MBP normal operating temperature

What is considered the normal operating temperature" My MBP runs between 110 and 120 F.
MBP Mac OS X (10.4.5)

If you have the Seagate 7200 RPM HDD there is a single temperature sensor that works with the standard temperature reading utilities. So, he is likely reading the temperature of the HDD.

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What is a normal operating temperature for a 15" MBP 2.33 duel?

i know this has been beaten to death, but i never can find what is considered to be a "normal operating temperature" for the MBP.
mac book pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

An MBP C2D should operate from 50ºC through to about 85ºC. I find mine averages in the low 50's however I don't do a lot on it. Anything that really requires processing gets done on my Mac Pro. It really comes down to how hard, or not, you push the processors.
Comparitively I find that it generally runs cooler than the PowerBook G4 1.25GHz it replaced however it does get hotter under maximum load. It just comes down to what you do with your MBP. You've basically asked "how long is a piece of string".

"Normal" Operating Temperature

What is considered the "Normal" operating temperature for the Apple TV? All I have found online from Apple is:
Your Apple TV is designed to operate quietly in an environment warmer than room temperature, including within media cabinets.
This can be rather ambiguous as warm to one could be hot to another. I've had my Apple TV for barely over 3 years and do not use it that much. Recently, I've noticed it running very hot to the touch (it always has run 'hot' to me, but not quite this hot.) If I start it up at room temperature after it has been unplugged for awhile, it runs fine for about 20 minutes. Then I start to see blue dots across the TV screen and then shortly after that, the picture becomes very pixelated. Feeling the case then at that time, it is quite hot to touch.
How can you tell what temperature it is running at? Should it not be running that hot? What have been the experience of other users?
thanks,
Jon

Hi there,
I've been having the exact same problem with my ATV. Had it for about 3-4 years, and not used it a huge amount until recently - although it has been plugged in most of the time, so the HDD and fan have been running.
I've always thought the ATV ran hot, but recently I've noticed it getting MUCH hotter than usual. I've also noticed an increasing problem with flashing pixels on screen, corrupt menus, flashing and in the worst cases completely corrupt video playback (inverted colours, blocking, etc.)
I've been doing a bit of experimentaion to isolate the problem, and I'm fairly sure this is heat releated. The problems seem to get worse the longer the device is left on. If I cut the power and let it cool down for 5 mins, then everything seems fine for about 30-60 mins, then the symptons return.
I've had final proof tonight: I couldn't get the ATV to play anything for more than about 5 mins before we had problems. In a last ditch attempt, I got an icepack from the freezer, encased the ATV and turned the fan on to draw air over it ... the result? Problems gone.
I'm going to open it up an evening this week, and see whether the fan is running. If not, I'll investigate further. I guess I could always relocate my ATV to the freezer :o)
In my opinion, Jon - your ATV seems to be having the exact same problem as mine. I think there's a strong possibility the fan has either failed after all these years, or the fan connector has worked loose.
I'll let you all know what I find.
Oli.

What are normal operating temperatures of the i7-2620 in the X220, using TPFanControl?

So I finally got TPFanControl working on my X220 after I really started noticing the fan spinning up and producing high-pitched whine. The fan had begun to remain on all the time, even while on battery with the CPU sitting at 800MHz. I could have sworn the fan remained off a lot of the time beforehand.
So, what are the normal operating temps of the i7-2620CPU? Right now plugged in at "Balanced" speed, jumping between 2.7GHz and 800MHz and with the fan manually set to "7," 4500rpm, in TPFanControl, it shows the temperature at 63C. On battery at 800MHz, the temp goes between 50C and 60C.
CPU Utilization remains at 7% when on batteries, 0-4% while plugged in at idle.
Are those normal numbers? If not, do I have some kind of problem with the thermal paste or heatsink, or dust?

at idle? no my fan is hardly audible at idle.
what you are describing sounds like a problem with the either fan, or improper installation, in which cases you would need warranty.
If you boot the laptop into the bios menu, does the fan come on?
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Jin Li
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Normal operating temperature - A31 2.0Ghz

