I got a iMac on wednesday, everything's been great. Until now. It's been on all day (the problem maybe?) and it now sounds like a fan is catching? I put the fan speeds up to 2000 with smcFancontrol but after 20 secs it goes back down to 1500?
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI have an iMac 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo running 10.5.8. Yesterday when I brought the machine out of sleep, the CPU fan began running full blast. iStat Pro clocked it at 3890 rpm. (Normally it runs about 1200 rpm.) All other readings, include the CPU temperature, were normal.
After searching some other Mac forums, I cleaned dust from the air vent and then unplugged the machine completely for about 30 minutes. When I restarted, the CPU fan was at its normal speed, and I used the machine for the rest of the evening without incident.
But when I started up the iMac this morning, the fan immediately went back to 3800+ rpm. Again, all other fans and temperature readings were normal. Again I unplugged the machine completely for several minutes, and on the restart the fan was normal. But I don't know for how long.
I would like to know how to speed up, clean out my mac. It is 4 years old. Should I try MacKeeper or are there free applications I can download
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Is there an apple product that will help me clean up and speed up my IMac?
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iMac (24-inch Early 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
How do I speed up my computer? Version OS X 10.8.5 Processor 2.66 GHZ Memory 2GB 20 inch 2009
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iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
I just bought a iMac 27" i5 version with the 2-TB Hitachi HDD.
Under browsing:
Fan-speeds:
ODD: 998 rpm
HDD: Always 1100 or above
CPU: 939
Temperatures:
ODD: 46C
HDD: 57C
CPU: 43C
The only thing what bothering me is the loud HDD fan. Really annoying.
So, what for iMac have you and what are the fan-speeds and temperatures of your iMac? And of-course how did you solve these high fan-speeds? (If you did)
in my system profiler under firewire it says : -
FireWire Bus:
Maximum Speed:Up to 400 Mb/sec
Does this mean that an external hard drive with firewire 800 will be no good to me? Or does mean that the last firewire device was only capable of 400 mb/sec?
I downloaded and installed Temperature Monitor and iMac Fan Control - mainly for observational purposes and not for toying around with the fan speeds and I've got some questions. Mind you, I haven't tampered at all with the fan speed settings, just installed Fan Control. Here are my readings (while browsing the internet with Safari and doing a chat via iChat):
Fan Speeds:
CPU fan (desired) 1300 RPM / (current) 1530 RPM
HD fan (desired) 2100 RPM / (current) 2099 RPM
DVD fan (desired) 1300 / 1298 RPM
Temperatures:
CPU Heatsink: 92F
Internal HD: 108F
Internal DVD: 95F
GPU Heatsink: 107F
Are these, under the circumstances, normal readings?
The iMac G3 is a 2002 model, has a 600 mghz processor and 1 GB RAM. It does not have an AirPort wireless card and Apple no longer manufacturers an AirPort card for this machine (which I bought used), so I bought a USB wireless adapter that appears to pick up a pretty strong signal from my Verizon FiOS router, strongest of course when parked next to the router. Unfortunately, I am only able to generate 3.5-4.2 mbps download speed no matter how close I am to the router, whereas the machine can consistently download at 12-15 mbps with a direct ethernet connection. The FiOS router can download at speeds in excess of 20 mbps. Is there some setting I'm overlooking that can improve the wireless connection speed or am I going to have to settle for wired use only?
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The game soon started/continued to slow down, or have that lag effect, however, let me note, I'm playing this offline "single player mode" just to make sure it had nothing to do with my internet. Also let me note, nothing else is running on the computer at the time, no updates, nothing.
So then I touched the top of the monitor, and it was extremely extremely hot, and of course since I'm playing a game the GPU will produce more heat, but the only thing I could think of is, the GPU is becoming too hot and effecting my game play. I know most say Apple is very smart and heat should not have an issue, but what else would cause this as everything else on my iMac works fine, and when I close out the game, everything works alright. Videos play fine etc..
I haven't heard anyone else have this problem so I wanted to ask you guys who are experts here to tell me what you think it is?
Today morning, when i switched it on, I saw that the back fan is moving with more speed and sound . earlier, I never heard the fan sound. Also, on startup the brightness is set to max , while my settings was very low brightness. Howcome, its starting with max brightness now, when I dont have changed anything ? And what about the fan sound and speed? And yes, does the iMac has a battery also ? for what? Its always plugged to AC current, then what is the battery doing ? I never knew that. just downloaded istat pro and it shows HD 35 degree and Battery 55%. Wht is it ?
View 2 Replies View RelatedSo i have no problem with my Mac just note that!
My mac is fast and fine..
But if i come to download something on my Mac or Xbox, it is slow as fudge :P
I am downloading the update for BFBC 2 on xbox atm, and it has taken me half an hour to do 14% and it took my mate (who lives about 10 min walk away from me) about 20 mins to complete the whole thing...
The download is only 400MB
I just bought a new mid-2010 updated iMac with 2.8GHz Core i5. However, when I looked at the system profiler, it reports CPU speed at 2.66GHz.
At first, I thought I accidentally got the late-2009 version, but other aspects of the system seem to indicate that this is correct Mac.
The box has updated part number, but does list the CPU as 2.66GHz. It has the newer HD 5750 w/1GB RAM, it uses 1333GHz DDR3 memory. So everything seems to point that it's a new iMac, but the CPU is of the wrong version.
How to change cd recording speed on iMac ?
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iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
at what speed data is transfered to TC if IMac (Quad Core I5) is connected to it via ethernet port?
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