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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Notebook Hardware
Possible fan problems
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<blockquote data-quote="Tarek" data-source="post: 1309266" data-attributes="member: 68040"><p>It's perfectly fine, your post was not by any means offensive. Reaching those temperature levels is normal if you're doing activity on your Mac like listening to music, watching a movie, browsing, etc. and isn't alarming. When it does reach those temparatures, the fans must automatically speed up in order to try and cool it down, so that's normal as well. I'm not sure about rates exactly, but you can use an application like smCFanControl to adjust your fans and everything: <a href="http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/23049/smcfancontrol" target="_blank">Download smcFanControl for Mac - Control Intel Mac fans to make them run cooler. MacUpdate.com</a></p><p></p><p>I wouldn't recommend messing around with that, though, so just leave it default unless you're very Mac savvy. </p><p></p><p>I'd run a hardware test just to make sure there's nothing wrong hardware-wise: <a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1509" target="_blank">Intel-based Macs: Using Apple Hardware Test</a></p><p></p><p>I always recommend that test because Apple tends to install faulty hardware parts into our computer. Happened more than once to me on a couple of different Macs, so a hardware test every now and then is a must for me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tarek, post: 1309266, member: 68040"] It's perfectly fine, your post was not by any means offensive. Reaching those temperature levels is normal if you're doing activity on your Mac like listening to music, watching a movie, browsing, etc. and isn't alarming. When it does reach those temparatures, the fans must automatically speed up in order to try and cool it down, so that's normal as well. I'm not sure about rates exactly, but you can use an application like smCFanControl to adjust your fans and everything: [url=http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/23049/smcfancontrol]Download smcFanControl for Mac - Control Intel Mac fans to make them run cooler. MacUpdate.com[/url] I wouldn't recommend messing around with that, though, so just leave it default unless you're very Mac savvy. I'd run a hardware test just to make sure there's nothing wrong hardware-wise: [url=http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1509]Intel-based Macs: Using Apple Hardware Test[/url] I always recommend that test because Apple tends to install faulty hardware parts into our computer. Happened more than once to me on a couple of different Macs, so a hardware test every now and then is a must for me. [/QUOTE]
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