Goodday everyone
For quite some time I've had Windows on my Macbook for some fairly light gaming, all fine and dandy. I learned early on that Windows on Mac tends to run pretty hot, so I got myself a fancontrol program. After Lubbo's didn't work quite as well as I hoped I got Mac's Fan Control and I was pretty happy with that. It wasn't one hundred percent perfect, but it kept temperatures fairly acceptable.
But recently that changed.
Now when the laptop is hardly doing anything (only things open being two or three tabs) the temperature still keeps rising slowly, from around 70 C fairly quickly after start-up, to almost 90C - and sometimes over briefly - right now.
The fans are working at 6000 RPM, roughly, so I am at a loss now, if I'm honest. I will honestly admit to not exactly being a tech-buff, so I have no idea what to do about this.
The laptop is around four years old and due to my study it's had to spend quite some hours running Photoshop and the likes, however I also had the RAM increased about a year ago, along with a switch from HDD to an SSD.
Does anyone know what it is that is driving the laptop crazy like this? And if so; what can I do about it? It runs fine under OSX and gaming isn't a necessity, so it's not like I'm dependent on the Windows partition, but I'd still love to just get it all running smoothly. Or at least as smoothly as possible.
Here is a screenshot of the temperatures:
They do fluctuate quite a bit (from 70 to 82 and back for example). There are a few more temps that the image doesn't show, but none of those are unusually high. It's the CPU and GPU that misbehave.
If any more information on the laptop is needed in order to get a clearer picture of the situation, feel free to ask.
Thanks in advance!
For quite some time I've had Windows on my Macbook for some fairly light gaming, all fine and dandy. I learned early on that Windows on Mac tends to run pretty hot, so I got myself a fancontrol program. After Lubbo's didn't work quite as well as I hoped I got Mac's Fan Control and I was pretty happy with that. It wasn't one hundred percent perfect, but it kept temperatures fairly acceptable.
But recently that changed.
Now when the laptop is hardly doing anything (only things open being two or three tabs) the temperature still keeps rising slowly, from around 70 C fairly quickly after start-up, to almost 90C - and sometimes over briefly - right now.
The fans are working at 6000 RPM, roughly, so I am at a loss now, if I'm honest. I will honestly admit to not exactly being a tech-buff, so I have no idea what to do about this.
The laptop is around four years old and due to my study it's had to spend quite some hours running Photoshop and the likes, however I also had the RAM increased about a year ago, along with a switch from HDD to an SSD.
Does anyone know what it is that is driving the laptop crazy like this? And if so; what can I do about it? It runs fine under OSX and gaming isn't a necessity, so it's not like I'm dependent on the Windows partition, but I'd still love to just get it all running smoothly. Or at least as smoothly as possible.
Here is a screenshot of the temperatures:
They do fluctuate quite a bit (from 70 to 82 and back for example). There are a few more temps that the image doesn't show, but none of those are unusually high. It's the CPU and GPU that misbehave.
If any more information on the laptop is needed in order to get a clearer picture of the situation, feel free to ask.
Thanks in advance!