@Snow: Huh? Wha? I don't know what you mean. Don't I need a thermometer for that? I don't have one...shoot me a message over at insanely mac

So here's my report for now: After 22 hours straight of running torrents, I restarted my system and went into BIOS to read my temperatures. At first, CPU was 51. I let it sit in BIOS for about a half hour and it went down to 44. When I was in Leopard prior to booting into BIOS, I'd say I was only putting about a "normal" amount of load on the CPU. Just running the torrents and doing some web browsing/emailing. A few hours earlier, I was trying to watch a hi-res quicktime video online (of the Fallout 3 trailer, hehe) and it was putting A LOT of load on my system - to the point of causing spinning beachballs and short freezes, etc. I can only imagine what my temps were like at that point, but I don't know for sure. Probably in the upper 50s at least. Anyway, I'm just going to leave the idlehalt=0 flag on for the time being. It works fine, and the system is pretty damn stable. Plus, I don't usually put too much stress on the CPU on a daily basis, and I don't overclock, so I should be okay. If I can get ahold of a hardware thermometer, I'll be able to keep my eye on it a little better, but that won't be for a while. If I have anymore news for you guys, I'll be sure to post, but for now I'm gonna close this case until something new arises. Good luck everyone!