[finalizedsven]

So I have one of the older macbooks, Intel Core Duo (note the lack of the 2).....some craptacular intel chipset with a flimsy excuse for a GPU in it.....so, naturally, if I do ANYTHING that isn't expressly built into a cocoa app or 2D gui stuff, the fan turns on because....ya know, rendering youtube videos is just SO hard the poor little intel gpu can barely keep up with it...ugh...

anyway, I'm tired of feeling the system slow down when it gets hot.....and it occurred to me, maybe if it didn't get hot....maybe it wouldn't slow down, so if there is a way to force the fan to be on all the time, cooling down the system before it gets that hot, that would solve a lot of my headaches

I know where the fan collects its heat data from so...I could do a hardware hack for it...but i'd like to do it in software if possible.....


any ideas?(other than buy a new macbook with a real gpu in it?) thanks

[bosox0898]

SMC fan control works well, I have one of the first to have a Core 2 Duo and it gets really hot really quick with anything graphics heavy... even video, since i put the fan controller on i've monitored temps with it on and off and it seems to keep everything cooler when you crank the fan, the nice thing as that you can save different profiles and have it auto switch between them when a certain event happens.

[mduell]

Originally Posted by finalizedsven 

So I have one of the older macbooks, Intel Core Duo (note the lack of the 2).....some craptacular intel chipset with a flimsy excuse for a GPU in it.....so, naturally, if I do ANYTHING that isn't expressly built into a cocoa app or 2D gui stuff, the fan turns on because....ya know, rendering youtube videos is just SO hard the poor little intel gpu can barely keep up with it...ugh...


any ideas?(other than buy a new macbook with a real gpu in it?) thanks

I hate to inject reality into your rant there, but the Intel integrated video has nothing to do with poor youtube playback performance. You can confirm this by easily playing 720p HD trailers from apple.com/trailers in quicktime without a glitch. Adobe Flash player runs extremely poorly on non-Windows platforms.

The integrated video in the new macbooks is faster, but won't help youtube playback peformance; the faster CPU, on the other hand, will.