Keeping Your Mac Cool/Cold

[Fahad]

One of the most important things for performance is the temperature of your computer, the fact that computer chips are made of silicon i.e (semi conductor) as it gets hotter it will have more resistance thus electrons will move slower (you will know this if you studied physics ) again thus computer will operate slower.

now we now that we need to keep it cool, what do we do?

For Laptops:

1) Use FanControl Application to control the fan and lower the threshold for fan to activate

2) Use well ventilated and cold place

3) Use external fans (usually comes in external stands)

4) Change thermal Paste such as "302F Artic Silver" (this is kind of hard in macs depending on model, I will post tutorials soon)

5) If you are using the Unibodies with two graphic cards, make sure to use the lower end one

For Desktops:

1) Use "Liquid Cooling"

2) You can also do the Thermal Paste thing (look above)

3) well ventilated place

I will add more as new things come up.

Thanks and share your thoughts

[DoFoT9]

what about turning off unwanted processes such as virus scanners, or indexing, backing up etc.

[Fahad]

what about turning off unwanted processes such as virus scanners, or indexing, backing up etc.

by indexing you refer to spot light ?

[Omi]

Yes I would assume he does.

My fan used to run all the time. I thought it was broken, but it turns out it was an app called iAntivirus using 99% of my cpu. WTF

-Omi

[DoFoT9]

by indexing you refer to spot light ?

Yes I would assume he does.

spotlight comes under indexing yes, there are also categories such as defragmenting, HD indexing and other things that one does not notice.

My fan used to run all the time. I thought it was broken, but it turns out it was an app called iAntivirus using 99% of my cpu. WTF

-Omi

that might explain it then!! i have no antivirus installed as i would rather not put viruses on my computer (antivirus software = viruses as you can never get rid of them lol).

[Fahad]

I would never ever put an anti virus on mac xD I mean I switched to mac os x to get rid of anti viruses and viruses, I know there are 2 or 3 but they are known and most of them in pirated software and porn viruses are mostly written for windows

[DoFoT9]

I would never ever put an anti virus on mac xD I mean I switched to mac os x to get rid of anti viruses and viruses, I know there are 2 or 3 but they are known and most of them in pirated software and porn viruses are mostly written for windows

and we dont watch that sorta bad stuff do we now

[Omi]

I was just experimenting.

I heard it on the American Forces radio tech show here, and tried it. I think that the host should be fired.

[Thomas]

u know how to keep your mac cool 120MM fans XD

[Fahad]

I use liquid nitrogen

would you like to make for us a youtube video as demo or tutorial?