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Prescott overheating in idle!?

danceMB

danceMB

danceMB

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For some unknown reason my system just overheated yesterday. I have my auto-switch off set at 80C, which happened last night. I was just playing a very basic chess game when this happened, decided to boot into the BIOS and it read as being 75C.

Considering that I wasnt stressing the machine at all im concerned the temps jumped that high. Makes me wonder what my stock coolers upto?
 
I have checked and the fan is there spinning freely, I give it a quick dusting down every few weeks to make sure but its still the same way, I will be doing a little mod to get an SI-120 fitted onto my IC7 Max 3, but still I never knew how bad there stock cooler really was.
 
If I take that heatsink off I will probably fit on the SI-120 heatsink as I want to overclock it and know when thats on I can take it quite high up, and if its stable, with a good graphics card, should future proof me well into next year.

At the moment its got this other thermal compound on it. I am thinking of getting Arctic Silver 5, hearing thats the best stuff to use. Whats the best way of getting the current thermal compound off? Would I need any of that "Arcticlean Thermal Material Remover"? What sort of paper towel would be best to use to do that?
 
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