Macbook Pro Retina Heat

Hi.
I'm completely new to Mac and OSX but I'm fairly good with computers. Beening building PCs for years and know my way around Windows.
I'm a little concerned with my Macbook Pro Retina and its heat. I understand that its a slim computer and its going to get hot, but it doesn't seem like my fans are speeding up enough to keep the system cool. Even when I'm doing light loads on the processor (Ex. coding a website in TextMate) the system seems to be running fairly hot. Usually it runs around 70C when doing basic internet browsing and text editing. When watching YouTube it runs even hotter! (Around 100 ~ 120C)
The fans seem to max out at 2100 RPM during when it hits those peak temperatures. I opened up TF2 and it got even more hot, and the fans still only peaked at 2100 RPM.
Someone told me to download SMC Fan Control - however from what I can tell it is not completely compatible with OS X 10.8. It does let me set the fan speed however the system doesn't take over when the system is getting hot - at least thats all I can tell; chance are I'm completely wrong.
Anyways, is there something on the software side of things that I can do to increase the cooling of my system? I will probably be buying a cooling pad at some point but if I could increase the cooling more via software that would be great!

Hi there,
What you have stated in regards to the temperatues and fan speeds is a little worrying in my honest opinion, let me explain why.
I have a MacBook Pro with Retina Display, the £1799 model (8gb RAM, 256 SSD), which i use at an elevated position, i bought a griffin stand (really nice actually, i would reccomend it).
I have had it a little over a month, my first 3 weeks with it have been a complete worry.
My rMBP runs between 46C - 60C whilst i'm browsing the internet etc, if i watch a youtube clip, it gets hotter - around 70C (it can get even hotter but it depends on the resolution of the vid) - fans are runing at around 2100 RPM when machine is at 50C ish..
However, when i run games or watch a 4k resolution vid on youtube or do anything that requires the processer to go insane it shoots way up to around 90C (highest i've seen it go is 97C), this scared the **** out of me, how can something get that hot and still be safe? it's 10C away from boiling point! The fans run at around 4000 RPM at this temperature.
I must have called Apple Care about 3 times a week to ask for advice, i was looking for someone to make me confident that this was normal, they told me to take it to a genius bar.
So off i went, the genius told me that he had tried to test it (about 5 times) but was unable to succesfully test the machine as apparently, whenever a new machine is released, there is a period when all the older testing software doesn't work properly (it kept crashing).
What i did find out was that another genius that walked past overheard us, he told me he was playing StarCraft II on it for hours yesterday and it got very hot, around the same temperatures of mine, he said it was perfectly normal as the processor is Ivy Bridge which just runs hotter then normal.
He also said the following:
The fans can go up to a maxmimum of 6000 RPM, this to me meant that i was not pushing it to it's limit as the highest i've seen my fans go is around 5000RPM at 97C.
He simply said not to worry and i quote - "If the fans are running it's nothing to worry about, if they are not - that's the time to worry".
He also said that the system had an inbuilt feature that would shut down the system if it ever got too hot for the system to handle.
The general thing i have realised from my own searching around and visiting/calling apple is that the rMBP is thinner then other laptops and therefore, it will run hotter. The entire case is meant to be a heat sink and is supposed to get hot to help dissapate the heat.
I'm now confident that mine is not faulty - it feels like a weight has been lifted (i treat my rMBP like a newborn hah)
To me, based on everything i've learnt, i would say yours needs to be checked out ASAP, the temperatures are higher then mine and your fans are not operating as they should.
I really hope this helps mate, go and see a genius and get it sorted!
All the best!
Nick

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