[quote=&quot;poorman&quot;]As for the new benchmarks, here's the passmark test:
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TY TY TY TY!  I got the PentD805 for cheap and this thing is running hot hot hot!  I've been reading around about the Asus p5b Deluxe mobo and it looks liket this motherboard seems to run hot.  My CPU temp is over 50c almost all the time just doing nothing.  It went above 60c at least once while I was looking at the temps.  I haven't done any overclocking because of these temps.  I really appreciate your links and test data :)

My case airflow shouldn't be a problem.  120mm intake up front running at full speed, the thing ran at around 1100 rpm when it was set up to allw the Asus Q-fan thing to control it's speed based on temps.  80mm intake at back (1400 +/- rpm) with a duct to move the air into the CPU cooler.  92mm fan on the CPU cooler, 2000 +/- rpm.  80mm exhaust fan in the top of the case, 1400 +/- rpm.  The PSU also has 2 fans, once draws up from the case and the other blows out the back and I got the duct for this case that keeps the hot PSU exhaust from being drawn into the 80mm intake just below at the rear.  The fans all came with the Lian-Li case... I can hear the sound of the 80GB HDD over the sound of the fans so I assume they aren't terrible for being noisy.

Maybe this Asus Q-fan thing is total crap... don't know that for certain but I wonder.  I don't want a case with fan speed control knobs on it anywhere and I'm not going to overclock if that's what it will take to get decent temps.  Maybe it's just the CPU cooler that sucks but I'm also not going to get one of those huge-ass Tuniqs just to see if I can overclock this processor and not kill it.  The mobo has a 4 pin connection for the CPU fan but the cooler has 3 wires.  That should NOT be an issue though because the CPU fan has a temperature sensor... hmmm..... maybe I should make it so that the Asus Q-fan doesn't control the CPU fan because it has that sensor...

I dunno... for now I'm not messing with cooling concepts and I'm trying to get a firewire network going between Z5 and Z2 so I can start copying files and not have it take all night.  So the goal is both machines connecting to the internet through the router but only sharing files over firewire.  I think it's doable and came to the forums to see what I'm missing while waiting for Z2 to reboot.  Putting a gigabit NIC into Z2 would be smarter but both machines have firewire ports already - 400 Mbits isn't as good as 1000 Mbits but it's better than 100 Mbits.  Why the hell the mobo makers won't start doing 1394b @ 800 Mbit is beyond me... maybe there's a royalty fee or something retarded they'd have to pay someone to use it.  I'm pretty sure Apple is using the 1394b ports now.  Reminds me of back before I had a computer of my own round about 2000 or so... I went into crapusa or some similar store with PC stuff and asked about a firewire card after not being able to find one oin the shelf.  I talked to 3 different ppl there, one said firewire was Mac only, another said it was for digital cameras, and the third person had no clue. I wanted it for a machine at work and a camcorder.  Idiots.  Going outside is pointless... I know more than everyone I have to deal with and I just get frustrated as a result :P