How's the cooling noise with the new Macbook?

When my new 2016 rMBP runs hot I hardly hear anything at all to be honest. Seems to be more quiet than my 2013 rMBP.

 

what app?

 

I think only the new 15" has the irregular fins.

 

Try "Macs Fan Control"

 

What noise lol. Ive yet to hear the fans even spin up, the cooling on this thing must be very efficient. I had 4 tabs open in safari with flash content running in all of them and it just stays silent.

 

maybe one can test with prime95 the real core heater and show what temps the core get

 

Here's the proof only the 15" has the irregular fins:

 

100% cpu usage with Turbo on is way to test Fan noise and core temp.

 

try playing a game - Trine usually gets the fans going really quick

 

Do you really think fans would turn on with just 4 tabs open?

 

the fans on my 2015 '13 inch MacBook Pro has actually never turned on! But to be honest I haven't done anything (yet) that is very processor intensive.

 

Well with my MBA just 2 tabs with Flash content had the fans going at full speed, so yes lol.

 

Comparing a MBA to a MBP, which has a completely different cooling system and an improved CPU... Okay then

 

but i am interested to see core temps with the 15 tdp cpu

 

No need to take this so seriously, i was just impressed with the cooling on my new laptop.

 

OP was asking about the cooling noise, and how it differed from the other MacBook Pro. Your saying that you don't hear anything while you're not doing anything intensive doesn't really help at all.

 

Like i already said on my old machine the fans would come on quite easily, on the new machine ive yet to hear them come on, im well aware that does not answer the OP's question, then again nobody in this thread has including yourself.

 

I feel like I did enough testing to characterize it (#466). Handbrake x264 encoding is no Prime95, but it does completely peg the CPU at 100% continuously. This plateaus the temperature at 90C and the power draw at 16W, but the fans only get to barely audible at that point (ear right on keyboard)

GPU stress along with high CPU can push it into the 25W range, but the fan is still only just audible, not loud at all.

Temps never get to 100C like on my 15" 2015 MBP and so there's never any throttling.

 

with an i7 and dGPU it's a completely different animal, I expect the fan characteristics to be like the 2015s