I have a Macbook Pro Retina 15inch (2014) and when playing the sims 4 the fan instantly cuts on and sound gets loud. I was hoping to play on high settings ( for my CC hair ) but that just made it louder and worse, even on low settings it is still loud? Does your fan run loud while playing? I tried resetting the SMC but that didn't help.
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Do you notice a decrease in performance or is it just the fan noise that bothers you? If you just want to reduce the fan noise, look into getting a cooling pad for your laptop (with a fan in it). These fans are usually larger and more quiet, allowing the computer temperature to stay lower, preventing the internal fan from needing to kick in.
Given the aluminum body of the Macbook Pro, these cooling pads should be able to dissipate the heat fairly effectively. Try to ensure a good centimeter air gap between the cooling pad and the bottom of the MBP.
There's not much else you can do about it.
> It's just the nature of gaming on a laptop. My Retina iMac fan comes out full boar pretty quickly when playing but performance never suffers.
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> Do you notice a decrease in performance or is it just the fan noise that bothers you? If you just want to reduce the fan noise, look into getting a cooling pad for your laptop (with a fan in it). These fans are usually larger and more quiet, allowing the computer temperature to stay lower, preventing the internal fan from needing to kick in.
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> Given the aluminum body of the Macbook Pro, these cooling pads should be able to dissipate the heat fairly effectively. Try to ensure a good centimeter air gap between the cooling pad and the bottom of the MBP.
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> There's not much else you can do about it.
Nope haven't noticed any decrease in performance it is just really the fan noise that bothers me being that loud i'm not use to it, will grabbing a cooling pad from Amazon be fine or is there something specific i should look for before buying one?
> Nope haven't noticed any decrease in performance it is just really the fan noise that bothers me being that loud i'm not use to it, will grabbing a cooling pad from Amazon be fine or is there something specific i should look for before buying one?
Should do the trick. Just keep in mind you do get what you pay for with these things, so expect to spend $15-20 for a "good" one.
Typical rule of fans is that the bigger (in diameter) the fan, the slower it has to spin to move the air. Slower fans are usually more quiet so you'll want a pretty good sized (single fan). I don't have one myself to swear by, but I would stick to the "known" companies like Cooler Master and Thermaltake. You don't need to go all out with the fancy "gaming" fans with LEDs and whatnot.
To keep it as quiet and efficient as possible, don't go lower than 160mm fan size. I would try to stay under 2000 rpm as well (for noise), 1000 would be pretty good, though you'd likely be looking at 200mm fan size.
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> Can anyone recommend a laptop cooler for MBP which does not rely on having fans and plugged in to the laptop ?
Most of them are going to be USB-powered, but you could use a USB wall adapter to power them instead of your laptop. If you need a longer cable there are USB extenders as well, all of these are pretty cheap. I would recommend that your USB wall adapter be rated for at least 1A of power (not just 500mA).
Most newer smartphone or tablet chargers are rated for 1A or 2A, you could use that too.
The noise doesn´t really bother me because I play with headphones.
But after 1-2 hours I always quit playing because I 'm really afraid that my MacBook breaks down. :D Can anybody tell me if this could really happen when I play for a few hours without a break? I have a Rain Design mStand so the circulation of air shouldn´t be a problem...
Please excuse my bad English grammar... :#
Thanks. Apple have switched over to AMD GPUs again thankfully. Don't forget they write their own drivers too. Still running better on my NVIDIA 650M 1Gb than it was before. El Capitan has really improved it. And I'm up to date patch wise.
Its the CPU not the GPU causing the heat issues and the fans racing etc. Seems to be effecting laptop and like computers which some Mac might fall under laptop like. Just keep an eye on CPU temps since the new patch
Macs that can support Metal, which was introduced with El Capitan, have shown significant CPU and GPU improvement thanks to the way it works. Hardly seeing any reports of this now.
Interesting well hopefully it's only PC
Sims 4 is currently getting my powerful Windows laptop running hot even with the fan running underneath. This has only happened recently and I am only building houses at the moment.
Please monitor your temps http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html
Open the app at desktop ,leave it open, start the game when you exit the game read the app. It will read your temps on everything.Pay close attention to cpu if your over 80 c on a laptop this is bad