Hello, I am been having a pet peeve about the Macbook Air's temperatures in different situations to the point where I wanted to ask if it's worth removing the stock thermal paste and reapplying with an Arctic Silver thermal paste to decrease the temperature overall of the CPU.
So far I been seeing my temperature as so...
Idle: 50-60 Degrees Celsius
Browsing Web/Watching Videos/Web games: 70-80
Games/Webcam: 80-100
I understand that the CPU would shut off at a certain temperature in the MBA [105 Celsius] to prevent damage. Though I am concern of the constant warm to hot heat where the fans, at high RPM, would have to kick in every now and then.
I've been also told for a CPU Temperature that's quite high compared to other laptops/ultrabooks [Friend gets about 30-40 degrees celsius, idle and not even hot while playing games]. Though from what I read from many sites/threads that the MBA CPU idle temperature at 50-60 celsius would be considered normal which perplexes me why it's so hot.
Thank you, and I have been enjoying my Macbook so far. :]
So far I been seeing my temperature as so...
Idle: 50-60 Degrees Celsius
Browsing Web/Watching Videos/Web games: 70-80
Games/Webcam: 80-100
I understand that the CPU would shut off at a certain temperature in the MBA [105 Celsius] to prevent damage. Though I am concern of the constant warm to hot heat where the fans, at high RPM, would have to kick in every now and then.
I've been also told for a CPU Temperature that's quite high compared to other laptops/ultrabooks [Friend gets about 30-40 degrees celsius, idle and not even hot while playing games]. Though from what I read from many sites/threads that the MBA CPU idle temperature at 50-60 celsius would be considered normal which perplexes me why it's so hot.
Thank you, and I have been enjoying my Macbook so far. :]
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