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jsolo1
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Re: Reminder about hot CPUs and dust.

To the OP, sounds like reseating the heatsink improved the contact between it and the cpu. Unless your HS was baked in dust, I doubt that just dust alone would cause such a change in temperatures. Perhaps the HS wasn't seated well to begin with?
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clubs:		 Well, thermal compound seems to degrade over time, as well.
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