Even though the native temperature to the room has risen, you cannot neglect the fact that I have A/C in the house. Right now, my computer is not close to the ambient room temp. If I were to add a water-cooled system to it, it would bring down the temp of the computer to the hotter atmosphere, your right, but as the temp of the computer goes down, so will the room temperature due less heat output from the computer. Even though it will take awhile for the room to acclamate itself back into an A/C driven temperature, it will still cool the room and computer. As for the HSF and Heat pipes, they do not cool my graphics cards...which output way more heat than the CPU itself (2 of the most powerful GPU's with an underpowered fan). On top of that...I have a Zalman
http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/...x=229&code=005 with heat piping on it already that works great. In fact, it happend to have great benchmarks coming in second (from what I found). And although I AM dealing with 500 watts of energy, the Koolance handles 700 watts...which is way above what I need. So I guess what I am really wondering about, is how the Exos-2 sizes to the rest of the market. I can find millions of benchmarks for all sorts of systems, but very little benchmarks comparing against the Exos-2.