I could be wrong, but in my experience this really sounds like it is a hardware problem with the cooling system, and a very serious one at that. I would encourage you to take this up with Dell at once.
Yes, I will. They have exchanged a lot of components already though (including the whole laptop) and so far, nothing has helped.
While it's certainly possible that newer FreeBSD releases are failing to control the temperature as well as older ones due to some change, that does not mean that this is a FreeBSD problem - these temperatures are so far out of line that anything FreeBSD managed to do before should be viewed as an unexpectedly successful workaround.
This box has been running FreeBSD 8 since day one. It always had trouble with high temperatures. But now that summer is coming and ambient temperatures are rising, the issue keeps getting worse.
Apart from your immediate problems, in my past experience this range of CPU temperatures is likely to lead to early failure of the CPU, very likely within a year or less.
Yes, I am afraid that may happen. Then again, Intel's data sheet clearly states that this CPU is designed to operate at up to 100°C.
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