Mac book temp

[neio]

Running Handbrake I'm getting temp's of 80 celsius.

[LandyMan]

Yeah, quite possible. When my MBP is doing alot of work, I can actually get little burn marks on my hands when touching around the speaker areas.

How come the MB has accessible temp sensors and the MBP not?
What you using to monitor temps neio?

[neio]

smcfancontrol, I'm using it to push my fan to the max of 6200 RPM.

[tibby.dude]

Don't put it on your lap ... you might become sterile .

[LandyMan]

Don't put it on your lap ... you might become sterile .

I try not to put things on my testicles tibby

But yeah, a slight mispositioning of this thing might very well have that effect. They get ***** hot

[BobJones]

smcfancontrol, I'm using it to push my fan to the max of 6200 RPM.

Wow... it must sound like a jet engine... aren't you a little bit scared that you'll kill a fan. I think that running them at the max speed all the time must have quite an impact on battery life and fan wear?

[neio]

Nah, the fan is very quiet, much more so than my other (PC) notebook. Thats why there's a year waranty on the Macbook. Battery life does get affected yes but the battery still runs for 3-4 hours with the fan on full blast.

It's cheaper to replace the MB fan than it is to replace the CPU.

[LandyMan]

What is the default rpm (check RPM running here to see what we are saying about him ) of the MacBook's fans?

[neio]

What is the default rpm (check RPM running here to see what we are saying about him ) of the MacBook's fans?

Dunno, but I think the fan get's stronger as soon as you reach 74 C,
thats a bit too hot for my liking, I prefer to run electronics at 45 C.

[BobJones]

AFAIK the min rpms for the MBP is 1000 and for the macbook is 1500.

I think that the smc module steps up the fan speed in 10 increments depending on CPU temp (and load?).

When I tried smcfancontrol, I ran at full rpm for a couple of minutes, and it made a big difference, but not that much more than say around 2900rpm. Even running at btw 1500 and 1800rpm was much cooler on my MBP.

If I was to continue using it I don't think that i would run the fans at much more than 1700-1800 rpm

It would be great to see the istat widgets using the fan and temp sensors that smcfancontrol uses.

[LandyMan]

Running mine at 4000 rpm now, dropped the temp from 63 to 56 (it was running at 2000 rpm after I installed)

EDIT: And I can actually feel the difference in temp on the body of the MBP