MacBook Pro Game Temperature

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MacBook Pro Game Temperature

Hi I've already asked about heat problems and I'm now worried. I just got civilisation 5 and was playing non stop. When I began the temperatures were about 65 to 70 but when playing online or on higher settings the temperature reached 79, now even with the settings turned down temps reach about 81 even to 90. Also could someone tell me why apple told me to drain the battery every month. Please help am I worried for nothing or is it something worse. Thanks in advance.

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 8GB ram

Posted on Mar 5, 2014 12:42 PM

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Kappy

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Mar 5, 2014 12:46 PM in response to NellyPelly

You are worried over nothing. All laptops run very hot when playing certain games.

Battery life will be prolonged by occasionally draining the battery and rechargiing once every one or two months if you do not use it on battery power very often.

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cbs20

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Mar 5, 2014 12:54 PM in response to NellyPelly

Turn down the settings in the game to cool down the system. It sounds like you have a 13inch Macbook pro, which only has an integrated gpu. The 13inch macs are poor gaming machines because the integrated gpu isn't very powerful and then all the heat is being generated at one spot within the system.

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