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**Doby** · 04-17-2008, 06:07 PM

In addition to WereBo's good advice about tiding up cables and making sure you have enough case fans blowing in the right direction it may be a good idea to clean and reapply thermal paste, use artic silver5 and clean the cpu and heatsink with the highest percent isopropyl alcohol you can find. To apply the artic silver follow the instructions on their website

Sometimes over time cheaper thermal paste can dry up losing its effectiveness

04-17-2008, 06:07 PM	#5 (permalink)
Doby Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Central PA (USA) Posts: 7,150 OS: XP sp2/ Vista	Re: My CPU temp can reach up to 84'c! Help! In addition to WereBo's good advice about tiding up cables and making sure you have enough case fans blowing in the right direction it may be a good idea to clean and reapply thermal paste, use artic silver5 and clean the cpu and heatsink with the highest percent isopropyl alcohol you can find. To apply the artic silver follow the instructions on their website Sometimes over time cheaper thermal paste can dry up losing its effectiveness __________________ Would you like to help TSF fight cancer and other diseases??? JOIN TEAM TSF