I have the same issue. The work around with "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash intel_idle.max_cstate=1" seems to have solved the issue for now on my Acer E511 with Intel Pentium N3540 CHIP. And the temp has not increased very much after recent hard use.
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