Quote Originally Posted by hellmitre View Post
My Macbook Pro 3,1 (running intrepid) has the applesmc module installed but my CPU idles at around 58*C. It gets up to 98*C (eep!) when running two CPUburn processes. Fans kick up to 6000 RPM after a the processor spreads its heat around to surrounding sensors and the average temperature goes up. How do I get it to cool faster? I'm also running the script linked here (wiki.ubuntu.com), which did help slightly. I'm a tad worried about my processor. Got any ideas?
you just need to set the minimum fan speed higher (at the expense of battery life of course)
Like this:
Code:
echo 6000 > sudo tee -a /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan1_min