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Originally Posted by HAL-9000
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I think the best niche for watercooling isn't lower temps per se, but temperature stability over a wider range of CPU loads than any other solution. If you want cold, run phase change. If you want cheap, air. If you want quiet stability, under any load condition, get a good WC system. The best watercooling I think isn't the "coldest" anymore per se, but practicality and reliability (and from a frank market perspective, cosmetics) are the most important attributes to a successful commercial WC setup offering.
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Agreed, 100%.
I don't care for the esthetics part, but the (electrical) energy used in watercooling is disproportionately high, compared to other solutions, to dissipate a variable heatload.
There are plenty of opportunities for refinement, now that (I believe) we've maxxed out the water block part of it: there's already a manufacturer out there with a variable speed pump, tied (by software) to the mobo.