The impact of tubing sizes

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1 werd. CONDENSATION. Ok, one more word. RELIABILITY. Gee, one more - HEADROOM. Oops, another. GPU's. Meh, a few more? NB, SB, mosfets? RAM? HD's. You can phase all that.

The condensation part is definitely a good point, but lets not forget that people use to balk at the idea of mixing water with electronics. I think we really need to get back to the purpose of WC'ing. Does any other component depend on better cooling to get great OC results? Besides the CPU, everything else can't really be OC'ed other than GPU's. In addition, GPU's are typically volt limited rather than temp limited.

The same argument you make against Phase have been said during the early days of WC'ing. Most people were just happy to have WC'ed the CPU. People began to speculate about GPU's only to have the naysayers say it was impractical and ineffective. Fast forward years later and now we have people like me WC'ing everything that has a waterblock made for it and then some. Instead of truly focusing on the important aspects of WC'ing, manufacturers have begun to "accessorize" the hobby by making blocks for mosfets, chipsets, HD's, etc and other stuff. It seems as if progress in general is headed towards bling rather than performance as I've stated.

If phase is the future, I can see manufacturers developing something that might be "expandable" to be able to cool multiple blocks. I'm not sure how it would work but possibly the size of the unit itself might shrink to the size of a say a PA120.3. Once the size and price point are lowered, I can see multiple phase "loops" being run within a PC.

As an engineering grad, for someone to say it's impossible or impractical is usually a challenge and not a final answer.

However with that said, I'm hoping that there's still room left for WC'ing to grow and evolve. It's disheartening to have read the past few posts by Cathar and really drives home how bored I've been getting with the hobby in general. I was hoping for a shining light at the end of the tunnel.