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Motherboard temps high

u01ijm7

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Jan 15, 2013
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Hi I have a ~4year old ASUS A52F laptop which has been running pretty hot recently. Around a year ago I had similar problems- gave it a good clean out and replaced the stock thermal paste with good results.
I have found recently though that my motherboard temps are often hitting 70 degrees under load (antivirus scanning etc) with similar CPU temps. Normally sits ~40-50 at idle.

Im using Piriform speccy for temp monitoring.

Is my laptop about to burst into flames?