Okay, so let me explain. I got my machine today. I obviously ran cinebench and was impressed with the thermals, the machine stayed very quiet and cool, with the fan ramping up and down quietly. I then decided I would try to run unigine valley. Even though it doesn't show an image right now, it still pushes the gpu. Similar results there. Okay, so if you want your m1 macbook pro to sound like a jet engine, simply run cinebench r23 and unigine valley at the same time. This pushes both the cpu and the gpu at the same time. I have gotten many other macs to get very hot doing this. Thus, when I did this, the m1 macbook pro fan went to full speed. So, have anyone else gotten the m1 macbook pro fans this loud or am i the first one because I just pushed the cpu and the gpu to full at the same time? However, after the intensive task, they go down very fast, and I have not gotten loud fans in any normal task (in fact, I never usually hear the fans really loud).
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Am I the first one who's gotten the m1 macbook pro fan to full blast?
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Ha, someone else accomplished it by placing it on a blanket while gaming, I think it was.
I got my MBP fans going full blast doing Handbrake encode of a mkv file (to 1030p fast) (both the intel version and m1 beta version of Handbrake). Doing the exact same files and settings, y 2017 iMac fans would turn on right way and strangely my 2013 MBP's fans would turn on but not at full blast.
The M1 smoked both in encode time.
The M1 smoked both in encode time.
Yeah, it's possible to get the fan running. Some games can do this with Rosetta 2... like Rise of the Tomb Raider at ultra settings.
Reviewers make it seem like the fan doesn't turn on at all, but that's not true. Push the MacBook hard enough and you'll hear the fan. It makes sense... since the TDP it needs to sustain is 15W.
In contrast, I'm guessing the MacBook Air drops its TDP from 10W to 7W, then to 5W as it needs to. So if you're gaming or doing intensive 3D work, the Pro would be a better bet.
Reviewers make it seem like the fan doesn't turn on at all, but that's not true. Push the MacBook hard enough and you'll hear the fan. It makes sense... since the TDP it needs to sustain is 15W.
In contrast, I'm guessing the MacBook Air drops its TDP from 10W to 7W, then to 5W as it needs to. So if you're gaming or doing intensive 3D work, the Pro would be a better bet.
Yeah, the reviewers say that it takes 10 minutes for fan noise, but the truth is, I start to quietly hear it around 5 minutes into a cinebench run. I think the issue is that the reviewers are in louder rooms so they say they don't hear it for a while because it has to get very loud for them to hear it over their room noise.
I think it's most likely because we're in winter, and people's rooms are much cooler than usual.
Wait until summer, and we'll see. At that point, I'd bet the Pro will still be able to go full speed, but the Air may throttle even further. It's throttling now even though most people's rooms should be well below 80F.
Wait until summer, and we'll see. At that point, I'd bet the Pro will still be able to go full speed, but the Air may throttle even further. It's throttling now even though most people's rooms should be well below 80F.
Well, Australia is also well below or just around 80F right now.
In contrast, San Jose, CA got over 110F a few months earlier. My 16" MacBook Pro was struggling to keep even base clocks with the fans blasting on max, and I'd bet the Air won't appreciate that kind of weather, either.
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got mine a week ago, still haven't heard the fan spin.... still think there is something wrong with it ....
its so unusual, 2 tabs in firefox did it in my last 2014 MBPRO with retinaHaven't heard mine for a month now using the MBP M1 every day, it's almost like an MBA M1 in disguise. Indeed me previous MBP started even while browsing the internet. I think I am going to stress my MBP just to give them a spin for exercisegot mine a week ago, still haven't heard the fan spin.... still think there is something wrong with it ....
If you install fan monitor like TGPro you can see for yourself that M1 MBP has "permissive" fan setup. It acts like it "doesnt care"....until CPU really heats up.
It will barely kick in for anything even if your temps go above 70C, and it will also let SSD to heat up to 50C without start spinning...
Looking at MBP motherboard design (iFixit teardown) one can see that in MBP, SSD is much closer to CPU than it is on MBA.
In practice - it means that as CPU heats up (and fan is off), SSD in MBP will heat up faster than in MBA (my tests confirm that)
But the great thing is that in MBP you CAN configure fan behaviour to your liking using 3rd party apps... Yes, yes I agree that Apple knows what they do - but just the fact that you can is nice...
I made custom TGPro profile that overrides system setting and fan kicks in with 50% if SSD is over 45C or battery over 37C.
It will barely kick in for anything even if your temps go above 70C, and it will also let SSD to heat up to 50C without start spinning...
Looking at MBP motherboard design (iFixit teardown) one can see that in MBP, SSD is much closer to CPU than it is on MBA.
In practice - it means that as CPU heats up (and fan is off), SSD in MBP will heat up faster than in MBA (my tests confirm that)
But the great thing is that in MBP you CAN configure fan behaviour to your liking using 3rd party apps... Yes, yes I agree that Apple knows what they do - but just the fact that you can is nice...
I made custom TGPro profile that overrides system setting and fan kicks in with 50% if SSD is over 45C or battery over 37C.
Mine were roaring at full speed less than a minute into a Bricklink Studio render. Intel version, but still.