I have an IBM thinkpad T60...a relatively powerful machine in it's own right, but not ideal for gaming at all. It would get really really hot and then shut down on me in the middle of the game. I went out and bought a cooler pad for it, but the thing blows (lolz.) The two fans dont even cover the hot area, and I still crash. A couple days ago, it was happening every 20 minutes, so I got fed up and uninstalled WoW from my external, thinking maybe IT was the overheating/stressed problem, not the actual notebook.
Not the case. Still crash every hour or so, and I have to do a complete restart. With all IBM's technical bullshit they install on computers, it takes me a good 5-10 minutes to fully boot up, and by that time I've been booted out of an instance group or killed or whatever. It's getting frustrating, and I don't know what to do.
I've thought about putting a fan right next to the heatsinc (sync/sink???) opening, but I don't have a lot of room on my desk for that. Would getting rid of other processes before I started playing help ease the load? I had a ram optimizer going for a while but that didnt do shit. This is just getting annoying.