I do not understand how designers ever thought that a machine that is only 80cm away from your ears can have a fan that it audible.
Nevertheless I am trying to use Thinkpad Fan Control (v0.18) to minimise my fan activity. Removing the battery or setting the BIOS to low speed "helps" but also means a higher load, and thus more heat!!
I am not sure if the idle CPU temperature without the fan running is normal around 58C. With the fan in BIOS mode it stays around 42C, but it still seems rather high to me. Is it possible that it needs new theral paste or the heat sink is not set well?
T61p T7500, Quadro FX 570M, 4GB, 60GB Patriot Pyro, XP Pro
X61t Tablet, L7300 Centrino vPro, Windows 7 Home 64-bit
tpfancontrol installed on all systems
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I guess this is some improvement:
on BIOS mode the CPU goes down to 33C in idle and will stay around in 51C with no fan using TPFC.
Straight writing in the word processor never makes the fan go on, but with 5+ tabs and my database open, it will go to 60C then start the fan. That probably means that watching video on this machine is a no go!
My sister, cat owner and thus good experience with cleaning out computers, took a look. She noticed that around the CPU there was a burnt capacitor C508. It ain`t broke so no fixing, but that may be related to the defective USB ports or why it will not run from the battery. She probably also tightened the fan or put the the thermal paste on better...
The update to Thinkpad Fan Control did not make much difference, but the interface is nicer. I tried the BIOS 1.13 but it was not accepted, but 1.10 went through fine. In either one there were no indications of changes to temperature control. Power here is stable but still a risk considering my battery (or motherboard) does not work.
As for running processes, I login in a restricted account to avoid having to install an anti-virus/spyware and I used CCleaner to diasable most startup programs, and lastly using services.msc, I disabled a few that I never use. (wifi – automatic updates- help)
Thanks again.
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X61t Tablet, L7300 Centrino vPro, Windows 7 Home 64-bit
tpfancontrol installed on all systems

Normal operating temperature for imac

I have just downloaded "temperature monitor" and it indicates the CPU is at 46c. At times the cooling fan will kick in at 26c yet currently at 46c it is not running.

Mine is about the same as yours. You can see the "idle" speeds of my fans. iMac i7.
Regards
Edit: At these speeds the sound of the fan is not noticeable. Just a little airflow coming out the vent.

Normal Operating Temp. for MBP running windows

Hi,
Does anybody know what the normal operating temperature for a mbp 2.5, running xp professional is?
The load is just normal office stuff, eclipse, tomcat, explorer..
I've installed speedfan to monitor the temp, it normally stays around 61 C
This seems high to me.
Anybody know what the official normal temp is.
Cheers....

I found temps were generally much higher when running windows. The fans kicked in much later than i would have liked. I was running vista not xp.
I found if i ran smcFanControl (set to 3000rpm) in OS X then reboot into windows the fans would retain the new settings and windows would run a lot cooler.
Hope it helps a bit.

K7N2 Delta-L board operating temperature

Hello,
I'm just curious what would be concidered a "normal" operating temperature for this board?
I've had my set-up running for about 10 days now with no problems (XP3000+ processor),but last night my computer reset itself.
When I took a look at my equipment stats I noticed my mainboard temperature was 35C, while processor temp was listed at 31C...would this be normal?
I have good fans and air-flow, and even removed the side panel to see if that made a difference, but the temp only came down 1C.
Perhaps the temp readings are inaccurate...just looking for some ideas on what could be wrong (other than bad memory, bad PSU, etc etc :P)
Cheers,
Hautz

What BIOS version are you running, current BIOS is reading temp about -10deg from true. Do you have the thermal protection enabled in BIOS? The temps are well within normal operating range. Any windows messages when the system is restarted?

Mbp normal variance in temperatures?

My Macbook pro (core duo 1.86ghz) has always been extremely hot to touch, but I never thought twice about it. About a week ago I installed coreduotemp to monitor the temperatures and noticed that it reaches 96c when the processor is under load (no 3d graphics, laptop on a wooden table in a cool air conditioned room). Some parts of the notebooks cover get so hot that when a workmate accidentally touched it he screamed.
Since we have a lot of Macbook pro's where I work, I took an identical (apart from a 2.16ghz processor) model and did a profile transfer to it. When both notebooks where under load the difference in temperature was was over over 30c (64c vs 96c)! There is also a huge difference in how hot the cover of the notebook gets. The new one gets hot too, but never so hot that you can't touch it.
I called our local retailers support service, and they said they have no guidelines regarding the issue, and can not take it in for repairs.
I found this pretty surprising, so I downloaded a 3d game (sourbraten or something like that) and tried running it so that there was some processor load on the background. The screen came full of black distortion within a few minutes.
I called Apples support, and they said there must be something wrong with the video card, and the laptop should be sent for repair...
As an engineer working with servers for a living, I find this pretty funny. The support person didn't find anything strange in the fact that one of the notebooks is running at about 80% higher temperature over ambient, he actually said that "temperatures around 100c are fully normal for a notebook". I understand quality control will have some margin in a matter like this, but the difference is just huge!
The main reason I'm still wondering about this despite my mbp being accepted for repair is that we have almost 100 Apple notebooks for our workers, and there are a lot of other employees complaining about the heat. It seems most of the ones complaining received their notebooks in the same batch as me. Do we have to try to get corruption on all of them before extreme temperatures are regarded to be non-normal?

