Hi Chico.

Your story is a bit strange. One would of course expect that high CPU usage could lead to high temperatures, but that specific dependance of the Encore application is really strange. Do you have a way of measuring (comparing) % of CPU usage with Encore opened and closed? Is there a big difference? Try to make sure that Encore doesn't trigger some kind of loop that eats a lot of processing power, when it's opened.

One sure way of solving your problem is changing your cooling system. Coolers with water are very good and silent.

Is your cooler a little noisy? If this is the case, it's a sign that it is not working well, but you can easily solve this problem. I had troubles with the AMD processor in my server/desktop PC a while ago. AMD processors are very sensitive to temperature and it would shut down from time to time, because of the excessive temperature. The reason was that the cooler was getting more and more dust and not turning with enough speed to cool the processor. Solution: take off the little label in the center of the cooler wheel and insert a little bit of fat (oil or preferably the kind of fat substance that is used to lubricate the rolling spheres of a car wheel - in portuguese: "massa consistente"). This worked perfectly for me.

Good luck, Chico.

-- José.