Hello,
My dual 2.5 is about one year old and I haven't had a single technical issue with it since I got it. I upgraded it to 3 gb ram, 1 raptor 74 drive as boot, and the original 160 gb sata as secundairy drive. It works flawlessly.
But lately, i've been experiencing some excessive fan behaviour when using Photoshop CS 2. I didn't notice (or didn't bother) it earlier, but now it's starting to become a real pain when using photoshop.
Here's the situation :
I've opened a standard A4 document, selected the type tool, and started typing a text in the document.
Apparently, this causes my G5 to turn on it's fans as loud as 75-80% of it's "airplane sound". It stays on that level until I stop typing.
This is just an example, every small thing I do in photoshop causes my fans to rev up significantly. Also when i'm trying to move a little item from the left to the right, it revs.
I know it's supposed to rev when it's doing something intensive, but I don't think the tasks i'm doing are THAT intensive.
Either way, i've used hardware monitor while testing this, and found my CPU A temperature goes up to 88-90 degrees when typing text. CPU B remains untouched.
When I go out to my nephew and test these things on his dual 2.0 ghz, his fans don't even come on at all.
It's quite frustrating since the fans are a lot louder than the music playing on my computer.
My energy settings were set to Automatic, when using Reduced, the fan noise was the same but the temps didn't go beyond 78°C.
When I stop what i'm doing, the temps go back to about 55 degrees for CPU A en 48 degrees for CPU B.
Any thoughts on this? Thx a lot!
My dual 2.5 is about one year old and I haven't had a single technical issue with it since I got it. I upgraded it to 3 gb ram, 1 raptor 74 drive as boot, and the original 160 gb sata as secundairy drive. It works flawlessly.
But lately, i've been experiencing some excessive fan behaviour when using Photoshop CS 2. I didn't notice (or didn't bother) it earlier, but now it's starting to become a real pain when using photoshop.
Here's the situation :
I've opened a standard A4 document, selected the type tool, and started typing a text in the document.
Apparently, this causes my G5 to turn on it's fans as loud as 75-80% of it's "airplane sound". It stays on that level until I stop typing.
This is just an example, every small thing I do in photoshop causes my fans to rev up significantly. Also when i'm trying to move a little item from the left to the right, it revs.
I know it's supposed to rev when it's doing something intensive, but I don't think the tasks i'm doing are THAT intensive.
Either way, i've used hardware monitor while testing this, and found my CPU A temperature goes up to 88-90 degrees when typing text. CPU B remains untouched.
When I go out to my nephew and test these things on his dual 2.0 ghz, his fans don't even come on at all.
It's quite frustrating since the fans are a lot louder than the music playing on my computer.
My energy settings were set to Automatic, when using Reduced, the fan noise was the same but the temps didn't go beyond 78°C.
When I stop what i'm doing, the temps go back to about 55 degrees for CPU A en 48 degrees for CPU B.
Any thoughts on this? Thx a lot!
