macbook fan

[Zillicah]

My aluminum macbook fans are always at around 2000RPM, is this normal?

[Nocturnal22]

why ofcourse you cant even hear them

[Sareth]

I can hear my fan whine*, have not yet been able to adequately demonstrate it to a Genius though. I am 100% sure its "different", the two I had before Christmas did not make this noise.


*no its not the cpu, I used smcfancontrol to up the fan speed and the pitch changes

edit: also sorry, that was really off topic, 2000rpm will be right most of the time.

[pellets007]

Yes, most users have 2,000RPM set as their default. This can hover into the 1900's and 2000's when not under stress.

[morrisman1]

ive got mine at 1100rpm, but it hovers at about 1200rpm when under little load. With the external monitor connected it sits at about 1600rpm. The standard base speed i think is too high, my temperatures are about 50°C with external monitor in and 45°C without it.

the cpu must warm up a little with the monitor in because the gpu is cooled off the same fan/heatsink meaning if the gpu heatsink heats up then so does the cpu one and then the cpu gets a little warmer as well.

[peepboon]

Mine hovers around 1900~

[MBHockey]

ive got mine at 1100rpm, but it hovers at about 1200rpm when under little load. With the external monitor connected it sits at about 1600rpm. The standard base speed i think is too high, my temperatures are about 50°C with external monitor in and 45°C without it.

the cpu must warm up a little with the monitor in because the gpu is cooled off the same fan/heatsink meaning if the gpu heatsink heats up then so does the cpu one and then the cpu gets a little warmer as well.

1100 RPM? How do you even get it that low?

Edit: Nevermind. Just downloaded Fan Control. Very nice app! I have mine at 1500 and there's only been a few degree increase. Seems fine.