SMC fan control, WoW and a Belkin cooling stand

[iWright]

I'm planning on installing World of warcraft on my 13" Macbook Pro (2.53Ghz 4gb) I've purchased a belkin cooling hub and I'm wondering if that is a substitute to installing SMC fan control because I'd rather not cause un-necessary wear-and-tear on the Macbook pro's fans, any thoughts welcome...

 

[adamk77]

 

 

[iWright]

Ahh my Desk is wood so not much good there, I'm rather happy with the hub though, any thoughts on a program to monitor temperature (preferably freeware) so that I can compare the temperature with the hub on and with it off?

 

[Unique Visuals]

Ahh my Desk is wood so not much good there, I'm rather happy with the hub though, any thoughts on a program to monitor temperature (preferably freeware) so that I can compare the temperature with the hub on and with it off?

I use iStat Pro and iStat menus http://islayer.com/apps/

 

[iWright]

ok I downloaded iStat Pro and compared the temperatures during movie editing when the hub was on and off and found the CPU temperature is 10〬C more without the hub. The laptop actually feels hotter without the hub aswell

 

[iWright]

UPDATE: I went ahead and downloaded SMC fan control, finding that the cooling hub was not as effective after an extended period of movie editing. Now all I really need to know is how many rpm is sufficient to keep the fans in good shape but still keep the CPU at a nice temperature

 

[Trexznl]

If I were you, I'd just skip the whole "installing" WoW thing. It's just... pure abuse for a small and innocent MacBook to have WoW on it..
(Not to mention: WoW sucks).

But if you must feed your addiction (which I honestly wouldn't recommend): try smcFanControl with a fanspeed of 4000 RPM and fire it up before starting WoW.