ruld14

I haven't replaced it, but I removed it once or twice in the past, I assume that must have caused the problem. Thanks, hope it fixes my issues.

Hey guys I'm new to the forum, so be nice. My problem is that my CPU is getting real hot lately, and I've been getting a lot of BSOD and freezing when playing CPU demanding games, it also occurs sometimes while I'm browsing, at first I thought I had a graphics card issue, so I updated and downdated my drivers twice and still got BSOD while playing, I removed my graphics card and used the motherboard's integrated graphics chip and still got freezing, I even thought it might have been my RAM so I removed one stick at a time(I have 2 sticks) and still got freezing and BSOD, so that led me to the last piece, the CPU which for a long time I hadn't monitored it's temp. On idle i'm getting around 50 celsius (123 farenheit),So I took a look at my heatsink and it was clean and all, but the temps where still high,so I removed my heatsink and the pre-aplied thermal paste looked dry and uneven. Could this cause my CPU to heat that much? Or is there any other issues you might recomend looking at? By the way, when I run prime 95 it takes about 10 seconds to reach peak CPU temperature, so I never really run that test to long(I want to avoid frying my CPU). Should I buy new thermal paste and apply it? PC Specs: CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1055T, 2.8GHz Motherboard: ECS A885GM-A2, ChipSet AMD 880G RAM: Kingston HyperX blu DDR3 PC3-10600 (1333Mhz) CL9, 4GB, Kingston DDR3, PC3-10600 (1333MHz), CL9, 2GB Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar Blue 250gb SATA III Graphics Card: ECS NVIDIA GeForce GT 520, 2GB DDR3 PSU: 500W Operating Sistem: Windows 7 Home Premium