This has been up and running since my last post.
At some point in my tinkering with crap I unplugged the fans yesterday. With no airflow all day long I eventually noticed that the fan was unplugged and decided to look at temperatures. Kinda cool actually, my system had been on all day long and the temp was only 53c. Definitely not nice and cool but not overheating at all.
I believe that I have some viable numbers now. I am using the following methodology. I let the computer warm up, which is just letting it sit there at idle for a couple of hours. Ambient room temperature is 26c and seems to be fairly constant. For 100% on all cores I am using Prime95, Large FTTs and I let this run for exactly 2 hours. Ive tested on Win7 Beta and XP, the numbers given are from Win7, oddly enough XP keeps the CPU exactly 1c cooler at both idle and Max. My fans are leftover 120mm case fans from an Apple PPC, I have no good information about them. I hope to get some decent fans here soon. Temperatures read from CoreTemp.
For a Q6600 overclocked to 3.0ghz the temps are as follows.
Idle is 32c - hottest 2 cores, the other 2 cores are -1c
100% all cores - 52c on 2 cores and -1c on the other 2
For the Prime95 test Core #1 jumped up to 54c for about 3 seconds and then cooled back down to 52c. I don't think that this quick peak should count, but I thought I would mention it anyway.
With the AC7 Pro. Fan @100%
Idle 41c
100% all cores the temps hit 65c and were still climbing after only 1 hour. I shut it down at this point.
I'll add some stock temperatures soon.
There seems to be some variance from my old tests, and it is highly likely that I wasn't paying as close of attention as I should have. I'll be sticking with a single program for reading temps as well. I believe CoreTemp is close to dead on, since its numbers are exactly the same as HWMonitor. Unless some one would like to see the results from using different software.