Alienware m14x r1 laptop problems

hello all,

today has been 2 days that I've owned my alienware laptop after my friend gave me his and I have just finished installing windows 7 and updates (after a new hard drive i installed), and now am installing games.

This laptop model I know is from 2011, however I'm having some problems with it that I assume should not affect my daily use for it.

For starters, it gets very hot, up to 95 degrees Celsius for my CPU at times, and 80-90 on GPU when not in full use. When the gpu is in full use it doesn't stop increasing in temp, so I stopped it at 95 degrees and I have checked the inside of the laptop and it appears clean. Sometimes though my temps go down to 60-70 degrees Celsius for my GPU and CPU.

All of this happens with a USB fan on the bottom of the laptop. I'm thinking about buying a better one soon, however I do not know if that will help a lot.

I played a few games on it and it performed slow 20-60 fps, but going by 20 more often, and when i even cruise on the internet, it takes a bit to load sometimes. My tower PC is a core i3 and it loads faster than this.

I cannot apply thermal paste to the CPU or GPU as I do not have the skills to do so.

Are there any temporary fixes I can do until I can send this to a repair store, or should I even bother repairing it?

Is this also bad because I only have 4 gigs of RAM in here? The system is registered as 4 gigs but the PC actually has 8, so I'm thinking a faulty slot or something.

I've also stress tested my CPU and it stays under it's shutdown point, but only by a few degrees. For the GPU I'm sure that will not work as it increases rapidly under pressure and does not get cooler.

tl;dr

the system gets hot on idle and worse when I game, and it is slow. Any temp fixes before I can get this put into a repair shop?

Thermal paste needs to be replaced. Laptop would be badly damaged if keep used in such temperature. Find a repair shop who can do it for you :)

would you recommend a temporary solution to be get a better cooling pad?

I increased the fan as shown in the picture and it goes higher then goes back down a notch but not completely, i guess this is just the laptop trying to protect the fan from going too fast.

ok i just checked respin period and it keeps the fan fast spinning, is 5500 too much for the fan as in breaking it?

it gets loud but the system cools so much faster now.

I'm not sure how can I tell my speed exactly?

I can't find the rpm, sorry. I looked on the software.

I assume that it goes in the form of rpm automatically. i checked it on "system auto" and it went up to 6,000 and now it's back at 5,000.

That's all I know, sadly. Is it normal for the program to shut down my laptop? I set it for 5,000 last night and went to sleep, woke up and it was running but the screen wouldn't turn on. All my lights were off, too. I guess it overheated?

This is confusing to me.. should I just leave it on system auto? But then yet again when i set it on manual it gets cooler. Maybe just set it higher than 5,000 and go to sleep again tonight, to see what happens?

thanks

true, i guess i shouldn't do that then.

thanks for all the help everyone