Fans going insane when doing simple tasks and playing WoW?

Hello. I've been playing WoW, starting a new character last week. Until the other day, I could play fine. But starting the other day, the fans would all of a sudden rev up like I've never heard before. My laptop is very powerful, and far surpasses the recommended requirements.
However, when the fan goes crazy, even if I quit the game, and let it stay at my desktop, the fan is still going insane. And I even set all the graphical settings in WoW to the lowest, but it still makes a very loud noise.
And I've owned many laptops with graphic intensive applications running, and the fans never made this sort of noise. Any ideas what may be happening?

I checked my CPU monitor, and my CPU usage is averaging 1-3% at most. And it's been almost half an hour since I quit the WoW application. I even tried restarting. I'm running on the Windows side right now, and my mac side doesn't have any 3rd party drivers or anything installed on it.
On the windows side, I quit processes related to my gaming keyboard and mouse macro programs, since all I do on Windows 7 (in Boot Camp) is play video games. And for the past week I was able to play Mass Effect, without the fan making this noise, and Mass Effect is 10x more demanding than WoW.

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