NaeLegs

reseated cpu, with reapplied thermal paste, used the spreader method instead of uncooked grain of rice boom done fixed

i found some thermal paste had spilled over the side of the cpu, i dont think it hit the motherboard though could that have affected the heat?

ill try that

but how could a fault cooler make the pc obverheat MORE than without a cooler at all?

AMD phenom II x4 965 3.4Ghz

yes it is, at around 1900 RPM, sorry forgot to mention it

I recently noticed that my ATX Full Tower System had been overheating after around 1-2 hours of gaming, so i opened it up to see what the probnlem was. i noticed that my CPU heatsink (Arctic Pro Rev 2) had stopped working and was no longer spinning on boot. even though the pc was POSTing fine.So ultimately the system was running for an hour or 2 with games running on just the 5 case fans (including GPU fan), before getting too hot and turning off today i bought a new heatsink cooler, the Zalman CNPS5X, after cleaning the CPU and applying new artic silver thermal paste, i booted my theoretically fixed machine and opened up HW Monitor to monitor my new core temperatures, but just as i opened the software, it overheated again! i managed to just get a glimpse of "110 Degrees" for my Core ) temp, i have no idea why this happened i thouroughly cleaned my system and it is pretty much dust free, i am currently waiting for it to cool down before trying again Any help would be appreciated. -Jamie Specs : CPU:AMD phenom II x4 965 black editiuon 3.4Ghz RAM: 8GB(2x4) DDR3 Kingston HyperX 1333mhz Case : Inwin Maelstrom