I've got A1398 2015 (2.8, R9 370X, High Sierra) which I was dreaming of for years! I bought it for silence as Apple values it much - and got something pretty different.
First of all - paste is fresh (MX-4), fans are clean, SMC and NVRAM are reset. I undervolted with Volta (-60mv), turned off Turboboost and limited the TDP to 35 watts (despite the scorny filings).
It made it somehow better (by the price of -20% of performance, from ~580CB points it dropped to ~500 while 640 is normal for new machine), cause usual Firefox browsing could kick the fans to ~30% with no effort, now it's much better. But weird.
A few runs of Cinbench CPU, temps are about 80C - silent. Only on the third run they start to rise to ~20-30% and usually stay there. Than two runs on the GPU and despite temperature is about 70C it kicks the fans right away to 40%! I stop it and about a minute more the fans are working hard, even when it's 60C already.
A simple editing in C1. Just adjusting curves - oh no, it goes full blast for another minute with no reason! No higher than 70C in peak, about 63 usually meanwhile.
I tried TG Pro, it allows to downspin the fans. I was happy, until I a MASSIVE THROTTLING became apparent, the second run of Cinebench CPU
I'm exhausted. I value quietness much and this whine makes me very nervous. How can I manage it? Help me please...
(sorry for foreign language on the screenshots, I translated what's needed)
First of all - paste is fresh (MX-4), fans are clean, SMC and NVRAM are reset. I undervolted with Volta (-60mv), turned off Turboboost and limited the TDP to 35 watts (despite the scorny filings).
It made it somehow better (by the price of -20% of performance, from ~580CB points it dropped to ~500 while 640 is normal for new machine), cause usual Firefox browsing could kick the fans to ~30% with no effort, now it's much better. But weird.
A few runs of Cinbench CPU, temps are about 80C - silent. Only on the third run they start to rise to ~20-30% and usually stay there. Than two runs on the GPU and despite temperature is about 70C it kicks the fans right away to 40%! I stop it and about a minute more the fans are working hard, even when it's 60C already.
A simple editing in C1. Just adjusting curves - oh no, it goes full blast for another minute with no reason! No higher than 70C in peak, about 63 usually meanwhile.
I tried TG Pro, it allows to downspin the fans. I was happy, until I a MASSIVE THROTTLING became apparent, the second run of Cinebench CPU
I'm exhausted. I value quietness much and this whine makes me very nervous. How can I manage it? Help me please...
(sorry for foreign language on the screenshots, I translated what's needed)