Cooler for macbook pro 15-inch retina

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Cooler for macbook pro 15-inch retina

Would good portable cooler reduce heat and sound of very loud fans on Macbook pro 15-inch retina ? thank you !

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Jul 6, 2015 5:45 AM

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OGELTHORPE

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Jul 6, 2015 6:00 AM in response to Magnatar

Possibly but it would be to your advantage to determine what is causing the fan speed increase. If the results are expected (normal) and the temperatures are within normal operating ranges, then external cooling may be desirable but not essential.

I suggest installing a temperature monitoring application and when the MBP gets hot, open Activity Monitor . Activity Monitor should be set to ALL PROCESSES and CPU to display values from high to low.

If you wish, you may post images of both for an evaluation.

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Magnatar Author

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Jul 6, 2015 6:32 AM in response to OGELTHORPE

It gets really loud and hot when I play game. It works completely normal when I am not playing games. I don't know if that is normal, but I asked in apple store and they told me that that is normal. So I would like to find the solution to that. The keyboard and body of a macbook is really hot during playing and fans hit really laud as I begin to play. The guy in the store told me that Mac processors are not designed for games and that is why is this happening. I will try your suggestion and check that. Thank you

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OGELTHORPE

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Jul 6, 2015 6:56 AM in response to Magnatar

You probably have been given accurate advice. Games generally are resource intensive and will tax the CPU/GPU thus creating heat and increasing fan speeds. The truth is that Macs have never been good game machines and you have to accept that. My suspicions are that your MBP is operating normally for the given conditions.

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