Macbook Pro 15" , CPU temperature till 60 - 82. Celsius while playing World Of Warcraft

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Kiuzuki Author

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Macbook Pro 15" , CPU temperature till 60 - 82. Celsius while playing World Of Warcraft

Hi, I am using

Late 2011 Macbook Pro 15"

Intel i7 2.4 Ghz (Quad Core) ( Turbo Boost 2.0 )

Intel HD graphics - 384 MB and AMD Raedon HD graphics - 1024 MB

My normal CPU temperature is 38 to 45 Celcius.

Before playing World Of Warcraft I switch my graphics to AMD Raedon HD 6770.

When I play the game, the temperature slowly rises.

It goes to 60. C then 70 and then reaches 80. Celcius.

I don't use smcFancontrol since I don't want to take risk of reducing the fan's life.

I use iStat which shows the temperature.

Sometimes the fan rpm goes till 3000 to 5000. When the rpm reaches 5000+ it starts making a windy sound. ( This also happens when I play Fifa 12 )

I am worried about this. Is this normal ?

Till what temperature the macbook has no harm ? Should I buy a cooling pad for macbook ?

And is it safe to play a game while charing the macbook with the Magsafe adapter ?Please help me. 🙂

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Apr 16, 2012 5:59 AM

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Answer 1

OGELTHORPE

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Apr 16, 2012 7:16 AM in response to Kiuzuki

The temperatures you are reporting are 'normal' for what you are doing. If you open Activity Monitor when you are playing games you will find that you are using a lot of the CPU resources thus creating the heat. Temperatures can go even higher without any damage to your MBP.

There are heat sensors that will shut down the MBP before any damage can be done to it. A cooling pad is a good idea and there is no reason why ypou cannot use the power adapter. If you don't, the battery will run down very quickly.

You should not be alarmed with these conditions.

Ciao.

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Kiuzuki Author

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Apr 16, 2012 10:34 AM in response to OGELTHORPE

Thanks for the reply. I was waiting for a reply from 2 hours. Well sorry for the BIG BIG font size I used 😝

It's been only 2 weeks that I purchased my macbook pro 15"

I am very carefull of my macbook and so I don't want to take any risk before asking any expert. 😉

➕ 1 to you 😝

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