Dave: Thanks mate. I use an 8000RPM 60mm fan only when I push the system as in oc/bench/stability test. Works fine like the above and it's fanmate controlled.

Oldguy932: 266HTx11.5 comparison would be a completely flawed test methodology. Those are not the settings I stated to test and it'll leave you seeing the same picture you're seeing right now. Also wPrime 32M at 2.6G is not much slower than 3G, the difference is 3secs at most. Even 1M is +2x as slow and 3D is more than 30x as slow.