I recently acquired a used macbook pro with a 2.16 intel core duo processor. It seems to me that the fans ramp up too high too quickly, making the unit quite noisy. I have opened it up and looked inside to check the fans for dust and they look clean as does the rest of the interior of the computer. I installed a temp/fan monitoring application which tells me that at the moment, the cpu temp is 38 degrees C and the fans are bot running at about 5495 rpm.ns
Leaving the case open for more air circulation for 5-10 minutes gets the temp down to 33 degrees C and the fans down to about 3600 rpm, which still seems like high speeds relative to the temp and an odd icrement jump for just a few degrees temp difference.
Is this normal for a macbook? I have never had one before and do not have a baseline for normal, but my instinct says that the fans are running excessively fast.
Any thoughts / suggestions are greatly appreciated.....
Leaving the case open for more air circulation for 5-10 minutes gets the temp down to 33 degrees C and the fans down to about 3600 rpm, which still seems like high speeds relative to the temp and an odd icrement jump for just a few degrees temp difference.
Is this normal for a macbook? I have never had one before and do not have a baseline for normal, but my instinct says that the fans are running excessively fast.
Any thoughts / suggestions are greatly appreciated.....