World Of Warcraft and Mac book pro 2012

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World Of Warcraft and Mac book pro 2012

Hello, I have a mac book pro 2012, and I was wondering if playing World of Warcraft will overheat it and end up damaging the laptop to the point where it would lower the life expectancy. Any advice or knowledge would be greatly appreciated, and also would anyone know what the average life expectancy is for a mac book pro 2012 ?

Specs : MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)

Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5

Memory: 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB

Thank you.

Posted on Feb 9, 2016 11:16 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 9, 2016 11:25 AM in response to DavidMaitland

The MacBook Pro uses measured internal temperatures to control the Internal fan speeds. If working properly, increased temperatures should make the fans run faster and result in better cooling.

When you are anticipating stuff that will heat up your Mac, you can use third-party Utilities to manually put a higher floor under the minimum fan speeds and thereby improve cooling, at a cost of slightly more fan noise at idle.

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Answer 2

Feb 9, 2016 11:42 AM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

Hi, thank you so much for you quick reply. My macbook is currently at 30 degrees where I am just going on google etc... so I hope that's an ideal temperature. Also could you give me the names of the utility to increase fan speeds?

Thank you so much

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