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M2 MacBook Air throttling is being vastly over-exaggerated
From the evidence I've seen, I believe firmly that people are vastly overhyping the effects of the throttling in the M2 MacBook Air. The YouTube review I've seen so far with the most thorough benchmarks is Dave2D's, and he went so far as to say that "if you're someone that wants a very powerful...- mattyjoe
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- apple silicon benchmark benchmarks cinebench m2 macbook air m2 macbook pro mac macbook air performance throttling
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- Forum: Apple Silicon (Arm) Macs
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Additional examples of 8-GPU M2 Air outperforming 10-GPU model?
Like many prospective M2 MacBook Air buyers, I have seen GregsGadgets' game benchmark video showing the M2 Air with 8 GPU cores outperforming the 10 GPU core unit, side by side -- presumably due to more significant thermal throttling in the 10-GPU core unit due to the additional cores. Greg...- blakespot
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- benchmark gaming macbook air thermal throttling
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- Forum: Apple Silicon (Arm) Macs
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Benchmark - could some M2 Air users run this?
Could a few M2 MacBook Air users run this fairly intensive benchmark and report back observations, results? Ideally with some kind of temp monitoring active for CPU/GPU. https://benchmark.unigine.com/valley (it's a free download) I saw GregsGadgets' video showing the 8-GPU M2 Air beating the...- blakespot
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- macbook air thermals throttling
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- Forum: Apple Silicon (Arm) Macs
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Guide: MacBook Air Heatsink and Heat Pad Mod
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...- christophosphorus
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- fans heat pad heatsink high heat macbook air macbook hot noisy performance temperature throttling
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- Forum: MacBook Air
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MacBook Pro late 2013 running hot
Hi there I've got an A1502 MacBook Pro 13" late 2013 (MBP 11,1; ME867LL/A) which I got secondhand. It's got the 2.8GHz i7 4558U, 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD. Thing is; it runs hot. All the time. Idle temps fluctuate between 65°C and 99°C most of the times. I changed out the thermal paste twice...- Xebrafish
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- cooling cpu heat macbook 13 slow temperature throttling
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- Forum: MacBook Pro
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2018 Mini CPU Speeds Explained (i3 vs i5 vs i7)
There seems to be some recurring confusion in the forums regarding the three CPU options available for the 2018 Mini. The Mini can be configured with: i3-8100B: - 4 cores (4 threads) - 6MiB L3 cache - 2.4GHz DRAM - Max clock speed 3.6GHz - Max iGPU clock speed 1.1GHz i5-8500B: - 6 cores (6... -
Macbook pro 15"(2018 model) overheating
Hi, I have bought new 2018's macbook pro 15". I am facing overheat problem. I am using extra monitor for my work. I have captured my GPU history which is using AMD Radeon Pro 560 Always. I think that's why my macbook getting overheated. How can I fix it? And in About This Mac shows Radeon Pro...- rifanalam
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- dedicated gpu dedicated graphics macbok pro mojave over heat throttling
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- Forum: Mac Basics, Help and Buying Advice
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Macbook Pro 2018 after update 2
Hello i made a poll about MacOS update 2. Would be cool if you can answer it http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=5b8ee476e4b0564f7676bde7 to help other user with their purchase. Please everyone should answer, not only who has problems with the mac. thank you This poll is shared on apple...- SwissDataHoarder
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- cpu hot kernal panic kernal panics macbookpro macbookpro2018 macos temperature throttling
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- Forum: MacBook Pro
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Resolved Performance and Throttling issues on my early 2011 i5 2.3GHz MacBookPro
Hi All. So, for the last 9 months or so I have been experiencing some significant performance issues (that I think are throttling issues) on my MacBookPro. I will try to provide as much detail and information here as I can recall, and will list all of the issues I experience in no particular...- theMouthPiece
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- cpu logic board temps throttling
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- Forum: OS X El Capitan (10.11)
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Intel releases Intel® Power Gadget 3.5.3 for Mac
Seems like Intel has released an updated Power Gadget after they removed links to the old versions today morning. Anyone tested it yet? Link: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-power-gadget-20- M.Rizk
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- intel macbook pro 2018 power gadget throttlegate throttling
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- Forum: MacBook Pro
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base 2018 Macbook Pro 15" i7 2.2ghz 6 Core Throttling?
