So I have a huge loud fans/heating issue. Here is my situation:
I have a Mid-2014 15" Macbook Pro W/ Retina Display (2.2GHz). I bought an external monitor (Dell U2515H - 25" @ 2560x1440p), and connected to via miniDP I believe. When I first connected to it, I realized how small everything was...the text, the webpages, the icons. So I did a little research and found SwitchResX would help make the texts bigger while keeping the resolution at 1440p. Everything worked out great, I did a little math and worked out a perfect custom resolution for me (3840x2400 HiPDI...so it's actually 1920x1200 but displaying 2400). Everything worked out great, the text sizes are perfect, icons, webpages.
The problem, however, is when I play a fullscreen video on youtube 1080p. Whenever I play any videos, like hulu...on fullscreen, the fans become pretty loud. The RPMS are averaging 4000-6000 rpm, and the macbook pretty hot. It dies down when the video is stopped. I'm a web designer, so I can use photoshop...coding softwares, multiple tabs...and it all works fine without any fans/heating issue. So no, SMC/PRAM reset isn't the issue. The problem is when I watch videos/let alone streaming movies fullscreen.
I found out, just last night, that when I switch my resolution back to native (2560x1440p, basically disabling switchresx hidpi)...it goes back to normal. The full screen video streaming do not cause any fan noise/heating. And RPM is average @ 2500.
I understand that with higher resolution, the processor needs to work harder. But is there ANY fix? Firstly, is this completely normal? If so, is there a hack to make the macbook really think it's only displaying 1200p so the fans wont be loud? If not, is there a fix to this issue? Is this a bug related to switchresx and hidpi? Or is this all just a cost of using HIDPI?
I have a Mid-2014 15" Macbook Pro W/ Retina Display (2.2GHz). I bought an external monitor (Dell U2515H - 25" @ 2560x1440p), and connected to via miniDP I believe. When I first connected to it, I realized how small everything was...the text, the webpages, the icons. So I did a little research and found SwitchResX would help make the texts bigger while keeping the resolution at 1440p. Everything worked out great, I did a little math and worked out a perfect custom resolution for me (3840x2400 HiPDI...so it's actually 1920x1200 but displaying 2400). Everything worked out great, the text sizes are perfect, icons, webpages.
The problem, however, is when I play a fullscreen video on youtube 1080p. Whenever I play any videos, like hulu...on fullscreen, the fans become pretty loud. The RPMS are averaging 4000-6000 rpm, and the macbook pretty hot. It dies down when the video is stopped. I'm a web designer, so I can use photoshop...coding softwares, multiple tabs...and it all works fine without any fans/heating issue. So no, SMC/PRAM reset isn't the issue. The problem is when I watch videos/let alone streaming movies fullscreen.
I found out, just last night, that when I switch my resolution back to native (2560x1440p, basically disabling switchresx hidpi)...it goes back to normal. The full screen video streaming do not cause any fan noise/heating. And RPM is average @ 2500.
I understand that with higher resolution, the processor needs to work harder. But is there ANY fix? Firstly, is this completely normal? If so, is there a hack to make the macbook really think it's only displaying 1200p so the fans wont be loud? If not, is there a fix to this issue? Is this a bug related to switchresx and hidpi? Or is this all just a cost of using HIDPI?