Sudden drop in the speed of the CPU

I have a 3 years old Dell Precision M6600 with Windows 7. In recent months I have suffered sudden drops in the speed of the CPU. I executes calculations, which do not have any IO or graphics, simple calculations on large amounts of data (say, 8 GB), who are all and always in RAM, no paging is never involved.

I'm timing operations. Normally, an operation will take about 5 seconds. After a few hours, I noticed that the same operation on takes it even data 25 s check Task Manager shows whenever there is no other processes taking CPU, and this process takes 100% of CPU, occupying all of the 8 wires completely. I suspect overheating somewhere, so I bought a carpet of ventilation, and the computer is sitting on it during execution. Does not help. If I turn off the laptop for a few minutes, everything returns to normal - for a while.

I'm not running on battery, still on the charger.

Could you recommend a utility that can show a detailed diagnosis of the computer while it is running, including the temperature of components, etc.

Thank you.

CPUid utility will give you the temperature at various locations inside:

http://www.CPUID.com/softwares/HWMonitor.html

I suspect you are right in your concern over a fire.  Did you notice the change of fan speed?

Let us know what time you found where and we can do better

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