I just got my new air and absolutely love it. I had seen pretty impressive graphics performance. What I didn't expect was the fan noise. I knew it was loud, but this thing sounds like the old G5's! It makes me kind of scared to play games to be honest. Are they going to substantially decrease the life of my machine? Do you think a laptop cooler would really help with this?
View 6 Replieswell ive recently started playing bloons 5, i always use a cooling pad when i play after about 10min my fan would start going really loud and i would feel my mac allover the place and it wouldnt even be hot yet in my stats section its says its
160f
5000rpmÂ
i have a fan app downloaded that regulates my fan but i forgot but it was called and cant find it to change the setting..
I just bought my computer 3 weeks ago. I installed windows in bootcamp and a few games on it.
When I play a game on it.within about 15mins.. my macbook pro (2.8GHz model) gets extremely hot. It's about 65 deg C (145 F).. I can hardly touch it just above the keyboard region. I'm guessing this is where the processor is.. The fans also kick in at full speed.
I do understand that the computer will get hot under heavy load.I'm just wondering if it is normal for the computer to get SO hot? Will it damage my computer in the long run? Should I go get it checked out at the apple store?
How can I test my MBP i7 GPU performance while playing a game (Red Alert 3)? Is there a tool I can use to measure FPS etc? How about GPU temperature? I'm new the GPU performance world, so I would appreciate some education on this.
View 2 Replies View RelatedSome games seem to close off menu bars and everything else.My daughter plays the sims 3 and sometimes uses battery power, but she always panics that the mac will just shut down due to lack of battery power.Â
How does she see what the power is at while playing the game? ts normally just in the menu bar, but like i say this game overrides all that info until the game has been quit.Â
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
I just bought a Macbook Pro 13" (the high end). I'm mainly gonna use it for text editing, internet, watching movies, some photo work, music etc. But I would like to play a game now and then so I bought the new Diablo 3. I know the computer isn't made for gaming and lacks graphics due to the intigrated graphics card. Despite this I am able to play the game, but the fans turns up to 5000-6000 rpm. I was just wondering if I'm gonna reduce the lifespan on the computer (especially thinking about the battery) a lot - or if I shouldn't worry.
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MacBook
Pro
So I am basicly trying to play warcraft 3 on my late 2011 MBP 13. I managed to install the via a older snow leopard macbook. The problem that I have and is specific to my video config is that some textures go black. This does not happen on any other macs on Lion with a video card that is not HD 3000. For instance playing on a 2007 macbook is ok on lion. I attached screen shots from each machine so you understand better what I am talking about.
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
How good is the realistic battery life of the base MacBook White 2009 for both playing a game on Windows Boot Camp and just browsing the internet over WiFi?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI've checked and made sure my mac meets the system requirements and yet i still can't play the game. It won't even bring anything up when i put it in, it just spits it back out.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've had my unibody Macbook since October. Recently I installed a few game apps including Sims 3. The problem is that when I try to play a game, it shows that my CPU usage is around the 100 range, the temperature is around 150 degrees, and the fan is around an average of 4000 rpm. It gets annoying cause you can hear the fan making a loud noise, I'm not sure if its my laptop or some other problem.
View 4 Replies View RelatedIm just getting all these errors when I play a game, or when I open Firefox is there any way I can fix them? The game ends up crashing and firefox just slows down alot.I can list the errors as well, they keep spamming my console. [code] And it just covers my console window.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
It is time to replace the ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512 MB graphics card that came with this computer. I am wanting to upgrade to something that will allow me to play Diablo 3. Any suggestions from as to what I need to upgrade to? I understand that there are a lot of differences as to which card will work in which machine. I just don't know the difference
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 2x2 Ghz Dual-Core
I'm trying to install the sims 2 on my mac, and it gets right to the end, but when I try and play the game a pop up appears that says I need atleast 1mb of free disk space, and then tells me to free up some space on the Local Disk.
View 5 Replies View RelatedMy old 24" iMac had an ATI radeon 4850 card, and playing some of my favorite game titles (fallout 3, and Dawn of War) worked fine - atleast in comparison to my old White iMac 24".
Now I'm going to purchase a 27" i5 iMac with the Radeon 4850 card. My question is; since it�s the same GPU and playing in native resolution will be a tough job. Will the quality of playing games in 1080p be much lower?
I just want to know if this will be a significante downgrade. Or if playing games in 1920x1080 will be a good quality choice.
Hey just wanted to ask if it is possible that my late08 mbp which runs under WIN7 home premium is getting too hot while playing? Just played about 15 mins when my screen (aion)ingame froze (but sound + mouse didnt) and a few seconds later i've heard skype shutting down - and a few seconds later everything started to shutdown -> bam bluescreen for about 1 sec -> restart O_o happened now 3 times in an hour..
