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Macs in that era were notorious for overheating under any real load. I had a 2011 MacBook Pro for a while that I later found was keeping a constant 100c withou
by thomastjeffery 4y ago
Macs in that era were notorious for overheating under any real load.
I had a 2011 MacBook Pro for a while that I later found was keeping a constant 100c without even spinning the fan at 100%! After a while, its cd drive failed, and I learned how to install Linux from a partition made in OSX... Eventually the whole thing became a brick.
I also worked with an iMac that would get strange video errors and freeze until I found an app to turn up the fan. With a little bit of air flow, it would run just fine.
I guess Apple proved one thing: hopes and dreams are not enough to cool a Core 2 Duo.
- greedo 4y agoYeah, but the Mac Pro was designed around huge fans. I think there were two huge 120mm fans in the front blowing through it.
- thomastjeffery 4y agoI still suspect that the fan curve written into OSX still prioritized silence/efficiency over cooling performance. No amount of fans can overcome a setting that refuses to spin them up.
- greedo 4y agoMy guess is that the fan spin-up/speed was based on the CPU temperature or the case temp, not necessarily the GPU temp. The GPU had its own puny fan, but I don't know if GPU temp was even the core issue, though likely.