> When I built libreoffice, I told it to use all 4 processors on the i5.
> It chugged along for almost two hours.  Watching the temperatures on
> the cores, they went from a normal 24C to about 50C when they went
> full out.

I loved, when I did it on my i7, to hear the fans spin up and down.  But
it never climbed above the low 30s C!

>
> That's not a problem on my system as the warning threshold is 85C, but
> it shows what can happen when the processor works hard.  On marginal
> HW, this can be a problem.

I think you should reevaluate your CPU cooler and/or BIOS settings.  
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Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates."
(I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-)

        

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