Concerned about mac temperature

[♦ Hythal]

When I play CS GO on my 2015 macbook pro with retina( just got it a couple of days ago) the fans kick in super fast and the laptop gets super hot. Compared to when I play TF2 the fans never kicked in and it was sort of hot but not really. Is it just cs go that does that? The idle temperatures I get are around 45 C and when I play CS go it goes to 80-95 C. I dont want to fry my laptop already, and I want to get COD 4. Will COD 4 make the laptop run super hot like how it does with CS GO?

[videogames]

Anything system intensive will cause your components to work harder (and get hotter as a consequence). 95C is past recommended temps and up to the point your CPU will start throttling. If you're concerned about your temps you can increase fan speeds with smcfancontrol, or purchase something like a laptop cooling pad.

[♦ Hythal]

Ok, thanks.

[Ron ︻气デ 一]

I found that when my Mac throttled it would slow down drastically for 2 seconds then would cool and speed up again. I was frustrated as it happened in all graphic intensive games. I found out it was heat and got MAC FAN app. You can set it and I adjusted it to kick in sooner at a specific temp. Now the games never slow down as the fan keeps it cool enough so that it never needs to throttle back.

[♦ Hythal]

Originally posted by Ron ︻气デ═一:

I found that when my Mac throttled it would slow down drastically for 2 seconds then would cool and speed up again. I was frustrated as it happened in all graphic intensive games. I found out it was heat and got MAC FAN app. You can set it and I adjusted it to kick in sooner at a specific temp. Now the games never slow down as the fan keeps it cool enough so that it never needs to throttle back.

I downloaded it and whats a good temperature for it to kick in at?

[Perfect Player]

Hi.

1. You should not be concerned about Mac frying itself, hovewer it would reduce GPU/CPU frequency when it hits certain temperature (depends on Mac model) in order to reduce heat. That decreases performance.

2. As usual on these forums I recommend installing Windows via bootcamp utility -- easy 20-50% FPS increase with less bugs for COD 4. Thats because Windows marketshare dominates on Steam and developers spend majority of time developing for most profitable OS, which is Windows. Plus I would say it handles throttling better (It just decreases GPU/CPU clocks for a certain time, unlike OS X, which throttels on/off every few secs)

3. Enable FPS cap to 60 (may not be possible, depending on game) or turn on Vsync (COD 4 certainly has this feature) -- your monitor on Mac only capable of refreshing 60 times per second, so if your GPU is producing more than 60 FPS its doing useless job and just produces heat.

4. COD 4 should run jsut fine on your Mac. I think its about as demanding as CS GO.

[Mclovin]

Whenever I play TF2, the fans on my Macbook kick in. However, when playing Borderlands 2 the fans don't turn on and the machine itself uses a lot of battery and becomes very hot.