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Recently started overheating CPU/crashing
Hi all,
My main PC recently started running slow. It had been perfectly fine the last several months(6-8?). I made sure my Security Essentials and Malwarebytes was up to date and did full scans, and nothing was detected. I looked in CPU-z and it showed my core speed of my i5-750 as being around 1.2 gb, fan was spinning around 1900 RPM (stock cooling). HWmonitor showed my proc at 89 C. While I was messing with it it powered off altogether.
I opened the case and everything looked fine, not much dust, fan spinning freely. When I powered it back up it stopped during post saying "overtemp CPU, press F1 to continue?"
I am not sure what else to check really as it just started happening. Is it possible the thermal compound dried up ? Should I just get a new heatsink/fan? Any help appreciated.
Thanks!