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C-DAWG

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Mar 11, 2011
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This may be a ridiculous, stupid question but I gotta ask. Recently, I have noticed that my average idle temperature has increased from the high 30's C to the high 40's C. I've also noticed that while playing counterstrike source, the avg. temp has gone up from about 90 degrees C to around 94-95 degrees. I guess I really noticed it after I installed a 120 GB OWC SataIII drive. I did a clean install of the OS, ran the software updater and then brought over my programs and files using time machine. A few days/weeks go by and I noticed that my idling temperatures have creeped up by about 10 degrees C. It doesn't appear that any programs are running out of control in the background. I have provided screenshots of both my activity monitor and of safari up with the temperature display of smcfancontrol showing at the top. Any ideas as to why this would/could be the case? I'm not really anal about the temperature itself, I'm just wondering what could account for the increase in average temperature. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!

-Clinton
 

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Kind might be an obvious question...But since it's spring and everything...Is the weather getting warmer in your area? This might explain subtle changes.
 
I've been using the computer in the same location since I got it, which is in a climate controlled environment. Yes, outside it is warmer, but inside it has been the same temperature all along.

I uninstalled flash (if you notice in the picture it says the flash is running in safari, even though I only had it on non-flash websites) and after doing so, the temps seemed to have gone back down to the previous temperature range.
 
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