try to find a 7600GS instead of a 8500 card, if u can try to find a 7600GT but it might be a bit expensive than 10k, actually theres no good card for the price range ur asking, x1650XT comes to my mind but then again im not sure its available in SL.
68 is high indeed buddie, my 8800 GT idles arround 48-52 c and maxout when benching with 3dmark 2006 to arround 72c, i have to turn the fan to 100% ofcource, yes they can take a lot of heat but the OC potential decrease with increased temps.
THe Mclaren F1, is the best, the most carefully engineerd, ucompromizing feast of engineering, bugatti veyron is just a bigggg engine fitted with four turbo chargers, i like the CLuctch and the gear box of the veyron tho, its a masterpiece
waiting for ur screen shot, please include CPU-z, GPU-z and anything that gives us info about ur system, make sure the 3dmark main window is visible and showing the configuration.
yeap..his cpu score is very good, but not much for gaming, anyway more than 2 cores is the future i admit lool, for me not right now, maybe in a couple of months
ok heres mine
i dont run super pi cuz its not multi threaded, anyway, @ this clock it reach 1001 marks on cinebench 9.2, 28c on Idle 57-59 c when running Orthos for 9 or more hours.
well well great stuff, now why dont u post ur benches here http://www.elakiri.com/forum/showthread.php?t=68887
and ur idle core temp is very high turn ur fan to 100%, i can see that its on 44%, good work