My computer, this beast Y560 which I bought a year ago for a thousand dollahs cheap, has a problem with overheating. I dunno how this processing thing works, but this is the first comp I've ever used with anything higher than dual-core, not to mention it has 7. (Pun intended.) Unsurprisingly, when this thing is processing, it's processing, and burning up a storm in the process. Try touching it on power mode while watching some documentaries on Youtube. Smooth, scorching flesh.

Thing is, this computer seems to have a shotty cooling system, because on more than a dozen occasions, it has shut down from overheating.

The initial culprit was Maya, which anyone who's used it before should know does NOT adhere to the laws of minimal processing. I could use Maya by itself for as long as was necessary, but if I tried to open a Youtube video right after? BSOD.

When Ubuntu hijacked my comp later on, the culprit switched to BOINC, an application which uses your spare processing power to cure malaria, build AI, and compute quantum equations, or something. When in power mode (adapter plugged in), BOINC would run indefinitely until my comp overheated and crashed. Normally it would be kind enough to wait until the comp was in screensaver mode, but because the battery sucks on this thing I always keep it plugged in, so that's really my bad.

But then, having cured malaria and computed several quantum equations, I detached from all BOINC projects, leaving the program terminally idle, and hence leaving my comp with nothing to overheat over. It still kept crashing. Reading articles, watching Youtube vids, WRITING BLOGS--these seemed to be monumental tasks for the poor i7/8GB/Radeon56xx+1GB-equipped monster toy. Today it crashed after one hour of use, 30min unplugged, and I lost an entire notebook of Tomboy Notes on Metal Shadow. Claws came out.

Luckily the solution presented itself to me when, instead of opening Chromium for the umpteenth time to restore all my tabs for TVTropes.org, I just went over to Firefox and finished watching Century of the Self on Youtube while downing some Chinese. (Sensual therapy, you understand.) Anyone who's seen that movie knows that it's the longest movie in freaking existence, because it's four hour-long episodes crammed into one. I was on the last episode and a half; sat through the whole thing on Youtube, double-checking the comp to see if it was hot now and again. It wasn't even warm.

Science concludes that Chromium can run up an i7 processor singlehandedly. Who could possibly--Firefox?--well okay then.

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Does anyone read that feed to the right, listing all your friends' recent activity? Is becoming an eyesore.