OVERHEATING MacBook Pro! Can We Fix It??

Macbook Pro is overheating...lets fix it :)

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[knightcore]

I don't quite get why companies (not just Apple) can't use proper thermal paste in their products. It seems like such a cheap way to make your product better than the competition's

[andrewmanti]

before this i had to wait EARTH SHATTERING "40 MINS" i must had killed myself, but now its so fast, ONLY "37 mins"

[swayingGrass]

The fins on the cooler is probably blocked. I have and old laptop that has been used for 3-4 years and it would thermal shut down. Opened it up and found the fin completely blocked by a jumble hairs, dust, and dust that twined together making strands. Blow some air from the outside (exhaust) with a bicycle pump and it ran fine after.

[blazbohinc]

76C for youtube playback "so that's great". Come on man don't lie to yourself

[JarrodsTech]

Interesting, I feel like for the price you pay for the Macbook they should give you good paste.

[ShawaebTee]

I've found that a Mac app called Macs fan control, lets my 2015 MacBook stay between 40-50 degrees Celsius in this 27 degree heat. Which is great

[Danthrax]

If you use a drill to drill some holes in the bottom case where the fans are located you will greatly decrease temps, just adding more air intake in generally helps.

[LosDuervo]

AS5 has a cure time, so slightly higher-than-expected temps right after reapplying new paste is fine. The temps should normalize once curing time has passed. Manufacturer of the paste has exact number for cure times, but if I remember correctly, it’s something like a week’s worth of normal use, depending on fan speed or presence, and can reduce temps by a further 2-5C during the break-in period.

[peppybocan]

well, this is clearly a many factor problem. Adobe's software is getting worse and worse with less and less optimalization getting into it. When it comes to watching youtube videos - browsers like Chrome and Firefox (especially Firefox) on macOS seems to not be optimalized for macOS and/or using codec which is provided within the bundled browser. And also the cooling solution of Apple - not enough. That heatsink and that heat pipe is just laughable - but Apple does not care.

[pcfreak]

Lol, those temperatures for just watching YouTube? What a joke 😂

[christopherdix]

At least for me, it's completely unacceptable to have the CPU so hot (76 C) on such a light load (YouTube playback) on such an expensive machine. This is not the MacBook Air. Apple is advertising it as "Pro, " meaning the machine that should be able to run stuff like this without a sweat (like Eber's Gigabyte notebook), and its not doing so is unacceptable to me (especially at the price; this is supposed to be a high-end workstation-like machine). The device is being advertised as "Pro, " and therefore is not aimed at thinness; why not keep the thin design to the Air and make the Pros a bit thicker in order to provide a decent cooling system?

[CrimsonKobaNakirigumi]

Drill some holes on it. The poor CPU must be suffocating hard because Apple thinks it's fancy and "minimalistic" to not put proper ventilation on their laptops.

[Grgylz]

I read in some forums that some MacBook Pros suffer from throttling due to power limit issues, especially if both CPU and GPU are being pushed. Maybe that is your case.

[PimptatoPCs]

Just set it on a cookie sheet filled with ice water =D

[akramaslam]

@hardwarecanucs I had the same issue on the same macbook, I did the same thing with the same thermal paste. I got the same reduction in heating but I went a bit further and now my mac runs around 43 to 60 on youtube. The one step further was a memory leak issue. Try deleting your keychain folder, this will reset it but thats fine. Once that is done. Turn down your mac. Do a SMC reset and power it back on. Then monitor your temps again and you will be surprised!. Hope it helps!.. PS, Keep up the excellent content!.. Cheers!

[vkoskiv]

Great video! Not only is changing thermal paste a great idea (after the warranty is out), but just cleaning out dust can make a huge difference!

Modern Apple laptops don't void your warranty if you just take the back cover off to clean out dust!

[glebokator]

You should disable turbo boost, because intel cpu can work a lot longer without throttling when turbo boost is disabled and you will render faster because throttled cpu frequency is lower than "unturbo boosted" cpu frequency

actually most of the times intel cpu's throttling because of power consumption, 15 watt intel cpu can boost to 25watt or even more, but it can't work at this rate more than 30 sec, mostly because of manufacture's limitations. That means that even if temperatures is good it doesn't mean than cpu won't throttle.

[andytran]

Would be interesting to see whether the difference you're seeing is due to the new thermal paste or fan/heatsink cleaning

[icebeer]

What's happening? Power target, duh. You can play with it using Intel XTU for Windows, not sure if there is an option for MacOS.

[Aviftw]

The temps on that thing are just TOO DAMN HOT. Even with new thermal paste.


One of the chief reasons why I would never buy one. That, and the glued in battery meaning a trip to the battery shop and ~$300 to restore performance to as-new. If the battery was not glued in, you could do it yourself for like $25 max.

F off apple.