Laptop Overheating?

I feel like my laptop is constantly running hot.  It is ok, it stays on and everything during normal use.  I can also play CS with no problems, but when I try to play wolfET the machine will play for a very tiny amount and then hard freeze.  I end up holding down the pwr button to turn it off.  I'm trying to figure out whether it is a heating issue or not.  So far the programs I've downloaded to tell me about the temperatures have done a poor job.(Things like showed the temperature of 2 cpus even though I don't have 2 cpus)  things like that.  I just don't think they have the information about my laptops mainboard and such so the program guesses on stuff...

I'm shit at troubleshooting heating problems as I've never run into them before, suggestions? 


Thanx in advance,
Anonymous

protip: if you have an Intel processor with Hyper-Threading, most programs will tell you that you have two CPUs when you do not. This is because you have a CPU that runs processes in a dual-threaded mode, so that no one process can chow down on 100% of your clocktime.