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Bootcamp fan control windows#

I'm thinking here about all-night Crysis sessions or whatever.) Spikes in temperature, when you are transcoding a youtube clip or something, that's not worth being concerned about. (I should note when I talk about temperatures here I'm talking about high temperatures suistained over a period of time. Under 50C is fine, over 55C is bad, in between is, well, reasonable given what the iMac is. Again, having given due consideration to the points above, I think it's good to set speeds to keep your HD temps in the low 50s C. Of course you should be timemachining or similar anyway but replacing a HD is tedious and stressful and can be very inconvenient. High temperatures don't kill HDs immediately, but they do reduce lifespan/increase failure rates. What is rather more fragile is your internal HD. The iMac is designed to shut itself down before you get to that point. Sixth, if you are setting fan speeds and looking at temps, what should you be looking for? The GPU and CPU are precious and expensive to replace obviously but they are also rated for quite high temperatures.

Bootcamp fan control windows#

If you do marathon gaming sessions, if you often game in bootcamp Windows, or if you do video processing or other 'heavy lifting', you should give temps some thought.įourth, most people who worry about temperatures worry about them needlessly see point three above.įifth, if you do use your iMac for heavy work or often use Windows and do want your machine to last a bit longer or at least know what's going on, the current prefered solution (imo) is iStat or Temperature Monitor or similar, which will give you temps in the menubar or in the Dashboard (OSX side only), and smcfancontrol, which will let you manually set minimum fan speeds (the setting can only be done from OSX, although you can have the fan speed settings carry over to a bootcamp Windows session provided you do a restart and don't switch off the iMac). If you use your iMac mostly for email and websurfing and writing papers, forget about temps. If you want or may want your iMac to last into the 3 to 5 year range, you should give it a thought.

Bootcamp fan control upgrade#

If you upgrade your hardware regularly, don't worry about temps. This begs the question 'What is normal use'? Here's my take. Third, for normal use, the iMac does not require user intervention. If you want to know what's going on inside, which is the point, use iStat or similar. Touching your iMac tells you nothing except that the heat dissipation is working well. They are pretty cramped (yes even the 27') and designed to be svelte. Here is my considered view for what it's worth.įirstly,　iMacs do run on the hot side. There are lots of very informative threads on this topic.