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Originally posted by jaydee116
I don't see water cooling being the real answer in the end. I think (as mentioned before) heatpipes will advance and other phase change things like the Vapochill.
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I disagree.
I think that heat dissipation is going to be an ever increasing problem, and that water-cooling is the most affordable solution.
A refrigeration unit would only draw a lot of additional power, and that's going to have the EPA ("Energy Star") people up in arms: Can you imagine 100'000 people using a PC with a compressor to keep it cool?!? Yikes! If you thought that that last power blackout was bad...
So the future really, would probably be somewhere in the middle, where the water cooling solution is tuned to the CPU temp. As a guideline, Energy Star requires that a device on stand-by consumes no more than 5% of its max rate.
(Man, I ought to just shut up and market this stuff!!!)