Apparently Supermicro had some X299 motherboards on display that were rated for 300 watt CPUs. So it sounds like you're on the right track. Though I don't thi

Apparently Supermicro had some X299 motherboards on display that were rated for 300 watt CPUs. So it sounds like you're on the right track. Though I don't think phase-change is really suitable for a consumer CPU. I would think it's just going to be bundled with a big integrated water-cooler (a bit like AMD's FX-9590 CPU which was a 220TDP part)