Apple's G5 was a hot beast that had to be wedged into a case. Watercooling is not ever going to move into the main stream.
Strictly speaking heatpipes are liquid cooling. There should not be much reason why a heatpipe based system cannot achieve WC results levels. Watercooling hs a number fo things up its sleave (jet impingment cooling, mounting the rad outside the case) but there is not reason why a bigger heatsink cannot overcome that. Especially if the higher BTX HS weight limit comes in.
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