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Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
How does the Air manage it's noise and heat while sitting in a lap or on a bed?
The unibody does quite well at this I think.
It's been a few weeks my macBook Air fan keeps running at high speed all the time, producing this lovely noise...In the beginning, it would calm down after I quit some apps, like Firefox, but now it's constant.I have a 2,13 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 13' MacBookAir with 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3 RAM running Mac OS X Lion version 10.7.3 (11D50b) and a 256GB SSD HD?
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MacBook Air, Also on Network are a G5 and 3 PC's
noisy fan always on. what can i do? according to smcfancontrol i run at 106F and 1982rpm
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), new
i just bought the game Spore and i am having troubles with it. 1st after i download the cd an update pops up for the game back to back to back to etc. and its the same update. Then when i run the game everything works fine (the begining cut scenes) but when the game is about to start it cuts off and an error popup comes up.
View 24 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone else have an issue with the HDD in their 13" MBPs? I had a 2.26ghz 2009 model and it had a toshiba drive that was silent.
Just got a mid 2010 model with a hitachi drive and I can hear it making noise and its really loud when the head parks if you move the laptop. Has anyone else experienced this?
I bought a MBP13 with a 250 GB. I noticed that the HD is a Seagate 250 GB 5400 rpm.
So i thought I would upgrade it to a Seagate 500 Gb 5400 rpm(Momentus).
Now the noise is noticeable. Not much, but you can hear it.
Should a 500GB harddisk be more noisy than a 250 Gb? I thought it would be the same. The only difference I saw between the two harddisk is that the old HD had a Apple logo on it.
Otherwise its the same brand and model, just with a higher capacity.
If I had upgraded at apple would I have been rid of the noise or is this just something that follows along with the higher capacity?
Actually I find this drive slightly noisy, not too bad but you can definitely hear it spinning and clicking every so often. Anyone else experience this or should I be worried?
View 12 Replies View Relatedi got 17inch 2.8 core2duo 4GB macbookpro and its hotter than the sun..i think its not apple, its an apple pie.Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
My MacBook has consistently been giving off a hissing sound, as if air was escaping somewhere, from the front right side of the machine. I find if I press lightly in the right place, the noise all but ceases. I was wondering if there was a (safe) way to apply the same pressure permanently.
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MacBook (13-inch Aluminum Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
My fans have always been running at 2000 RPMs. I downloaded an app from the mac app store which caused the CPU to overheat, and in order to control this I read that it was wise to download smcFanControl. I downloaded this and added 2 settings, 2.4K RPMs and 2.8K RPMs. This worked to cool down my laptop, and once I realized that my CPU is at 36 degrees Celsius, I set the fans back to the default settings at 2000 RPMs. Now, my fans are constantly running at this speed according to smcFanControl and iStat. My core is cool, not even warm, yet all I can hear are the fans spinning fast to push hot air out of it, when there is none (I've put my ear to it to hear and feel the heat, there is no heat coming out).
I've had this laptop for less than 24 hours, it's a:
15' Macbook Pro late 2011
Intel Core i7 Quad Core 2.4gHz
7200RPM 750GB HDD
Also, this was not occurring prior to downloading smcFanControl (I've turned it off, deleted it, nothing works) - Even after turning off the laptop, the fans stopped, automatically after turning the laptop on the fans came back on. Some extra information: When I put my ear to the bottom of the laptop, it sounds like a vibration.
My macbook pro retina 2013 with ssd is very noisy and hot, while battery charging? What am i doing wrong? What additional information i need to provide? Â
View 4 Replies View RelatedMy university has some Mac Pros (probably bought about 2 or 3 years ago) in the photo studio and to be honest they are really quite loud (especially compared to iMacs and Macbook Pros).
I was wondering if Mac Pros usually are that loud or if it's just a matter of bad maintenance (some of them really sound like the fans are crapping up).
I just bought a refurb MP (sig) with the standard ATI card, but it's ... the loudest part of my system (even with 4 HD's).
With nothing going on, the fan spins up, slows down, spins up, slows down, like it's pulsating. Is that normal?
Also, the 2nd Dell 2005FPW that I bought won't work via DVI with it, and I can't tell if it's the card or the monitor.
The monitor works fine with the VGA and the adapter, so I'm leaning more towards the DVI output on the monitor. But with the annoying fan, I'm not so sure.
I have a great G4 MMD machine that I love. I've rebuilt it, and it does everything I want it to do with OSX.
The problem is the noise from the two fans. Its REALLY loud.
Is there a drop in replacement for the big fan that will be less loud, BUT will still move the same amount of air. The last thing I want to do is overheat the machine because I put in a substandard fan.