We have a thread dedicated to the i9 throttling and also about i7's in general but based off the information it seems the base i7 for the 15 inch throttles the least. I would like to hear from people that have information about the 2.2ghz 6 core only as right now I'm trying to decide between 13...- Rasta4i
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- i7 processor macbook pro 13 2018 macbook pro 15 2018 throttling
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- Forum: MacBook Pro
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2018 i5 quad core MacBook Pro 13” throttling?
I’ve seen threads about i9 15” 2018 MacBook Pro throttling but not much on the base 2018 13”. So could anyone that has any information on the 13 inch models throttling please let us know?- Rasta4i
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- macbook pro macbook pro 13” 2018 quad core throttling
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- Forum: MacBook Pro
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Late 2013 15" rMBP throttling to 800Mhz at 70C/158F
I have a strange issue with my Late 2013 15" rMBP (i7 4960HQ - quad core base 2.6Ghz turbo 3.8Ghz): Sometimes, under multicore load, my machine will slow down to a crawl. According to iStatMenus, it is sometimes throttling the core frequency down from around 2.6Ghz to only 800Mhz when under...- drecc
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- heat late 2013 macbook pro throttling
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- Forum: MacBook Pro
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iPhone Apple throttled my iPhone 7 by 50%
Since 11.2 Apple decided to throttle my iPhone 7 by 50%. I’m seriously pi**ed. My iPhone is only slightly over one year old. This is totally unacceptable. Anyone else experiencing this with their iPhone 7s? What can I do? iOS 11.2.1 result below iOS 11.0.3 result below -
Let's check throttling of 2017 MacBook 12"
I noticed a lot of people want to know if there are any throttling issues with the 2017 12inch MacBooks. Shall examine this ourselves by performing the same "22 runs of the Cinebench Multi R15 test" done by Notebookcheck.net last year. That test famously (or erroneously?) put m5 above m7... -
iPhone 6+ playing Pokemon Go in the sun causing thermal throttling.
I've been walking about an hour a day playing Pokemon Go in 100 degree weather. So naturally my iPhone 6 plus doesn't like this. Every time I walk it dims the screen to a level that I can barely see it. Im not complaining, I know this is an extreme condition. I'm just wondering if there is...- ImpulseStrike00
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- heat hot overheat pokemon go thermal throttling
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- Forum: iPhone
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MacBook - turbo - video
MacBook - turbo - video I'm reading a lot of comments about the MacBook not been able to do this and that, let me add, this MacBook is more than capable of doing many Mobile things, video is not one of them but if you must. There has been a hardware USB solution from Elgato called -turbo.264... -
I had to resort to torrent to download El Capitan
What is wrong with the OS X App Store? I bought a Early 2015 MacBook Pro in November. Working great with Yosemite, but I of course wanted the latest and greatest. Trying to download it over Wi-Fi at my brothers and at an Internet Café was not working. I invested in a Thunderbolt Ethernet adapter...- Mr. Dee
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- 10.11.3 app store download el capitan network os x throttling torrent
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- Forum: OS X El Capitan (10.11)
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Is throttling fixed now? (r9 370mx)
Looking to buy a 15-inch retina macbook pro with the dgpu, but I read so much horrible stuff about GPU and even CPU throttling, there was some indication that this was a driver problem and was fixed in El Capitan but I haven't found any conclusive evidence. Is there anyone that has any recent...- USB-Cedric
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- amd cpu gpu mbp r9 370mx throttling
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- Forum: MacBook Pro
