I have since rectified the reason for needing a running task on my computer to control my system fans (the case is now properly ventilated outside of the hutch it's in) I had a bad situation a few months ago when I got it and first put it in the hutch and left the doors closed. There's an automatic wakeup function for starting my capture cards 'tivo' feature which kicked in during the summer when I wasn't home before the back of the hutch was ventilated. I honestly don't know how the machine survived it, the entire case was too hot to touch for more than 5 seconds. It had come out of standby and started recording and encoding MPEG video, not exactly a low priority process =) Crashed at peak utilization and gotten stuck there without reseting. Even with speedfan running my machine was still overheating and I couldn't figure out why, till I finally looked at the back of the hutch and realized the power supply exaust fan was 3/4's covered when the PC was centered. I cut an extra 2 inch slot down the entire back to let all the cables out and give the supply some space to breathe and the machine's temperature is rock solid stable with only a 2 degree temperature shift when it's at full capacity (it's overclocked anyways so it generates twice a normal machines heat when idle)