I didn't know why my pc was having this overheating problem, because checking with gnome-system-monitor there wasn't any process that was using CPU resources.
But then, I checked with "top" via terminal, and there was a testdisk process with 100% cpu usage that was causing an heavy overheating and fun loud. After I killed it, problem was fixed.
Version of testdisk: 7.1
[BUG] testdisk keep running background in 100% cpu usage, causing overheating
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Re: [BUG] testdisk keep running background in 100% cpu usage, causing overheating
Try out using version 7.2 WIP to see if your load indicator rises to 100% again.
Modern CPUs slow down cores to prevent overheating so it would be interesting to know what you consider as overheating.
Modern CPUs slow down cores to prevent overheating so it would be interesting to know what you consider as overheating.