jschell wrote:
So the CPU was getting so hot that it was warming up the room (not just computer) that you were in to such an extent that you turned it off to get cooler? Sounds more like a fireplace or an oven than the computer.
You sound surprised. Heat management is absolutely a consideration for any IT manager who's responsible for putting together a number of PCs in a room. It'll get hot - very hot. Data centers spend a fortune on AC. But this one PC was a special case. As mentioned, that particular generation of AMD CPUs (Athlons? It was over 10 years ago) was known to be generating a lot of heat; it's not like the thermal paste needed to be replaced or the heat sink reseated as is often the solution nowadays. It just generated that much heat, by design, so even with proper cooling/ventilation, the heat had to go somewhere. So, it heated the room. Nowadays, it seems like high-end GPUs have taken that role...