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Originally posted by Brad
but what about the XP's at 2100+ (which is what they might go to at .18u
the xp2000+ uses 1.6w of energy more than the 1.4ghz tbird. as we switch to .13u it will drop, but then over time it will go back up to 70w +
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Yep, so why improve upon current HS that do a pretty good job. And actually they may not get back up to 70watts especially in the Barton core. Time will tell though.
The main reason for water cooling is overclocking, if overcloking gets harder or CPU's get so fast that overclocking will not really help anything then there will be no reason to overclock or especially overclock to the point that you need water cooling. There will always be us overclockers that do it just because though.
It will be interesting in the next few years how all this will play out.