Holy shit Sup Forums. I was gifted a 2014 rmbp by a relative, for graphic design purposes...

holy shit Sup Forums. I was gifted a 2014 rmbp by a relative, for graphic design purposes. I had heard about the overheating issues but this is fucking insane, all four cores easily reach 90C while the computer is doing absolutely nothing. Aside from using a fan controller and getting it cleaned from dust is there anything else I can do? Or should I just sell it to the first idiot and buy a dell XPS?

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>all four cores easily reach 90C while the computer is doing absolutely nothing.
You're either lying or your computer is broken. I'm going to guess the former.

clean the fans/radiators, rmbp has some problems but it shouldn't be this hot

Why should I be lying. This is what running the hardware monitor turns up. In the meantime cpu usage is around 10-15% and ram usage under 4gb out of 15.
Yeah I'm getting that done tomorrow but I have a feeling it won't be enough

>This is what running the hardware monitor turns up
Then it's wrong or your computer is broken.

This, get pentalobe and torx screwdrivers and open the laptop. Clean the CPU die and headsink with isopropyl (not rubbing) alcohol and then repaste with a good paste.

Apple is known for applying too much paste on their laptops. They even instruct the geniuses to overapply paste when you take your laptop with them.

support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063

and
support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295

>Apple is known for applying too much paste on their laptops
No such thing, this meme needs to die. No amount of thermal paste over the amount needed to perfectly fill the gaps between the IHS or die and the bottom of the heatsink can negatively affect cooling performance.

My 2007 MBP C2D would hit 99c every day, new fans, new thermal paste, clean as fuck

What's the model # you have?
my mid 2014 doesn't have this problem.
yours is probably early 2014

forgive my meme-tier response but...

I have an amd a10 that is literally part of the motherboard so it can't be replaced. It was running at 90-100

and then...

I put linux on it and it runs at 40-50.

wow, that is definitely a bad cooling design, considering the MBP was really Pro at those years.

Just idling? You must have made some sort of mistake.

Which part of "for graphic design" is not clear?

I had a 2007 MBP and it wouldn't hit 99c even under heavy stress with the factory fans and thermal paste. Highest I ever got it to go was 92C even then that was before the fans kicked in full. You're ether lying or then you fucked up the fan and thermal paste replacement.

>90°C idle cpu
>4gb idle ram usage
>FOUR GIGABYTES IDLE
Holy fuck that is not ok man, really really not ok.

Get rid of that shitbook before it literally kills you with fire and cancer.

Ram usage is UNDER 4gb out of 15 avaiable, this makes more than 11gb of idle

No macbook has ever idled at 90C without a broken fan or something blocking the fans. As for the 4GB RAM people usually get confused by the naming Apple uses for RAM in different states when "Free" means RAM that's powered down and not RAM that's powered up and waiting for the OS to dump data into it.

Yeah I thought something wrong with the fans too, they both work according to diagnostics I ran, but I can only hear them fire up at extremely high heat, or when the computer is plugged in

Download the Intel power meter and check temperatures there.

Yeah just under 4gb is being used while the damn thing is doing nothing.

>apple special snowflake ram management
He said ram usage not powered down free ram tho.

Under 4gb including wired ram and say firefox open sounds fine desu, especially if we're talking 16gb total

This is how little a typical Mac fags knows

Windows "free" definition is exactly the same, but at least it is better explained.

Sounds like a lot, it /is/ 4gb.

With 30+ tabs on chromium, two IDEs, MATLAB, a couple of word docs and PDFs get me to just over 4gb on wangblows.
Wangblows. Not even cheating and using linux which boots to 290mb.

Yeah 4gb while doing nothing sounds like a massive clear out is needed or just wipe the poor machine and put it out it's misery.

>mac

Found your problem.

You installed chrome, didn't you? Yeah I thought so. Google and MS don't give two shits about heat and battery life on their macOS ports. Delete that shit and use Safari – the WebKit developers have all day battery life and intact testicles as their priorities. In cases where Chrome cooks your nuts off Safari doesn't even increase fan speed.

>MS
*mozilla

>overheating throttling fruity toddler toy
>intact testicles

Pick one.

Bullshit, I had a MacBook that wouldn't stay powered on for more than 10 minutes due to over heating that ran like new after applying new thermal paste

I'm running firefox. But I'll give safari a try, even tho I'm not a fan

Reapply thermal paste.

And you think that was because of excessive paste for what reason? It's impossible to change the volume of space between the heatsink and die that thermal paste should fill.

Firefox will rape your computer if you run any video in it because it doesn't do hardware acceleration.

You can enable it in preferences. Its in the advanced settings.