Osseo Meat Market also does custom cuts, say for example if you want a raw, uncured, unsmoked ham... They can make it happen. An interesting tib bit, beef prices are are higher in the MSP area as opposed to the Seattle area. I will return to this place, in fact I look forward to it.
the fan speed is controlled by the motherboard and changes in response to CPU usage. If it cranks up, chances are you are running a program that is using a lot of the CPU.
Is a CPU fan speed of 3590 RPMs normal? up vote 8 down vote favorite. Ant pointed me to SpeedFan in this stackoverflow question. I downloaded SpeedFan and it reports that my CPU temperature peaks at about 73C which seems to be normal according to this chart (although the little flame icons in SpeedFan worry me).