Or a Macbook Pro.

Has anyone noticed their machines have been running a LOT hotter than usual after installing Lion? I don't mean immediately after installing Lion, but after some time has passed...

I'm using smcFancontrol to control the temp, but it's seriously warmer than it should be...

Is there something I'm not doing right here?

On a side note, I'm really hoping the powers that be don't decide to trash this thread or move it simply because they think it's a "troll thread"... whatever that means...

10/9/2011 12:40:21 AM

What are you considering warm?

10/9/2011 1:10:22 AM

76 degrees Celsius

10/9/2011 7:01:22 AM

Unfortunately that's pretty normal for these machines . . . . the heatsink paste on Macbook Pros especially looks like the Chinese kids at Foxconn literally just smear on a huge lump with their thumbs and call it a day. Its not uncommon for me to see machines where only half the die is covered, or there's overflow everywhere. That's why the first thing I do when I get any Macbook Pro is open it up and redo the thermal paste . . . . temps usually drop to the 50-60C range afterward.

10/9/2011 4:33:13 PM

redo the thermal paste where?

10/9/2011 6:54:24 PM

Can't seem to find a tutorial for a late 2008 macbook pro. After using the smcfancontrol program for about 4 nights now, I think I've found a way to go.

Setting the RPM's to about 3100 is a good setting to keep the temperature under 160 Farenheight/ 65 Celsius for normal everyday use and 4200 RPMs for gaming will keep it down... though I'm not a fan of this use... it does the trick until Lion gets a better grip on what their machines are doing to run so hot.

These machines can take the heat, but you don't want it to break down sooner because of some factory hack job on (from what I've seen so far) thermal pasting.

I'd really love to find a tutorial on thermal pasting for a late 2008 macbook pro... I can't seem to find a tutorial on youtube or on the net, but if someone can kindly point me in the right direction, I'd really love to learn how to do it.

10/9/2011 7:28:33 PM

fwiw, i redid the thermal on my '06 mbp but it only helped for about a week and then it died again. i think it went too long with bad heat levels. good luck, it's a pain.

10/9/2011 9:05:13 PM

find a tutorial to open your macbook up, remove cpu heatsink, add thermal paste such as arctic silver 5 on the cpu heat spreader, done... I'm sure someone like fregac would take your money to do this simple task if you don't feel comfortable in doing it yourself.

10/10/2011 12:00:45 AM

well if fregac happens to be in Hawaii, I'd pay to learn how to do it myself as long as it's a reasonable price.

10/10/2011 3:10:19 AM

when applying thermal grease to a CPU before installing the heat sink, I'm a fan of a small "twilight zone" spiral, starting from the inside going out, for 2-3 revolutions

of course I'm also a fan of PCs where the child laborers apparently give a shit about the products they produce for less than minimum wage

10/10/2011 3:33:22 AM

^that sounds like another issue altogether... We should set aside our american ways and see to it that no products made by children be sold.... I guess that sums up just about everything Americans use right?

That's a thought for another forum.

Thanks for the thermal pasting tip though.

10/10/2011 6:11:00 AM