Hi, and thanks for all the answers!
A funny thing happened before I left work. We received a box full of silly gifts from Intel, including a usb coffeecup heater. Well the heater really works, it keeps your coffee hot until you drink it (mine was really hot for over 20 minutes)!
What's even funnier is that the notebook under load was about as hot as the coffeecup heater...
The notebook, and the one I compared it to where both updated with the latest firmware, and all automatically available operating system updates.
I'm an IT engineer, mainly maintaining fairly high end servers. I have however toyed and built computers for well over 10 years, and have quite a bit of experience with them. For example having two fully identical computers next to each other with the same configuration and running 100% load on each should result in almost the same processor temperature. In this case the cooler computer had a faster processor which should actually mean it runs slightly hotter (though speed actually does not have a huge impact on processor temperature comparing to voltage).
So what could cause the differance in temperature? There are really only a few possibilities:
- The hotter ones processor does not get good contact with the cooler
- The hotter ones fan(s) is not running as fast to remove air from the case
- A fan is broken in the hotter notebook
There are small variances in heat output between identical processors, but the differance would only be a few degrees.
I can hear the fans in both computers when they are under load. The hotter ones fan is actually running at a clearly faster speed then the cooler ones. The only logical explanation is that the heatsink does not have good contact with the processor. Due to this it can't really dissipate the heat however fast it spins the fan, and the processor remains hot. This does not explain why the case is so much hotter too... :O
I read the link you have regarding Apples guidance to temperature, but they are not actually saying ANYTHING in that article. Actually they say more in the detailed specs page you can get on the notebook on apple.com (sales). There they mention what the ambient temperature for operation can be.
Now when I called Apples support, I was told it is fully normal for a macbook pro's processor to operate at 100c. However according to Intels specifications 100c is the maximum temperature the processor is allowed to reach under any condition (this is the highest max temp on any processor I have heard of by the way). So what apple is basically saying, is that it's perfectly normal for my processor to run hotter then Intels highest allowed temperature? To add to this my ambient temperature while testing was 21c (14c under the maximum temperature allowed for operation). So what would happen if the ambient temperature went up to 35 (which is not even an especially high temperature...)? The processors temperature would most probably raise to over 110C!
Just like Intel has a maximum operating temperature for it's processors, hardisk manufacturers have a maximum temperature for their hardisks operation. Having a case too hot to touch does not make me feel very confident that the hardisk is operating under a temperature within the manufacturers limits.
But still Apple believes this is ok untill your notebook get's so hot that everything on the display becomes corrupted! Also their page concerning the macbook pro's operating temperature does nothing else then try to convince you that it's normal that your notebook burns you!
Really makes me happy I got applecare
edit:
btw, thanks for the info on the hardware test. Unfortunately I already packed the notebook for repairs, so I can't try it. Will defiantly remember it for next time though!

What is the normal operation motherboard temperature

HP Pavilion t6250p Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit no changes to OS
Motherboard is Pegatron Benicia (CPU 1)
Temperature runs 43-44 C or 110-112 F Is this normal?
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That is a normal motherboard temperature.
If you happened to live in Death Valley, CA and had no airconditioning it would be a quite bit higher.
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Operating Temperature Limit for MacBook Pro

The specifications, for MacBook Pro, mention that the operating temperature is 10 to 35 Deg C. Does it mean that MacBook Pro will not function above 35 Deg C? Is it recommended to operate MacBook Pro always in an air-conditioned environment? As I plan to buy for the 1st time, I seek an answer.

