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Heating Issues? This might be worth taking a look at...
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WaterTempleFiend en Marland
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2012-01-19 18:13:52 UTC  |  Edited by: WaterTempleFiend en Marland
Not sure if these links have been passed around already, if so my bad but if not....

Hey i've noticed alot of people having issues with heating while playing on a mac so i thought i'd drop a few thoughts in.

If you THAT WORRIED about heating and wanna take steps to be a little more in control there are two handy programs i've been using to monitor and control how hot everything gets:

smcFanControl:
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/23049/smcfancontrol

This cool little app lets you have direct control of your fans in the mac your using, so if you want to adjust the temp.

atMoniter: - already mentioned here
http://www.atpurpose.com/atMonitor/

A nice little piece of software to monitor system activity on your mac including the heat of your GPU, HDD and CPU.


A few things i wanna mention though:

  • All macs have a built in heat shutdown thingy, basically if you are running at a stupid temp then your beloved Macintosh will shut off to prevent damage.

  • If you do own a i-book-pro-mac-tower you ought to know by now that these things get HOT!!!!!! so really dont worry to much about the heat

  • THIS IS NOT A SOLUTION!!!! SMC IS NOT A SOLUTION PUTTING THE FANS ON FULL WACK 24/7 IS NOT A SOLUTION I just wanted to post this if people were thinking of using this all the time and and well you get the idea.

  • Here is the link where i got most of my information so just reference this if you can't take my word for i. it's full of do's and dont's so for godsake LOOK HERE FIRST!!!!!!!


    • [UPDATE] Ok example running EVE most specs on max (21.5" iMac 2.7ghzhzhz ect). Idle my temp is about 30'C.

    Without smc temp reaches around 70'C while running EVE for 1 hour+

    With smc on (turned up a little on all fans) temp reached a high of 37'C. 3 hours play time

    Ok i hope that example gives you some idea of what im talking about. im not sure about Laptop cooling but i bet it has a nice effect.

    https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=59576&find=unread - Dat mac heat up thread
    Jericho D'Angel
    Bourbon's Anonny Corp
    #2 - 2012-02-01 21:13:00 UTC
    I had this issue when I first tried EVE, briefly, years ago. IMac had no problem but the Macbook Pro kept getting hot and crashing.
    Just started EVE again and on a new 15" Macbook Pro 2.2 w/ 8gigs Ram. Again, getting hot, it would crash repeatedly so much that I couldn't really play.

    After reading some forums, I did two things; first, I got into the controls and started by adjusting quality control to Performance, then one by one, sliding the controls up until the graphics were where I was more than satisfied. Also turned off the Interior hangar effects to static only as well as Captains Quarters - didn't see any use for them anyway as the action is outside.

    Second, I got a "wingy bit" for under the laptop, okay, a Logitech cool pad or whatever it's called for increased airflow. Now, I have NO problems, NO crashes and NO freeze ups with one exception: going into or out of Jita 4-4 where over a hindred others seem to like to camp out. Then I get the stuttering mini-freezes while I escape amidst the rush hour jam.

    So far, so good. Oh, and I'm running EVE 8-12 hours per day with same no problems.

    Cheers!