> I did this last night, in fact, while running a CPU intensive program, and 

> throttling. The fan is running fine, though the heatsink was clogged with 
> dust, cleaned that out, No change in temp. I'm wondering if I need new 
> heatsink goop at this point

Check in Control Panel -> System for the clock rate, it should say something 
like "E8500 @ 3.16 GHz 3.17 GHz".  One of those numbers is the "name" of the 
processor, the other is the actual clock speed at that instant.  If the CPU 
is throttling then one of the numbers will be lower.

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