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Fan control software
Hello guys, I've been having some trouble with heat on my macbook pro mid 2012 and I downloaded a software called "SMC fan control", it's icon is a nuclear sign by the way. So whenever the heat builds up to 60 degrees or higher I speed up the fans somewhere around its maximum speed (6000rpm)...- unkinkedash
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Keeping iMac CPU healthy
Hi, I just got my iMac (mid 2010) fixed, the graphics Card was broken, there were vertical lines on the screen. It happened while I was playing a game (a game that uses a lot of the iMac's processing power). I still want to play games but I don't want to break the computer again. So I have a... -
Mac Pro 2007 (2,1) fans on siesta
Got an interesting one here... Doing some testing on a 2007 Mac Pro 8-core 3.0GHz machine, and its CPU fans seem to regard their charges (the CPUs) with some degree of contempt. When under a sustained, heavy load, the CPU temps will climb and climb, eventually reaching 190F or so and causing the... -
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Graphics card overheating / kernel panic /smc fan control?
I have a mac pro 1,1 (upgraded to 2,1) tower 24GB of Ram with with two Quad core INTEL XEON X5355 2.66GHZ processors making 8 CORE. The current Graphics card is a ATI Radeon HD 4870. I am getting kernel panics when I'm working on large audio mixing / editing sessions in pro tools 10. These...