I replied months ago on this and have been fighting overheating on my M6 ever since. The only workaround was to throttle the CPU power but even that wouldn't work if the laptop was asked to do much work. Finally the fan bearings started to go out, so I ordered a replacement fan from eBay and took the laptop apart (not fun)... the BIG KEY TO FIXING THE ISSUE: Remove the heat sink, clean off the total garbage thermal compound HP used, clean with rubbing alcohol, then replace with good qualty Arctic Silver 5 heat sink compound.... what a difference! I can now leave the CPU power turned all the way up, and render videos without it ever getting over 74 degrees C... it used to be that hot doing nothing and attempts to render videos or play games would overheat the computer in 1-2 minutes. Since replacing the thermal compound it has never overheated or shutdown and runs waaaaaayyyyyyy cooler.
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