Good afternoon all, I have a MacBook 9.2 (mid) 2012 running 13.4 and am looking for a fan control that I can set a threshold for my fan to cut off and start back up from. I have done a lot of work on my hardware. among others, a new fan, new heat sink, new thermal paste. it stays on my desk at home on a dual fan cooling pad, I keep on, only time I turn off is to reset after doing maintenance on Sundays. I have a temp and fan speed monitor installed and it never gets hotter than around 180degfer, normally runs in the 130 range, except of course when I am working it hard. I hate to think of fan running 24/7, truthfully I don't know if fan runs when it's asleep. if it doesn't then that would negate the purpose of this post.
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Fan control on a A1278
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It's not possible to set the fan speed lower than the value decided by the SMC (higher is allowed). You would need to bypass the mechanism by rewiring and hardware mods.