I have a heavily OCd GTX460 and when just doing normal stuff its totally inaudiable, and runs very cool. Even gaming my system doesn't get overly hot and remains pretty quiet, but I do use some of the best 120mm fans you can get - Coolermaster sickleflows, quiet, and shift a lot of air. My main point with the current intel IGPs is that intel themselves have even tried telling people their IGP can now do games, yet with my Stalker SoC mod using the IGP it could barely do 20FPS in a grassy area. What makes it worse is on paper the HD2000/3000 IGPs aren't actually totally horrible, the big problems all come from the driver side. If intel can't get their drivers right, they should ask ATI or NV for a crash course to bring them up to speed.

On the note of crashing, the new IGP drivers are no better than the ones that came out in April, I still get regular virtu BSODs when the IGP is enabled. The BSOD only ever happens at a fresh boot, and I can even simply just hit the reset button and 2nd time round no BSOD. During my testing I of course used the llatest Virtu software and intel drivers. If I had to point the finger at the specific cause of the BSOD I'd say it happens as the Virtu software initiates and loads the intel driver.