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Mr.Kalashnikov
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My roommate has a Pentium 4 3Ghz computer that he says is running at 60 degrees Celsius under normal conditions. At one point the temperature reached 85 degrees, and the internal alarm in the motherboard went off (it is set to go off when the processor hits that temparture). These processors, according to the Intel website, are supposed to run at 38 degrees Celsius. The case temperature is 31 degrees. The case, by the way, has a big 12 in. fan in the rear, which is working, and an air duct in the side panel. The CPU fan (retail Intel heatsink/fan) appears to be working fine. We have no idea what could be wrong. He wants to buy a new heatsink/fan, but I think that's not the best solution to this problem, because the processor isn't supposed to be running that hot, with the retail heatsink/fan/thermal paste, in the first place. Any suggestions?