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i7 = 100 degrees C, unibody too thin?
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Ok so at idle fan speed, 2000rpm running a tv show on my samsung tv and encoding a handbrake video, it got up to 95 celcius. But when the fans kick in and get into upper 5000's or steady out to 6000rpm, cpu temp is at about 83-85 celcius looks like.
Doesn't really seem to be much of a cause of concern. I would imagine that that article is just benchmarking temporary cpu temperature before the fans kick in...
What are your thoughts???
Doesn't really seem to be much of a cause of concern. I would imagine that that article is just benchmarking temporary cpu temperature before the fans kick in...
What are your thoughts???
Exactly right, which is why it's so misleading. They never say this is the case AND they intimate that the casing actually gets that hot.
Just bad all around reporting.
My temp range seems pretty normal right? Nothing to worry about?
Besides, I dunno who would do hardcore editing with this thing on their lap. Either way, I would imagine doing extremely intensive CPU tasks on any computer would be uncomfortable.
Besides, I dunno who would do hardcore editing with this thing on their lap. Either way, I would imagine doing extremely intensive CPU tasks on any computer would be uncomfortable.
yeah i mean if it's saying at 25 C below the recommended max temp for the chip (105 C) at full throttle I'd say that's pretty good. Obviously you wouldn't want it on your lap while your taxing your CPU. This is even true of my 13" unibody macbook, which is by far the coolest notebook I've ever owned.
no, the article says that the temperature spikes to 100 C, and has that high of a maximum, and there is also a graph of temperature vs time which shows how long it stays that hot
please stop spreading your misinformation
I am using my new 17" i7 MBP and have to say it stays a lot cooler than my moms late 08 15" so I have no complaints. I have not "officially" checked temps, but it is obvious one gets hotter than the other.
I love the internet because things get horribly dramatized! I have even heard people around the internet saying the new style keyboard is too spaced and they cannot use it without missing keys! Come on, get a life people!
Has your computer caught on fire? Has it melted inside? Has heat affected your performance? Has your processor exploded?
If you answered yes to any of the above then by all means complain. But to those of you only checking calculated temps and worrying about all of the above, all I have to say is... really??? LOL
I love the internet because things get horribly dramatized! I have even heard people around the internet saying the new style keyboard is too spaced and they cannot use it without missing keys! Come on, get a life people!
Has your computer caught on fire? Has it melted inside? Has heat affected your performance? Has your processor exploded?
If you answered yes to any of the above then by all means complain. But to those of you only checking calculated temps and worrying about all of the above, all I have to say is... really??? LOL
Sounds like just a bad system in the test to me. My 15" hi res i7 runs much cooler than my old 15" 2.8 c2d. Idle temps are around 30-32 (celsius), working with vms (windows 7 and ubuntu) brings the temp to around 35-40 depending on what i'm doing. If I only have an ubuntu vm open it stays around 35, but I run aero in vmware fusion so the windows 7 vm will pop the temps up to about 37-40 while actively using it. Handbrake encodes (1 hour or so long) brought the system to around 65-70. note that i use smc fan control to set my fans speeds manually. My fans are always at 3000 RPM unless I am encoding with handbrake and then I up it to about 5500.
Yes. Too much thermal paste can be a very bad thing. You would think that since apple has instructions on how to apply thermal paste on their website( I'm not looking for the link. If you care about it that much find it your self) that they would apply it properly.
I ran cinebench 3 times in a row (running it right now again) and my CPU topped at 95C with the fans still at 2k rpm. Fans are now sitting at 3k rpm and I have dropped to 85c. I don't see what the big fuss is. Perhaps apple should release a firmware that pops the fans in a little sooner. Waiting until 95c to kick into a higher rpm may seem a little too long for some people. My fans have never gone 3.2k rpm in cinebench which is great for noise reduction. Bad for people that like to freak out. Funny thing is, my Fans hit 4krpm easily when playing WoW but thats because the GPU is also creating heat and the SMC control realizes this and kicks into higher gear faster which is great in my opinion. Cinebench ONLY uses the CPU and doesn't touch the gpu at all. The SMC, imo, is function well and only kicks into high gear when the GPU and CPU are being taxed to extreme.
I guess so. I am running WoW, 4 browser windows with flash, and cinebench and I am at 6krpm fan with my CPU at 76C and 66C GPU. So... pcauthority can suck my goch because they dont know how to properly test a system.
When I run COD4 on highest settings on my i5 15", it goes up to around 92ºC-
but that's only when the fans are at ~2000rpm-
once the computer realizes that it's hot, it goes up to around ~4000rpm and the temperature drops to around 60~70ºC - not too hot at all in my opinion.
On my old white macbook, it would run at 90ºC on 6200rpm fanspeed
but that's only when the fans are at ~2000rpm-
once the computer realizes that it's hot, it goes up to around ~4000rpm and the temperature drops to around 60~70ºC - not too hot at all in my opinion.
On my old white macbook, it would run at 90ºC on 6200rpm fanspeed
Hachi machi!No issues when I bought it, but I did noticed this upon opening up the machine:
That's just way too much. There was about that much on the heatsink side as well. Feels like the 2006 MacBook Pros all over again.
How is the noise?
The difference isn't much, but at least in my mind, I know I put the right amount of the paste on there and I don't worry when I encode video.
The temperature has yet to go over 85ºC when I'm running 400% right now, so I'm content.
Extremely bearable actually. I barely could tell the difference between the 4k and 6k modes. The 3k and 2k are also hard to distinguish.
No issues when I bought it, but I did noticed this upon opening up the machine:
That's just way too much. There was about that much on the heatsink side as well. Feels like the 2006 MacBook Pros all over again.
Holy hell. That's terrible. Your making me want open mine up the second I get it.
You still don't get it.
The pertinent information from that data and graph is:
1) The CPU temp briefly reaches a max of 101 C (less than intel's recommended highest operating temp of 105 C for the i7 620M)
and
2) During this test, which is designed to max out the CPU, the enclosure bottom sensors never read more than 34 C (93 F). This is a relatively low temperature. Right now my 13" unibody macbook, with just Google chrome open, is reading 86 F for one of the bottom enclosure readings and I would describe it as tepid. Remember, the temp sensors are reading the inside temperature of the bottom enclosure.
I'm not sure what your concern is. Are you worried the CPU is going to melt itself by running at 101 C for a minute? You shouldn't be, because Intel isn't.
Are you worried that it's going to burn your legs while web browsing? You shouldn't be, because the bottom enclosure barely gets hot when maxing out the CPU in a benchmark.