Most Macs has a really bad thermal design. It's normal for it to get hot by doing anything more intensive than browsing Facebook. If they get too hot they will thermal throttle, which means they will lower the performance to prevent damage from overheating.
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This is how it looks like inside my own Macbook Air 11'. You can see the tiny little fan at the bottom left corner. It blows the hot air out the back of the computer, and it pulls cold air in from.... wherever it finds it's way in. I can't really find any reasonably engineered air intake in this computer. I decided to put on Noctua NT-H1 which is one of the best thermal pastes out there.
I had ran into some extra money. I NEVER have played the sims in ultra or high settings except for my sims being high but because I had a MacBook and my schooling requires more coding than I thought, I couldn’t keep my MacBook with both sims 3 and 4 and mods/cc AND intense coding projects and notes and continents. I got a Macbook Air (2017) a few months ago and i've been thinking about playing The Sims 4 on it. Will i be able to play it without my Mac overheating (too much) or the game crashing/lagging? I am able to smoothly run other 'heavy' software on it (like after effects, which i was told wouldn't work well). Your mac will shut down if it starts to get too hot, so it's not going to damage the computer. Your mac shouldn't overheat if your fans are working properly and if there isn't too much dust in your fans. Jimbbq Posts: 2,727 Member. Late 2018 Macbook Pro with 2.9Ghz i9 CPU, 32GB DDR4 RAM, Radeon Pro Vega 20 4GB dedicated GPU. Temperature of the cpu climbs to around 90° within 30 seconds of starting up Sims 4. To make matters worse, Apple, in their infinite wisdom, decided that the i9 needs more power than the power adapter can supply when the CPU/GPU is under heavy load, so it shuts off the charging circuit, and then starts to. But now I can't play games on my computer anymore. They all cause it to make the overheating noise, and I get freaked out and have to immediately quit my game and shut my computer down, because I know that things can turn really bad if your computer overheats. But I still really want to play games on my computer, especially the Sims 4.
Also, the green stuff is conformal coating that I did to prevent water damage. This computer was water damaged when I bought it, which is why I got it cheap. I have fixed it and it's now fully working. I don't recommend opening up your Mac if it's under warranty.
What you may want to consider is a laptop chiller, which is basically a bunch of fans blowing at the underside of the computer. It may help a little bit.
Macbook Pro Overheating
Mar 19, 2018 2:02 PM
Like many people, I have a MacBook Pro that overheats, but not of the suggested fixes are appropriate for my problem. I live somewhere quite rural and the area is prone to power cuts. I only get overheating when using the Pro at this time. I close down Safari, Chrome and turn off Wi Fi so that it isn't attempting to connect. It makes no difference. Within a few minutes it gets very hot and the fan starts to run. This is also a problem because I'm obviously running on battery (no power available) and the fan depletes the battery quite quickly. The first time I had a Preview image on split screen with an Excel spreadsheet and I was transcribing detail from the image to the spreadsheet. This has now happened several times. Today after it happened again, I let the thing cool down and then started looking at just the spreadsheet with no additional app. The same thing happened. After the first time, I called Apple support and they just said to make sure I had all the updates. I did, updated again, and it's made no difference. BTW I've had it about 6 weeks, brand new. How hot is it safe to get to, and how can I tell what temperature it actually is? It's not too hot to touch, but not far away. It seems ridiculous that I buy equipment specifically made to be portable but doesn't work properly if it needs a power source to work (necessary for the internet)
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15
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