Hello - just an experience I wanted to share.
My 2011 Macbook Pro, 15, 2011 early has been quite noisy - fans running often at max RPMs, for long periods of time. Quite disturbing.....The temperature was never below 62 degree C after a few minutes warmup.
As I was switching to an SSD, and had the machine opened, I decided to try to clean the fan outlets, which requires removing the fans.
I found out the fan outlets almost completely clogged by dust !
Now, with the fan outlets clean, the Mac is running some 15 degree C cooler ( right now at 45 degree C ), and this with only 1 fan.
If you wonder about the one fan - I managed to destroy the connector on the right fan. I ventured to to run the computer with one fan only for now - iStats shows no hot parts, so-far-so-good.
Now the challenge of finding replacement fan on Ebay, that ships to the Czech republic.
And what makes me a bit angry - when the Apple service here in the Czech republic was replacing my battery under Applecare last year, I asked them to clean it. My guess is they did not, based on the noise the machine was making, and the amount of dust.
PaulCC.
My 2011 Macbook Pro, 15, 2011 early has been quite noisy - fans running often at max RPMs, for long periods of time. Quite disturbing.....The temperature was never below 62 degree C after a few minutes warmup.
As I was switching to an SSD, and had the machine opened, I decided to try to clean the fan outlets, which requires removing the fans.
I found out the fan outlets almost completely clogged by dust !
Now, with the fan outlets clean, the Mac is running some 15 degree C cooler ( right now at 45 degree C ), and this with only 1 fan.
If you wonder about the one fan - I managed to destroy the connector on the right fan. I ventured to to run the computer with one fan only for now - iStats shows no hot parts, so-far-so-good.
Now the challenge of finding replacement fan on Ebay, that ships to the Czech republic.
And what makes me a bit angry - when the Apple service here in the Czech republic was replacing my battery under Applecare last year, I asked them to clean it. My guess is they did not, based on the noise the machine was making, and the amount of dust.
PaulCC.