Heat issue with my card?

ILoveYouTaco

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So for starters, my laptop has always had heat issues. I could melt chocolate with it just by putting it next to it. I now run it on a cool master cooling pad for laptops. It's an HP, so they've fixed it when it's broken in the past, but it's getting ridiculous. I'm barely running Skyrim on 800x600 low settings. But I have an i5 processor, 8gb of RAM, and a Radeon 5650m. (Which isn't a supercard, but is capable) so I guess my question is, Is my extreme heat issue destroying my performance? If so I have an alternative.
 

ILoveYouTaco

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I was actually considering manually mounting all of the components of my laptop in a desktop case and then putting a much more powerful aftermarket cooler on the GPU and cpu. Also, they were getting up to 70C° each before I couldn't even record the temperature correctly anymore