Using iStatPro, these are the temps of my system at 100% idle.
Is it too hot? should I be worried? My imac screen is warm at the bottom and hotter towards the top. I live in Dubai and room temprature is about 20 - 25 degrees depending on how long the air conditioning was turned on.
Any suggestions to cool it or something I should worry about or is this normal?
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Whatever picture you posted isn't coming through ... I tried two browsers, same result.
Thanks for letting me know đ
Heres the temp now after almost 6 hours (just browsing in safari):
CPU:
Idle: 100%
Temps:
HD: 54
CPU: 49
Ambient: 33 (is this related to room temp? its a bit warm now as ac been off for some time. Outside temp 39)
GPU Diode: 52
GPU Heatsink: 52
Mem Controller: 55
Optical Drive: 48
Power suppply 2: 68
Fans:
Optical Drive: 1398rpm
Hard drive: 1102rpm
CPU fan: 1198 rpm
Very accepable tempratures, unless your system is malfunctioning then leave it alone. Of course pay heed to Apple's specifications, what they say for a 2011 iMac is:
Operating temperature: 50° to 95° F (10° to 35° C)
This is the eviroment the machine lives in. If your system lives in a temprature outside those boundries then it's up to you to cool the enviroment down.
er...
i forgot to add, most importantly that these temps are in ° C
If I were to convert them to ° F, then
HD: 129
CPU: 120.2
Ambient: 91.4 (is this related to room temp? its a bit warm now as ac been off for some time. Outside temp 39)
GPU Diode: 125.6
GPU Heatsink: 125.6
Mem Controller: 131
Optical Drive: 118
Power suppply 2: 154.4
Does that mean my temps are way off the mark and it depends on room temprature as well to keep the system cool?
Also, right now after the Aircon being on for about 2 hrs at about its much cooler:
HD: 113
CPU: 101
Ambient: 74 (is this related to room temp? its a bit warm now as ac been off for some time. Outside temp 39)
GPU Diode: 113
GPU Heatsink: 112
Mem Controller: 115
Optical Drive: 99
Power suppply 2: 124
I figured they were in C and yes they're just fine. As you can see using the AC does help cool it down.
I am pickier about temps. Short term (very) you can live with those, but long term they will be damaging. I don't like the drive at 54, nor the Power Supply at 68.
See my posts in these threads about temps and using smcFan Control. You can also bring the temps down somewhat by running a fan at the back of the computer.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3219643?start=0&tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3617828?start=0&tstart=0
39C/100F room temp is awfully hot, so probably not that much you can do about it. If it gets that hot here, I sleep the computer often or just give up until things cool off. At 100F I can't even think about sitting in front of a computer.
100F here refers to the percentage of the sky that is Falling! đ
The OP lives in Dubai, so it's not really an issue of the machine running too hot it's an issue of the ambient temperature. IMHO that is what should be controlled but I'll still stick with my original opinion his temps are fine.
Roger, you might want to have a look at this. It's from '06, but no less relevant today. True, I also said not much you can do with an ambient temp like that. Btw, the published operating temp specs from Apple really have nothing to with this. They are insanely irrelevant to real world concerns.
Hard drive temperature is arguably the most important temperature to monitor in your computer. If you regularly see temperatures of 45C or higher on your drive, consider improving airflow in your case. If you don't, you've substantially increased your risk of hard drive failure or data loss.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/12/hard-drive-temperatures-be-afraid.html
And BDAqua, who briefly joined this thread earlier, may have something to say from experience about high PS temps.
Their PSU temp is running cooler than mine at 50°F Ambient, the PSU was replaced twice, but when it gets above 165°F the iMac gets flaky.
In fact I'm jealous about how cool their iMac is running.
Thankyou for the replies rkaufmann87,
This is my first iMac, though my second mac. Previously I had a MacBook Pro that would run super hot but I was used to that and hearing about the heating issues. I never did run iStatPro on the MacBook Pro so would never know how it compared to my iMac's temprature.
I turn on the air conditioning more often now to keep my iMac cool. May consider buying a small fan to fit somewhere behind it so that the system remains cooler overall.
Thankyou WZZZ,
I think seeing the temp readings on iStat and feeling the FRONT of my iMac hot is what got me worried in the first place. I'm not too worried about the back panel, but the display getting hot from the overall temprature is what worries me.
Is that normal? At work we have an iMac (2006) and its turned on from morning 9am till 9pm. However I feel its temprature and display temprature is much less. đ
Infact the display temprature is almost normal to a light warm towards the top. (but then I'm walking around with a shawl to keep myself from freezing at work)
I keep the room (at home) between 25-28°C. But the aircon is off inbetween so that its not too cold.
Any suggestions as to what I can do to keep the HD and PS temps in a more safe range. Or is my only option to keep the aircon on high and an additional fan maybe?
However I couldn't access the link you had posted regarding hard drive tempratures. Could you please repost the link again? Thanks đ
The fan may be a wise idea if you want to operate without AC. Just aim it at the back of the machine and it will help distribute the heat. Don't aim at the exhaust port (upper left) or it will force hot air back in.
Scroll down to see my posts in this thread. It starts off on a different topic
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3219643?start=0&tstart=0
The entire aluminum back of the iMac acts as a heatsink, so moving the heat off that will help keep things cooler inside.
The fan at the back can be helpful, but only to a certain extent; if the room is too hot you'll only be blowing hot air around.
Is my iMac 2011 running too hot?
