104°C max temp of i7 cores (seen with HW monitor) during AVCHD files XFR!!

Is there anyone that may please help me with this? Hardware or temperature monitor may be dow,loaded free from bresink.de site. try to make heavy files XFR or video rendering on battery only and tell me please which peak Temp you report.
Thanks in advance

Since this happens only when CPU are stressed, I would like to be sure that it is not a "common normal" problem/behavior indeed...Might you please try the same operation on your MBP please? I insist to try it on battery as I believe that the fans' kick-in is delayed vs. adapter ON (at least 3Gb hi quality files XFR).
Thank you for your help

A question: is the max 105°C temperature provided by Intel for any core or for what HW monitor calls CPU A temperature diode? If it is for the latter, with 104°C on the core(s), I had about 8-10°C less on CPU A.
Thanks

P.S.: I did a SMC reset and tried other AVCHD XFR (not from SD card but via USB) and max temps (on battery) was 93-94°C on core(s). Maybe I improved something?....

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Done and the 2nd degree tech told me that he was not surprised by this temp under a heavy task as avchd xfr. Anyway the high temp was produced also on an i5 2.4 by myself. No more chance to have a replacement now but i am quite sure that it would have been the same.....probably....

Apparently I am not alone to have a late fans kick-in --> high temps
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=908210&highlight=yesdev+nulltest

what do you have on yours? In my case, when doing a AVCHD XFR from SD (it was cooler when transferring directly from the sony camera connetced via usb) the CPU works a bit, the temperatures rise and fans start only when CPU A diode is at 95°C but cores at 100°C.
What do you think also in the light of what has been done in macrumors forum?
Thanks

Rod,

first of all thank you for your reply!
I do not have my mbp with me right now, but I invite you to have a look at this forum (even if it's in French) where there is a picture of a temperature rise on the 4 cores as well as the diode CPU A temp: in my case there was not a so long flat at 103-104°C but just a hit followed by a temps drop because of fans (late) kick-in when reaching 100°C on cores and 95° on CPU A temp diode. With repsct to CPU average load, it was between (during the XFR/conversion) between 50 and 90% (I would say at an average of 60%)
http://forum.macbidouille.com/index.php?showtopic=324835&st=90&start=90.

I confirm that (looking at last week history of extreme values with HW monitor on my MBP) the max CPU A temp diode was 97°C against 103-104°C max on cores.

With respect to CPU 2 and 4 temps I believe that they are derived from CPU 1 and 3 (i.e. the physical 4 cores) as sometimes these parameters do not respond or remain stuck at very high temps although CPU 1 and 3 cores are fast descending.
As you propose I will contact bresink about this.

With respect to AVCHD files: when I did the import process, they were converted into .mov (I believe) files by imovie in order to be later used as clips in imovie or in FCE 4: moreover I did the import action with the request to have the original size of the captured films (1280x800 I believe).

As soon as I will be back home, I will post some pictures of my temperature rise and fans kick-in but, as said before, it was very similar to the one on the attached link.

Moreovver, if you look at macrumors forum link here above, other people noted that fans kick very late, i.e. when CPU temp (but measured with istat) was at 95-100°C. In the light of this I do not think (give me your advise) that my MBP has something specifically wrong with respect to others. The only open question is if it is normal that CPU got hot so much during this AVCHD import/conversion.

A question: what is the istat CPU temp equivalent to HW monitor parameters?
For your information I have the fully unlocked (paid license) version oh latests HW monitor.

Thank you Rod for your help
Emanuele

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For how many Gb / i.e. for how long? and was the xfr meaning also conversion to .mov (full/original size) extension?
In my case XFR lasted around 3min what was enough to hit these temps (but as said above fans increased above 2000rpm very late, i.e. around 95-100°C).
Thanks

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Thank you for you trial. I have a later activation (fans) than you but similar to other users in macrumors forum. I do not understand if it is a problem or not. If i do an exchange i am scared to have a similarly behaving macbook. I think i wii live with this and if cpu will burn they will chqnge it thanks to apple care!!
What would you advise me ?

Thank you once again for your participation to this thread.
I went today to an apple shop where they had a 17" with i5 at 2.53Ghz: when I did the same import of avchd files from the usb key, the max core temperatures given by temp monitor (from bresink) were between 99° and 102°C with a CPU A diode temperature at 97°C --> as on my MBP. Also in this case the fans started rotating above 2000rpm only when core T was around 95°C-100°C: it is too late.
In the light of this and of what is also reported in the macrumors link I provided here above, I think that in some MBP (and probably not all as reported here above by Sacha) there is a late activation of fans with a consequent impact on max core temps.
Moreover I noted that after doing a second import of the same files with warm cpu but with fans at 2000rpm, these latter activated well before 90°C as though there was a hotter history / spot somewhere invoking their activation....sacha, I want to say with this that maybe the fans kick-in might be at higher temps than what you remarked depending on what has been done before on the mbp.

In the light of all of this, i am convinced now that, with a replacement, I could receive a mbp heating the same or less, and that it might indeed be a russian roulette.
the only gain might be having the latest hw (probably addressing the freezing problem) though I think that freezing is a s/w issue.

thank you

Emanuele