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    Airport Card temperature...

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by dbam987, Nov 11, 2008.

  1. dbam987

    dbam987 wicked-poster

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    Many times I see threads here about the CPU temperature being hot. I got a kicker for you here, where in my MBP I just noticed (using iStatPro) that my Airport card is registering a whopping 57 degrees celsius. I don't trust the reading, but it has been hovering at this temperature for a long time now. Should I be worrying? Its a few degrees higher than the CPU diode temperature...
     
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  2. sheldon77

    sheldon77 Notebook Evangelist

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    mine is running at 47C with the cpu at 47C with fans set to 2400rpm, airport card might just be located near something else hot.
     
    sheldon77, Nov 11, 2008
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    talin Notebook Prophet

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    I just checked mine. Airport card is running @ 43C, CPU @ 42C and fan @ 1800rpm. But mine is the white macbook though.
     
    talin, Nov 11, 2008
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    wobble987 Notebook Virtuoso

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    my airport card runs really hot! i think it is "normal".. all wireless card i have (external usb, pci, etc.) runs rather warm.

    57" is rather very warm though. if you were to use the wireless card intensively, eg. multiple download/viewing of webpages, torrent or what not, i suspect it will become hot.
     
    wobble987, Nov 11, 2008
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  5. grahamnp

    grahamnp Notebook Enthusiast

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    My MBP's airport card can go up to 60 C but its usually about 4 C higher than the CPU. When switched off it can drop by as much as 25 C.
     
    grahamnp, Nov 11, 2008
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