Are the temperatures that I'm seeing normal?

[FusionMK]

I bought a new mid-2014 15" Macbook Pro, and noticed some interesting temperatures in iStats. The idle temperature seems to be around 50 degrees celcius with an ambient temperature of approximately 30 degrees. However, whenever I play games, particularly DOTA 2 in Bootcamp, the temperature shoots up and sustains at around 90 degrees celcius throughout the whole gaming session. Is this normal? Or do I have a defective Macbook?

Thanks!

 

[Intell]

Those temperatures are normal.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Those Macs in their heat - a sine of over-heating? - a short story by Mister GGJstudios

 

[GGJstudios]

I bought a new mid-2014 15" Macbook Pro, and noticed some interesting temperatures in iStats. The idle temperature seems to be around 50 degrees celcius with an ambient temperature of approximately 30 degrees. However, whenever I play games, particularly DOTA 2 in Bootcamp, the temperature shoots up and sustains at around 90 degrees celcius throughout the whole gaming session. Is this normal? Or do I have a defective Macbook?

Perfectly normal. Relax and enjoy your Mac.

 

[FusionMK]

I guess the question I should be asking is how much will the life of my MacBook be lowered after constant gaming (i.e. ~10 hours/week of cpu temps at 90 degrees celsius)?

 

[GGJstudios]

I guess the question I should be asking is how much will the life of my MacBook be lowered after constant gaming (i.e. ~10 hours/week of cpu temps at 90 degrees celsius)?

The reduction in lifespan would be so small as to be unmeasurable. Many users put higher demands than that on their Mac notebooks for much longer periods of time, with no ill effects. It is highly likely you'll replace your Mac for a newer one with higher specs long before you would see any negative effects of your gaming.

 

[snaky69]

I guess the question I should be asking is how much will the life of my MacBook be lowered after constant gaming (i.e. ~10 hours/week of cpu temps at 90 degrees celsius)?

I have a few friends running their laptops with the CPU and GPU pegged at 100% for weeks on end, 24/7. The only times these laptops are not running at 100% is for updates and in between the large calculations they are running. Those laptops are between 3 and 6 years old and none of them has shown any sign that damage has been done to it in any way.

Just use your laptop, it'll be fine.