Yeah it's gotta be the thermal paste I have worked on alot of kit over the years where the original supplier has used cheap cement type paste with has a habit of drying up completely over the years leaving you with a toaster. Also is a common occurrence with laptops again lost count of the amount of machines I have repaired due to fans clogging up with crap and rubbish thermal paste.
I usually get Arctic Silver and have used Arctic Cooling freezers for the all my builds. Got one rocking a Intel Ivybridge 3.5Ghz has no issues. Your should be able to pick up a older version for your socket type on ebay.
I usually fire up a live cd (falcon4) afterwards and run Speedfan and torture test builds with prime95
Are there any good Linux benchmark tools? Would be handy to add to my arsenal :)
> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 11:31:36 +0100
> From: i.d.c.park@???
> To: hampshire@???
> Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Over heating CPU
>
> Hmm, I suspect I may be getting a similar problem with my box (2 x
> Opteron 2GHz dual core processors); if I work it too hard (processor
> loading up to 90ish% on all four cores) it just shuts down. I suspect it
> will be an "interesting" task to take off the Zalman coolers, re-paste
> and refit...
>
> Ian
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> On 13/04/14 23:49, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote:
> > On Sunday 13 Apr 2014, you wrote:
> >>> My gut feeling is that the CPU cooler paste is probably past it?
> >> Yes.
> >>
> >> I seem to get about 3 years from modern stuff; at 7, your machine is long
> >> overdue for a re-pasting.
> >>
> >> Make sure you clean off all the old crud with acetone or similar, then
> >> replace with fresh stuff. I'm unconvinced that any one brand is better
> >> than another - I use a large tube of Servisol.
> > It seems everyone is of the same opinion. Something to do over Easter...
> >
> >
>
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