Omg 100 degrees celsius...

[KillerHotdog09]

Right, my pc worked fairly fine past 5 years. Suddenly, on Sunday, my pc shuts down for no reason. Well I found out it was of overheating. I opened up the case, and found a lot of dust on the cpu fan and heatsink thing. Cleaning that, pc started again.

That's till before I went on a game (Call of Duty UO) and it shutted down once again.

Now, I read something about thermal glue on the cpu. I'm not sure what that is, so maybe can somebody explain what it is, because there was a glue bit of stuff on my cpu, dried out.

Now take in mind that that was the first time in 5 years that I opened it and cleaned it.

Thank You

Dehan Smit
South Africa

 

[gkay09]

^ Well there are many possiblilitites for that...
- Yes you would need to apply a thermal paste(glue bit that you are talking about) so that the heat from the CPU is completely transferred to the HSF.
- Give your PC config...I think playing recent games is putting to much pressure on the components and making them to overheat and hence the reboot...