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MB and MBP owners - Post your temperature readings

miniConvert said:
2.4GHz SR MBP 15" with 4GB RAM.

Idle: 42c 2000rpm
WoW: ~70c, up to 6000rpm

WoW was flawless again for hours this evening, framerates from mid 30's to 60+ - needless to say I'm extremely impressed with this laptop! I did install smcFanControl though, so I could force the fans to 6000rpm so the base wasn't so hot on my legs.
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Just wanted to add:
  • Machine stays nice and cool on mains and battery at idle, currently at 46c but it varies.
  • Under load, the CPU temp will get to around 90c before the fans kick in fully. They'll go right up to 6000rpm by themselves (no manual adjustment) and stay there to bring temperatures back into the 70s. This is on mains, I'd expect it to stay very hot on battery as the fans come on less often and slower.
Edit: I consider this to be normal/within spec.
 
17" SR MBP
59 degrees C

Visual Hub
Itunes
Camino
iChat

Up for around 2 days :D

This machine is much cooler than my original 17" CD MBP. 95 degrees encoding video in visual hub :eek:
 
Temps on MacBook Pro 2.8 17"

Here are my temp reading.
Batt=25c
CPU A 39c
CPU A Diode 41c
GPU Heatsink 1 38c
GPU Diode 53c
Palm rest 30c
Main heatsink 1 41c
Main heatsink 2 33c
Main Heatsink 3 37c
Main Logic Board 36c
Hard drive 39c
Wireless Mod. 44c
CPU Core 1 34c
CPU core 2 38c
 
I dont notice the fans running, you hear the HDD better than the fans at 200rpm, and at those fan speeds i have:

HD 26°C
CPU 33°C
CPU Heatsink 28°C
Enclosure Base 26°C
Enclosure Base 2 24°C
Enclosure Base 3 26°C
GPU 28°C
Heatsink B 27°C

while chatting with Adium, surfing with Firefox on an i7 2,66GHz MBP.

Diamondaine :apple:
 
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CPU is at 76, fans about 3200. And all I'm doing right now is hanging on the internet.
 
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Been on for about 4 hours, running chrome, adium, dreamweaver, vnc and remote desktop.

Took her apart yesterday and re-greased the cpu & gpu with some AS5.
 
Well I made a appointment with the Genius this morning. My exact duo core machine ran about 42 C and my new 15 Quad core is bugging me with idle at 62C which I am looking at right now just with email and safari but even on cold boot its 55 and than goes up within minutes. Its making me a little nervous since I am a very heavy raw processing user with sustained times to run many images though a raw processing engine. It will crank up to 90 and fans obviously are in jet mode but it does come down fairly soon afterwards.

This 62 is really bugging me though. Hate to be a nervous nellie here but I at least want to go talk this out with the Genius Bar. Worst case i will do the thermal paste treatment myself. I'm running SSD also but I do have many connections to my ports which create heat but nothing different than my 2010 model. This 18 to 20 C difference between duo and quads seems a little high. If it was 10c difference than I would not even bother.
 
MY CTO 17" 2.3 i7 with 8GB and 500GB 7200RPM drive finally arrived today. I guess the delay was worth it, I got lucky with mine! The CPU idles between 36-39C, I watched a fairly long 720P flash clip on Youtube and it only hit 44C. My old 17" 2.16 Core Duo idled at 55-60C, so this is a massive improvement for me. It looks like it will be able to be used on my lap without rendering me sterile! I'm going to install Windows 7 and Steam and try to get some high end temperature figures, I'll report back.
 
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31-33 C for me. The enclosure is what those scores are for. CPU is at 68 C but I'm playing a game on facebook right now.. So that uses a lot too.
 
Broward said:
My old 17" 2.16 Core Duo idled at 55-60C, so this is a massive improvement for me. It looks like it will be able to be used on my lap without rendering me sterile! I'm going to install Windows 7 and Steam and try to get some high end temperature figures, I'll report back.
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HAH! yeh my 15" Core Duo is basically the same, probably even a bit hotter! 65°C and up!

apparently the quad core i7's are smoking hot :/
 
I have a 2008 MacBook that runs at about 40-50˚C and 100-120˚F (because I'm a potato. Also because I live in the US). I replaced the old, terrible factory thermal grease with AS5. It makes a big difference. :)
 
Guy Mancuso said:
Well I made a appointment with the Genius this morning. My exact duo core machine ran about 42 C and my new 15 Quad core is bugging me with idle at 62C which I am looking at right now just with email and safari but even on cold boot its 55 and than goes up within minutes. Its making me a little nervous since I am a very heavy raw processing user with sustained times to run many images though a raw processing engine. It will crank up to 90 and fans obviously are in jet mode but it does come down fairly soon afterwards.

This 62 is really bugging me though. Hate to be a nervous nellie here but I at least want to go talk this out with the Genius Bar. Worst case i will do the thermal paste treatment myself. I'm running SSD also but I do have many connections to my ports which create heat but nothing different than my 2010 model. This 18 to 20 C difference between duo and quads seems a little high. If it was 10c difference than I would not even bother.
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I'm running similar temps but curious what utility you used to measure yours? iStat? Are you using SMC fan control?

What did the genius have to say?

Did you end up doing the thermal paste routine (I really don't want to go through that again, what a pain)

Thanks
 
2011 mbp base 15". ~37 degrees idle. ~45 degrees with chrome and mail open. went up to 50 degrees when I opened xp in vmware fusion. Fans at 2000rpm

Edit: using origin in vm makes the temp fluctuate between 50 and 52 degrees
 
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