You will find that if you use applications that are CPU intensive the internal temperature can go over 100 C. This actually is within the safe operating parameters of the MBP. Should the temperatures become excessive, there are heat sensors that will activate a shutdown so that no damage will occur.
You might download from the Internet a utility called iStat pro that will show you the internal temperatures of your MBP and the fan speeds. You can then correlate this information with Activity Monitor data and determine if the temperatures are normal for the given circumstances.
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Standard operating temperatures

What are the "normal" operating tempuratures for a MBP 15". In the small strip above the keyboard (right between the F-keys and the hinge), mine is running at 119 F. This seems a little hot, and this was taken with a cheap digital probe thermometer by just laying the prob across. It may be way hotter than that.
Also, from what I have read here, there seems to be no way to get the internal temps or fan speeds. Is this the case still? Why are these things not readily avaiable? I have iStat Pro, and it has the Temps and Fan Speed sections disabled totally.

Normal internal core temperatures for the MBP run between 55-65C under typical loads. Persistent high loads may run the core temperature up to 80-85C. Thermal shutdown should occur when the core reaches around 100C. Idle temperature can run between 30-50C. Of course your mileage will vary depending upon ambient room temperature and if the computer has adequate cooling airflow.
The temperature and other sensor data require a special extension because most existing utilities were not written with the information required for Intel chips. You can download the needed extension, speedit.kext, from www.increw.org or www.versiontracker.com along with the measuring utility, CoreDuoTemp. You can also use the utility Temperature Monitor (Bresink Software) also available at versiontracker.com.

Operating temperatures on Macbook Pro 15" (Mid-2009)?

Hello people. I have a quick inquiry. I searched google and there were no definite answers regarding this issue, it's all a matter of opinion to many people. What is the safe range for operating temperatures for a 15" Macbook Pro (mid-2009)? Before having installed SMCFanControl, my temperatures ranged in the mid-high-60's (degrees Celsius) when doing intensive work (itunes, google chrome, playing CS: Source on Steam for Mac, Transmission).
After installing SMCFanControl and cranking up the fans to a 3700rpm my temp is now 43-46 degrees C. Is that at all normal/safe?
Sorry I'm just used to my old custom-built PC were my temps are in the mid-30's C. My MacPro 6-core is also about the same, mid-30's C.

I do not remember the exact specs, but if you go to Intel's web site you can look up the design specs for the mobile core-2-duo cpu's. They have a critical operating temp of 100 degrees centigrade (or very close to thereabouts, somewhere between 100 and 105 as I recall).
So, running at 60 degrees is well within the designed operating specs for the chips. My MBP routinely will get up to 80-85 degrees under intense load (number crunching in R for example) and it seems no worse for wear after nearly a year and half of such use.
Your MacPro has much larger cpu heat sinks (since it can) as well as a much larger volume of airflow past them. Even so, start pushing all your cores to 100% with some massively RAM intensive applications, and even it's temps will rise quite a bit (I used to see my work 8-core Xeon MacPro get up into the 70-80 degree range under really heavy load).
And, as mentioned, your machine has thermal shutdown features built into it and monitors several key components internally. Intel designs their mobile chips for higher thermal stress, and they also publish specs and guidelines for manufacturers to follow when installing them in their system designs (eg. air flow, heat sink specs and so forth).

High netbook operating temperature

good day...
is 70-75 degrees celcius normal temperature for netbook? i think it is very high operating temperature.
my unit is HP mini 210-1099ee.

Hi,
From my view, it's a litte bit high. My daughter's mini 210 has never run at that hot. Please check ventilation around it.
Regards,
BH
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Apple Notebooks: Operating Temperature

I see Apple has updated article# 30612 (Apple Notebooks: Operating Temperature) to include the MacBook Pro. The most interesting part of the document is the first paragraph:
"The bottom surface and some areas between the keyboard and LCD hinge of your Apple notebook computer can become hot after extended periods of use. This is normal operating behavior. With processor and bus speeds in portable computers often matching, if not exceeding, those of desktop systems, increased operating temperatures in portable computing products are common throughout the industry."
So it seems Apple is knowledging that this extreme heat is normal above the F keys and on the bottom surface (mainly at the back).
MacBook Pro 2.16GHz/2GB RAM/100GB 7200rpm hard drive Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hi Brad,
"extreme heat"
All of the Apple computers are like this. Same with all laptops that I have ever seen. The back of the computer near the hinge is where the fan is, so there should be some heat coming of there. I am glad some heat comes out of the keyboard (barely); its better then the logic board.
Jon
Quick question; where did you see extreme heat?
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