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The March 2015 update of Apple's 13" MacBook Air features fifth generation Intel Core i5 and i7 processors, resulting in slightly increased performance and battery life.

Normal Temperature or Not normal temperature?

Continuing from an older post on this unit (I wish we can find our posts easier rather than having to scroll through hundreds of pages of activity, I gave up on it so making a new post).

MBA 2015 i7 2.2 GHz A1466

This had some issue where it was operating very slowly (likely CPU safe mode was activated), we believed it to be so issue with the SMC so we have changed to a new SMC). Fresh thermal paste etc.....Heatsink is properly connected to the case.

So, Turning on we do a diagnostics and no errors are found.

We then do an etre check on it

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We then run TG Pro and the temp is going up & down a lot when opening some apps to test its performance (All seems to be running at the right CPU speed for an i7 of this model). The exhaust did also go in the red briefly.

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And finally in case I am asked ;)

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I let the unit sleep for awhile and it now reads 40-45 degrees on the CPU......

I think it is OK ....... Unit does not feel overly hot underneath (Normalish)...

I ran a Geekbench on it and the temps during the scan go up and down from 70-106 degrees range and we her the exhaust fan kicking in..... normal is it was a stress test. Bench results are quite impressive and above other 2.2 i7 models!

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So, is this about right or do we have an issue regarding temperatures?

I think it is fine and am just showing off LOL but I might have missed something.

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The temp difference between the chip and the sensors at the fan exhaust point should be about 15~20% cooler as it does take a bit of time for the heat to migrate to the radiator to be expelled straight up. If you let the system sit the temp delta should drop. If not the heat sink heat pipe has lost its coolant so the chip will overheat. This would be a sight of a bad heat sink.

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