Should I use fan control while folding@home?

[Blondie :)]

Hello all, I have a question if I may. I have recently gotten into distributed computing. What I am wondering is whether or not I should get a fan control program to keep my computer cooler, or should I just let apple do it's thing?

 

[iThinkergoiMac]

The system is more than capable of keeping the computer cool. If you play any video games, do anything with iMovie, or watch Flash videos, they'll make your computer warmer than internet-based distributed computing will.

If the computer needed manual fan control, it would be part of the system as the computer would overheat otherwise.

 

[Blondie :)]

O ok. I was just wondering because my computer gets very warm and stays very warm when I do it. So I was just trying to make sure that I wasn't gonna cook the poor thing haha

 

[GGJstudios]

Install iStat Pro to get accurate readings of your temps, among other things

Your temps are most likely perfectly normal, as searching the forum with MRoogle will reveal:

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O ok. I was just wondering because my computer gets very warm and stays very warm when I do it. So I was just trying to make sure that I wasn't gonna cook the poor thing haha

You can't "cook" it, because your Mac will automatically shut down if it gets too hot.

 

[Blondie :)]

well it's definitely good to know that it will shut down before I murdalize it I know I should probably just search for this before I ask, but I'm already here, so I figured why not what are safe temperatures for the HDD to get to? I've heard that takes a lot less of a heat beating than the CPU will

 

[GGJstudios]

well it's definitely good to know that it will shut down before I murdalize it I know I should probably just search for this before I ask, but I'm already here, so I figured why not what are safe temperatures for the HDD to get to? I've heard that takes a lot less of a heat beating than the CPU will

Unless a drive is defective, you never have to worry about HDD temps. Your GPU and CPU are the big heat generators.

 

[Blondie :)]

Ok thanks I really appreciate it. I've just heard that it's not good for HDD to get over 125 F so I was just wondering if that was true or not. Thanks

 

[GGJstudios]

Ok thanks I really appreciate it. I've just heard that it's not good for HDD to get over 125 F so I was just wondering if that was true or not. Thanks

Not true. I'm not even using mine at the moment and it's at 105F. It gets much hotter than 125F with zero problems.

 

[Blondie :)]

Well then I guess what I've heard is false thanks for all of your help

 

[techfreak85]

Are you folding for our team?

 

[Blondie :)]

Are you folding for our team?

No actually, I'm not yet. I just got into folding recently. I just wanted to make sure it wouldn't muff up my computer before I got into it. I didn't want my system to overheat or damage components from being overworked and such haha There's a MacRumors folding team? That's flippin sweet haha

 

[Blondie :)]

Are you folding for our team?

I just joined the team. I am currently computing for SETI I find it to be a little more interesting than folding protein. So I decided to help out SETI instead haha