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Q: Macbook pro 15 - mid 2015 heating and temperature

Hello to all Apple fans and Members,

 

I am glad to join this community, and i enjoy all Apple products that i have.

About month ago i buy first macbook in my life model:

Macbook Pro Retina 15 inch mid 2015 , i7 2.5ghz, 16gb ram, intel iris pro + m370x radeon

Everything is perfect with this notebook i enjoy it every second however couple times things happen that i not understand and im little worried please someone if can help or advice is this normal or not.. and if not what should i do go to authorized service to check or i can fix myself.

I do most of time browsing with Safari and multi tab 15-20, sometime i open Firefox with a video on youtube or if someone connect to me via TeamViewer and notebook gets so hot and fan noise from slow to louder until after 5-6 minutes its hard to type on keyboard because its so hot and noise so loud. After i close that video or TeamViewer remote connection it stop and return in normal in less than minute. But why would it get so hot from a high resolution video or teamviewer this is high end machine what can be wrong i had notebooks worse specifications and worth 5 time less money where this things not happen. This also happen if i game for 10-15 minutes i heard macs not for gaming but i installed Counter Strike GO and i want be able play my favorite game sometime 45min-1hour, and i stop playing game at all so this thing not happen, i start to love this notebook from day 1 but this heat and noise make me problems..

Last night i install iStat and i notice temperatures are CPU 1-4 (120-130)  Fan control show Off left 2160 right 2000 rpm

Whenever i do most of work notebook is quite its awesome, but sometimes suddenly it start getting hot and fans so noisy..

Are these things to worry or not? Should i take it to service its under warranty or no.. can i do something to fix myself? Thank you

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3), heating, temperature, fans noise

Posted on Mar 16, 2016 10:48 AM

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  • by OGELTHORPE,

    OGELTHORPE OGELTHORPE Mar 16, 2016 10:57 AM in response to iki88
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    Mar 16, 2016 10:57 AM in response to iki88

    It is always a good option to have a MBP checked by a technician at an Apple store genus bar when you suspect something is not quite right.

     

    Basically a MBP will heat up and set the fans to higher RPMs when you are using resource intensive applications.  That is normal.  The question becomes if the temperature and fan speed changes are with operating norms.  For that some specifics would be required.

     

    Set Activity Monitor to ALL PROCESSES and CPU to display values from high to low.

     

    When the MBP gets 'hot' and the fans are humming, post images of Activity Monitor and the temperatures and fan speeds.

     

    In addition, run Apple Diagnostics and see if that provides any meaningful information:

     

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202731

     

    Ciao.