Sometimes you need to push your laptop a little more...
If you are a Linux user, maybe the relation fan speed x temperature x frequency of the cores isn't good enought. In fact, linux isn't doing a good job for my laptop -- the computer keeps overheating and rebooting on every single computational experiment. The following procedure fixed my problem.
Disabling the thermal managment of the linux kernel:
1) Edit /etc/default/grub
2) replace the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=... to
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash thermal.off=1"
3) run update-grub
