Hi,
I did a bit of searching on this actually because my macbook pro was getting pretty hot. I found Fan Control and installed it. It's a nice program when it works, which is about 80% of the time. I set the lower threshold to 60 and left the upper at the default 80. This indeed cooled it down as it was sometimes hitting 80, but not anymore. So like I said when it works it's fine. But sometimes I hear the fans going crazy, for instance while I'm just doing some web browsing, nothing too intesive. The CPU usage is at a reasonable level, I check fan control with a temperature reading of 50-60 which is below the lower threshold level. But both fans are spinning in the 5000 RPM range which makes this little computer sound like a truck. It usually does this until it gets itself down to 45. Great my system is really cool now I'm so happy, even though I'm fine keeping it in the 50 - 70 range. I fear that my fans are going to wear out quicker because of this and eventually start sounding like trucks when they're spinning at 1000 RPM. I've had this happen to too many PC graphics cards in the past, wasn't such a big deal since those can be replaced pretty easily. I doubt replacing the fans on the MBP is an easy job. Also probably one of those warranty voiding things. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Edit: Even now I just checked it, the temperature is 48 and the fans are ~4000 RPM. I have the base speed at 1000.
Thanks.
I did a bit of searching on this actually because my macbook pro was getting pretty hot. I found Fan Control and installed it. It's a nice program when it works, which is about 80% of the time. I set the lower threshold to 60 and left the upper at the default 80. This indeed cooled it down as it was sometimes hitting 80, but not anymore. So like I said when it works it's fine. But sometimes I hear the fans going crazy, for instance while I'm just doing some web browsing, nothing too intesive. The CPU usage is at a reasonable level, I check fan control with a temperature reading of 50-60 which is below the lower threshold level. But both fans are spinning in the 5000 RPM range which makes this little computer sound like a truck. It usually does this until it gets itself down to 45. Great my system is really cool now I'm so happy, even though I'm fine keeping it in the 50 - 70 range. I fear that my fans are going to wear out quicker because of this and eventually start sounding like trucks when they're spinning at 1000 RPM. I've had this happen to too many PC graphics cards in the past, wasn't such a big deal since those can be replaced pretty easily. I doubt replacing the fans on the MBP is an easy job. Also probably one of those warranty voiding things. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Edit: Even now I just checked it, the temperature is 48 and the fans are ~4000 RPM. I have the base speed at 1000.
Thanks.