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MacBook becomes very hot randomly

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I have not found suitable answers to my question, so I try to ask. Since a little bit of time my macbook white (4 Gb Ram, Snow Leopard inside) becomes very hot and shuts down when it reaches 85°. It had started playing YouTube videos and then it propagated to others applications such as Microsoft Office or even iTunes. Sometimes I do nothing at all and the temperature rise.

I don't understand if it is software related or not.

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How long does it take for the computer to overheat and shut down? Can you hear the fan running? Have you replaced any internal components lately?

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Take it all the way down and clean the heat sink and vents and replace the thermal paste on the heat sink, here how to get to it: MacBook Core 2 Duo Heat Sink Replacement

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