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I have an alienware Aurora R3, (that I paid half of it's RRP for).
I recently upgraded my RAM and installed an SSD, along with a fresh reintstall of Windows 7.
The first attempt at the fresh install and my CPU was running at about 40-50% idle, and a lot of "svchost" were visible in the task manager with no sign of a virus or malware.
Second attempt at reinstall and my Motherboard and CPU (particularly Mobo) are running at about 40 degrees and 50-60 degrees respectively and the MoBo runs at about 80 degrees when playing BF4
. Very high considered they used to be about 20 degrees cooler.I have an i52500k that is running at 3.3Ghz, (altough when I look at it's stats it seems to be running at almost 4Ghz with a multplier of about 39 -but thats an issue for another day)
The RAM is Kingston HyperX (2x8GB) running at 1600Mhz
The SSD is a Samsung 840 EVO 256GB.
I have no idea why it's suddenly increased but think it may have something to do with the RAM.
I'm not currently on my comp so I dont know the exact model of the mobo but I do know it has a p67 Chipset.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.