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yojimbo197
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Jun 30, 2012 Post Count: 83 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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If your MacBook is getting that hot at only 20% load you have problems. The most likely culprit is dust/hair/gunk clogging your intake/exhaust area and/or the exhaust fan. Especially if the fan has a bad design that allows junk to accumulate inside and not get blown out.
----------------------------------------The other likely culprit is crappy thermal paste application. I recently saw some crazy temps on a HP Pavilion dv6 Core i3 laptop at full load. Turns out that whoever was put in charge of thermal paste applicaton that day slathered it on like toothpaste. After removing the dried paste and applying some Arctic Silver, the resting temps went down about 15oC to the 27-32oC range, and at 100% load they maxed out at 60-64oC, down at least 20oC.  |
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ryan222h
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I'm using a brand new MacBook Pro with a 2.5 ghz intel Core i7, 16 GB of ram and 500GB SSD but even at only 10 percent processor use, the processor cores are heating up to nearly 100 centigrade and my cooling fans are going bonkers! That's unacceptable. Take it back to Apple and tell them to fix it. Show them if necessary.  |
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OldChap
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Jun 5, 2009 Post Count: 978 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Or ask for your money back then buy a better spec laptop and maybe a car too then keep the change.
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