Why is my fan working so noisy and speedly?

I bought a new macbook air two months ago. My model has 13¨ display, 128 GB SSD, 2 GB RAM, etc.
Sometimes, specifically while playing flash videos, fan is working so noisy and speedly and macbook air is running so slow as you can feel easily.
I searched; there are some programs like Coolbook that promise to solve this problem.
But I'm looking an officially solution from Apple. Is there?
Thanks,

Hi muhendisce,
If you're looking for an official solution you're not going to find it here, this a user-to-user discussion group. You'll need to get on the phone with AppleCare or bring the machine into an Authorized Service Provider / Genius Bar (Retail Store).
If you're watching flash heavy content expect the CPU & GPU to be taxed and as such the fan to come on. But it shouldn't be noisy (grinding noise).

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