I've never heard of a single game developer at a studio using a water cooled anything. We usually have pretty top end systems for making big expensive games, and playing them. Water cool nonsense is about as reasonable as Monster Cables for your TV
I didn't know you conducted a survey ;). There were Dells and other workstations that shipped with water cooled systems similar to the H70. Comparing water cooled systems to Monster Cable is not even close. Water Cooled systems deliver tangible results. Some people want the ultra quiet setups, and I'm thinking of water…
I would agree that watercooling at work is treated like a load of nonsense... But not "as in comparison to using Monster cables". More like, "having sex with yer Boss's wife on his desk while he watches". Sure.. If it's not my property it would be pretty silly to whip a dremmel out ( @ work ) to update a new loop because…