im using E7500 on a stock heatsink on an Intel DG31PR with updated BIOS, after 1 hour of playing games like, dota, nfs shift or hawx my pc shuts down, it then beeps twice when i reboot it then gives me a Thermal Trip error. when i ran HW monitor, temps will rise to 60 degrees in more or less an hour, i tried opening both sides of the chassis then got an industrial fan on, set to the maximum number and directed it to the side facing the board and its components. i ran hawx in max settings (using a 22" samsung) out of curiosity, i touched the CPU heatsink and interestingly it was cool, but the northbridge heatsink was hot.
any thoughts on this istoryans? any thoughts on this is gladly appreciated... thnx