My box, if left set to thermal protect, would shut down the P4s at 80-85 C Prescott never gets that hot at the OC I have in place. What I used to say what I said, was based on Barton that went unstable at under 70 C and progressively got worse at folding. Both the P4s and the Barton are (in the Barton's case WERE) running roughly 24\7 for months. And when I mean stable I mean stable over weeks and months at constant high temps. It is good that Palominos are more stable, though.

Normal for the Prescott, though, is 66 C +\- one degree C at the OC I have it set at. I've had it running for weeks now, 24\7, at that rate.

One thing about benching for video, Geeky, you might next try this:

Load a video benchmarker, one instance. Get into the Task Manager, in XP Pro, and set process affinity to CPU0, Priority to High, leave it running but not actively benching. Benmchmark video with it set that way. NOW, open the Task Manager, reset the process to normal, check boht pipes, and see if benches improve. They should not change much, most video benchmarkers are 32 bit code, XP will let them use one pipe of CPU-- not both. IF you have a benchmarker that can be run in a window, you might be able to run two, get close to same rates from BOTH at once, versus running just one. Guess, the combined benchmarks (qty two, benchmarks from each added together as that is what the box is actually handling, TWO instances of bench at once), one per pipe, will be about 1.6-1.8X the single benchmark rate, because you are eating lots of RAM, you are using ONE video card, and the Prescott has a cache common to both pipes and does not have the anticipation strategies in the Itanium2 or even the Zeon hardcoded into it.