HDConvertToX and my overheating CPU

[DisneyDisciple]

Probably a newbie question.

I am using HDC, and it's great -- one thing, though: its very-efficient use of my quad-core CPU tends to make the thing blast the overheat warning (SpeedFan tells me I'm hovering around 70C while processing). Any way to slow the process down? Take it to, say, 80% of capacity instead of hitting the maximum for all 4 cores? (I am not overclocking)

(I can address my underlying temperature issue separately, but not any time soon -- not sure what the problem is, but this is the only software I use that utilizes the CPU so heavily)

[johns0]

Check your hsf to see if its getting too dusty,what i did for my quad core was get a better hsf,it now hovers around 52c when encoding hd material,used to be 65c.

[jagabo]

Use Task Manager to set the CPU affinity -- use only 2 or 3 cores.