I sorta agree. What type of USERs will need watercooled pc's? Only where low niose is imporant, and then watercooling doesnt work that much better, most people still have the rad in the same room/CASE, makes w/c a bit pointless may aswell just use a bigger air heatsink and bigger fan (which might not exist yet, but could be DIY'ed just ike much of the w/b have been).
One problem is its not just cpu heat now, everything else is starting to make just as much heat as old cpu's were (amd k6-2 500 for example puts out about the same as a nforce2 nb, then theres also the voltage regulators - which on nf7-s put out quite a bit). Graphics cards put out a lot of heat, current ones just below 75w the next gen ones rumoured to be upto 2x that (nv40). It would have helped if pci-express cards were flipped theright way up, to let the hot air rise, instead of getting trapped under the cards...
There are plenty of servers that are watercooled, one of the companys I recently applyed for a job with had an opertron cluster with about 100 really niosy big fans - they are building a soundproofed room for them so it doesnt annoy the workers, watercooling would be perfet here.
Do you think air cooling would be sufficent with mobos comsuming 100w + in total, cpus at 200w, graphics probably upto 170w, + the rest of the heat a pc makes? Would need lots of case fans ( = niose)
Madhacker is right, now there are lots of companys making watercooling stuff, esp the cheap crappy kits, marketing hype will make them sell, more people will be watercooling there systems. 4 years ago companys wernt making watercooled graphics card kits (gainward).
My point is, noone really needs it, but its better (mostly) and costs more, people that dont know better will buy it, becuase they think its good.
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