"Normal" MB + MBP Temps

[rossgumbrell]

Right, i have noticed sooooo many posts on this forum about temps of peoples computers and whether they are too hot or not, also, i have just noticed that my Airport card on my 2.2 BlackBook is running at 65C. Trying to kill 2 birds with one stone here. Firstly is that too hot for the Airport to be running at? Ive only got Safari, MSN and iTunes open with Airport on, plugged in to mains.

Secondly, i think that by making a structure posting your system specs, with details of what you are doing along with your temps, it will allow people to have a quick look through to see if their Macs are running significantly hotter than everyone elses.

I will start with a pretty basic template:

System: 2.2ghz Macbook
RAM: 2gb
HDD: 160gb 5200rpm

Apps Open: Safari, MSN, iTunes
Airport: On
Bluetooth: Off
Mains: Yes

Monitoring App: iStat Pro
CPU In Use: 12%
Fans: 1800
CPU A: 46C
Heatsink A: 45C
Heatsink B: 46C
Enclosure Bottom: 27C
Northbridge 1: 45C
Airport Card: 65C
Mem Bank A1: 46C
HD: 31C

 

[minutePulsation]

not a bad idea, but idle temps are probably not the important ones since ambient affects them so much. If you wanna see where your temps REALLY get to, type yes>/dev/null into terminal, then open another window and do it again (to get both cores working) then record the temps after a couple minutes. Off the top of my head, I believe my CPU was at 86c (which is a little warm for me). I'll do this when I get home from work.

On a side note, anyone applied arctic silver 5 to there Santa Rosa MacBooks yet? I'm planning on putting some on mine this weekend (I have a some left from my last MacBook)

Cheers

 

[KingYaba]

2.2ghz Macbook Pro

Camino, iChat, iTunes and Mail are open. The machine has been powered on using these four applications for the past hour.

Bounces between 39 and 41 degrees Celsius.

 

[Cybergypsy]

my 2.2 stays at 45-50......Macbook

 

[Ubercolios]

I use SMCFanControl to keep the fan at 3600 RPM, to lower the temperature. My MacBook is normally around 45-55 C, with Safari, iTunes, Mail, Adium and Quicksilver open .

 

[taylorwilsdon]

My Macbook pro stays at a comfortable 32-38c with itunes, firefox, adium, mail and iphoto running. SMCfancontrol at 3800rpm

 

[Foxglove9]

Apple says the average RPM fan speed on the Macbooks should be around 1800, mine hovers around 1700 at idle.

With Safari, mail, and iCal open these are my idle temps. Seem to be a bit warmer than others. Also running Leopard, 2GB rams, MacBook 2.16.

 

[Draddy]

2.16 that averages 42-46..

 

[minutePulsation]

This is the 2.0 SR MacBook

Idle and under load. It peaks at 90c while waiting for the fan to finish spinning up.

I'm going to put some arctic silver 5 on it tomorrow. It lowered my previous macbook around 5 degrees.

Cheers