Mac book pro running hot
My mac book pro is running very hot. My fans are going like crazy but it doesnt seem to be doing the job. Should i try to clean my fans or something?
yeah, same here, my fans seems to be running above 6000rpm ALL THE TIME, even when i'm on preview and itunes, and when safari isn't open. i keep mail and calendar open all the time, but other than that, i understood that word, excel, preview, and the like weren't supposed to tax the system much, but my CPU temp is at about 90 degrees.
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rMBP 2.6 GHZ | 512 SSD | 16 GB RAM | 1GB NVIDIA Graphcis (Always set to high performance)
OS X 10.8.2 | FCPx 10.0.7Studio Engineer wrote:
… no other app seems to be affected by this issue. PPRO, AE, Photoshop, Aperture, Safari etc etc etc... Only FPCx and Motion.
me no engineer ... ahh, you did know that!
but …
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But if I had designed the graphic-card as co-processor, this would be essentiell.
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