Hi Gary,
Yes I did use some thermal paste, just a dab. I see a little goes a long way with that stuff, quite messy.
Running 0sX the machine seems quite noisey, the fans seem to run louder and at full tilt all the time- really lives up to the wind tunnel name. The machine was like this before the processor swap though as I recall.
Interested to see if it behaves differently in os9.
As an aside, Im being given a copy of Cubase 4 (2006) for mac X. I may try it on this machine as it should make better use of the dual processors- does that make sense? I seem to recall from reading here that cubase 5.2 (os9 ) does not benefit hugely from the dual processors- is that correct?
Happy New Year to everybody!