Why did pressing ice to my HP make it run slower?

Yeah, what kind of a massive idiot does THAT, right?

Well, I couldn't help thinking - a few years ago when I had my old HDX (and when I was stupid), I remember it getting so hot that I couldn't touch it while gaming - I was literally scared the plastic would melt. So I took a few ice cubes, put them in a plastic bag, and pressed it against the video card. Well, the temperature sure dropped, but the thing completely froze up (no pun intended). I had to reboot. So I've still been wondering, why did cooling make the computer freeze up instead of speed up?

 

You decreased temperature of plastic but not the CPU or GPU or heatsink. therefore it raised to max possible and froze.

Only one revision of MacBook Pro cretaed by the same stupid LOL design maker who decided to make it without sucking holes in the bottom would benefit from such type of cooling. Because its case is working as a radiator.

 

Wait, I'm confused - what raised to max possible? Pressing ice certainly didn't RAISE the temperature of the computer so why would it slow down?

And if you're referring to my MacBook Pro, I used to think the same thing until I did some pretty hardcore Boot Camp gaming and it didn't even get overly warm. And in OS X I've never even seen it get to 200 F. Certainly unlike my HDX which had plenty of holes in the bottom and was 200 F under normal operation and got to 300 F when gaming.

 

I dont know about your macbook because I dont remember what year's macbook was the one with that type of cooling system.

MAN. If you cool the plastic case... it doesnt mean that you cool whole laptop. What is so hard to understand? There is no direct heat transfer between processor and the case. it works in nondirect way. Processor heats air inside and therefore air heats case. It is one way road. You cant reverse it cooling the case.
And even more. You could close holes in the bottom of laptop and there were no air transfer.