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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eetaylog" data-source="post: 340691" data-attributes="member: 47491">Can someone please help me find out why my CPU is running so hot...I bought a scythe ninja mini heatsink this week in the hope that i could make my htpc run a little quieter and cooler. whilst it is definately a lot quieter, i seem to be having problems with keeping the cpu temperatures down.Im running an AMD athlon 64 X2 4200 (inside an antec fusion case) and while one of the cores has now become cooler (down from ~40deg to just over 30deg when watching tv), the other core has rocketed and now runs at nearly 60deg!ive tried installing the fan & heatsink with varying amounts of thermal paste, and in various fan configurations, but i still cant get the cpu temp below 55 degrees.heres some screeners of my setup, the current direction of air flow from the fans, and the readouts from speedfan. Apologies for the dodgy screen shots, but i dont have my memory stick to transfer print screens over to this pc <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue    :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" />One thing i did notice was that speedfan has one of the cores named as 'NVidia Video Card'. I havent got the 2nd cpu core temperature confused with my graphics card temperature have I??<img src="http://www.evo-host.co.uk/getimg/16829.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.evo-host.co.uk/getimg/16827.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.evo-host.co.uk/getimg/16828.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />many thanks for any help <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite5" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":confused:" />Gary</blockquote>

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