AMD Phenom II X4 temperature issues (was Re: hardware monitor)

[Peter Giessel]

You can also try shutting down (obviously), then removing the heat sink, put some thermal paste on the processor and reinstall the heat sink.  Sometimes there isn't much (any) thermal paste there and the processor can't get the heat into the heat sink.

On 2013, Aug 4, at 15:22, Gary Aitken <vagabond at blackfoot.net> wrote:

> Ok, so now I see that my cpu temperature shoots up pretty dang fast when a
> build is going on.