CPU overheating? Here's How to Cool it Down

There are two parts of your PC that tend to run hot - the GPU and CPU (processor). Reasons for an overheating CPU can vary from hardware to software-related ones, and problems can including your PC crashing, shutting down and working slower than it should. Here we're going to cover all the ways you can cool down your CPU right here.

[beartackle]

This is awesome! I got my first gaming computer, and because I know nothing, any fan sound freaks me out so I'm always worried my computer is overheating. Thanks for this. I will check my CPU temperature after playing a bit of Flight Simulator to stress it out first. 😊

[cocoatea]

Me watching this on my mobile cuz my pc is too slow to run a browser tab...
Btw my pc be giving an error message about fan 90B and the videos are saying I should open up my pc but it has built in battery and I'm pretty dumb so I'd probably make it worse.

[irvinpornias]

what cooler should i use for a10 5800k? it keeps over heating

[MageSkeleton]

the RFC scan cleaned up some corrupted files i guess, but doing the MSconfig thing disabling the non-windows services in the services tab fixed my problem. Thank you.

[gummybear]

bruh my pc got on 90 degrees in a lego game

[KingGarey]

Me finding out Ctrl Shift Esc opens Task Manager: 😮🤭

[Flandria]

My experience with an overheated mini pc elitedesk i5 -6600
I have 2 monitors connected to my pc both running split screen displaying charts (total 4) for stock trading. One monitor has a window running under Chrome, the other Window runs on Firefox. The 2nd monitor has 2 windows on split screen running under Firefox. This mini PC got very hot, to the point that one could not touch the PC, the fan was also very noisy. After I saw this video, I checked the task manager and saw that it was Firefox that was occupying plenty of activity and the CPU showed an activity between 92 and 100%. I removed the Firefox applications on the 2nd monitor, opened Chrome and ran 2 windows with the same application as previous. I checked the Task manager again and now I have an activity of the CPU between 30 and 40 %, no more noise of the fan. Thank you Make Tech Easier, you may gave saved me from a BOOM....

[mianali]

My laptop has core i5 8th gen when i plug it in on charge it activates turbo boost mode but when i stress test it the temperature reaches at 99 degre Celsius i just wanna know is it normal ?

[deccapod]

The problem I found with MSI Afterburner is that with using the monitoring feature it provides it incorrectly displayed my CPU temp because it was showing 93 - 100 Celsius when my Tjucntion (max temp for your Intel CPU) was 80c. If it did indeed hit the Tjunction or went over my computer would forcefully shut down due to me having Temperature Safe Mode on through my BIOS. So just for every person using Afterburner be aware that it may display your temps wrong, overall a great piece of software just could use a little bit of refinery.

[ontheedgeofshadow]

My new PC had an update recently.. and noes it’s a gamble if she wants to run properly… right now the PC boots up and goes to the blue screen “failure to boot properly” frowny face screen and restarts-crash-boot-crash rinse and repeat…

It’s starting to piss me off. I might try upgrading to 11 to see if that fixes anything

[mihir]

Got my pc from my moms office as they were giving them away. It seems that they have put tons of strain on this cpu. And after 7 years of hard work I think its going to retire. I was running gta at around 50fps (Not overclocking) and suddenly the pc shutoff. I rebooted it only to get the cpu overheat error. Now it keeps overheating no matter what I do. I applied new thermal paste, and even went and bought a brand new Intel heatsink. Nothing did the trick and the pc can only stay on for 3 or so minutes (with the heatsink fully secured) before it crashes. I think this is a genuine cpu issue rather than a temperature issue

[codenamesquash]

I installed new thermal paste just a dot and it’s running hotter and crashes the pc after 3 minutes of it being in the desktop and before I could have it on for days with no issues

[countdookie]

My pc made a weird noise and now it’s overheating, any recommendations on how to fix it?

[bondjovi]

You are so much cooler than me. I won't argue there.

[gavinbender]

Mine idles at about 55°C, but under load it has reached about 86°C, anyone got any tips to lower that?

[lostcolonyforge]

PC keeps freezing can it be caused by overheating

[josesenpaiii]

Helped me a lot! I had Malware Infection. From 90C at Idle to 50C. Thanks!

[wildcard]

when i run games like valorant or apex my pc cpu cores go into the 90 to 100oc temp { i have a intel i7 } i dont know how to open it and idk what is wrong can someone help?

[Ripebulldog]

I searched up mark Zuckerberg and this came up.
Mark Zuckerberg is definitely a robot

[dariusnexus]

Hello, i had some cpu's heat issues, idle temp around 70°C, changed my watercooling, but still, not working well yet, too hot. What should I do ? (I let the preput thermal paste of the watercooling)