My friends computer that I built less than a month ago has just today started overheating. She has a Core i3 3220 at stock clock and stock heat sink, her case has sufficient cooling (200mm Fan in the front and a 120mm in the top and back) I was on Skype talking to her from another computer she has to try and troubleshoot the problem and we determined that the CPU was overheating. She will be bringing it to my house tomorrow.
my question is if my guess of what is causing this is a loose heat sink or the heat sink just needs to be re-seated or apply more thermal paste (used the thermal paste provided on the stock heat sink). I really just want to be sure that this is the possible fix to this problem. If you can think of any other problems causing this too please tell me.
my question is if my guess of what is causing this is a loose heat sink or the heat sink just needs to be re-seated or apply more thermal paste (used the thermal paste provided on the stock heat sink). I really just want to be sure that this is the possible fix to this problem. If you can think of any other problems causing this too please tell me.