Um why is my processor 164 degrees???? Please help

[shmutheprophet]

This has never happened before.

iStat is reporting 164 F and 75 C.

Im not doing ANYTHING CPU intensive. Just listening to music / browsing the web.

 

[a4abt]

Did you check your Activity Monitor to see if anything is running in background?

 

[cjduckk]

Some machines just run hot. What type of machine is it? What are the current environmental conditions? If it's a portable, is it sitting on a hard, flat surface or on your lap?

regards,
-c.

 

[nomar383]

My MBP frequently runs this hot, even when doing almost nothing

 

[shmutheprophet]

Sorry. Heres the info:

Penryn Macbook Pro 2.4ghz all stock

2GB mem
nvidia geforce 8600GT 256mb
200gb hd

its sitting on a glass desk, closed, plugged into my external CRT monitor.

 

[nomar383]

How hot is it usually?

 

[shmutheprophet]

Wow thanks for the advice of checking activity monitor. Oddly finder is using 99% cpu?

 

[shmutheprophet]

How hot is it usually?

its usually like 45Cish

 

[nomar383]

its usually like 45Cish

Wow that's cool! Lucky lol. Maybe just a restart? or a Finder relaunch

 

[cjduckk]

The closed lid is no doubt going to increase the operating temperature, but the culprit is probably the 99% cpu usage from Finder. Does a reboot bring the CPU usage back under control?

regards,
-c.

 

[a4abt]

you may want to run it with the lid open to allow better ventilation.

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

check the console for what's messing up the finder. Repair permissions, restart, etc.

And it's really not recommended to run a laptop closed, of course it's going to get hot if it can't get rid of the heat

 

[shmutheprophet]

upon reboot finder stopped using so much CPU and temps returned to normal

 

[cjduckk]

Score. Probably just a runaway thread. Might want to keep an eye on it for a while to see if the issue returns, though. Cheers! =)

regards,
-c.

 

[dukebound85]

check the console for what's messing up the finder. Repair permissions, restart, etc.

And it's really not recommended to run a laptop closed, of course it's going to get hot if it can't get rid of the heat

well mb's and mbp's are designed to run in clamshell so im sure apple designed it in such a way to disipate heat effectively......

 

[kdum8]

well mb's and mbp's are designed to run in clamshell so im sure apple designed it in such a way to disipate heat effectively......

they might be designed to run in clamshell mode but in my experience they take a performance hit, sometimes acting strangely when run like that. (crashes, system unresponsiveness etc). Mine is almost always in clamshell mode but I have more problems with it than when it is open and heat can dissipate more effectively.

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

well mb's and mbp's are designed to run in clamshell so im sure apple designed it in such a way to disipate heat effectively......

both the macbook and macbook pro are form over function. They're pretty, but not meant to run in demanding situations. In clamshell mode there is a definite performance hit.