Gaming on an ENVY 15-j105sa

Hi everyone, this is my first post on the forums. I was thinking about buying the ENVY Touchsmart j105ea for gaming and for some other tasks (like word documents and powerpoints). So my question is: WIll this laptop run at very hot temperatures during heavy gaming ( and as a result slow down(intel processors do that))? It looks quite thin so my guess is that the air flow would be quite restricted but I may be wrong. Thanks -Thomas5020 

I have a very similar model with the same processor and the nVidia 750M and this one is the 740M. When running intense graphics applications such as 3DMark 11, the fan does kick on and run hard and the air coming out of the vents does get pretty warm. However, it does not overheat and this is normal on a laptop trying to run full screen games. The scores I get are about P2600 on 3D Mark11 and a real gaming laptop would get something like P4000, but P2600 would be playable for most games. The 740M would score just a bit lower. 

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