Gateway p-7811fx Overheating Problem

I just bought a refurbished Gateway P-7811FX laptop in April and I have been fully impressed with everything except I have very bad overheating problems. When I game on the highest resolution(1900x1200) I overheat after about 20 minutes(at the same time my GPU is running at an average temp.~130F) When I dumb down the setting to 1024 the heat will stabilize at 185F(while gaming on high res it'll run at 200-210F then it will fail due to temp). Also as of about 2 weeks ago, AVG started to cause my comp to run around 205F during the daily virus scans. Could this be fixed with new paste on the processor? The computer still has the 3 month manufacturer warranty but I really don't want to send it back and wait an unknown amount of weeks before getting it back. Someone please give me some advice.

*I also run a laptop cooler with two fans and it was still getting hot so i cut up a lead pencil eraser and propped it up about another 1/4 inch.
*Also why are my CPUs taking the brunt of the load when I game, shouldnt the GPU be the processor heating up like this, I thought that was what it was designed to do.

I have this same computer, and I have to agree..... bad overheating problems are the mean for this thing. I mean, I was running Prince of Persia: Warrior Within on the thing and had the same thing that the first post described happen to me..... at first, I thought: memory leak issue!
But no, when I put my hand in the air coming out the side of my computer..... holy ***...... It actually BURNED MY FINGERS! I was like "Wait a minute.... less than a year ago when I first got this computer, I could play CRYSIS on it and it never overheating during an extended playing period of 8 hours on 1280*1024!..... something isn't right here!"

Turns out..... there was a LOT of dust in the computer, that needed taking out when I 'cracked the case open'.

Another problem..... no warning when the video card overheats..... not even a beep so I know "Okay, I have to turn the setting for the game down!"

Another funny thing.... I can run Batman: Arkham Asylum in 1450*...whatever it is no problem, and it NEVER OVERHEATS!

Now, that's a new game that is supposed to be pretty 'taxing' on the video card.... what about it is making it so that it doesn't make my GPU overheat?

Edit: And I have to add that I have now played many Disney Pixar games, and all of them make the GPU and CPU overheat dramatically in Windows 7 on this computer to the point where it is once again blackscreening....... Disney needs to get their act together big time with their PC games, it seems that they are either badly written or badly taxing on graphics and CPU power when they shouldn't be.
I also ran GPU-Z during the gaming sessions....... for Batman on my computer, low 70 Celsius on the computer.
For Wall-E at 800*600 settings........ high 80's, until it fails when it goes over 90 Celsius. No reasonable explanation for that.

Quick question, What does geographical location have to do with cleaning out dust?

Ah, that is a good reason.

amfavs,

i was unable to find where your looking for those settings, i too am having the same problem. is there anywhere online that shows how to pop apart this case so i can try and clean out dust to see if this will relieve some of the issue?

Also what version drivers are you using?

I got that setup tested on Vista Ultimate x64 no problem with ntune 5.0, however when i bumped back up to Windows 7, it kept crashing, im trying ntune 6.0 now to see how that works otherwise it might be off to Rivatune for Windows 7

amfavs, that did the trick! It works wonders on Windows 7...thanks for the tip on the new ntune version.