Storm block.
Room temp somewhere between 26-30'c.
Was it worth upgrading hell yes!
 
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