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Is 1600 RPM too high for fans?

The default fan speed is 1400 RPM but when I play games I turn it to 1600 RPM using SMC Fan Control. Is that too high?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.5), i5 2.9Ghz, nVidia GT 750m 1GB

Posted on Jun 16, 2014 7:19 AM

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WZZZ

Level 6

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Jun 16, 2014 12:24 PM in response to Andrei Cristian

They look fine. The drive is running nice and cool. Wish I could keep mine like that. You'd expect the GPU and CPU to be somewhat elevated from a game, although I don't like to see my CPU get that hot, or even close to it. But then I don't do any games. Only one fan. Must be one of the later machines. I've noticed that they do run cooler to begin with.

Ambient 9? Is that right?