Liquid cooling may hold large market share in 5-10 years

In idle, my CPU cranks out 60C. My GPU sits at 58C while running Vista. This is the temperature of my computer without account of hard drives, sound card, RAM, and motherboard. In reality, I am not even running on high end hardware (Pentium D 3.0, GeForce 7600 GT). Today computers accumulate very large amounts of power; 400-1000 watts compared to 100-120 (About the amount of a light bulb) 10 years ago. Today there are graphics cards able to accumulate 500 watts alone. The more powerful computers get, the more power they require, and in turn get much hotter. With growing temperatures, air cooling may not be able to handle so much heat. Manfucaturers are already looking for other ways of cooling, including liquid cooling. Liquid cooling is probably one of the most perspective technologies.

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