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I recently purchased an M3 Max 14" Pro with 36GB ram, 2TB storage and I'm experiencing excessive heating and fan activity just running a simple Xcode project on the M3 Max. On iStatistico Pro, CPU cores 1-7 are showing around 180-200+ F temperatures and fans over 6k rpm within a minute of...

After years with a 2015 MBP (13" and 15"), and a brief terrible time with the 2017 MBP nTB, I upgraded to a 14" MBP M1 Max with 24 GPU courses - widely reported as being the sweetspot, with more GPU cores diminishing value. Sadly the machine had issues so it was returned to Apple. They won't...

Hello all, The release of the new MacBook Pro equipped with the M2 Max chip has been met with some challenges. One of the major issues that many users have reported is the increased heat levels generated by the M2 Max chip compared to the previous M1 Max model. This has led to some performance...

Yesterday, I spent my first day messing with a Mac. Ever. Have been using Windows since 286 days, so, at 69, this is a mad step into the unknown. So far, to quote another large American company, I'm lovin' it. What I have done so far: Swapped the hard disk for an SSD and successfully got it...

I was hoping for some guidance here. I just recently moved, so my trusty old Mac Pro 5,1 tower is under my new desk. As everyone knows, the tower puts out a ton of heat. Now that it's close to my legs, it's relatively warm down there, not hot or unbearable but just a bit of an odd feeling...

Hi guys, I'm used to put all of my Macs in sleep mode in the night. I put the Mac Pro 7.1-2019 in Sleep mode but I've noticed that the fans are still working in this mode, minimum range. Doesn't look like a real sleep mode. I mean...until now sleep mode to me was a virtual "turn-off", but with...

Greetings, After a quarter-century hiatus, I'm back to BSD and hoping to make use of an old PowerBook G4 6,4 (12" 1.33GHz 1.25GB) to experiment with the various BSDs before picking one and putting it to work. I threw out the HDD and replaced it with an IDE - mSATA adapter and a pair of 60GB...

Hey all, I brought a Early 2015 MacBook Pro running Big Sur quite cheap but it seems to run a little hot. I've tried setting up both TG Pro and iStat Menu to control the fans but can't get either to work well. IStat Pro - I've set up the automatic rules but the fan only comes on if I set it...

Hey guys. I bought my 27"imac i5 with upgraded radeon pro vega 48 card back in April. Today i have borrowed the new M1 mac mini from a friend just to test it out and compare the two. I have to say, i am totally blown away by the performance from a machine that costs only £700. On top of...

hello beautiful people, i had a question about the left and right fan speeds on the 16-inch macbook pro. i just checked tg pro to see my fan speeds and the maximum rpm for left and right fans are different, is this normal? and what should be the maximum fan speeds normally?

Hi Folks, snce installing Big Sur Public Beta, the battery life on both my MBP's (2020 16" & Late 2013 15") has been dreadful, obviously because it has been overheating like crazy, fans constantly on, regardless of what I was doing. I initially thought this was just a general issue and waited...

Can someone help me set up Macs Fan Control to lower the temps a bit, especially to help with the HDD temps. During heavy load HDDs can go up to 50C. Temps shown are with side panel removed. Thanks

I filmed a short tutorial on using TG Pro for new Mac users. This app helps keep temperatures low by increasing Macs' fan rates. I've found that setting the fans a bit faster by default remains inaudible yet boosts performance and more importantly, comfort if using the Macbook on your lap...

Based on the heatsink modification megathread, and on the advice and guidance from users like @DanSilov, @Loog, @Robotronic, @kinchee87, and others I'm forgetting, I performed both the heatsink and the heat pad mods on my 2020 i7 MBA. The results have been absolutely amazing. Even though all of...

Hi, I have a new MacBook Pro 2019 128GB. I bought it less than 3 months ago and Apple have had to already replace the LCD screen due to lines across the screen (no accidental damage, just hardware defect - Flexgate). After receiving the MacBook back after being repaired, it is now over heating...

I have a Mid-2015 15" MacBook Pro Retina that usually is pretty quiet when not connected to an external display. However, plugging it into my 24" 2K BenQ monitor, the fans go completely haywire, running somewhere between 5700 RPM and their max (Left: 6156 RPM, Right: 5700 RPM). This gets rather...

Hello world. I have MBP 15" 2015 with iGPU only and I've noticed my fans always active (I think on ~2000rpm) while just charged is connected and my laptop is in sleep mode. When I disconnect the charger - the fans is going off. When connect again - the fans starts in 5-10 seconds again. Just...

Bought a new 2018 MBP in Aug, already got issues with the fans failing not able to run at high RPMs. They constantly click every 20 seconds. This is the most highly spec'd MBP you can purchase and it's a truckload of S**T. What were they thinking of sticking an i9 in such a slimline body? The...

Hi all I was working in the home office yesterday and realised the laboured fans I could hear were actually coming from a closed laptop bag and my MBP (2017) inside it. I immediately took it out and to say it was hot is an understatement. The bag was also over heated. Obviously the Mac which...

Hello everyone, Now that I have migrated successfully to 10.14.1 on my Mac Pro 4,1 (Early 2009) I have a few questions about adding NVMe in slot 3. I already have 1,2 & 4 of PCIe slots occupied : 1. Sonnet Tempo SSD Adapter Card (w/ Samsung 850 Pro 265gb) 2. Sonnet Alegro USB 3.0 PCIe Card 3...