When you first install it you will see something like this: The program i'm gonna feature in this guide is Macs Fan Control - īEFORE PROCEEDING: NEITHER ME OR THE DEVELOPER OF THE PROGRAM IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR MACHINE IF YOU CONFIGURE THE PROGRAM WRONG.īY PROCEEDING YOU AGREE TO THESE DISCLAIMERS my Mac is LONG out of warranty so that's not a concern to me. i don't have that problem since i have a 13', and i would recommend watching the temperatures very closely if using it on a 15' or 16' MBP.Īlso i'm not sure how apple does things with warranty and stuff if you use an app like this. there is nothing stopping you for example to set up a 15' or 16' MacBook Pro to only ramp up the fans if the cpu is hot, but then you completely ignore the dGPU. it's designers say that you should only use it if you know what you're doing, for good reason. Now, there are a few issues with the app i'm going to show you. Happily however there are apps that can help you set a custom fan curve. this is bad for obvious reasons, it's gonna cause the machine to fail sooner, and it's just straignt up uncomfortably hot around the keyboard and especially the bottom, i was scared it was gonna melt the plastic case i have on my laptop when i first got it.

My MacBook Pro on the stock fancurve doesn't ramp up the fan until it gets to 95 degrees, and i've seen it hold steady at 99 degrees. I probably could've extended the life of my already elderly (but 100% reliable and sufficiently powerful) iMac if I had sought this info out sooner.We all know Apple runs all computers in their line-up waaay too hot to be comfortable. When I asked the guy about this I was told it was normal. My current MFC settings are Īs you can see these drops are fairly substantial and I'm kicking myself for not looking them up sooner I was foolishly using the settings recommended by the previous owner of the machine without doing any research, even though my Mac seemed to stay really hot in the upper-left corner.

I found a bit of info here from someone using MFC with a mid-2010 27' iMac like mine, the settings they recommended greatly improved the overall temps of my trusty old friend, but the post didn't specify whether or not the OP had an SSD or the original HDD and I was wondering if that would somehow affect the drive sensor as I've upgraded to a SSD.

Macs fancontrol