MacBook Pro 2011 Core i7 Quad Core 2.2 GHz freezes when running hot!

Csound1 wrote:

It's a thermal paste, do you have attribution for your statement:

"apple is known for haphazardly applying inferrior thermal paste."

or not?

As is evident by the picture supplied.

Well that answers my question, thanks.

If thats not haphazardly then what would you call it 😕

i've been using ae quite a lot as well, but haven't experieced this. as long as the rendering stops, the temperature drops back in 1 min or 2.

You know im having the same issues from day one of my quad core purchuse ... This is absolutly ******** that i spent the money i did high res solid state 2.3 quad core ... **** glitches out crashes all kinds of problems with the over heating and charging ... I shouldnt have to turn up my fans... I paid top dollar for this and apple has been like ehhh i dont seems fine .. and its not ... Its been in plenty of times they replace a few parts for the power supply but they said it wasnt bad they just wanted to make sure .. new power plug and the problem was never fixed ... then they want to ship it out ... i paid 3k for this machine it doesnt handle itself.. cant even play wow on ultra , civilization gets all glitchy and diablo even i have to turn down settings or it over heats also use arkaos sofware and it screams and ableton glitches like i dont have a sound card , but i have an Apogee duet . All these programs should run fine.... ... Im completly ****** off at this point .... you make a comoputer and tell me it can run **** and it fails crashes over heats .. this is false advertisement ... didnt even have these problems with generation 5 .... if you tell me a machine will handle these things no problem and it doesnt , these are false advertisements.. I could buy a pc for half the price and it would run all these programs fine....

I had my fan running like crazy today. When I went to have a look at processes the Microsoft Silverlight plug-in for Safari was chewing up cycles. I had been viewing some streaming DRM'd video earlier in the day, but closed the window associated with it, however the process was still running high (unfortunately I didn't note the exact percentage, but it was above 50 from memory).

As soon as I killed this process the fan switched off virtually straight away. Not sure it was specifically realted to Silverlight, although obviously it may be keeping the AMD graphics on full alert. It may also be that regardless of actual temperature the fans will run fast if there is a process above a certain threshold.

Hope this is of some help to anyone listening to their fans blasting away for extended periods of time.

MBP 15" i7 2.2GHz, late 2011 model.

I have a 2.2GHz Quad Core MBP. It certainly gets very hot when run flat out. The CPU maxes out at 90C (194F), with the fans running at 6200rpm. Some responders mentioned the thermal paste issue. The images of sloppily applied paste don't necessarily tell us much about the thermal resistance thereof. The thermal paste film should be as thin as possible and completely fill the space between the CPU and the heatsink. It may well do this and also appear messy. What I am really interested in is the thermal resistance of the paste, since this is what will control the transfer of heat from CPU to the heatsink. Thick layers of paste, poor quality paste or missing regions of paste would increase the thermal resistance. The higher the thermal resistance the greater the temperature difference between the CPU and the heatsink (all other things being equal). I'd be interested to know what numbers others are getting. As mentioned above, my CPU maxes out at 90C(194F), while my main heatsinks (both 2 and 3) are both sitting at 51C (124F). This is a big difference, but heat pipes are being used, so perhaps it is not unusual. Clearly if some users have bad thermal paste, this should show up as larger temperature differences than those with good paste. Please post your temps. Note, I measured my temperratures using Marcel Bresink's TemperatureMonitor. My ambient temperature is about 18C (64F). Thnx BB

Mine runs at 91-93 c it makes everything I do run like crap.. Arkaos , ableton, diablo .. And my CPU is at around 10% when I run ableton ... It glitches freezes and it ***** I spent over 3k on my 2.3 quad solid state 8.2 comp ... Apple hasn't resolved this issue yet ...

My fans run 6300rpm pretty much all the time..

Just a follow-up tp my earlier post. I measured the temperatures on my 2.5GHz Core 2 Duo MBP flat out with fans maxed. The cores run at 73C and the heatsink temps are around 51C. The difference between the CPU and the heatsink is around 20C which is half what I am measuring for my i7 2.2GHz MBP. Obviously the i7 is a lot more powerful, but that 40C temperature differential makes we wonder. If you have the data on your i7 MBP CPU and heatsink temps when maxed, please provide. Thnx BB