AMD FX 8150 overheating while gaming and shutting down PC.

[Stat1stick]

I've been experiencing some severe overheating issues while gaming and it is shutting down my PC after it reaches temps upwards of 82c. I've tried tweaking fan speeds and checking bios settings but I can't find what's wrong.

Could the game really be working it THAT hard? The game I'm playing is Skyrim. I do have a number of mods running including HD textures, flora tweaks, weather enhancers, and water effects. But it doesn't really seem to matter which game it is. It seems that ANY game I play, I see temps that average 73c.

The cpu idles at 49c. I have not overclocked the cpu. It's running at stock speeds with the stock fan and heatsink. Here are my specs:

AMD FX 8150 cpu
Asus Sabertooth 990FX mobo
16 GB DDR3 memory
Galaxy GTX560 2 GB graphics card
256 GB Samsung SSD
Zalman Z9 case

The games are not running from the SSD. They are all installed on a second 1 TB SATA HDD.

Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Roxas_Boy]

Thought this might be obvious but get an aftermarket cooler like the 212 Evo

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Do you have something besides stock cooling?

 

[Z1NONLY]

have you tried new thermal paste?

 

[Stat1stick]

I don't have an aftermarket cooler yet. I've been looking into it and I know I need to get one but I'll have to wait until funds are a little more available. I have used thermal paste. I used what came with the cpu at first but I recently applied new paste with no change in temps. Is that the only thing I can do at this point? If so, I guess I'll live with it until I can get a good cooler. But I'm definitely open to other solutions.