[gameswithgo]

Yeah ultimately the benefit of water cooling is just to route the heat to where you have room for a bigger radiator. If you squish a big enough radiator on top of the cpu and have good airflow through the case there, you can generally get about the same cooling performance as most sane liquid cooling solutions.

[CarbyAu]

^^ This ^^ I like water cooling, but there is no replacement for displacement.

You can have higher tech radiators with better fins along with better fans and airflow modelling etc of course.

But it is always better if there is more of it.