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Intel pulled a chip (I think the dual core thingy unsure) because it was too hot and they are trying to make it stay under 100W of heat, i.e. at the best a quiet cooler can manage and still keep it within acceptable long lasting temps.

Its not the CPU I'm worried about heatwise, manufacturers know they can't raise it much higher without problems its all the other parts that have my attention.

Remember when a PSU only used to have one fan and some didn't even have that, a southbridge now comes with a heatsink and will only need more and more active cooling as the PCI-X and SATA speeds get ever faster. That's another thing hard drives they can get REALLY hot.

I have a feeling watercooling will concentrate less and less on the CPU block as it is starting to become increasingly obvious that only insanely priced Silver or even Diamond can hope to get you a measurable temperature difference away from the rest of the pack.

When it becomes obvious that the bare silicon cannot adequetly conduct the heat away in a satisfactory manner, first the heatsink will tred - then the imortal fan before the almighty waterblock.

My vision of the future unless a new cooler technology is developed is a motherboard full of mircro waterblocks with capilary "fluid pipes" snaking across both sides - before entering into a self contained radiator/pump/res stored in a couple of the 5 3/4" bays.