Extremely hot processor

RRLedford · Post by **RRLedford** » Sun Oct 06, 2002 11:04 pm

You don't have good thermal contact between the CPU surface & the heatsink base if it's that hot & the fans are turning.
Check whether something is preventing the sink from being pulled tight against the CPU face. Get some Artic Silver-III thermal paste between them. They won't last very long running that hot!
How are you getting the temp readout?

Wolfram · Post by **Wolfram** » Tue Oct 08, 2002 4:02 am

Aside from those good suggestions above, it might as well be that the temperature readouts are wrong. I once had a system temperature of way above 100 degrees- Celsius. It went higher and higher... I was already becoming afraid of the China syndrome