Many of us start to panic whenever we see our CPU temperatures creep past 80C, especially while we're gaming, thinking we're just a few degrees away from thermal throttling. We're usually quick to ...

The stock thermal paste isn't the problem it's made out to be ...

Repasting is cheap and easy to do, generally. I'd give that a shot. While you're doing that, make sure no dust bunnies have built a nest in the heatsink fins. Modern systems will park cores and do ...

I would put the fans in PWM mode in the bios, linked to the CPU temp. Then adjust curves as you see fit. For example, my case fans are something along the lines of CPU=<40c Fans=20% CPU=55c Fans=35% ...