{"id":5208,"date":"2021-11-12T14:30:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T14:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=5208"},"modified":"2021-11-12T14:30:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T14:30:54","slug":"athlon-ii-x4-640-cpu-overheating-unusually","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/cpus\/athlon-ii-x4-640-cpu-overheating-unusually\/17576.html","title":{"rendered":"Athlon II X4 640 CPU Overheating Unusually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I first got my CPU it was running at a nice 32C temperature. After a few PC cleanings its never been running exactly as cool when it was fresh from the box. I have 5 fans installed on my mid tower.<\/p>\n<p>I have the back fan blowing out. The 2 top fans blowing onto the CPU since it has a dust cover. The side fan blowing out and the front fan blowing in on the bottom. Are my fan&#8217;s not positioned right? I haven&#8217;t dusted out my heatsink in awhile either. I read somewhere that vacuuming the heatsink could help drastically in temperature. Is it safe?<\/p>\n<p>I was told to put the Thermal Grease onto the processor and to take the grease off of the heatsink. Something sounds fishy with that too.<\/p>\n<p>When im playing any sort of game the CPU jumps from 50C to 70C and its quite scary. I don&#8217;t overclock my cpu and Id like to get it running back cooler like it used to be. What do you recommend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":4},"question-category":[44],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-5208","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-cpus"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/5208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=5208"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=5208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}