Will watercooling ever become 'mainstream'?

[russ_watters]

Originally posted by Daywalker
Hopefully technology advances will be made that allow new processors to operate using less power, thus less heat.

What about the history of the cpu would give you such hope?

There is a major technical barrier to increasing cpu power coming in the next 5 years in the form of heat.

I very seriously doubt you'll see Dell or Gateway going the watercooling route.....You have too much faith in your fellow man

No, my point was they will HAVE TO use water cooling. They won't have a choice because there won't be any other way to cool the cpu. There has been a roughly continuous increase in power consumption and accompanying required heat dissipation for the past 20 years. We're about to hit a point where air cooling simply won't be enough.. The laws of physics will break the law of Moore unless there is a revolutionary change in processor design soon.