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Hi all, I've started having a problem with my MacBook Pro. The only heavy things I do with it are pretty much World of Warcraft and Starcraft II. Prior to WoW's most recent patch my computer would get from around 180F-190F (82C-87C) when raiding, otherwise it'd stay closer to 165F or 73C. When WoW's newest patch hit, 4.2, they released two new areas into the game. Originally there wasn't much of a problem. These areas did seem more graphically intensive and my MacBook Pro did run a little hotter in them than normal, but not by much.
However, several days later in their new Daily quest hub my computer is running at 199F-208F (92C-97.7C) and then when doing the new raid the game introduced it jumps all the way to 214F (101.1C) sometimes. I've tried turning down the graphics in WoW and that doesn't help. I've tried turning off the mods I use, that doesn't help. What I am worried about is if it keeps climbing higher in temperature hitting that automatic shut off point (supposed at 110C?) and of course damaging my computer.
I thought maybe it could be the vents/fans/heatsinks are clogged with fur/dust (I have a cat who loves to sleep on me while I use my computer) But I've been told by someone that that isn't really a possibility. So my question is, what should I do? Is this something I should bring my computer in for to an apple store and they can fix? Is it just that with this new patch WoW makes MacBook Pros run really really hot and there's nothing I can do? Could it be I was right and there's junk clogging the heatsink/fans?
As further information I do have a cooling fan under my laptop.
Thanks for the help,
Mr. Monkey the Anaconda

Hey mate,
I used to play WoW on my macbook pro (late 2008), but since I haven't played the game in like 4 years I guess that's irrelevant. I can however suggest two three things:
1) Clean the fans from dust (requires you to take off the backcover)
2) Download/use smcfancontrol (try this first)
3) Replace the thermal paste, too much or insufficient paste will increase the temp. (not recommended unless you know what you are doing).
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