Threaded joke. blotunga wrote: Me too, to bad my wife doesn't agrees :)

And ciemnogrodzianin said "Buy the car as a gift for her."

no... lol!

It's not easy when not seeing the other persons face. :-D

Laptops tend to overheat while gaming. First they slow down and eventually emergency shutdown. The operating systems should have a built in setting where you could optionally limit the f/s but as far as I know no OS has that which leads to use of (forced) Vsync :-(

I am not rich and am not giving away anything but very very old computers.

I was an avid laptop gamer for about 6 years, swapped to desktop and will not go back, I love the ease that you can buy 1 component and stay current with new systems.

Here's an idea: Try putting the laptop into power saving mode in the settings. This should lower the clock speed of the
CPU and GPU, extending battery life and reducing heat, allowing you to game without as much risk of overheating.

(Of course, there is a trade-off; performance will not be as good, but that trade-off may be acceptable depending on what game you are playing and how important performance, battery life, and keeping the system cool are to you.)

There are a few things one can do to prevent overheating:
1. Undervolting and/or underclocking with a program like ThrottleStop, but this is not for everybody.

2. Change or make a new Power plan in your Power Options. Under Processor power management set a lower value for Maximum processor state. For example, on Intel CPUs setting this to 99% will disable the Turbo boost. I have a profile that limits the CPU clock to 1.9 Ghz - this is for everyday use, like browsing, watching videos, playing older games. Use this in conjunction with a program that monitors temps and clocks, like Core Temp.

3. Limit the framerate for games with something else other than Vsync. For Nvidia cards you can do this with NVIDIA Profile Inspector from the NVIDIA Inspector program. I presume that similar tools exist for AMD cards too and I think you can actually do this in the driver's settings.
Or use other programs, like Rivatuner Statistics Server (RTSS), which is also bundled with MSI Afterburner.

4. Last but not least, use a good laptop stand, something with 120mm fan(s) or bigger.