re how hot should the cpu be christopher kushmerick kushmer bnlux bnl gov wrote how hot should the cpu in a dx machine be currently it gets so hot that i can not hold a finger on it for more than s i seem to recall that s run somewhere close to the boiling point of water anyone have an exact temperature anyway putting a cpu fan heat sink on it won t hurt and could help depends on how paranoid you are damien neil dpn po cwru edu until someone debugs reality the best case western reserve university i can do is a quick patch here and there cmps eeap linux the choice of a gnu generation erik green
