Asus has managed to find a cooling solution for its next generation high-end motherboards, using a very small integrated pump and water reservior. The rather large radiator also works as a heatsink for the MOSFETs, which are part of the power regulation on the motherboard and generally get very hot.

The list of upcoming features doesn't stop here though, as Asus is also working on a small single line LCD display that will be part of the I/O shield. This will show up any errors during boot, but it's much more advanced than the two character displays used by many manufacturers.

Instead of having to look up a hexadecimal code in your manual, the Asus LCD display will actually tell you what is wrong in plain English. Less useful is the display's default mode once booted, as it shows the time - and we can't see a lot of people having a look behind their PC to find out what the time is.

Water cooling is great but expensive :(

needing watercooling for just the motherboard is not the direction the industry needs to go in.