Gaming and Temperatures

So I am looking into purchasing my favorite gaming series newest addition to their line up: Civilization 5. I tried the demo and it works fine in boot camp on medium settings which is great. My issue is the temperature of my macbook pro.
I have a program in win7 side of bootcamp running a sensor that tells me the temperature of the cpu's and gpu. For some reason I cannot control the fan but it ramps automatically pretty well.
My temperature though usually its around 75 C. is running this hot for some time while playing bad for the unit? Any advice would be great because really thats my only issue for holding off buying the game as i dont wanna damage my mbook.
Also if any of you know a good program in win7 where i can control the fans while in boot camp would be great.

eww is right. 75C is nothing and it sounds like the fans are ramping up the way they should to control your temps during game play so you should not need a 3rd party app to control your fans. Nothing to be concerned about.
If you want a program that can monitor your temps and fan speed(s) on the Mac side try iStat Pro - you didn't mention if you had something on the Mac side for this.
Best.
M.

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I feel (and have always felt) that my Mac Mini has been lacking in cooling and that whilst the MM is a pretty little computer its performance has always been hampered by its lack of cooling. I'd rather have a bit more noise from the fan and have a more efficient computer.
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am fed up for buying a new laptops ?

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OK! Your comparison is _NOT_ a fair one. You are comparing 3.3.7-1-ARCH to 3.4.1-2-ck. You must compare 3.4.1-1-ARCH to 3.4.1-2-ck or you must compare 3.3.7-1-ARCH to 3.3.7-1-ck.
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donniezazen wrote:It would be devastating if Linux kernel slumps into another power regression in 3.4 series. I recently recovered from aspm coma.
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Summary:
1) Compare 3.4.1-1-ARCH to 3.4.1-2-ck
or
2) Compare 3.3.7-1-ARCH to 3.3.7-1-ck
Please remove the 'linux-ck' from the title of your post if indeed it is not to blame.
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donniezazen wrote:repo-ck/linux-ck-corex 3.4.1-2 (ck-corex) [installed]
repo-ck/linux-ck-headers 3.4.1-2 (ck-generic) [installed]
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