Ellnic - Your temps are shockingly high. You might want to check that you do not have a build-up of dust between your fan and heat sink.
There is no dust build up as I stripped the whole machine down when I had the T9500 escapade, so it can't be that. The machine is spottless inside
If it is not a physical problem, then you should consider what may be going on with your fan controller. My temps are typically in the high 30s or low 40s when idle and peak at 50 when my CPU is at 100%. Granted, I only have the T7100 so it probably produces less heat than your monster CPU. Still, you may want to try SMC Fan Controller and see if you can reduce your temps by manually controlling your fans.
SMC Fan Controller does not work for me, I think it needs a real Mac. Does it work for you? I checked on Intel's site and both our CPU's are 35Watt with a Max temp of 100c but I agree that something is wrong with my setup. Kext, DSDT, Plist or otherwise.
Next, why do you use Multi-Beast? Is it better than Chameleon? I have always had good results with Chameleon so I have never considered switching. I respect your opinion and if you think I should try out Multi-Beast, I will give it a try.
Multibeast is an installer programme made by Tony and MacMan. It's not a replacement for Chameleon, but it can install kexts and other things for you and is certainly a very handy utility. It was originally made for Gigabyte P55 users to do a one touch post install as it puts everything one needs into place, but now includes other stuff as well - Check it out:
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/02/ ... ation.html
Lastly, with your FakeSMC plug-ins, I could never get the SuperIO plug-in to work. It makes my system crash.
No problems so far... will report if anything changes. (Have run it for 24 hrs so far).
Next, I use the IntelThermal plug-in and maybe that could help you with your temperatures.
I do not currently use this - it sounds like it's definately worth a try. Do you have a copy or a link to it?
Lastly, my only crash today occurred when I was running Parallels. I am anxious to hear how well VMWare Fusion works for you.
Well so far so good with VMWare. Still no crashes on this end since uninstalling Parallels! I am using VMWare 4.0.1 which seems quite good (once you disable the annoying menu that sits up the top near the coolbook icon). It doesn't seem as snappy as Parallels, but it doesn't suffer from sound distortion like Parallels did. It also does not appear to install Kexts like Parallels did, so less conflicts - but prolly also the reason why its not as snappy. What I thought was particularly good is that it took a copy of my Parallels drive, converted it then installed VMWare tools into it /without/ altering my original Parallels drive - so I would urge you to give it a go. If it's crap, just delete.