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I don't know - I think the cooling system as designed is grossly inadequate. The fan makes a lot of noise but doesn't actually move much air. There's not a lot of heatsinking, so the fan runs full-time even when the system is idle. Part of this is related to the absurdly high power consumption when idle, too.

You can get platforms to put the laptop on that have fans in them, but I've never used them.

The best thing I've found is to keep the base of the laptop off the desk. At home I have a little wire shelf that I put the laptop on. At work I put it straight on the desk, but I trigger the thermal throttling quite a lot there. If I need to get some work done and run the CPU hard, I find the best thing is to elevate the base - I stick my phone under one of the edges.

Battlefield II is the only game where I've had thermal issues on the laptop. Every other game triggers the thermal throttling before anything bad happens.

Another major issue with the thermal system is that the throttling thresholds are very low - around 60 degrees. So if you do trip the thermal throttling, it'll wait until the machine gets down to 60 degrees before it lets the CPU speed rise again. Of course, this machine idles at about 60 degrees at its lowest speed, so recovery from thermal throttling can be very difficult.