Backing up makes PC temp rise...normal?

[Chip718]

I have a question. When my machine is idle the temp is about 95-98F, but when I do a DVD backup the temp raise to approximately 130F+. I am curious if this is normal or not? It especially happens when I use Shrink or CCE. TIA

[reboot]

Any time you do anything that requires the CPU to work, the temp goes up. Encoding, transcoding, shrinking, whatever, all use huge amounts of cpu cycles, making it work. Things like web surfing, checking email, and playing Freecell do NOT make the cpu work. It spends most of it's time waiting in a semi-idle state.
Get a bigger heatsink and fan

[poerschr]

yea, 130 seems way to hot....one thing that you can do, it check the heatsink for the motherboard chip (not the CPU), most are just glued on with some crappy double sided tape that does really nothing...use the proper heatsnik gel (get the good stuff) in the center and place small dots of elmer's glue in the four corners. It will work much better this way.....