Extreme Heat On Macbook

Lately I've been playing World of Warcraft on my Macbook, and when I play it my Macbook gets really hot. Whithin 10 mins the bottom is hot to the touch. Is there any way to reduce this heat or should I even worry about it?

I actually called apple support for this very reason. Temps were originally getting up over 84c, made me just a little uncomfortable. Chuck over at apple support did a little digging, and the thermal shutdown limit on the CPU is 115c, GPU 110c. I thought the same as the above, that my high temps were on GPU, not CPU, and chuck corrected me on this. He said the 9400 actually runs COOLER than the processor due to how the proc was designed.
As far as getting your temps DOWN, Smcfancontrol is a great freeware program for manually controlling your fans. Also, 10.5.6 included a gfx update that has made HUGE improvements on my macbook in terms of temp, as well as a decent boost in my FPS.
You didn't specifically specify your temps, but if you're under 100c you're good according to apple. Also, macbook fans seem to be notorious for waiting until the last second to spin up [originally mine wouldn't start to spin up until my temps hit 90c!] and even then it was a gradual 500-1k rpm spinup.

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