Retina 15 (2013) CPU Throttling

Any Macbook Pro that exhibits throttling can be easily solved:

Work:


My 2.5Ghz Core i7 Quad Core system under full load will maintain 3.3Ghz on all 4 cores while rendering in FCPX.

 

Then you're buying the wrong computer.

The 2010 and 2011 15.4" machines use 820-2850 and 820-2915 motherboards which are overpriced space heaters. The bottom of my Lenovo runs cooler mining litecoin than those do watching a lowres youtube video...

The retina is nothing like those old space heaters. It's efficient and amazing.

They do have a design that traps dust inside, but so do almost all Apple products. You should have no problem as long as you open it once every six months and give it a nice burst of compressed air to clean the dust out.

 

If it's outside of AppleCare and for that particular model of 2011 MBP all Apple will say is a new logic board and nothing to do with the shocking thermal paste application which even today most 'genius' and engineers simply do not have a clue. Cost a fortune too. A decent re-paste by a competent engineer will cost a fraction of that if you are unable to do it yourself. Having done many myself Doward's video is an excellent instruction for either the capable user or an engineer who has never done one before for the 2011 MBP. Principles of cleaning and tinting the heatpipe and CPU/GPU in the video apply to every mac notebook, shame that Apple engineers could actually learn something by watching it.

This particular one is in warranty but if I was a fly on the engineers wall odds on it's bad thermal paste application. I have seen too many over the years in MB/MBP's to not think its the prime suspect!

 

Soz - most of them don't from new from the very start. Problem is that they put too much of it on and after few months, often less than a year down the line these problems rear their head. But if he has a 2011 with throttling problems why not fix that for far less? With a re-paste and tint, with an SSD and maxed out ram they still are excellent machines and still more than capable of doing the job!

The paste issue isn't just an Apple problem, though I have to say they are probably the worst partly cos of the tight TDP tolerances and they let everything get very hot. And if you read every one of their service manuals like I have the instructions to their engineers is still wrong. An official engineer has to break Apple's guidelines to do it the correct way I kid you not.

Me personally and because I am capable I've re-pasted and tinted every single Mac, in fact computer I have in the house for years with the only exception being this Mac Pro 3,1 I recently acquired. That will be done before the excuse we call a summer arrives in the UK!