Welcome back.
As long as you aren't constantly capturing, editing and rendering that laptop should be okay.
I guess it depends on the specs too, hardware. I've had two or so get hot and straight up die personally.
I was also making two to three solos a week with minimal ram and terrible graphics cards. DVC still the only cap card I've got. Was Such a pain though, funny you still have it.
Anything for footy eh?