I said reflash EFI firmware with clean ME region that do not have to do anything with the replace. I look for the best and I only recommend the best tools for the given task To be clear I have no financial involvement with Tuna Belly software.
Unlike Macs Fan Control TG Pro only increases the fans once a thermal threshold has been reached (set).
From someone who services Mac's for a living I've tried many apps to find the best that helps me help others.
TG Pro also offers a high water mark and if you get the full version it offers logging. I think you'll agree the graphical view of all of the sensors offers a better view Vs the simple numeric entry. Compare what "Macs Fans Control" gives you for information and what TG Pro offers for the thermal sensors. Whats more important is to 'See' whats getting hot so you can focus on why it is. Most of the time pushing the system is the wrong direction you end up not solving the root issue. Follow this IFIXIT guide: MacBook Pro 15" Retina Display Late 2013 Heat Sink Replacement Review the tool & parts listing for the needed sundries and - I know a lot of people love to push the fans when things get hot. This is where you’ll need to remove the heat sink and clean the old thermal paste off as you’ve cooked it! You also need to replace the heatsink as well. Most likely these corrections won’t go far enough as you do need to address the fact the system has been running hot of quite awhile. You should get the full version of TG Pro as it can pre-cool your CPU so it gives you a bit more run time. That way you’re not forcing the CPU to task switch as often. Only have one app running and don’t auto load any apps at startup. To hold you over until you can save your pennies you’ll need to go on a process diet. Even Apple realizes the limits of its systems the 2013 MacPro (TrashCan) was also graphically & thermally challenged which is why the newer iMac Pro was released. The better direction is invest in a desktop system which has better cooling by design. Even then your system will get hot but it won’t thermally shutdown like this system is. I think you’ll need to make the investment of a new laptop system which has a dedicated GPU, supports 16 GB of RAM and offers a bigger SSD.
Between the limited graphics services, RAM & storage this system has it’s doing the best it can. Basically its undersized for the tasks you are trying to do. The process load is pushing the thermals beyond what this system was designed to support. I’m sorry to tell you your system is just not up to the task of the type of photo editing you’re attempting. Take screen snapshots of both and paste them here for us to see.
So with both TG Pro & Active Monitoring running in windows on your desktop run your apps in a third window and watch what happens when things start to ramp up. Running it you should see if a given application process is consuming to much of the CPU’s time when the system starts getting warm. Here we are using it to diagnose the issue using it in conjunction with Active Monitor which you have in your application/utility folder. Which is why I try to get people to use TG Pro as it give you a better presentation of the needed info.
While the software Ezra recommended does offer the thermal sensors temps the presentation of that information is not ideal on trying to ‘See’ whats happening sometimes we need to see the trend on when things ramp up and how hot things got. While I know Ezra had recommended using software to override the fan I find that just makes things worse! Until you understand why your system is getting hot forcing it to cool harder often just masks the underlying issue and in the long term damages your system. Pop the cover back on and lets try the next step. Use short blasts of air to push away the dust. Carefully pop the bottom cover and using a soft paint brush and a can of can’ed air dust the system don’t scrub to hard as you don’t want to damage things by shagging things with the brush. I think you’ll need to do a few different things here to get to the root issue.įirst I do think you’ll need to do a bit of cleaning making sure the dust buildup is not hampering the systems cooling.