Hot and slow while only running two apps

Question

Ive got a 3.0gGHz dual, 4GB, with 354GB of space left on the HDD. Most of what im doing on the computer is playing World of Warcraft, windowed, with safari open (a very popular thing for those unaware). These are the only two apps ill have open, and not only will the computer become incredibly hot, upwards of 95C, but when clicking between the two and attempting to load pages, it beachballs until clicking back into the game, when the page strangely and quickly loads. I have to have the fans blowing as a gusty 6200rpm with a 2000rpm cooling fan pad underneath just to get it down to 80C, but it still fluctuates. I took it into the genius bar in Atlanta while on vacation, and while they didnt have time to do an OS test (i had to get back on the road), they did a hardware test and found no problems. The genius wasn't much help and had no idea about it being slow or anything, just kind of addressed the heat issue, which what i thought might have been the root cause. After having a desktop computer with only a 2.8 single core and 4GB (windows) with no problems in terms of speed, im feeling that theres got to be something wonky going on. Ive repaired permissions but not done a disk repair. I dont want to reload the OS...because well i feel after switching from PC to Mac its a bit of a copout. Any suggestions? Possibly just some better cooling pads and cooling solutions?

Answer 1

And Safari is good to have open so you can look up various things while youre playing.
I see; thanks for explaining.
Anyways, i still dont think it should bog it down enough to beachball.
Not unless there's Flash or other streaming video content on the page being displayed, no. If there is any, it might very well beachball. Flash is a gigantic processor hog.