Solved Why is my CPU overheating?

Possibly could get away with repasting and reseating the stock cooler, but they arent great . It is cheap to replace with something better and quieter.

Sixteen quid for cooler and twelve quid for ram. Worth doing. He might have to buy a bit of paste as well.

Dont throw the stock cooler away. If you pass that machine to someone in a couple of years you can put the stock cooler back on ( properly seated obviously)

That way you can transfer the thermalright cooler to another machine. It fits 115x/1200/1700/am4/am5

SIW2 said:

Possibly could get away with repasting and reseating the stock cooler, but they arent great . So cheap to replace with something better and quieter.

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I agree.

Here is my concern — I am not trying to insult the member, but they took their computer to a tech to have the CPU put in.
Adding a fan like this, as you know, involves removing the motherboard and performing surgery, pasting the CPU etc etc

I’d certainly go for it, but maybe the member would like to buy the fan and take it to a tech and have them fix it.

I’d still like to know any other examples other than running a VM, that the CPU overheats.

involves removing the motherboard

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The OP says there is a cut out. post #55 .No need to remove the mobo.

SIW2 said:

The OP says there is a cut out. No need to remove the mobo.

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I missed that, sorry.