Too hot where I live?

Hi,
When I first had my MAC PRO (late 2006) everything was working fine. 6 months later, it started freezing for whatever i was doing. After a few research, I found out it was because of the temperature (I live in a very hot part of Brazil), so I decided to open the case and use an extern ventilator to cool it. It's working fine most of the time, but when I use a program that is heavy on the CPU (mainly games)it freezes again. Is there any oficial report from apple that confirms that the MAC PRO is hot sensitive. Before, I was using a G4 in a close room (recording studiio) and it never had this kind of problem, that's why I find it weird.

The normal speed (depending on the exact model of Mac Pro and what it's doing) for the fans will be something on the order of:
Exhaust: 600
CPU: 500
Power Supply: 600
HD/Expansion: 500
When the system is working harder, the fans should speed up. Watch the fan speed as you use the system and see how they behave. If they speed up as the system heats up, they're probably working correctly. If they don't speed up, or aren't running at all, then of course something's wrong.
You may also want to watch the temperatures of the various components and see if the system fails when a given component reaches a given temperature. If it does and you can reproduce the fault - that is, the computer fails every time that component reaches that temperature, then you can post back listing the component and the temperature at which it's failing and someone here can probably tell you if that's expected given the temperature, or if it's failing at too low a temperature which would indicate a fault.

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When does it get to be "too hot" where I should consider better cooling and heatsink solutions?
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Originally posted by coollg
i personlly use the coolmaster aero 7
i have had probelm regarding vertalation probs (poor air flow due to week psu fan ) air preasure is not equel
but when i have the side open i get full load temps of 43c idle of 34 c
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Hey hey,
I am wondering if my Imac (intel mid 2010) gets too hot.... CPU 50 degrees celcius... CPU Diode is 63 celcius... Powersupply 2 > 60 degrees... Tested with iStat pro... CPU fan 1200 rpm.... No warnings and no auto switch offs....
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Got to take room temperature into account as well, a lot of people overlook this...
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IS anyone getting a refund for the heat issue?
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i think im going to take mine back to return it and wait until apple deals with these issues. so the problems with my mac so far:
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2) extreme heat when doing optical drive intensive tasks
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i hope you are still within the 14day exchange/return period so you can take yours in too!
chris
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