Current Events > 4 year old cpu keeps hitting max temp playing any game, is it dying

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i've gotten burnt (heh) trying to get away with just replacing thermal paste before

What you mean burnt with changing thermal paste? Reseat heatsink and changing paste should do the trick.
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could be

1. video card
2. bad fan
3. cpu dying

this happened to me and I replaced the fan and video card

cpu was fine
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