Hey everyone, Recently my computer has been shutting down due to my CPU getting way too hot. I read up on this and I replaced the thermal paste to no avail. This is a 3.5 year old computer that was playing Battlefield 4 on good settings for literally 8 hours at a time, and now it can only handle 2 races on DiRT 3 before over-heating. This was never an issue until recently. Did I just not put on enought thermal paste? Thanks in advance for any advice. Like I said, it used to run much more demanding games than DiRT 3 at much higher setting pretty much infinitely.
Hardware:
8 GB RAM
i7 870 @ 2.93 Ghz
Toxic sapphie HD 6870 1 GB Video card
Rosewill 700W Power Supply
Standard Dell Motherboard (not sure of model)
Hardware:
8 GB RAM
i7 870 @ 2.93 Ghz
Toxic sapphie HD 6870 1 GB Video card
Rosewill 700W Power Supply
Standard Dell Motherboard (not sure of model)