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cpu getting realy hot

ONESHOTKILL

ONESHOTKILL

ONESHOTKILL

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my sister bought a pc a few days ago secound hand and for some reason the cpu gets abit hot and the warning alarm comes on.The cpu is a 2600xp and i think it has stock hsf on it aswell.soon as the pc boots, and i go into bios the tempreture starts at around 30 then around 5 mins its at around 55 degrees.The alarm is set at 70,soon as my sister does anything on the pc for around 1 hour alarm starts and has to switch it off.Could the cpu be faulted or could the heatsink and fan not be cooling the cpu enough.
 
the hs was clean and the fan was also clean,i took the heat sink off and applyed some thermal paste and removed the thermal pad thing that comes with stock heat sinks.It knocked it down a few degrees but after a couple of hours the alarm comes back on.I am thinking make the processer is at the wrong settings.CPUz says the processor is a 2600 barton,i am thinking maybe the cooler is not theright cooler for that chip and was from slower cpu?
 
i was woundering if i could change a setting in the bios to make the cpu run at lower speeds,the motherboard is a abit va-10.The heatsink is a standerd one with the AMD halogram on the top it does not have a copper plate on the bottom either.The cpu alarm normaly goes off when my sister is playing ruine scape,not sure if that game uses a lot of cpu usage?
 
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