CPU and vid card heat sink fans seem to be working well. You could be right about heat sink/CPU contact, but I want to exhaust other possibilities before playing with the CPU chip.
The heat didn't become a problem until I installed the NVidia card - one of my early thoughts was that the card was generating the heat, then that the vid card was forcing the CPU to work harder causing it to generate heat (but newer vid cards are supposed to relieve some of the processing from the CPU, right?), and maybe the vid card is drawing too much power from the power supply.
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CPU and vid card heat sink fans seem to be working well. You could be right about heat sink/CPU contact, but I want to exhaust other possibilities before playing with the CPU chip.
The heat didn't become a problem until I installed the NVidia card - one of my early thoughts was that the card was generating the heat, then that the vid card was forcing the CPU to work harder causing it to generate heat (but newer vid cards are supposed to relieve some of the processing from the CPU, right?), and maybe the vid card is drawing too much power from the power supply.