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Holy crap!!! my ibook is at 161 degrees fahrenheit...
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ok, it just turned on..but isnt 161 degrees a little hot? shouldnt the fan have turned on earlier?
I think the iBook can survive at that temperature (just). I think 190F is the max, not too sure though. How hot is the place you're in?
Hmm, I don't know. 72c 161F seems a little hot to me! But not impossible. I had an AMD Duron which ran at 85c and was fine. Dunno about the iBook though.
\not very hot at all, i read that the fan usually turns on at 67 celcius and mine went on at 72..i guess its not too badBlizzardBomb said:
edit: also i was running folding@home to test the fan, and i know that heats up alot, and very quickly, so maybe that was the reason
Here's what my PowerBook Reads now
Processor/Controller Bottomside: 62.8 C
Processor Bottomside: 60.5 C
Power Supply Bottomside: 53.8 C
Trackpad: 41.0 C
Battery Temp: 32.0 C
I'm using Temperature Monitor for these calculations
Processor/Controller Bottomside: 62.8 C
Processor Bottomside: 60.5 C
Power Supply Bottomside: 53.8 C
Trackpad: 41.0 C
Battery Temp: 32.0 C
I'm using Temperature Monitor for these calculations
where is everybody getting these CPU temperature readings from? It's not Activity Monitor is it? Or are you all using a diagnostics tool?
BlizzardBomb said:
I was writing my question when you posted your answer, I will check out temperature monitor lite and see if it is worth downloading and installing. Thanks for the link.
I don't know how you guys are getting these crazy readings. My ibook cpu temperature never exceeds 135 f. 
ohcrap said:
Depends on what you are doing. I've been running distributed.net (so CPU load tends to stay at 100%) and my readings on my iBook are:
Temperature Monitor:
Processor Bottomside: 68.5C/155.3F
Power Supply/Memory Bottomside: 52.8C/127.04F
Battery: 32C/89.6F
Hard Disk:63.5C/146.3F
Maybe I don't have any apps that cause that kind of CPU usage. My worst is when I am burning a CD, listening to music in iTunes, working with widgets in Dashboard, and chatting in iChat, and maybe a few other apps running in the background that I'm not really using like Word, RapidWeaver, and Image Tricks.
Hmmm... so I noticed that since I upgraded to 10.4.2, I get a lot more fan activity. And I just turned back on the temp monitor widget, and my fan was running at about 58C, a temperature at which it sounds like it would not run for many of you. Hmmm.... Well, I guess since it came and went for others with dot upgrades, I too will hope that 10.4.3 makes it go away.