Excellent. I am still a bit worried about the 5-10% jump on the temperatures as reported in the BIOS, but have been playing with Core Temp (TAT apparently won't run on Vista x64) and Orthos and it looks pretty stable. It looks like the SpeedFan numbers were just plain wrong, leading to my sense...
I have two Core 2 Duo boxes. My linux media server is a 6300 with the stock fan, and it works well. Using sensors, Idle temperature is about 32 degrees (c), and load is somewhere around 44 (This is in a Antec P180 case). This is a DS3 mobo. I haven't bothered with overclocking it because the...