Watercooled Aluminum Casing

An anonymous reader writes "Overclockers Online has posted a review of an all aluminium black Lian Li case equipped with a Z4 watercooler. Besides looking slick this product, that goes by the name Heat Seeker, performs very well." Part of me wonders when is enough, well, enough. Then I stuff that part into a box and try to justify buying one of these things ;)

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The coming end of overclocking

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The end of overclocking probably isn't far off. Signal propagation delay, rather than gate delay, is starting to limit CPU performance. Signal propagation delay is, of course, limited by the speed of light. Temperature and voltage don't matter.

I'm not sure how far off this is, but it's getting close. I hear it talked about by people who design ICs.

Supercomputers hit this wall years ago, and it killed Cray-type supercomputers, with physically-big CPUs built out of very fast logic elements. Seymour Cray once commented on one of his machines that if the gate delays were zero, it would only be 20% or so faster. Most of the delay was in the wires. All modern supercomputers are thus arrays of single-chip microprocessors, and Cray is defunct.