>> I wonder what temp Windows and Liunx run at with all the cores enabled. >
Output from Linuxmint regarding temps (uptime 20:00 min) $ acpi -V Battery 0: Charging, 42%, 00:43:40 until charged Battery 0: design capacity 5600 mAh, last full capacity 3275 mAh = 58% Adapter 0: on-line Thermal 0: ok, 25.0 degrees C Thermal 0: trip point 0 switches to mode critical at temperature 107.0 degrees C Cooling 0: intel_powerclamp no state information available Cooling 1: pkg-temp-0 no state information available Cooling 2: LCD 8 of 15 Cooling 3: LCD 8 of 15 Cooling 4: Processor 0 of 10 Cooling 5: Processor 0 of 10 Cooling 6: Processor 0 of 10 Cooling 7: Processor 0 of 10 Cooling 8: Processor 0 of 10 Cooling 9: Processor 0 of 10 Cooling 10: Processor 0 of 10 Cooling 11: Processor 0 of 10 Output from Windows 8.1 Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600] (c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\WINDOWS\system32>wmic wmic:root\cli>/namespace:\\root\wmi PATH MSAcpi_ThermalZoneTemperature \ get CurrentTemperature CurrentTemperature 2982 wmic:root\cli> Gilbert