100-105 celcius CPU when gaming. Return it?

macs run hot. that is not abnormal. Returning it and getting another mac will yield the same results.

Is there something else loading your computer besides the game? When you run Application Monitor (e.g. from Launchpad > Utilities) and ask to show All Processes, sorted by CPU%, what shows up near the top? Is there anything non-game related showing over 10% CPU? (One recent problem for some users has been the Dock process running close to 100%.)

post in the boot camp forum and see what they have to say.

I'm experiencing the same issue, 100°C in Boot Camp, 70°C in OSX, while gaming (reported here). I haven't monitored the fan speed in Windows but in OSX iStat says ~4800 rpm per fan. This makes in my opinion kind of much noise, the sound level is about the same in both OSX and Windows.

When you play through VMware and iStat reports ~75°C, what is the fans speed? Does the fans make a lot of noise?

Thanks!

Hi,

Im currently using a Macbook Pro with Retina 15 inch. It does reach nearly 100 Degrees while gaming intensively. High end games such as Batman, Witcher 2, and even Skyrim i play on Bootcamp via Windows 7. Whats so special about these Mac's is that they are engineered to withstand temperatures near 100 Degrees Celcius. Yes the aluminum body will be uncomfortable to the touch, however the internal parts such as the CPU's, Battery, and GPU are fine under these conditions. Just another thing to appreciate about Apple's unique approach in engineering. When the Mac is feeling under harsh temperature, it will force shut down to stop it from reaching damaging temperatures. I myself have not experienced a forced shut down from overheat yet.

In conclusion, the Macbook Pro with Retina can experience temperatures up to 100 Degrees Celcius. However due to Apples engineering approaches, the components are able to withstand such tempatures. If the tempature does get too hot, the Mac will force shut down.

Thanks,

Alfrancis Guerrero
Student

My late 2013 macbook pro retina 13inch has a 2.4 GHz i5 and 8GB RAM. When I play Flight simulator or Minecraft on online servers or Modpacks My CPU easily gets to 95 degrees, its been 103 before but this usually occurs when the game is first played and the fan hasn't fully kicked in. after a while of playing it maintains around 90-97 degrees celsius. Most of the time the fan isn't even on full only about 60% of its capable rpm (speed). I have temperature gauge pro and iStat (thx whoever suggested it in this discussion), both have read the same temperature. I think the computer will be fine and mines been going for 2 yr already and not broken so should be alright. also 100 degrees celsius is hot to humans but not to metal. 🙂

What are you using to check the temperature?

Here is what iStat menus shows on my 2014 15" MacBook Pro running on battery just browsing the web. And case is barely warm.

Duane-

Are your number F or C ?

Btw Duane is that degrees F? otherwise theres a serious problem lol.

Here are screenshots from a test i did just now by running 2 minecraft games in max settings and a flight simulator also in max settings. the first photo is about 15 seconds after I started playing the games, then the 2nd photo is about 30 seconds after. you can see the fan has increased and temps have geek kicked back down to about 95 Degrees C. This is typical of my computer in this situation but I've never needed to run 3 CPU intensive games at the same time before and in my eyes it did quite well at it lol 🙂

Ah, yes it is F. Sorry for the confusion. 😊

By the way just a heads up if you want to uninstall iStat you have to do it in the app menus. otherwise simply deleting the app doesn't work and I've just spent ages messing around with it🙂