CPU - Celsius and Fahrenheit

thegamersite1

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OK, maybe this is going to be a stupid question. Which one is really the one I any PC owner should be worry about. Fahrenheit or Celsius? I'm asking because I have seen my CPU running at 80-90 F and people said that the temp is really bad for a CPU. Well, my CPU has even gone up to 100 F and I decided to buy a new fan, but now that I installed it, it says 90 F and 35 C. Am I going crazy or the CPU is freaking HOT! If the real temp I should be looking at is Celsius, then why did my computer show me an error of CPU overheating? When It showed me that, I didn't look at the Celsius, only Fahrenheit. I know this is a confusing story but I'm really nervous. Also, I got another problem. Why is the PC freezing? It has not viruses, not errors shown, except for the CPU overheating. Also, everything has been working fine. The past 4 days, the PC has been freezing for several times. If I click at something, or a program, everything will freeze. It takes up to a minute sometime to get to normal.
 
Well Fahrenheit and Celsius are just different ways of saying the same thing. However, temps for computer parts are often stated in Celsius. It's normal for parts to run at 30-40C (86-104F) at idle, so 100F is perfectly normal. Computers don't get in danger until 80-90C (176-194F)
 

thegamersite1

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I see that the CPU is running at 33 C. Well that's good, right?
 
There could be any number of reasons for freezing. Let's do a few troubleshooting steps:

Boot into safe mode to see if the freezes happen there to rule out a software/malware issue
If it still happens there's a bad component, possibly RAM or HDD

use these tools to run diagnostics:

http://www.memtest.org/ for RAM
http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/item/seatools-dos-master/ for HDD

Both diagnostic programs linked are run as boot disks (burn .iso to disk and boot)