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You can go to BIOS or dowload speedfan to monitor the fan speed of the cooler actually. Then you can play around with the setting to see if the fan is moving up and down.
Forgot to mention, the rig I'm using to encode a movie is an old XP machine, with single core processor. Pentium 4 Prescott Core (P4). They run hot!
Check out this article.
Testing Thermal Throttling in Pentium 4 CPUs with Northwood and Prescott cores