Need your expertise: My MBP M4 Pro reaches a CPU temp of 108C during encoding to mp4 with handbrake. Is this still safe or should I be worried? Thx for your help.
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High CPU Temp on M4 Pro
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It’s doing what it’s supposed to be doing.
Side note: if you have the option of using a format the Media Encoders use you’ll likely see a significant reduction in how “hard” the machine is working. What are you converting to in Handbrake?
Side note: if you have the option of using a format the Media Encoders use you’ll likely see a significant reduction in how “hard” the machine is working. What are you converting to in Handbrake?
MP4… any suggestions? Will 108C damage the hardware? I thought the MBP is made for tasks like this.
No your hardware is not going to damage itself.
as @NT1440 pointed out: choose e.g.,
EDIT: Videotoolbox - Handbrake documentation
H.265 (Video Toolbox) for the Video Encoder in handbrake and render your MP4s hardware accelerated. You‘re probably in for a surprise. 🙃EDIT: Videotoolbox - Handbrake documentation
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I tested this one because it is in Setapp:
https://stclairsoft.com/AppTamer/index.html
You can set limits for every single app and process and it warns you if something is causing a too high CPU load in a too long timeframe, you can change those limits. Also you can tell an app only to use low efficiency cores etc.
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yes. cpu usage and rendering times are significantly lower.
It will not damage the hardware. Apple's thermal engineers are not complete idiots and that's why they throttle and the fans kick on.
It’s still MP4, but by selecting the right version you’ll make use of the media engines, significantly lowering how taxing the process is because the hardware is specifically designed to accelerate it.
Tried the same coding on my ancient IMac. CPU at around 90C … but don’t ask how it took to finish 🤪
BTW: Anybody knows where the thermal limit for an M4 Pro is? Sontheim vary from generation to generation?
I don’t have a silicon Mac, this is easily available information both in this very thread and a simple search.
According to whom? The only people in a position to determine what is too high or too long work for Apple—the same people that designed the processor, the computer, and its cooling systems, to operate under a variety of workloads and to not enter race states where temperatures or workload might be too high or for too long.
Such overheating is harmful.
When the crystal temperature rises above 85 degrees, multi-level metal connections, contact transitions and inter-level dielectrics are subject to thermal expansion of layers.
With constant overheating, if it works for a year, consider it excellent.
When the crystal temperature rises above 85 degrees, multi-level metal connections, contact transitions and inter-level dielectrics are subject to thermal expansion of layers.
With constant overheating, if it works for a year, consider it excellent.
If this is true…80% of hard working MBP would be junk within a year. Are you sure?