MacBook Pro 15 early 11 overheating problem.
Hello friends,
I own the Macbook of the title and i think the temperatures are high enough. Idle is about 50º and after some time browsing with 3 tabs it goes to 80º on 2000rpm.
If I open more tabs on safari or watch a movie the temperature will increase. Whenever it exceeds 80º i set the fans to full rpm.
Backgrounds apps usually running from startup are Viber, Mac fans control and Microsoft outlook app.
I’ve changed the thermal paste with Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut.
After this there was a temperature drop about 4-5º average.
My 15” Macbook early 2011 specs:
- 2 GHz Intel Core i7
- 16 GB 1600 MHz RAM
- Samsung 850 EVO 256GB SSD with 28GB free
- Dual graphics cards,
- AMD Radeon HD 6490M 256 MB
- Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB.
- Optical Drive is connected.
- Running macOS High Sierra
Also the battery is aftermarket and its nearly dead.
Charger is also aftermarket (Powertech).
GPU I think has a problem, 6 months ago and after logging in to my user a green screen was appeared and stopped there. I heated the chip and after that it runs fine
But! I’ve not tried to use heavy apps like PhotoShop or SketchUp, just browsing and running movies on Netflix and Strem.IO.
If there’s a solution for lower tempratures or if its normal let me know.
Thank you for reading.
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