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Hi gang,
Without debating the acceptable heat range of a Mac, or the glitches of this or that lol, I have just a simple question that, if you would answer, would make me very happy and thankful. I have one of the new unibody white Macbooks (which I love btw). So, I use the program Temperature Monitor. At night, I run three highly processor-and-resource intensive applications, so that the Activity Monitor shows both cores at 100% for 8 or 9 hours straight, and the RAM is mostly wired. But, according to Temperature Monitor, the CPU temperature, in Fahrenheit, stays at a consistent 215F! The fan kicks on once in a while and gets it back down to 198F or so, but I am concerned about such high temps going for 9 hours at a time. I know Apple assures me this is normal, but just a basic knowledge of physics and thermodynamics tells me that a temperature that could boil water radiating out to all my parts for that long must be shortening the life of something somewhere lol. So, I got SMC fan control. I only use it in that one particular situation, and it definitely cools the CPU cores off to a much more reasonable level. So here is what I want to know:
cms fan control has an option to display the temperature, just like Temperatue Monitor does. I would like to just have one program doing that. In your OPINION and EXPERIENCE and any FACTS you know, is the reading from Temperature Monitor, or on CMS Fan Control, more accurate? Not trying to start a war, just wanted some basic information. Thank you! Merci!
Without debating the acceptable heat range of a Mac, or the glitches of this or that lol, I have just a simple question that, if you would answer, would make me very happy and thankful. I have one of the new unibody white Macbooks (which I love btw). So, I use the program Temperature Monitor. At night, I run three highly processor-and-resource intensive applications, so that the Activity Monitor shows both cores at 100% for 8 or 9 hours straight, and the RAM is mostly wired. But, according to Temperature Monitor, the CPU temperature, in Fahrenheit, stays at a consistent 215F! The fan kicks on once in a while and gets it back down to 198F or so, but I am concerned about such high temps going for 9 hours at a time. I know Apple assures me this is normal, but just a basic knowledge of physics and thermodynamics tells me that a temperature that could boil water radiating out to all my parts for that long must be shortening the life of something somewhere lol. So, I got SMC fan control. I only use it in that one particular situation, and it definitely cools the CPU cores off to a much more reasonable level. So here is what I want to know:
cms fan control has an option to display the temperature, just like Temperatue Monitor does. I would like to just have one program doing that. In your OPINION and EXPERIENCE and any FACTS you know, is the reading from Temperature Monitor, or on CMS Fan Control, more accurate? Not trying to start a war, just wanted some basic information. Thank you! Merci!