Hi. I'm retarded.
After trying an obvious google search for "intel 820 overheat" I found a thread in which someone mentioned what a bitch it is to secure the pins that hold the stock cooler on. Sure enough, one of the four pins wasn't *quite* through correctly. Before I fixed it, Speedfan...
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Earlier tonight my computer shut off randomly and when I restarted about 10min later, it told me it had shut down due to a CPU overheat.
A little backstory is in order. This is an intel 820 on a D945PSN mobo with ATI...