Why does my SP3 overheat when playing games?

[Windows Central Question]

I recently downloaded Battlefield 3 and 4 on my SP3 i5 because it was a free download I have had saved on my Origin account. I tried putting both of these games on the lowest setting, but I still had difficult playing. Online multi-player was very laggy and slow and the fan started to kick in. Is this normal? Is the SP3 not meant to be playing games like this? I have League of Legends installed, and it works smoothly.

Somebody let me know what I am doing wrong or what I need to know

 

[Chintan Gohel]

I recently downloaded Battlefield 3 and 4 on my SP3 i5 because it was a free download I have had saved on my Origin account. I tried putting both of these games on the lowest setting, but I still had difficult playing. Online multi-player was very laggy and slow and the fan started to kick in. Is this normal? Is the SP3 not meant to be playing games like this? I have League of Legends installed, and it works smoothly.

Somebody let me know what I am doing wrong or what I need to know

games are usually resource intensive, both on processor and on the graphics card. So some games can't play well on lower spec systems and hence the fan turns on to cool down the processor that is working overtime to do the game processing.

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