What temperature of a Macbook is considered overheating?

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Cyflor-N-Ac Author

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What temperature of a Macbook is considered overheating?

What is the temperature in which, if the temp of the Macbook is over that temp? It is starting to overheat?

Like, what should the temperature of a Macbook be when running a CPU-heavy game?

Posted on Aug 29, 2022 05:55 AM

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BobTheFisherman

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Aug 30, 2022 07:30 AM in response to Cyflor-N-Ac

Your computer will throttle down and shutdown to prevent overheating. From your many "overheating" posts it appears that you belive you have an overheating issue. Take your computer to an authorized service center for inspection.

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Phil0124

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Aug 29, 2022 06:35 AM in response to Cyflor-N-Ac

See here: Keep your Mac notebook within acceptable operating temperatures - Apple Support

Anything above 122F (50C) will be dangerous and may cause the Mac to throttle and slow down to prevent damage.

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Cyflor-N-Ac Author

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Aug 29, 2022 11:12 PM in response to Phil0124

I have read that 80C or even 100C is the usual temperature when gaming and is considered safe, or temperatures over 100C is overheating and the CPU will throttle down to prevent overheating.

What is a safe CPU temp? - Apple Community

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Phil0124

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Aug 30, 2022 08:29 AM in response to Cyflor-N-Ac

The Mac will throttle when it passes the temp threshold. 100C is extremely hot. Make sure you are reading that correctly and its not 100F, which is around the suggested temperature.

Farenheit vs Centigrade, different temperatures.

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