Macbook Pro Retina Temperature question

[Dadsmail]

Hi folks! New Macbook Pro owner here (2015 13" Retina model, i5 2.7, 8GB memory). Been an iMac user for years, but just replaced my Windows laptop with a MBP around a month ago. So far I'm happy with my MBP. But lately I’ve been noticing unexpected temp spikes (through SMC Fan control). My MBP idles at 38-45c. With light load (powerpoint - slide show mode, with Facebook through safari / chrome), it reaches 48-60c. But after doing the same thing for around 40 mins, I experience sudden temp spikes 75-85c. I experienced this just now - presentation suddenly slowed down, sometimes froze for around 5 secs. No change in what I was doing.

I know the temp ranges I’m experiencing aren’t alarming but I don't think that modern machines should be slowing down while doing common / non-cpu intensive tasks. I'm worried that this might be a symptom of a bigger problem. Is this a normal MBP occurrence and is it safe to assume that since the moving parts in MBPs are minimal, it’s most likely a software issue?

Activity monitor shows the following when the spike happened:

powerpoint - 15

coreaudio - 13

kernel _task - 12

Thanks in advance

-Basil

 

[MH01]

Your temps are fine.

Sounds like a software bug with office. My work machine does this sometimes, and I have office running, outlook, PowerPoint etc

See if you can replicate without MS office running.

 

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Chrome has become horribly bloated as of late, there is a possibility what you're seeing is not the unit overheating but it running out of RAM. I'd stick with Safari or use FF

 

[Samuelsan2001]

Your temps are so far within design specs that I don't know what the question is.... unless they are over 100 degrees centigrade then you have nothing to worry about.

Some badly coded webpages will cause CPU spikes especially on chrome.