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new MBP - how hot does it get?
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I hate you all.
My rev.A MBP idles around 80º.
Don't even ask about full load.
Check fan status with smcFancontrol. This app actually revealed my left fan problem.
That temp is too high for even a revA MBP.
My MBP used to be like that when it had faulty left fan.
No, I don't think it's coolbook making your computer slow. But it did verify your problem. Try to find out which application is slowing the system down using top or activity monitor.
An idle system should only run around 1GHz / 0.9500V 50°C, so yes you got some major issues.
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The app I've been using to check my temp is CoreDuoTemp.
The max temp I've hit is 55C under load on my 2.16GHz C2D.
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The max temp I've hit is 55C under load on my 2.16GHz C2D.
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Could always do the temperature check the old-fashioned way. Put your fingers on the metal area of the keyboad above the function keys. On the A Rev MacBook Pros I used, that area would get hot enough to cause everyone I saw touch it to pull their hand back right away.
My C2D MBP idles at around 50C (120F), that's with a video running in Quicktime and surfing. I've had it upto 77C (170F) for a brief moment when rendering a video in After Effects and the fan kicked in right away. When I'm photoshoping and using illustrator, it gets to around 60C (140F)
My fans actually went on for the first time today.
I had just converted a handful of CDs to AAC, had energy saver set to "best performance", had screen at full brightness, and set chess to plsy against itself.
I was trying to drain the battery.
Activity monitor showed one core maxed and the other peaking at around 50% while chess was running. That's a true power drainer, eh?
Still, it was "very warm" to the touch as opposed to "HOT".
I had just converted a handful of CDs to AAC, had energy saver set to "best performance", had screen at full brightness, and set chess to plsy against itself.
I was trying to drain the battery.
Activity monitor showed one core maxed and the other peaking at around 50% while chess was running. That's a true power drainer, eh?
Still, it was "very warm" to the touch as opposed to "HOT".
Yeah, my voltage is wayy to high. As for Cool book, I moved the .kext to the trash, restarted, and viola, it was fast again.
The good new is you probably do not have a hardware error. Run Top in terminal to determine what process is causing the high CPU load.
If you were running windows I should say you had malware.
You most certainly have a process taking too much CPU
As you can read in this thread Chess contains a bug that makes it take too many CPU cycles, noticed this one when I first got my MacBook. I left Chess running when I took a shower. When I got back the machine was making a lot of noise and was very hot. This was Chess taking 100% CPU just sitting idle. If you move the board slightly the CPU load drops.
i am new to this tool. How do you use it? what would be a good setting for CS Source and HL2 (which run at highest quality by default).
I'm running my MacBook 1.83GHz @ one step over 1.00V, 1.01V? not sure. This setting was enought to silence the fan so that you can hear the speakers. I remember the setup being a little tricky, but you will figure it out. Do it in small steps then run prime 95 both cores (start 2 apps). Prime 95 will warn if a calculation is wrong, then set 2 steps higher voltage for stability. This way you do not need to get BSOD your computer.
Warning! This makes your MacBook run so good, that you will have a hard time running it stock afterwards.
What a load of Crock.
MacKarl, your account was created at the same time as the release of Coolbook, and so far the majority of your posts have linked to the coolbook website. You seem to be a voltage/intel CPU genius in some posts, and a dumbass who really needs a "review" of this App in another.
And "Many people have reported strange temps with core duo temp." WHAT??
The only person on these board's I've seen use this App reported it slowed everything up, and that problem went by simply removing Coolbook. That sure does point to Coolbook as the problem there.
Either you are the dev, or a crayzee.
Regardless, I wish you'd stop.
(Coolbook looks like a great idea, but I'll wait for a free (non .kext) alternative just to slow down my processor. After all, temperature monitoring tools are now common, yet started off costing money and being hard to install)
MacKarl, your account was created at the same time as the release of Coolbook, and so far the majority of your posts have linked to the coolbook website. You seem to be a voltage/intel CPU genius in some posts, and a dumbass who really needs a "review" of this App in another.
And "Many people have reported strange temps with core duo temp." WHAT??
The only person on these board's I've seen use this App reported it slowed everything up, and that problem went by simply removing Coolbook. That sure does point to Coolbook as the problem there.
Either you are the dev, or a crayzee.
Regardless, I wish you'd stop.
(Coolbook looks like a great idea, but I'll wait for a free (non .kext) alternative just to slow down my processor. After all, temperature monitoring tools are now common, yet started off costing money and being hard to install)
