[John Rogers]

I like to download lists of music from You Tube and then use AVS software to assemble them into a 2 to 3 hour movie. Over the past several months I would start the assembly process and when I came back later the PC would be shut down? At first I thought it was running out of disk space but that wasn't the case. So I thought maybe high temp shutdown? I downloaded a great utility that shows the temp in each core (8 total) and records if the max temp gets hit, sure enough that was it. The PC is 2 1/2 years old so I went and got a tube of the heat transfer paste. Shutdown, unplug, and pull the cooling towner/fan off the CPU. Pulled the CPU and wiped the dried paste off both surfaces, reinstalled the CPU then put on an "X" of the paste and clamped the cooling tower/fan back on.

The ASUS motherboard thought it was a new CPU but no so I just went with the default BIOS settings like I did before. Now temps are 30 degrees lower than before when assembling a new movie and NO shutdowns!
John