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I'm playing on a Dell Inspiron 1525, I know, nothing special or fancy. Lately it keeps overheating when playing WoW. I actually opened up the bottom and cleaned out the fan and heat sink, the fan sounds/feels 10x better now. I also went out and bought a cheap Microsoft cooling pad.

I play on the lowest settings possible because well this laptop isn't exactly top of the line and a few years old, so anything over low just lags terribly. Are there any programs you suggest for monitor cpu/core temps. I really don't know too much about where temps should be running at, it sounds like 50-60 C is pretty high, but frankly I don't know what I'm running at anyways.

I haven't really played much yet since I cleaned the fan/bought the cooling pad so I don't know yet if those have proved to be effective enough.

The 1525 in particular is suseptable to both main cooling fan bearing failure, and seperation of the heat pipe cooler from the GPU if you set the laptop down significantly too hard.

If dropping your WoW settings lower doesn't fix the issue, you may want to look into getting a cooling system repair kit, which should run you under $60.

If you are new-ish to WOW and are just now making it into higher end, newer zones that utilize more intense graphics rendering features, you may just be exceeding your hardware too.

57c is 134 degrees F. Graphics card chips get up there a ways in heat

Anything under 75c at load on the mobile GPU is probably ok. Anythign near 90 and you should be very worried.