CPU Overheating

[alon213]

My CPU is overheating I ahve a pentium 4 3.0ghz heatsink and cpu fans and 3 120mm fans working, and well cleaned fans and case with no dust on idle my cpu temperature is about 78C and if I do something basic such as copying files it goes up to 90C+ does anyone know why this might happen If all fans are working?

[Compxpert]

O.o its running way above the heat limit if its hitting 98C. Get some thermal paste and lift the heatsinc and reapply a coating to the cpu. Clean it with goo-gone or rubbing alcohol or w/e and then apply a small dot the size of a bb to the cpu spread it as thin as possible but not so thin that you can see the cpu.