gcodori Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 My wife's macbook C2D has been having sporadic heat issues...every so often, the processor begins to heat up significantly. I have installed a fan control/temp utility to monitor - and I have seen the CPU get up to 197F and the fan RPM to get up to 6,000+ RPM. I believe this is software related - as I notice in the activity monitor that something (I'm still new to Macs) is taking up nearly 100% of the CPU cycles when this occurs. She constantly runs Vmware Fusion (she still hasn't kicked the XP habbit). Is there an app that monitors CPU usage and can kill a process that becomes a "run-away" and begins to eat CPU cycles? A prior time this occured - the only solution was a reboot (most apps were closed when this occured). I hope to find a solution - as I fear that the excessive heat will kill off her CPU. Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/74644-macbook-c2d-heat-issues/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyhighmac Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 When your laptop is going intensive tasks, the fan kicks to 6K, my mb does the same thing. This seems to be normal with all laptops. I would reccomend getting a laptop cooler so the fan wont kick to 6K. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/74644-macbook-c2d-heat-issues/#findComment-528166 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurboBrik Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 wow 197F, the hottest my core duo 2.0 macbook gets is around 38-39c which is about 98-100f, which normally that only happens when I'm encoding videos or playing games. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/74644-macbook-c2d-heat-issues/#findComment-535028 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syzyx Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 I just recently bought a MacBook C2D as well (mine is black, I thought the colour would affect the heat?)...Usually it runs around 50c and 1800rpm. Sometimes if I slam a CD in the tray it'll run up to 60-75c, and I always thought this was because the CD-ROM was running...But yes I've also noticed some heat issues, not necessarily bad. I've heard that if it runs to 75c, I should be concerned. I'd also love some input for this! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/74644-macbook-c2d-heat-issues/#findComment-535068 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gcodori Posted December 11, 2007 Author Share Posted December 11, 2007 I think her temps average 130F on a daily basis. I don't think I have ever seen 98F on her laptop. Granted - she usually has VMware on 24/7 which could be jacking upo CPU cycles. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/74644-macbook-c2d-heat-issues/#findComment-535181 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyhighmac Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 If she uses xp so much, just use boot camp << no virtualization. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/74644-macbook-c2d-heat-issues/#findComment-535225 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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