thermal issues

After years with a 2015 MBP (13" and 15"), and a brief terrible time with the 2017 MBP nTB, I upgraded to a 14" MBP M1 Max with 24 GPU courses - widely reported as being the sweetspot, with more GPU cores diminishing value. Sadly the machine had issues so it was returned to Apple. They won't...

Hi, I am lucky enough to have a good working G5 quad with the latest rev. water cooler. It appears to be working perfectly, passing all the tests in ASD 2.6.3 and I've not had a single crash or frozen system while running Sorbet Leopard 1.5. When running benchmarks CPU A peaks at around 65C and...

I am having issues with my MBP 2016. Mojave 10.14.6 I can't run the charger and an external monitor at the same time without CPU limiting. I am monitoring with Terminal pmset -g thermlog The ambient temperature is around 27°C. If I have the charger and a monitor at the same time, even at...

I absolutely love my new 16" M1 Max MBP. The screen is beyond gorgeous. But after a few days, I was noticing that it seemed to feel a bit warm. Never to the point of being "hot", nor did it ever make any noise, but it was measurably running warmer vs. my previous 13" M1 MBP. I wrote it off to...

Hey guys, I have a i9 octa-core 2.4ghz with 64GB ram, 5500M 8GB DDR6, 4TB config that is ~6 months old. Recently, I've been noticing a really weird behaviour after investigating why my 16" MBP is displaying graphical glitches after playing Civ6 via Steam for under 5 mins. Resolution in-game is...

[Whoa, just reviewing what I wrote, this got long, sorry about that!] Hey all, new member here... First of all thanks for all the great resources here in the forum, which helped me a great deal in my recent upgrade to an 8-core E5-2667v2 from the stock 4 core on my MacPro 6,1. So in general it...

Hi, I am new to the MBP community and just bought an open box 16" i7 16gb memory MBP 2019 (later model) from Best Buy and I'm experiencing the thermal throttling/overheating when connecting it to an external monitor (basic Acer monitor nothing fancy). Does anyone know if Apple fixed this problem...

Hi there! I currently own a 2020 macbook air (i5,16gb). For the most part the laptop does everything that I need it to do fine. There are some hiccups, sometimes stuttering performance and really high temperatures (I am from Singapore which has constant 30 degree weather), if that matters for...

I acquired an early 2008 Mac Pro on Thursday last week and it is working ok. When I got it I noticed it was VERY dusty inside so I got my air compressor and blew it out. After that I took it apart and replaced the thermal paste under the cpus and the Northbridge. After that I have installed Mac...

I'm choosing between two Macbook Pro laptops (employer will be paying) and would love some advice! Option 1 i7 2.6GHz/32GB RAM/512GB/Radeon 560X Option 2 i7 2.2GHz/32GB RAM/1TB/Radeon 555X I don't have a ton of experience with recent Apple laptops--my team chose Apple as our work purchase...

I bought a storage locker that had been sitting untouched for over 5 years for $150:). It had $13-$15,000 in recording gear and an MBP 5,1. Bought a new battery for it, and it booted right up to the old user’s password sign in. I have no idea how to get past this, but it’s evident the old...