Frame Rate skips on a laptop that should be able to handle it, what am i doing wrong?

[TungstenPhoenix]

Hi, I have a Lenovo Y580 WIth a Intel i7-3630QM Processor, Nvidia GTX 660M GPU, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD and a 20 GB PCIe SSD. Everything i read says i should still be getting top performance from my computer, and should be able to run most things on very/ultra high settings, yet i still get some pretty nasty frame rate drops. When I play League i have to leave it at Medium so the FPS is consistent and when i play Skyrim, i can push it up to Ultra, and its nice for about 2 minutes then the frames get super choppy. Normally ill run my games through Razer Game Booster to shut down all unnecessary processes, and it clears the RAM every time it goes into Boost mode. Ive tried Using Afterburner with and without gamebooster and it doesnt seem to do anything. I also tried the Intel Turbo Boost monitor for the Processor but that didnt do anything, and i still dont know how to "turbo boost" my processor to get this 3.0GHZ speed that was advertised with this processor. What can i do to improve performance/what am i doing wrong?

 

[whalio]

If it's running ok for a couple minutes it's probably related to overheating. Check your temps (with something like hwmonitor) during gaming and if they're too high look into getting one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Laptop-Cooling-Pads/SubCategory/ID-319

 

[TungstenPhoenix]

If it's running ok for a couple minutes it's probably related to overheating. Check your temps (with something like hwmonitor) during gaming and if they're too high look into getting one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Laptop-Cooling-Pads/SubCategory/ID-319

What would be considered too high? I ran it for about 10 minutes and the max temp of the system was 96 degrees celsius.

 

[whalio]

If it's running ok for a couple minutes it's probably related to overheating. Check your temps (with something like hwmonitor) during gaming and if they're too high look into getting one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Laptop-Cooling-Pads/SubCategory/ID-319

What would be considered too high? I ran it for about 10 minutes and the max temp of the system was 96 degrees celsius.

That is a way unsafe temperature for your machine to be running at. Try to bump your fan speeds up if possible and definitely get a laptop cooler. Until then, reduce your graphic settings. I aim to keep my CPU at 60 C when gaming and my GPU at low to mid 70 C.

Heat is the enemy of electronics and can drastically reduce the lifetime of your system if not fry it all together. I have no experience with laptop coolers so maybe someone else can chime in.