Quote Originally Posted by MrBean View Post
How much time does your PC actually spent under 100% full load?

There are very good automatic controllers on the market, which you can set your own control curves, to assist with taking care of the noise-issues, if any....

But, I knew someone was going to come with this argument, I mean, you can have a quiet system, with 1/2 to a 1/3 of what most guys are 'claiming' you need to 'cool' such and such a system. Again, it's all in perceptions...

But, this takes it off-topic, and a discussion for another thread.
That's a great point as well as, what is realistic for 'full load'. If I run prime95 and UniEngine's Heaven demo (vsinc off) side by side, my kill-a-watt tells me I'm using well over 300 watts, but no real world usage including video gaming with folding@home running in the background even comes close to that.