X60 overheating

Hello everybody, I am new to these forums and I'm glad to be here.
I used to have an Asus laptop, but after 4 years of work the video card stoped working and started overhearting, causing my laptop to be unuseable. Due to the fact I am low on cash (A student ) but still in need of a laptop, my wife's father gave me his old Lenovo x60 (1707) Laptop, I installed windows 7 on it and all the drivers from Lenovo's website. 
I have to say that the laptop is a really awsome work meachine, specially for the average student, light, awsome battery, and of course comfortable to type on for long peroids of time.
But here is my question, lately I noticed that my laptop tends to go into sleep mode from time to time, at first I thought it was a problem with my sleep mode driver or a problem with it's battery/docking station, but all seemed fine, and stil lthe laptop used to go on sleep mode without any reason even while not docked.
I also noticed that the laptop becoms really hot after awhile, but I thought it's normal because I am used to it from my old laptop, just to make sure, I downloaded a temp software to measure the temp of the CPU and I almost passed out, according to the software on idle mode my CPU is at 60C and while working (trying to play a game such as: Archlord) throws the CPU to 95C. Then I noticed that that's what causes the laptop to enter sleep mode. I tried to clean the fan but still it didn't help.
I am asking here because I know some of you must have the same laptop or at least used to have it.
Thank you all for the help
It's a really loveable laptop, and I enjoy it so much, it just annoys me to know that it can enter sleep mode during work, specially during classes
Another unrelated question, anybody knows the best way to clean the biometric device?

Hi remo88 and welcome to the community,
I have a couple of x60 tablets that I use all the time.  My temps run from 48C at idle, 58 with a couple of browser windows open and 65C playing some low end games.
When you cleaned the fan did you take the keyboard off?  Hold the blades with a toothpick and blow air in through the vent. Then with a vacuum, vacuum the dust that you blew in through the vent.  Easy does it with the vacuum.  
The thermal paste might need to be redone on the heatsink.  A complete disassembly needs to be done in order to take the heatsink off.  Use a good thermal paste, I use Arctic Silver 5. A drop the size of a grain of rice should be enough to cover the CPU.  
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I had one come in once with a hogged up fingerprint reader. I cleaned it with a damp Q-tip.
Edit:  As far as sleep mode, you can change the sleep settings in Control Panel, Power options, or if you're using Lenovo's Power Manager, you can change them there.  If it's going to sleep because of heat,  you'll have to take care of the heat issue first. 
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