With heat sinks and fans not up to the task of cooling the 100 degree Celsius and greater chips, makers stopped trying to raise processor speeds several years ago and moved to building multi-core CPUs instead.

Gamers and performance fanatics responded by and other

And it's not just overclockers pushing the envelope. AMD has gotten into the act, this month enabling its new Phenom II desktop processor to And liquid cooling is even .

However, the remains, despite containment efforts.

Chip cooling's next generation