Originally Posted by Barkotron
Secondly, and I think this was the real killer, once in-game, my system seemed to settle after a few minutes into just about the exact point where the cooler kicked into really nasty mode. In other words, I'd play for a few minutes, then the cooler would wind up and blast hot air out of the back of the case for a couple of minutes, which would cool the chip down just enough so the fan turned off, at which point the chip warmed up again to the point where the fan needed to kick in, and so on and so on ad nauseam. Now that was annoying.