why does my computer crash?

hi like the title says my computer keeps on crashing when i use unity for more or less 5 minutes. i was following this tutorial ( Getting Started With Unity ) and after i created the terrain my computer crashed and kept on crashing 5 minutes into unity. I’ve used unity a couple of years ago with the same computer without a problem. I am able to use udk and render complex scenes with blender’s cycles which i think is much heavier than unity. since it is a laptop at first i thought my computer was overheating but i’ve felt it get much hotter than it does with unity. maybe it’s a problem with windows 8 because when i used windows 7 it ran fine.

If anyone has any suggestion or fix please let me know. thank you

PS I am planning on buying a desktop to do these things but it would be nice if i could practice until i get it

I think we need more information here. You say Unity is 'crashing your computer' - can you describe the sequence of events, giving us any details that might be helpful? When you say 'Unity', do you mean the unity editor, or a compiled game? Is the editor in play mode, or not? What are you doing when it happens? Etc. BTW, you can check out the Unity log file to see what was happening before Unity (or a Unity game) crashed. That would be very helpful for us to see. http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Manual/LogFiles.html

well i tried redownloading and reinstalling unity but it didnt change anything. what happens is this: i turn on unity editor and follow the tutorial after im done texturing (sometimes before i start texturing) the computer shuts down (like when you hold the power button to 'force' a shutdown) there isn't anything else to say about it. i would like to post the file but its out put is to big for me to copy and paste here and im not able to attach it...

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I had this problem too. But my computer is just really bad I guess. But windows 8 is not the problem because the other computer that I use runs on it and it works perfectly. So I think it’s something to do with maybe the run time capacity of your laptop.

ya i've seen a couple of tuts where they were using window 8 but between now and when i used to use unity(i think 2 or 3 years ago) that was the only thing that changed. well thanks for clarifying :). what do you mean by run time capacity? btw here's my comps specs: 1st gen i7 q720 8 gb ram nvidia geforce 330m (1 gb vram) hdd 500gb