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Former Member
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I have my very first Mac, a nice MacBook Air w/i7 and 4GB RAM. I kind of want to install BOINC since i7 is a good processor, sitting mostly idle. My concern is about overheating/wearing out the processor (all my BOINC installations thus far have been desktops).
Are there utilities like TThrottle for Mac? Or just download a temperature monitor & adjust "use X% CPU" accordingly? Suggestions? |
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Sadly, I do not know of anything like Tthrottle for Mac. If you select 50% for CPU time, BOINC should run 1 second on / 1 second off.
If anybody can give advice about temperature monitoring and control for the MacBook, please post the information. Lawrence |
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Former Member
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You absolutely want to run smcFan control if you run BOINC on your Macbook. This app allows you to control the fan speed and see the CPU temp.
http://www.eidac.de/?p=134 I would start out like Lawrence said and run at a lower CPU %. |
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macusen
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As far as I know, the Macbook Air will shut down one core if it gets too hot. At least the last generation did it that way and I don't think Apple changed it for the new generation.
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Thank you all for your input!
brinktastee thanks for the link to fan program. |
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